Alert! Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker's resident Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey enthusiast, is also an amateur photographer, which you may know if you ever visit his website, where you will see photographs of such things as purple tulips, turkey sandwiches with a side of orange, and graffiti. But Sasha would like your help, for his external hard drive has failed, and he has lost "every photo taken between October 2003 and December 2005." To retrieve these photos, he needs $5,000. That's where you come in!

See, Sasha doesn't have $5,000:

I know—fancypants New Yorker writer, what the fuck, etc. There's a donation button below, and clicking on it will send me ten bucks. If five hundred people do this, I'll be able to pay for the retrieval. I will love you all the same if you don't click on it.

But be warned:

I will not send individual thank you notes but will post an honor roll when we've reached the finish line. Thank you, though, to those who have already pitched in."

Won't you please do something? Only 5 dollars a day can help this pop music critic get his photos back.

Collection Plate [S/FJ]