Just a reminder: help_pakistan is a charity auction created to raise money to aid the millions of people devestatingly effected by the Indus River flooding that occurred last week in Pakistan. I've offered my typesetting services and there are hundreds of other offerings by members of our community. I encourage everyone to go over there and offer their talents ( Read more... )

FYI: I've updated Vortex Productions with two new books. Both of these books were created due to harrigan's generous donations to the Sweet Charity auction and help_haiti. Our first collaboration was to "publish" harrigan's excellent SPN story River of Blood. And then we worked on Wayward Sons, a SPN gen anthology.

Working with harrigan was a terrific experience and we produced ( Read more... )

For some crazy reason I decided at the end of last term that it would be a stellar idea to schedule a class on Friday evening and the other on Saturday afternoon, in Auburn Hills (a two hour drive away). I am not exactly the smartest person who has ever attended school of any kind. Also, the Saturday class's professor is the first teacher, ever, to ( Read more... )

I can't even begin to express my emotions at seeing and hearing about the devestation in Haiti, but, thankfully, there are things we can do to help the recovery efforts. We can donate directly to a number of aid agencies, such as Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross. You can also give to LDS Humanitarian Services and if you text ( Read more... )

Holy crap, you guys. The totals from Sweet Charity are in and it raised $13,858.70(American). I, just, it feels so awesome to have been a part of that! It kind of makes me a little teary-eyed ( Read more... )

FYI: Today is the last day to bid over at Sweet Charity so if you want to both donate to a Very Worthy Cause (aka RAINN) and bid on a variety of fun goodies, both of the fandom and non-fandom varieties, then you'd better scurry on over there ASAP ( Read more... )

Bidding over at Sweet Charity is now open!


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About a year ago, or so, I borrowed a fantastic book from hiyacynth. It was a gen anthology of SPN fanfic and I don't think I'll ever get over the experience of sitting on a bus, reading fanfiction. It was wonderful. Ever since then I've been doing my part to convert fanfiction into printed books. And now I'm doing something more. I've decided to sell ( Read more... )

Holy shit! Australia is burning to the ground! Or rather, to be more accurate, the state of Victoria is being consumed.

OMG, it literally sounds like the end of the world. Entire towns are gone. And, apparently, a good number of the fires are arson-related.

For those of us who are much too far away to offer personal assistance the Australian Red ( Read more... )

I got the first 6 episodes of Saved from the Illustrious Baylors the other night (all hail TiVo!) and sat down to watch the pilot last night while folding laundry. I can absolutely recommend it. It made me cry and not the bad, angry crying that Serenity inspired but a good, soul cleansing sort of cry. You can tell tv and movies and all kinds of ( Read more... )