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

I know some people know about The Hunger Site (and its affiliate sites, The Hunger Site, The Breast Cancer Site, etc.), where all you have to do is click their button to fund hunger relief efforts. That's it. Just click.

They're currently supporting the hurricane victims. So, go, click.

You'll All Pay #40

Crime.

I know that nearby Buffistas are already helping, but MoveOn has started a network to help refugees find housing. If you know someone who could help, please pass this along.

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Hurricane Katrina's toll on communities, homes and lives has devastated the nation. Now victims must face the daunting question of where to go next—and we can help.

Tens of thousands of newly homeless families are being bused to a stadium in Houston, where they may wait for weeks or months. At least 80,000 are competing for area shelters, and countless more are in motels, cars, or wherever they can stay out of the elements. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross are scrambling to find shelter for the displaced.

This morning, we've launched an emergency national housing drive to connect your empty beds with hurricane victims who desperately need a place to wait out the storm. You can post your offer of housing (a spare room, extra bed, even a decent couch) and search for available housing online at:

[link]

Housing is most urgently needed within reasonable driving distance (about 300 miles) of the affected areas in the Southeast, especially New Orleans.

Please forward this message to anyone you know in the region who might be able to help.

But no matter where you live, your housing could still make a world of difference to a person or family in need, so please offer what you can.
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