This is a True Story:
In June 2008, I caught wind of an artist who was doing something unusual on her website: Ali Spagnola was offering to create paintings and ship them to people for exactly free. That’s zero dollars free. I poked around and saw it was no hoax (she subsidizes the work with PayPal donations), so I dropped her an e-mail asking for a painting. I asked for something Muppet-related, and Ali could be creative with whatever she’d like to paint for me. About three seconds later, I completely forgot about sending the e-mail.
Eight months later (to the day!) I received an e-mail from Ali saying that my painting was finished and ready to ship. It seemed that 750 people were in line ahead of me, and free paintings are first-come first-served. A few days later, the painting below was delivered by the US Postal Service.
The day after getting the e-mail from Ali (but before receiving the painting in the mail), I got an e-mail from friend-of-ToughPigs, Thomas, who runs the Superman blog Say It Backwards. Thomas thought I’d enjoy hearing that he also received a painting from Ali. He requested a picture of his favorite Muppet, Beautiful Day Monster. Was it coincidence that put both of those e-mails in my inbox within a day of each other? Yeah, probably.
Jealous??? Click here to request a painting from Ali Spagnola (but keep in mind that she has a 400-person waiting list), and don’t be stingy by ignoring her PayPal icon!
Special thanks to Ali and Thomas for their hard work!
Click here to discuss Doozers, Monsters, and watercolors on the ToughPigs forum!
