As part of the Amazon affiliate thing, they send out a weekly "deals" email. If there isn't a lot of objection (in Bureaucracy, please), I'll post it here once a week. Obviously, there's no pressure to use Amazon (I know many people hate them for various reasons), but maybe someone can save a few bucks.

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Start Date: Current
End Date: While supplies last
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RIP, Jimmy Doohan. Pneumonia and Alzheimers. He was 86.

[link]

For those that are interested - here are pictures of Matt's latest guitar and the reciepent

[link]

Veronica Mars Fans

CBS is going to air four rerun episodes of "Veronica Mars" in a cross-promotional stunt starting Friday at 8 and 9 p.m. Then again on Aug. 5 and 12 at 8 p.m.

If any Buffistas with illustration experience would like to make some extra cash with a potentially sizeable freelance blackline illustration assignment over the course of the next 7 weeks, please contact me at the following address:

matt@rainbowconcepts.com

It doesn't pay a great deal in comparison to the rates pro artists like Pete can command, so it's more a college student/recent grad sort of thing. But if my time estimate is correct the total assignment should work out to $2000 for approximately 20 to 25 hours/week between now and 9/22. We may be able to use someone who could only take on half the assignment (50 illustrations rather than 100) in conjunction with another artist.

The ability to work electronically in Mac-compatible drawing programs or to scan your work for submission would be a serious plus, but we can work with traditional pen & ink methods as well.

F2F Update:

City Pimpage will be available on or around (if changes are necessary) August 12th

The city vote will be held from the 18th to the 22nd of August.

Squeeeeee

My show got this dandy write-up and was on the "AOL Citiguide" or whatever its called: [link]

SUCH fun.

NOW with a working linky: [link]

Squeeee!!!

And the buzz keeps a-buzzin: [link]

Apparently this is a pretty well-hit blog. I've written several pieces for this week's show... getting all wibbly at the thought of god-knows-who from the interbunny seeing it.