The Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge has ended, and we raised $29,327.21 for Northwest Harvest, helping a mountain of food get to a lot of hungry people.

Slog is officially the awesomest. Here's a list of all you awesome people who donated (those who have official Slog handles—the rest of you are quietly awesome, too!):

aardvark
aaronbrethorst
Adrian Ryan
AKTheresa
Alger
Alice Dreger
alight
Allyn
AmyC
Anc
Anne18
Anon
averagegirl
barfy cute
beatgrl
beaugirl
benjamin
benjr
Big Adventure Steve
Bigsfrottin
biju
blip
BLUE
BoyfriendoftheYear
BrendanMcK
Bring_Me_The_Head_Of_Marcie_Sillman
Bronco
brumal dictatorship
Bub
Buttercup
Callie
care bear
Catalina Vel-DuRay
Cato the Younger Younger
Chefgirl
Clifton
COMTE
crasher
crivins
d.p.
despicable me
Diana
dlauri
donnieO
Donolectic
DOUG.
Dr. Henry Chillberg
Dr_Awesome
E.B.yerdmeh
e.strange
easternstar
eben
efnord
emma's bee
Emmy
emor
en
Enigma
epunch
Eric from Boulder
EricaP
etone
fatasian
Fnarf
Foghorn Leghorn
Free Lunch
Gern Blanston
ghendrix
girlstyle
give me pom
GlamB0t
gloomy gus
Gnarr
gnossos
gracey
Greg Barnes
gunmmoontree
Hawke
Hernandez
Hi
Honktified
Hyzenthlayk9
I Heart Flan!
I Love IPA
Ian Awesome
ingopixel
inquiring minds
internet_jen
janele
jcodybaker
Jeff Kirby
jen
Jenny
JenV
jezbian
JF
jobsy
Joe Szilagyi
Josh Bis
Julie in Eugene
JWieg
k.wren
Kalakalot
karion
Karlheinz Arschbomber
katrat
kcrobinson
Keister Button
Keynsian_Queer
Kidiculous
kim in portland
kitschnsync
kukl
Larry
lily
litlnemo
lizlemon
Looking For a Better Read
lortext
Luisa
M. Wells
M3
madamecrow
Marie
markmc
Matt from Denver
Medina
meg213
Merchant Seaman
merry
Mike in Olympia
minderbender
mollman
mpb
Mr John
Mr. Happy Sunshine
mr. herriman
Muggle
Mugwumpt
myr
N in Seattle
NaFun
nedludd2
Nezz
nicholaus
nikoniko
Njoy
noodleslayer
nseattlite
ohthetrees
omahachase
OuterCow
owlish
PA Native
palamedes
Paul Pearson
PaulBarwick
Phoebe in Wallingford
PTrig
Purocuyu
Puty
rachealh!
RatGirl
ratnerd
Razmataz
Rebekah Denn
Reverse Polarity
Rhett Oracle
rickibot
riot gorl
robotbutler
Scalpel
scary tyler moore
SchmuckyTheCat
ScienceNerd
seandr
SeattleKim
SecretBYUBottomBoy
ser
Shawn
siduri
sisyphusgal
So-called Claire
starsandgarters
Stephen McCandless
stinkbug
stirwise
stone
suburban queen
subwlf
Sweeney Agonistes
T
tabathalphabet
taxidermist
thatsnotright
The Psion
TheRain
Titsfunny
Tomen
Tony420
topbrian
topher
TotesFierce
Tracy
tshicks
TVDinner
Tyler Pierce
Typographer
urban_copilot
Valentein
vinylsaurus
Volo
westseattlealki
what_now
wilbur@work
Will in Seattle
wisepunk
YoungBS
ZacF
zachd
Zebes
zee
zeroryoko
zwartepiet

And thanks, too, to the Lucky Seven Foundation.

Merry whatever, awesome people! You warm the heart.

HEY EVERYBODY! We've now raised $29,067.21 for Northwest Harvest, helping so much food get to so many hungry people! Three hundred and ninety-four people have donated (though probably some twice, because that's how awesome you are), meaning the average donation (if my mathology serves, and Fnarf will correct me if I am wrong) is about $74. SO SUPER GREAT.

We've got 24 hours left. We can break $30,000! Let's do it! Contribute to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge! It's not too late to become an AWESOME PERSON with the tag to prove it, either; just forward your receipt (with your handle) to ih8gawker@thestranger.com.

Oh, and the winner of dinner with Dan Savage? Alex O. (a vegetarian!).

Give, give, give to Northwest Harvest to help the hungry NOW—the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge ends tomorrow at noon! Happy h-days! You are each and every one of you an elf-angel!!!

There is also still time to donate and enter to win DINNER WITH DAN SAVAGE! What does Dan Savage like to eat (besides stale cake)? Does he tuck his napkin into his shirt? Does he ask for water with no ice? YOU CAN KNOW ALL THESE ANSWERS!

Just go here to donate to Northwest Harvest and forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com. A winner will be chosen and announced tomorrow at noon. Here are more details. HURRY!

If you want to get your "AWESOME PERSON" tag, be sure to tell us your Slog name when you forward the receipt.

We've brought in over $26,000 so far. Incredible! But we only have a couple more days to go, so let's see how much more we can get!

Now we have raised $26,725.21 for Northwest Harvest, helping get food to lots of hungry people! This is fantastic.

Now for a SPECIAL LIMITED-TIME PRIZE OFFER! Contribute (any amount counts!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now and 5 p.m., then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win BOTH a $50 gift certificate to Grim's AND dinner with Dan Savage. (These offers cannot be combined, as Dan Savage will be choosing the restaurant, appetizers, entrees, dessert, and alcohol for the dinner with him. Fun!)

We'll choose the Grim's winner after 5 p.m., and dinner with Dan Savage will be awarded around noon tomorrow! Give, give, give to Northwest Harvest to help the hungry NOW—the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge ends on Saturday!

This woman leaning out from behind the telephone pole to see how long the line was at the Cherry Street Food Bank yesterday afternoon was one of the lucky ones. Even though she had about half a block to go (and the line was moving pretty slowly), behind her, the line went around the corner and all the way back to James Street.

Elderly immigrants, working-age couples, young children, single parents, unemployed folk... all in that line. And I know that people are hungry all year—and we should give to charities like Northwest Harvest all year—but I'll be damned if it doesn't kill me to see kids four, five, and six years old standing for an hour at the food bank a few days before Christmas. "In the last three years, the number of hungry families in Washington State has nearly doubled," Northwest Harvest explains. You can contribute to Northwest Harvest, which supplies the Cherry Street Food Bank, (and stick it to Gawker) by donating right here.

Slog has now raised $22,232.21 for Northwest Harvest to help hungry people in our state this holiday. THIS IS SO AWESOME.

How much more can we do by December 24th? Don't forget: Right now, you can win dinner with Dan Savage, just by giving and forwarding your receipt as directed! It's like a dream come true.

Meanwhile, Rev. Jesse is the proud winner of the overnight getaway at Cedarbrook Lodge with dinner at Copperleaf Restaurant and Uber car service. Sweet.

So, again, just contribute (any amount!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now and noon on Friday!

Then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!

(We'll be announcing the winner of the Cedarbrook Lodge getaway a little bit later today. Hi!)

Matthew Yglesias has sparked a bit of a hubbub over on Slate, by suggesting that "food drives are a terrible idea," and encouraging potential donors instead to "Can the cans. Hand over some cash."

All across America, charitable organizations and the food industry have set up mechanisms through which emergency food providers can get their hands on surplus food for a nominal handling charge. Katherina Rosqueta, executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, explains that food providers can get what they need for “pennies on the dollar.” She estimates that they pay about 10 cents a pound for food that would cost you $2 per pound retail. You’d be doing dramatically more good, in basic dollars and cents terms, by eating that tuna yourself and forking over a check for half the price of a single can of Chicken of the Sea.

Beyond the economies of scale are the overhead costs. Charities are naturally reluctant to turn down donations for fear of alienating supporters or demoralizing well-wishers, but the reality is that dealing with sporadic surges of cans is a logistical headache. A nationwide network of food banks called Feeding America gingerly notes on its website that “a hastily organized local food drive can actually put more strain on your local food bank than you imagine.” Food dropped off by well-meaning citizens needs to be carefully inspected and sorted. A personal check, by contrast, can be used to order what’s needed without placing extra burdens on the staff.

There you go. All the more reason to fork over a few bucks to our Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge. Sure, dumping a few packs of mac and cheese into the bin at your local food drive may make you feel almost as warm and fuzzy inside as eating them, but you'll feed a lot more people donating the cash equivalent. According to Northwest Harvest, it costs them "only 67 cents to feed a family of three a meal." Bet you can't feed yourself for 67 cents, let alone your whole family.

Think about it: A mere $60 donation would be enough for Northwest Harvest to feed a family of three for an entire month! So give today, then email your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com to enter in a drawing to win fabulous prizes, plus earn yourself the coveted "Awesome Person" tag.

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It's on the internet, so it's official: Slog has now raised $20,510.66 for Northwest Harvest, helping hungry people in our state this holiday, in the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge! SLOG RULES, WHILST GAWKER DROOLS!

Many, many thanks to each and every lovely one of us who has donated so far, and a special shout-out to the Lucky Seven Foundation, a magical nonprofit that put us over the $20,000 mark with its generous donation. (Do you know a magical nonprofit with bags of money lying around? Have them send some!)

Today's prize is excellent AND wonderful: an overnight getaway at Cedarbrook Lodge, a posh retreat on 18 acres of restored wetlands in Sea-Tac, including a $100 gift certificate for their Copperleaf Restaurant (chef Mark Bodinet got schooled by Thomas Keller at the French Laundry!). Slog commenter Sir Vic says, "The food is indeed excellent, and the facility is wonderful. If you are from that area, you may not even know the place existed (I sure didn't)."

Aaaaand, so you don't have to worry about driving, Uber car service will take you there and back (they've donated $100 worth of transport in one of their sleek black cars).

All you have to do is contribute (any amount counts!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now and tonight at midnight, then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!

• Cedarbrook Lodge: You could be here!

Slog has now raised $19,219.66 for Northwest Harvest in the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge!

The awesomeness is staggering!

Cedarbrook Lodge, a posh retreat on 18 acres of restored wetlands in Sea-Tac, agrees on the awesomeness thing—they're giving us an overnight getaway, including a $100 gift certificate for their reportedly excellent on-site Copperleaf Restaurant (chef Mark Bodinet has worked for Thomas Keller at the French Laundry—faaaancy!).

Aaaaand, so you don't have to worry about driving, Uber car service will take you there and back (they've donated $100 worth of transport in one of their sleek black cars).

All you have to do is contribute (any amount counts!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now and tomorrow at midnight, then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!

• Cedarbrook Lodge: You could be here!

And! For those of you who are keeping tracking of who's winning what, the winners of the Dan Savage and Fran Lebowitz tickets and the night at the Benson in Portland are Bill R. and Tony S., respectively. Congratulations to both!

MOVED UP because less than three hours to try to win!!!

We've raised over $18,000 in the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge (hooray!), but there's still time to raise even more. As an extra incentive, we've got another great prize to give to one lucky donation-maker—it's a night in the Benson Hotel in Portland! Look at how fancy it is.

• http://www.bensonhotel.com/

To enter to win all you have to do is donate to NW Harvest BEFORE NOON TODAY and forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com.

A lucky winner will be chosen and announced shortly after noon today. And if you've already donated, feel free to donate again in order to enter! Every little bit helps.

UPDATE! Anyone who donates before noon today, and sends their receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, is also automatically entered to win a pair of tickets to see Fran Lebowitz have a conversation with Dan Savage (will the world implode from their combined wit? Be there and find out!). ANY AMOUNT COUNTS! And if you're wondering about the Cedarbrook Lodge prize, well, Bethany posted that by accident yesterday (she's sorry! So many prizes!!!)—it's coming soon, so you'll get a chance to give again to try to win it!

The running total in the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge is $17,998! That means we're just two bucks away from raising $18,000 for Northwest Harvest. AMAZING!

If you'll recall, on Friday, we put up a pair of front row tickets to see Joan Rivers at Benaroya Hall. The winner of the tickets has been chosen and it is gunmmoontree! Congratulations!

We have even more prizes, though. Anyone who donates before noon tomorrow (Monday), and sends their receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, will be entered to win a pair of tickets to see Fran Lebowitz have a conversation with Dan Savage (and the audience). That could be you!

So donate now, any amount you can afford this holiday season, and send your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com. Not only are you doing something awesome for a really amazing cause, but you might even get a great prize out of it.

Moved up because 1.) great cause, and 2.) you know you want it!

And tomorrow: Win tickets to Fran Lebowitz and Dan Savage! Details below!

THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the Slog vs. Gawker holiday challenge over the last few days. Our running total of money raised for Northwest Harvest is now $17,628! That is incredible!

We also have a winner of the highly coveted trip to Vancouver. And the winner is... Nicholaus! Congratulations!

THERE ARE MORE PRIZES.

We're going to be giving away prizes all weekend, in fact, and anyone who donates to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between RIGHT NOW and tomorrow at noon will be entered to win one pair of front row seats for Joan Rivers at Benaroya Hall! HOLY SHIT!

And tomorrow be sure to come back at noon because we're giving away a pair of tickets to see Fran Lebowitz have a conversation with Dan Savage (and the audience). That could be you! We have another prize on Sunday, but you'll have to check back to see what it is because I don't want to spoil it for you.

So donate now, any amount you can afford this holiday season, and send your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com. Do it before noon tomorrow and you could be sitting in the front row, staring right at Joan Rivers' face!

Anyone who donates to Northwest Harvest today, before noon, and forwards their receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com is entered to win a trip to Vancouver, Canada!

That gives you 56 minutes!

DONATE AND BE AWESOME!

As of just now, Slog has raised $16,963 for Northwest Harvest in the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge! And don't forget:

Canada also wanted us to tell you this:

Looking for the quintessential Christmas experience? Vancouver, British Columbia is one of the best Christmas getaways in North America. Surrounded by snow-capped peaks, the beautiful Canadian city offers spectacular Christmas sightseeing and activities, without the frostbite.

A Very Vancouver Xmas is a winter destination offering information on booking all the festive experiences for families and couples of all ages in one place. If you’re planning a visit to the temperate Winter Wonderland, www.VeryVancouverXmas.com is the source for free and inexpensive Christmas attractions across the city, with a hotel and activity booking system that allows reserving the best seasonal sights and accommodations with ease.

In an effort to show all of Washington State how wonderful this city is at Christmas time, Very Vancouver Xmas would like to offer a two-night stay at the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver, B.C. (subject to availability), as well as passes to the Jewel Box of Lights, one of Vancouver’s newest Christmas attractions. Bloedel Conservatory’s tropical plant kingdom has been transformed into a glowing masterpiece. Experience spectacular lasers and twinkling waterfalls in a truly unique setting. Just like a real rainforest—there’s so many plants and animals to see.

So, again, just contribute (any amount!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now tomorrow noon!

Then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!

YES!!!

The latest numbers are in and so far we've raised $15,645 for Northwest Harvest. Fantastic!

We also have a winner for yesterday's Tutta Bella prize. It's Tracy! Congrats, Tracy.

And did you see today's announcement? We're giving away VANCOUVER GETAWAY! You have until noon on Friday to enter to win and all the fancy details you could ever need can be found here.

Donate! Forward your reciept to ih8gawker@thestranger.com! And win!

Canada also wanted us to tell you this:

Looking for the quintessential Christmas experience? Vancouver, British Columbia is one of the best Christmas getaways in North America. Surrounded by snow-capped peaks, the beautiful Canadian city offers spectacular Christmas sightseeing and activities, without the frostbite.

A Very Vancouver Xmas is a winter destination offering information on booking all the festive experiences for families and couples of all ages in one place. If you’re planning a visit to the temperate Winter Wonderland, www.VeryVancouverXmas.com is the source for free and inexpensive Christmas attractions across the city, with a hotel and activity booking system that allows reserving the best seasonal sights and accommodations with ease.

In an effort to show all of Washington State how wonderful this city is at Christmas time, Very Vancouver Xmas would like to offer a two-night stay at the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver, B.C. (subject to availability), as well as passes to the Jewel Box of Lights, one of Vancouver’s newest Christmas attractions. Bloedel Conservatory’s tropical plant kingdom has been transformed into a glowing masterpiece. Experience spectacular lasers and twinkling waterfalls in a truly unique setting. Just like a real rainforest—there’s so many plants and animals to see.

So, again, just contribute (any amount!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge between now and noon on Friday!

Then forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!

YES!!!

Sorry, but I must shout: SLOG IS OFFICIALLY FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE GENEROUS/SMARTER/BETTER-LOOKING THAN GAWKER!!!

So far, Slog has donated $15,355 to Northwest Harvest to help feed hungry people in the the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge! I am SO PROUD THAT I AM STILL SHOUTING!!!

Let's keep giving! Have you made your mom give yet? (Hi Mom! You are awesome!) How about your neighbor, hmmm? That friend with the great laugh and the heart of gold? That friend with the cranky attitude but secret heart of gold?

Maybe you or your mom or your neighbor or your friend would like a $50 gift certificate to Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria! Just give to Northwest Harvest before midnight tonight—any amount counts, because any amount helps!—and email your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you will be entered to win!*

Be an elf yourself! Give now!

*Santa sees those of you who do not have your AWESOME PERSON tags yet and he is making his list RIGHT NOW. (If you're wondering why no staffers are AWESOME, well, the webmonkeys say they can only do one tag per person, I guess because there's a limited amount of space on the internet. Anyway, I gave! Hi Santa!) Give to Northwest Harvest right now—whatever amount you can afford—and then forward us your receipt, and we'll update your commenter handle with the AWESOME PERSON tag (be sure to tell us your handle and/or the email address your account is registered under!). Because you are awesome for helping.

Well we didn't break $15,000 over the weekend, like I had hoped we would. But that's okay! We got over $13,000, which is still a ton of money for NW Harvest. We also have a winner of the $100 gift card for iPic/Gold Class Cinema! The winner is... Jen! Jen's a long-time Slog reader who just lurks, without commenting, so she doesn't have an official Slog name. But she is awesome! And now she can go enjoy $100 worth of booze, food, and movies. Congratulations Jen!

Been meaning to donate but haven't gotten around to it? There's still time. Just click right here. After you give money to NW Harvest, send your Slog name and your donation receipt to awesome@thestranger.com to get your Awesome Person tag.

Hooray for doing nice things!

Today's running total is... $12,670!

Here's my challenge to you: I dare you, Slog readers, to break $15,000 over the weekend. That means we'll need $2,330 in donations. Big donations, little donations—any amount you feel comfortable giving this holiday season.

Here's a reminder of what you're donating to:

In the last three years, the number of hungry families in Washington State has nearly doubled. In 2008, there were 88,000 hungry homes in this state. Now there are more than 160,000 homes with families who don’t have enough to eat.

It costs only 67 cents to feed a family of three a meal through Northwest Harvest.

Everyone who donates between now and Monday morning will be entered to a $100 gift certificate to iPic/Gold Class Cinema, a fancy schmancy theater in Redmond that serves beer, wine, and food.

To enter, just donate to NW Harvest here (any amount is eligible to win, and if you've donated before, even donating just one more dollar will count as an entry, even if you've already entered for past prizes). Once you've donated, forward your receipt and your Slog name (so we can give you an Awesome Person tag) to ih8gawker@thestranger.com.

I think we can do it, Slog—I think we can get to $15,000 by Monday morning. Spread the word for a great cause! Thank you and good luck.

(Also: Yesterday's prize, a $50 gift card to the delicious vegetarian haven Cafe Flora goes to Diana! Congratulations!)

First of all: We have raised over $12,600! Hooray! (Suck it, Gawker.)

So yesterday, if you'll recall, we gave away a case of wine from Lobo Hills Wine Company. They're celebrating their one-year anniversary next Friday (with a party! Go!) and they graciously donated the generous prize. And we've picked a winner! The winner of the wine is—*drum roll*—HERNANDEZ! Congrats! I will be contacting you about your case o' wine very soon, sir.

Didn't win? Don't fret! The prizes continue! Today we're giving away a $50 gift certificate to awesome vegetarian restaurant Cafe Flora. So go donate to NW Harvest (whatever you can afford) and send your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com and not only will you get an Awesome Person tag on your Slog profile, but you'll also be entered to win the Cafe Flora prize.

Good luck and a sincere thanks to every single one of you who've donated so far.

Oh, people. People, people, people. In the last few weeks, we have been kicking Gawker's ass in the First Annual Slog Vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge. Slog readers have raised thousands of dollars to feed the hungry—way more than those snobby New Yorkers, whose blog hasn't even been any good since Richard Lawson left for the Atlantic Wire, anyway.

If you're just tuning in, here's the deal: If you donate any amount of money to Northwest Harvest, your donation will automatically be added to the good side of this Charity Fight to the Death. PLUS! If you send a copy of your receipt and your Slog commenter handle to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, we will add an attractive blue "AWESOME PERSON" bug next to your name in every comment for a year!

But! That is not all. For the next day or so, we are hosting a special giveaway: If you help feed the hungry between now and midnight tomorrow and then mail the receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, you'll be added to a special raffle*. The prize? A case of wine from Lobo Hills Wine Company! The owner of Lobo Hills, the awesomely named Tony Dollar, is celebrating the first anniversary of his company—"Wedgwood's first winery," by the way—by donating a case of his finest wine to one big-hearted Slogger. (If you'd like to help Lobo Hills celebrate their first anniversary, you should know that they're having a big fancy party to celebrate on Friday, December 16th with music, booze, and dessert.) Make your donations now—that wine isn't going to drink itself, you big-hearted lushes, you!

* Any Northwest Harvest receipt from between right now and tomorrow at midnight that you mail to us will be included in the raffle, so even if you've already donated, you can absolutely donate again! We're generous like that.

Just yesterday we announced that Slog readers have raised over $10,000 for Northwest Harvest, and donations just keep coming in. In fact, we're just a few hundred dollars away from $12,000!

After consulting the experts, we have concluded that the wonderful person who pushed us over $10,000 is Alicia who, if you can believe it, doesn't yet have a Slog account. But she's making one tonight! So her Awesome Person tag won't go to waste. Congrats, Alicia! You win this musical t-shirt!

And now, with $11,690 down, will you consider donating a few (or many!) dollars to get us to $12,000? 100% of your money goes to a really great cause.

Once you donate, send your receipt and your Slog handle to awesome@thestranger.com and we'll give you an Awesome Person tag, too. Yay!

YOU GUYS! We have broken the $10,000 mark! In fact, we have raised $11,550 for Northwest Harvest and we couldn't have done it without all of you! How does it feel to be part of the best fucking blog in the world?

We're consulting our making money-keeping-tracker machine thing to find out who the very kind human was that put us over $10,000. That person will be receiving a PLAYABLE guitar t-shirt! Neat! We will be contacting the winner soon. Hooray!

TO EVERYONE ELSE: There is still time to donate! Whether you have $5 or $500 to give, Northwest Harvest will be sure to put your hard earned money to good use this holiday season. And when you donate you become an officially official AWESOME PERSON! To claim your Awesome Person Slog tag, just forward your donation receipt, along with your Slog name, to awesome@thestranger.com.

AWESOME!

SLOG IS SO GREAT! In less than two weeks of the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge, Slog has proven its AWESOMENESS by raising $9865 more for charity than Gawker, all of it going directly to feed hungry people at Northwest Harvest.

Who will be the awesome person to put us over $10,000? Perhaps you would like this Real Playable Electronic Guitar Shirt we have here! Try to be the one to make the ten-grand-topping donation and send your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and you can absolutely come pick it up! It has not been played nor worn!

Meanwhile, the randomly selected winner of yesterday's prize—a Very Vancouver Xmas, including a two-night stay at the Hyatt in Vancouver, B.C. as well as some time in Santa’s Living Room, hella elves, a dancing show, gingerbread-house-looking-at, choirs-hearing, a ride on the candy-cane express train (TOOT TOOT!), thousands of glowing lights in their eyeballs, and more—is Slog commenter E.B.yerdmeh. Shine up that passport and congrats, E.B.yerdmeh!

Be an elf, yourself! Let's keep giving!

P.S. A Very Beary Holiday Happy Hour at Diesel last night was simply great. We're working on a post with photos—someone send one with the special guest bear! Preposterously, we have none.)

P.P.S. You can still get your AWESOME PERSON commenter tag! Just give to Northwest Harvest right now—whatever amount you can afford—and then forward us your receipt (and be sure to tell us your handle and/or the email address your account is registered under). Because you are awesome for helping.

As we know, Slog is kicking Gawker's ass in raising money for charity. As of today, we've raised $9,185 more than Gawker, all of it going to help the hungry at Northwest Harvest.

And guess what? Canada thinks Slog readers are WAY more generous, smarter, and better-looking than Gawker’s—Canada says it hasn't even looked at Gawker since it-can't-remember-when—and Canada wants to help, too!

As part of a Very Vancouver Xmas, Canada has offered Slog a two-night stay at the downtown Hyatt in Vancouver, B.C. (any night in December 2011, subject to availability), as well as two free passes to the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden—a veritable winter wonderland including Santa’s Living Room, hella elves, a dancing show, gingerbread houses, choirs, a candy-cane express train (TOOT TOOT!), thousands of glowing lights, and more.

The winner will be chosen at random from those who contribute (any amount!) to the Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Charity Challenge in the next 24 hours! Just forward your receipt to ih8gawker@thestranger.com, and voila (as they say in Montreal!), you will be entered to win.

Dust off your passport and give!!!

As of yesterday, Slog commenters had raised $8,175 more than Gawker commenters to feed the homeless and hungry. Today our lead has ballooned to $8,995! That's amazing, of course. But now we gotta get it over the $9,000 mark.

As you know, if you donate to Northwest Harvest and send us your receipt, you'll get an AWESOME PERSON tag on your commenter handle. To sweeten the pot today, the first person to make a donation after this post goes up and send us the receipt will also get this drawing:

This one-of-a-kind doodle was made by The Stranger's general manager Laurie Saito in a recent manager's meeting. Laurie went to art school and makes one-of-a-kind drawings like this all the time. There's a gallery of them on my office wall because I usually beg her for her doodles when meetings are over. But for charity, today, I'm giving this one away.

Donate now!

As of today, Slog commenters have raised $8,175.00 more than Gawker commenters to feed the homeless and hungry—conditions Gawker commenters probably equate to contracting an enviable eating disorder ("So thin the hungry are! Look at them eying my string cheese with the haunted longing of Lady Chatterley's Lover! I yeeeeearn for that dedication!"). Thanks to all of you thus far who are good people and/or have chosen the moral high ground and donated to Northwest Harvest!

And if you haven't yet, it's not too late. Plus, giving to the hungry makes you an awesome person (see for yourself in the comments on just about any Slog post). Give to Northwest Harvest right now—whatever amount you can afford—and then forward us your receipt, and we'll instantly* update your commenter handle with an AWESOME PERSON tag** so Northwest Harvest and those faux homeless skinny fucks at Gawker know it, too.

*Not exactly instantly, but quickly!
**Be sure to tell us your handle and/or the email address your slog account is registered under!

In the last week, you've probably started noticing the phrase "AWESOME PERSON" appearing next to the names of certain Slog commenters.

These humans are giving food to other humans who are hungry. That's all.

They've donated, in other words, to the...

In just a week, Slog has raised $6,840 more than Gawker! (206.)

All the money goes to Northwest Harvest—and since we know that the number of hungry families in Washington state has almost doubled in the last three punishing years, we think this is worth your time. Consider. We already know you are awesome.

• BE GOLDEN! This exists at Summit and Harrison.