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...This is really, really nice, people. I know I’ve said that before, but come on, this actually is nice,” auctioneer Sloan J. Eddleston ’04 assured the crowd, keeping spirits up and wallets open during Kirkland House’s annual storage auction yesterday...
Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...
...Scotland, sometime during the 15th century. Mathison?s 32-page work, The Goff, written in the satirical form of an epic poem, describes a match whose outcome is influenced by favoritism of the gods, chiefly the game?s patroness, Golfinia. A 1793 copy of The Goff was sold at auction in Edinburgh last week...
Someone must have forgot to tell Blind Date alum Jerri Manthey, who became the she-villain of Survivor 2. Or Allen, an aspiring actor who's been on Elimidate, Change of Heart, A Dating Story and "a dating-auction show that never aired called The Gamut." Kelly Ryan, a waitress in Studio City, Calif., parlayed a Blind Date appearance into stints on dating-game shows SexWars (she won $4,000) and Friends or Lovers. Ryan played the wild girl on her date, coaxing her beau into a hot-tub dip (surprise!) and a shower. The budding nightclub singer said...
...caught on and started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best customer," says Village Music's John Goddard, who guesses that Davis has relieved him of around 7,500 pieces...