A little girl with cancer
As with all things logical, we start in a place of utter despair and sadness.
There exists a little girl named Eleanor Sultan. She is five. She is also dying.
I won’t go into too many details, because there is a far better and more emotional post here over at Skeleton Jack.
Suffice to say, she has a 40% chance of survival if the planets align correctly, and Skeleton Jack is hosting quite the raffle in order to raise some cash. All the details are in the same post.
But anyway, for the gold mongers among you, this is the rundown:
Donate $10, you get a raffle ticket. Donate $50, you get six of ‘em. Donate $100, you get 14.
The award of the raffle depends on how much is donated. As of this writing, $2500 has already been donated, 10000 is currently up for grabs with the raffle, and that is only increasing.
Comedic Relief
In a classic Shakespearian move, it’s time for the comedic relief.
If you haven’t yet, WoW Relief is an awesome and extremely well done blog and you should go read it. Like right now.
Then add it to your feed burner. Or bookmark it if you’re still living in the caveman age of internet browsing.
I keed, I keed.
But seriously, the site is awesome.
It’s got numerous and excellent articles, stories that range from the hilarious to the heartbreaking, and most importantly, an interview with the hunter heart throb herself, Pike.
The site has a month of excellent blogging under it’s belt now, I don’t expect this to change any time soon. Here’s to a year of writing, you crazy dancing pirates.
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Thanks for the spotlight Euripedes, makes it all worth it when we get a nod from bloggers such as yourself!
I like the content at WoW Relief but I DO have a problem with all those gold ads…
Do you really HAVE to allow it? I can understand that self hosted bloggers try to get some help to pay their rl fees for hosting, but do as for instance Matticus, try to find specific advertisers to work with, selling products that you don’t feel bad about promoting. Don’t let the Google ad thing throw in any sort of crap that you can’t control. It pollutes a site that else would have been brilliant.
There are ads on WoWRelief?
Ad Block Plus strikes again.
Thank you for bringing more awareness to Ella’s cause and the raffle for her. /salute
We have to reference each add specifically to block them, occasionally one manages to slip through. Thanks for the heads up!
“occasionally”? Currently I see two gold selling ads, one account selling ad and one “someone else levels your toon for you” ad. If you’re having all those ads attacking you, it probably would be easier to get rid of the google ads.
(Sorry Euripides for invading your commenting section with a sidetrack, it’s just that gold ads make mad!)