Free, promotional email list for Stay Free! print magazine

[Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>]

Posted at http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/
- - - - -

Maybe you've heard the recent story about the guy selling ad space on 
his forehead on eBay. Or the one the woman who auctioned off space on 
her pregnant belly:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46690&item=3869933040&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Since these stories became media sensations, eBay has been flooded 
with copycats -- people trying to sell space on their faces, bald 
heads, backs, etc. I guess it's a small consolation that most of 
these morons haven't found their auctions to be nearly as lucrative 
as their predecessors, with bidding hovering around a dollar or two, 
at most... but the fact remains that they remain undeterred.

Therefore, at the risk of my dignity, I've decided to step into the 
fray and auction off ad space on my colon:

"Advertise on my colon"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5555567005

Perhaps this way we'll at least get to see an ad in a space where it belongs.

(Thanks to Jonah Peretti for the tip)

::::::

A fellow Brooklynite has come up with what is arguably a more 
innovative solution to the "forehead advertising" problem: special 
eyeglasses designed to block the ads:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5949718150

(though, as a commentator on one blog suggested, a lead pipe to the 
head would be more effective.)