I'm backing up Nilly's Firefly reviews site right now, and then I'll be taking it down temporarily. I'll get it back up as soon as I can.

Tonight the Overnight Walk takes place. This is a 20 mile walk thru the night for suicide awareness. I have had too many friends take their own lives. I really believe that if they had been more aware of what this does to those of us left behind, they might not have done it. Please go to this url and donate any amount.

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New Buffista swag! Pete (who is both adorable AND awesome) has created gorgeous "Legendary" and "Awesome" versions of his SF2F design. (Note that there are multiple variations on "legendary")

Legendary store, worksafe version.

Legendary store...afterhours version. (Look closely!)

THIS STORE IS MADE OF AWESOME!

Attention shoppers! I have stuff that isn't going to California with me but can't stay here, and it's yours for the price of shipping! Choices include:

• A package which will include: First Steps in Crochet; I Taught Myself to Crochet; I Taught Myself Knitting

• A package of piano sheet music, including music from Hair and Cats, one song each from Phantom of the Opera, Porgy and Bess, and The Muppet Movie, and... some other stuff

• Some random issues of the comic Strangers in Paradise

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1-4

• The Dreaming numbers 16-21, 28, 29, and 32 (including, for some reason, two copies each of 19 and 20)

• 1-4 of Thessaly: Witch for Hire and 1-4 of the Thessaliad (more Thessaly from Sandman)

• Black Orchid 1-3

• Death: The Time of your Life number 2

• Dead Boy Detectives No. 1

• Hellblazer 93-96, 103, and 108, as well as Dangerous Habits

• and X-Men: Visionaries.

Er, but don't ask for just one comic, as that's hell on vw, she being the one shipping them out. Take as many as you can. Just think! New comics/music/craft!

And, er... no, I think that's it. E-mail thevwbug@gmail.com and they're yours (for the price of shipping)!

Have an on-line book proposal for my book Cooling It! No Hair Shirts Solutions to Global Warming. www.nohairshirts.com

Welcome comments, on content, web site layout and code. (I stole the idea from Allyson of opening with blurbs, and having a tabbed interface.) Is the big yellow fractal sun background overdoing it? Is the layout too dull, too loud? etc...

The latest edition of Neptune Online is up. In it, Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars discuss two episodes of NBC's The Office: 2:10 - Christmas Party, and 2:11 - Booze Cruise. There's also a Dead Celebrity Round up, a discussion of The CW, and an advice column, too. The articles are in sync with the re-run season, so they're written as though they were for a March publication (but are brand new).

(The Office article was written by me.)

I've got two fairly large readings in New England in the next couple weeks:

August 9, 2006 The Boston Poetry Slam

The CanTab Lounge
738 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge , MA
7:30 p.m., $3

August 15, 2006 GotPoetry Live

Reflections Cafe
8 Governor Street
(at Wickenden)
Providence , RI
7:30 p.m., $3

And to top it off, the Cambridge reading happens to be on the anniversary of the day Thessaly and I first met. You SO want to be there.

I'm offering this here first before I mess around with ebay:

Attention Spike fans (and soccer fans, Manchester United fans, Bend It Like Beckham fans, Arsenal fans, etc.) I'm offering a pristine, Umbro Manchester United jersey--it's poly/wool, official, Vodafone across the chest, Man U crest on the left breast, short sleeved, red & black, mens' size Large. I bought it in the UK, but it's been worn only on rare occasions. There is a tiny bit of pilling along the seams, but other than that, it looks brand new.

So if you like Man U (or in the case of some fans, wish to burn Beckham in effigy for leaving for Spain) or if you're an Arsenal fan and just want to burn an effigy, I'm selling it for $20 US plus $4 shipping. I paid £42 for it back in '01.

Profile addy is good.

And it's gone.

Bay Area Buffistas!

Do you like theatre? Do you like Greek mythology? Do you like clever and unorthodox updates of Greek mythology?

Then you should go see Release the Kraken, billed as "Clash of the Titans meets Clerks."

Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena and the other Greek Gods on Mount Olympus challenge our hero Perseus to slay the Kraken, the last of the Titan monsters... But wait? Perseus works in a strip mall?

A comedic modern retelling of the Perseus Myth where the good must overcome challenges as the mighty Medusa, the creepy three stygian Witches, two-headed dogs, and overwhelming desires to play XBox or Ultimate Frisbee.

Can our hero Perseus meet the trials given him by the Gods, or will he lose all that a minimum wage clerk holds dear in life?

My friend Dan plays Percy. I'm seeing the show August 18, but you can do your part to support independent theatre (and my friend Dan) any night you wish. You can tell him I sent you.