Updos for Obama, Saturday night’s fun fund raiser for presidential hopeful Barack Obama at Medusa Hair Salon in Park Slope raised nearly $2,000 for the campaign.

The organizers of the event estimated that 40-50 people crowded into the small Seventh Avenue shop; many paid $75 to get Palin-esque updos.

In the back of the shop, there was music and a reading from a book called Submerged, Tales from the Basin edited by Lauren Gonzalez, who with Kelly Gola, was one of the organizers of the event.

And let’s not forget Yvonne who came up with the amazing flyer and is the genius behind the website Heck of a Job George. 

According to Kelly Gola, who is a stylist at Medusa (and about to enter a PhD program): "These ladies were really
instrumental in putting the "UpDos for Obama" event together and I
could not have done it without them." 

The finale of the evening was a Sarah Palin look-a-like contest and a town meeting for Sarah Palin wanna-bees.

Kudos to Kelly, Lauren, Yvonne and everyone else for doing such an imaginative and successful benefit. Picture by Goldfield for the NY Daily News.