CL farewell!

Last week, craigslist sailed off into the sunset. After becoming one of the most famous (and infamous) internet sites ever, they finally bowed to commercialism and became just another job site. They eliminated their personals section altogether, and made the rest of their ads pay-only.
Their personal section was one-of-a-kind, because it was free for anyone to post their own ad, entirely responsible for their own content. Which made it both the most awful and most wonderful site out there. The sleaze and dregs and fakes were out in full force...yet alongside that, absent the air of desperation that clings to any paid site, CL was occasionally also the only personal section in the world where one could find integrity and brilliance untainted.
And now it's gone.
Okay, not completely. There are still chat forums, and maybe one or two unpaid relics like the resume and sale/free sections. But the heart of the site, the personals, has been eviscerated. Gone.
Aside from all that, CL provided writers with a fount of material for essays of social commentary, both serious and silly.
So as a final hat-tip, here are the ads i had running, before the purge.
Free Spirit? (M4W, romance)
Anyone ready to go beyond the beauty/status game?
You look at these silly ads, and don't get people who commodify themselves (height, weight, age, number/coloration of moles...), yet you also don't get people who aren't comfy enough in their skin to post a picture.
Greed and glamour leave you cold. You don't "hit the scene", or self-medicate. You don't see skin color. You live for scintillating conversation, or maybe just a pillow fight.
Put "brown barbaloot" in your subject line.
Seeking Literary Patronage (M4W, platonic)
Hello. I'm a writer and public speaker, brand new to the Bay, looking to save the world...and maybe needing a little help. I'd love to devote my time to creating stories, essays, and poems that will help push humynity back to sanity, while we still (maybe) have time. My work ranges from funny to ferocious, all of it brimming with humynist, feminist, non-materialist, non-superstitious values (think of me as the love child of twain, thoreau, lenny bruce, and simone de beauvoir). Nor do i just pull dreams out of the air - i'm always seeking the newest in science and psychology to help me figure out how we got so self-immolatingly exploitative.
If you're well-off, a pittance will keep me afloat. If you're not, maybe you have one little extra room where future classics of literature are waiting to be created (i also could be the extra hands you need around the house to keep your own life afloat). Why am i advertising in M4W? Because wimyn are, on the whole, less idiotic, egotistic, and noxious than men (don't let it go to your head - that's a left-handed compliment if ever there was). I've got honesty, intelligence, and integrity spilling out my ears, and unlike most iconoclastic provocateurs, i'm stable - no drugs or drinking.
Send me a note...i'll share some writing that might make you cry or clap.
Event/Party/After-dinner Speaker (event services)
Storyteller/essayist/poet/musician, for diversion and delight. Think of me as the love child of twain, thoreau, lenny bruce, and simone de beauvoir. The centerpiece of my gift is hip, progressive, occasionally racy new versions of every classic fairy tale. Plus ukulele songs, and volumes of essays and poetry - silly, serious, or anything in between. I can even delight the squares! With an enormous background as an actor, i've no shortage of characters and charisma. No event too big, or too small. References and sample phone readings available.
warmly,
wrob
Editor/Ghost with the Most (editing)
Do you have files that need fixing? A poorly-translated graphic novel lacking literary luster? A manifesto or magnum opus wanting fresh eyes? Whether it's spiffing something you already have, turning raw material into a page-turner, or creating brilliance from whole cloth...send me a hello.
warmly,
wrob
Writing Tutor - creative or otherwise (writing)
Does your poetry need perk? Your essays energizing? Your prose plumping? Do you aspire to greatness, and seek a guru who's braved the beast's belly? Here i am. Rates are unset (we're not in this world to leverage each other like slabs of insensate flesh...unless you're a corporate climber, then all bets are off).
warmly,
wrob
Personal Coach - unconventional (lessons & tutoring)
The key flaw of the psychiatric profession is that it approaches all problems as personal, and measures success by "normalization". But this society's problems aren't personal. We live in a fear-based, greed-based, violent, repressed, touch-deprived culture of alienation...and how well you "normalize" into that, is a measure of how well you can manifest denial, as a growing body of scientific research shows that humans are by nature mostly non-violent, sexy sharers.
I'm no part of the establishment. I've spent part of my life as a free spirit half-off the grid. My education is in philosophy. My reading tastes run toward science and psychology. I can offer perspectives to help you understand why you've never been happy (hint: no one is). I can't make it all better, as that would require transporting you to a world that doesn't yet exist...but big-picture understanding may bring some peace of mind, and make clear what is (and isn't) important. I'm not a motivational cheerleader, unless your motives run deeper than the american dream. But i might be the most friendly, understanding ear you'll ever find.