Artist Oliver Nome needs some help; you can buy some great art

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Artist Oliver Nome has just found out he has a brain tumor. And like many freelance artists he doesn’t have insurance. Nome has an extensive set of art up for sale on his DA site to raise funds. Among them are some pieces I know readers of my blog might like to own. I met Oliver last year at Boston Comic Con and he’s a great guy. If you are interested you can contact his art dealer at Mga1wars (at) aol.com. Here’s a gallery of what is available.

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DC Women Kicking Ass: Are you a real life Wonder Woman? Here's your chance to prove it

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The website HalloweenCostumes.com is have contest to let people channel their inner Superhero and the character they’ve chosen is Wonder Woman. They are looking for people willing to do good deeds (reading to children, planting a garden in a senior center, etc) while wearing a Wonder Woman…

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The Goods: Various beauty brands, including La Mer and Laura Mercier The Good: May is Melanoma Awareness Month, so chi-chi shop Bergdorf Goodman is donating a percentage of sales from select skincare products to the Melanoma Research Alliance. [Bergdorf Goodman, MRA]

The Goods: Various beauty brands, including La Mer and Laura Mercier

The Good: May is Melanoma Awareness Month, so chi-chi shop Bergdorf Goodman is donating a percentage of sales from select skincare products to the Melanoma Research Alliance.

[Bergdorf Goodman, MRA]

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The Goods: Wise-guy owl necklace ($63) The Good: Like all jewelry in Etsy vendor Candice Mann’s Chains of Grace shop, proceeds from this piece go to Love146, a group fighting against child sex slavery, funding prevention, research and aftercare. [Chains of Grace Etsy, Love146]

The Goods: Wise-guy owl necklace ($63)

The Good: Like all jewelry in Etsy vendor Candice Mann’s Chains of Grace shop, proceeds from this piece go to Love146, a group fighting against child sex slavery, funding prevention, research and aftercare.

[Chains of Grace Etsy, Love146]

selucha: El Biblio-Burro. Es una iniciativa de un maestro (en mayúsculas), que se llama Luis Soriano Borges, que recorre los pueblos más escondidos de Colombia para enseñar los libros a los niños. El burro se llama Beto y la burra Alfa. The Biblio-Donkey. This is an initiative by a teacher named Luis Soriano Borges, who travels through the most distant and hidden villages of Colombia to bring books to children. The male donkey is named Beto and the female is Alfa.

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El Biblio-Burro. Es una iniciativa de un maestro (en mayúsculas), que se llama Luis Soriano Borges, que recorre los pueblos más escondidos de Colombia para enseñar los libros a los niños. El burro se llama Beto y la burra Alfa.

The Biblio-Donkey. This is an initiative by a teacher named Luis Soriano Borges, who travels through the most distant and hidden villages of Colombia to bring books to children. The male donkey is named Beto and the female is Alfa.

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Why not do something good with your twitter account for once? (Retweeting celeb deaths doesn’t count.) Tweet #MOLSONM_ART and the beer company will donate $1 to the Canadian Art Foundation.[Molson twitter, Canadian Art Foundation]

Why not do something good with your twitter account for once? (Retweeting celeb deaths doesn’t count.) Tweet #MOLSONM_ART and the beer company will donate $1 to the Canadian Art Foundation.[Molson twitter, Canadian Art Foundation]

The Goods: Unisex cardigan ($55) The Good: Every item of clothing from No One Without supports Thirst Relief International, helping to provide someone with clean water for 25 years through concrete Bio-sand filtration systems. *Learned about this from fellow conscious consumer site shop4cause. Be sure to check it out! [No One Without, Thirst Relief International]

The Goods: Unisex cardigan ($55)

The Good: Every item of clothing from No One Without supports Thirst Relief International, helping to provide someone with clean water for 25 years through concrete Bio-sand filtration systems.

*Learned about this from fellow conscious consumer site shop4cause. Be sure to check it out!

[No One Without, Thirst Relief International]

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Upload a kiss to H&M’s Fashion Against AIDS campaign site and they’ll donate $1 to AIDS education programs. ETA: It turns out I can’t post of pic of me kissing my dog. So now I am just going to have to donate to a local AIDS charity with my own money, dammit. No sepia tones or significant others needed. [Fashion Against AIDS, Designers Against AIDS]

Upload a kiss to H&M’s Fashion Against AIDS campaign site and they’ll donate $1 to AIDS education programs.

ETA: It turns out I can’t post of pic of me kissing my dog. So now I am just going to have to donate to a local AIDS charity with my own money, dammit. No sepia tones or significant others needed.

[Fashion Against AIDS, Designers Against AIDS]

Presenting a classic movie and TV trope: The Smurfette Principle. Just in case it ever bothered you that there’s usually one token lady character for every group of guys aka The Nerdy One, The Strong One, The Funny One, The One Born Female (see: Miss Piggy, Princess Leia, Black Widow in the new Avengers, etc.).

Sesame Street is great, but watch old clips and it’s painfully clear that all the classic characters, and most of the one-offs, are male. (What, even Big Bird’s gotta be a guy?) Especially odd when you consider that, as with the Transformers (mentioned in the clip), you don’t even think about the characters’ genders until there’s one coded female (long eyelashes, female voice, purple armor, boobs even though they’re an animal or robot) – because male still equals default. [TV Tropes]