I just stumbled across this:

Seeking Book Donations

The New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover and paperback books for people of all ages in an effort to restock the shelves after Katrina. The staff will assess which titles will be designated for its collections. The rest will be distributed to destitute families or sold for library fundraising.

Please send your books to:
Rica A. Trigs, Public Relations, New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112 If you tell the post office that they are for the library in New Orleans, they will give you the library rate which is slightly less than the book rate.

We are conducting a poll to determine what food will be served at the F2F Prom:

Food poll

Food results

Bear in mind that we will need to spend about $1000 on food (assuming a $500 bar tab) in order to get the suite comped, so there will probably end up being about 8-9 trays of stuff total.

Seeking Book Donations

The New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover and paperback books for people of all ages in an effort to restock the shelves after Katrina. The staff will assess which titles will be designated for its collections. The rest will be distributed to destitute families or sold for library fundraising.

Please send your books to:

Rica A. Trigs, Public Relations, New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112 If you tell the post office that they are for the library in New Orleans, they will give you the library rate which is slightly less than the book rate.

Just FYI, Snopes has an article about the above [link]

I will be headlining a performance for the first time in 15 years on Thursday, April 13. I've got a fantastic accompanist and the venue is a ukulele factory so there are so many reasons to come! Details here:

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Big-screen FIREFLY maraton in Santa Cruz, CA April 1st.

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Here's the scoop:

The marathon will be taking place at the Del Mar Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz, CA (click that link if you want to know where to pose official-type questions). It starts at 11:55 PM on Saturday night

(April 1st) and will go until 11 AM Sunday morning. 8 episodes of Firefly will be screened and then finally, we'll watch Serenity all bleary-eyed and excited after having stayed up all night long. Tickets cost $13 dollars for 10 hours of FF on an ENORMOUS SCREEN in a beautiful, 500 seat movie theater. There will be 3 ten minute intermissions and we'll get in and out privileges with the ticket. And yes, it's OK to bring in outside food, as long as it's not hot food (because that stinks up the theater, yo)--the only exception is pizza (there's a pizza place that sells by the slice next door so we won't starve or die of popcorn overdoses, although you can go that route if you want as the concessions stand will be open all night).

Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 24 @ 12:30 PM. Also, for the wussies out there, Serenity will play by itself on the Friday night before the marathon (March 31st) as the midnight movie (for the usual admission of $6.50).

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Here's a from-the-source update and clarification, on the subject of donating book stock to the NOLA library system:

I wrote to Walter Mascari, Acquisitions Librarian for the NOLA system:

I'm writing because the NOLA public library system has always carried my books on its shelves, and I wanted to know if sending you replacements from my own available stock would be useful to you.

Mr. Mascari wrote back:

We have been overwhelmed by book donations and have no storage at this time. I'm afraid your books would get lost in the hundreds of boxes of books that are already here. If it's all right, I'll save this email, and when things get managable, will contact you...

Thanks for thinking of us!

So, there you have it. Send money, not books, at this point in time.

I have a complimentary 1 month membership w/ 2 free downloads to audible.com (for new customers only) if anyone would like it. email profile address.

It has been claimed.

Hey there NYistas!

THE NEW YORK THEREMIN SOCIETY presents;
part III of the Experimental Theremin Orchestra
Saturday April 8th - 8pm
Issue Project Room

featuring 9 (!) Thereminists:
Jon Bernhardt (of the Lothars)
Elisabeth Brown
Dorit Chrysler
Michael Evans
Jen Hammaker
Anthony Ptak
Armen Ra
Rob Schwimmer
David Simons

Sunday, April 9th - THEREMIN Panel Discussion 1-3pm

Issue Project Room

Theremin Society

Note: Each of us plays for 5-15 minutes, and then there's a big jam at the end!

Tim's Screenwriting Expo class, Breaking the Story, is now available on DVD.

Tim is donating his share of the DVD sales to www.myfriendsplace.org

A reminder to those attending the F2F in San Francisco next month (next month! WOOT!)

If you're coming, but haven't yet checked the box for Prom headcount, please do so as soon as you can: Sunnydale Press, post 2044. We're going to be giving the hotel the estimated final headcount for the event, and see about locking down the catering, over the next couple of weeks.

Same goes for the menu: if you're coming to Prom and haven't opined (I love that word) on your menu selections, please give it a look: Sunnydale Press, post 2050.

Also, a reminder that the hotel will release the unbooked rooms back into the wild, along with the $99 a night rate, on 16 April. So if you need a room and haven't booked, now's the time.

Discussion - anything anyone wants to ask, any needs, anything else I ought to know for my next big sitdown with the Holiday Inn events staff - should be in the F2F thread.

Thanks!