Hey guys, I'm thinking with the mass migration to gmail, it's time to update the buffista database and/or the birthday list.

The birthday list includes all Buffistas who have e-mailed me with their birthdays and their e-mail addresses. At the end of the previous month I send out a mass mail to everyone on the list of birthdays for the month so e-cards can be sent or thoughtful e-mails or whatever. You can receive the list even if you don't want to be included on it. If you don't want to be on the list, but like the happy birthdays in-thread, please be sure to e-mail Nilly so you can be included on the Buffista calendar if you haven't yet. She announces your birthday on or around the day. There are balloons! (Not really.)

To update or to be included on the list, e-mail me at seresempre AT cox DOT net.

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The buffista database is an in-depth(ish) form to make your next internet axe-murdering stalker's job so much easier. When a member of the board e-mails me and asks for information about you for nefarious purposes in order to celebrate your natal day or send you a pick-me-up, or for whatever happy reason, I send your form to them and they can thus surprise you/remain anonymous/avoid prosecution.

If you've already sent me one, please consider updating as this one has gotten much longer improved immensely. If you don't want to update otherwise, but your e-mail address, mailing address or telephone number has changed, please let me know.

Next post will be the questions on the buffista database. If you'd like people to know only some of it or you don't know how to answer, then skip merrily to your heart's content. You will not be graded on questions left blank.

It is easier for me to handle the data (I'm lazy and just forward) if you put the information in the body of the e-mail rather than as a document attachment.

I swear that I am reasonably careful with your information and do not use it for spam or give it to random strangers. However, if you do not want to give me contact information (and I pretend to understand if that's the case), you might still consider filling out the likes/dislikes portion for posterity.

Please send your responses to serasempre AT cox DOT net.

Buffista name:
Real name:
E-mail address:
Mailing address:
LJ name, AIM or other messenger name, chat type contact info:
Telephone number if you want it included:

Top 10 under 10 pick-me-up list (In case you need a smile, what would make you happiest? Postcards; a new pen, refrigerator magnets, a keychain?...)
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Birthday (no need to include year if you’d rather not):
Anniversary and type (buffistaversary, marriage, moved in together, coming out, conversion to X):

Name(s) of significant other(s), if applicable:
Name(s) and ages of child(ren), if applicable:
Pet name(s) and type, if applicable:
Name of roommate(s), if applicable:

Holiday system and favorite holiday:

Allergies or sensitivities:

Favorite kind of chocolate or other sweet treat:
Favorite alcoholic beverage:
Favorite non-alcoholic beverage:
Tea or coffee and favorite flavor/kind:
Favorite fruit:
Favorite food:

Favorite scent(s) or scent family:
Favorite flower or plant:
Favorite color:
bath or shower:

Favorite animal:
totem animal(s):

Passion or collection (music, leather, utilikilts, wonder woman?):
Favorite comic book, cartoon or similar character:

Favorite metal:
Favorite stone (river rock, fire opal, diamond):
Piercing(s):

Mac or PC:
Favorite website(s) (after buffistas.org):
Wish-list URL:

Something every Buffista should know about me:

You can/can't share this with any Buffista who asks (posters under 500, regular posters, only posters whose name starts with ‘B’):

Completely wrong place. Sorry.

Morgan Freeman is organizing a Charity Auction for Hurricane Relief.

It will be run through the Charity Folks auction site and will begin Friday.

Some of the auctions items are:

Attend Morgan Freeman’s upcoming movie An Unfinished Life, which co-stars Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez.

Two cross-continental first class tickets on Virgin Airlines.

An exclusive getaway at the fabulous Four Seasons Hotel in New York.

Tickets to be in the studio audience at That 70's Show and a script singed by the cast.

The website is here: [link]

SA is stuck at LAX until midnight PDT. She wants to hang with some LAistas but can't find phone numbers. Give her a call. Dinner would be good. This message will self-destruct in several hours.

With gas prices going up because of Katrina, I thought I would share my favorite gas price search site it's GasBuddy.com, home of such places as Minnesotagasprices.com, denvergasprices.com, etc. You can usually search down to a small area/city of your state.

Bayistas: Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park has closed for good.

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It's a Hurricane Relief Bake Sale!

Here's how it works:

The first twenty-five people to email me get their choice of chocolate chip cookies, espresso cookies, or chocolate peanut butter death bombs. No crossovers, please: one flavour of cookie per person. I pay for the ingredients, and the mailing supplies, and of course, I bake the goodies.

In return, you agree to pay $3.85 for priority shipping, and you pledge to make at least a $10 donation to the Red Cross or other verifiable hurricane relief organisation of your choice.

Because of book deadline constraints and this pesky debilitating disease thing, this is limited to the first twenty-five people only. If you want to participate, email me at sf _ deb at yahoo dot com.

NYistas:

So it's Friday night, we're freaked out on our couch watching CNN, maybe drooling a little and mumbling quietly to ourselves. What could possibly rouse one's spirits in such desperate times? What to do but drink one's self into desperation?

Right you are, folks, but you're not alone! The Legitimate Theater Company invites you to the Slipper Room this Friday, September 2nd at 8:00 pm (doors open 7:30 pm) to revel in what life has to offer today-- comedy, tragedy, whiskey.

This Friday, September 2nd, The Legitimate Theater Company will be donating 50% of it's door profits to the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org). Legitimate Theater Company is not a charitable organization or a registered 501(c)3, but we love New Orleans and we love people. So if you want to give more than $5, please give to a charity of your choice directly. But if you'd like to laugh, cry, sing, drink heavily, and quite possibly get laid, you should come to the Slipper Room at 167 Orchard Street (corner of Stanton) at 8:00 pm this Friday for WHAT IS LEGITIMATE THEATER.

THIS WEEKS SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE:
Miss Clams Casino
The Knuckleheads

The Legitimate Theater Company attempts to earn its own name while you watch, drink, and heckle. From week to week, the troupe and its guests will ransack everything from carnival sideshow to experimental melodrama in search of the ever-elusive truth. Then, after delving into the murky shadows of Shakespeare, circus, and rock n’ roll, it will emerge again, wiser, stronger, and, hopefully, having delivered an experience worthy of the name:

Legitimate Theater.

Sleazy, smart, and drunk by noon.

http://www.legitimatetheater.com/homepage.htm

If you're donating to the Red Cross relief effort and you think your employer might have pledged a matching donation but you're not sure, check this matching-donor search engine:

Matching Gift Clearinghouse