Stepping into Dani's big hat, for the Secret Santa Exchange:

Anyone interested in exchanging small presents with other Buffistas during the holiday season, email me at my profile address with your Buffista name and a snail-mail location to which people can send your loot. I will match up givers & giftees in a highly rigorous, random process -- i.e. drawing names out of a hat.

Please try to email me by November 9. I'll match names and send out notices by November 11, to allow for lots of present buying/making and mailing time.

Your truly,
Tiny Jewish not-Santa

[Edit: P.S. Apparently, there's not going to be a Slacker exchange this year, so please make sure to e-mail me on time!]

High Hat No. 9. Be sure to check out the article by that up-and-comer Erika Jahneke.

Lightbulbs is now open for discussion of the following proposal:

I propose that we close the dedicated Firefly thread and continue our discussions in the Minearverse thread.

Aimée "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Oct 25, 2007 6:04:23 am PDT

LAistas--We are having a yard sale at our old place tomorrow from 8am-2pm. It's 239 N, Keystone St in Burbank and there is lots of cool stuff. Feel free to drop by to buy or just to say hello.

If you are anywhere within a reasonable drive of New York City next weekend, here's where you need to be:

Victor D. Infante hosts a night of readers from the The November 3rd Club, including Tony Brown, Jane Cassady, Brian Dauth, Lea Deschenes, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Gary Hoare, Lynne Procope, Skip Shea, Jackie Sheeler, Rachel McKibbens, Michael Cirelli and Patricia Smith.

The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012 212.614.0505

Saturday, November 3rd 6 to 8 p.m. Admission: $7

It's not just going to be a hell of a reading, it's going to be a hell of a party. Seriously. Just be there.

Hear Ye Hear Ye

Voting is now open for the following proposal:

Once the current Firefly thread has reached it's 10,000th post, should we discontinue the thread?

The discussion for this proposal starts here.

Voting closes Thursday, November 1, at Noon (PDT).

VOTE NOW

questions should be posted in Bureaucracy)

I've been reminded that it's that time of year again.

I haven't been posting much, but this board is still home and I still keep the infamous lists.

If you'd like me to know things about you I can share with someone who decides they want to send you something special, please fill out the form below (skip any you don't want to answer, answer more if you think of something cool to say, consider these guidelines rather than rules, etcetera, etc.), and send it to me at my profile address. Then, when your Santa gets your name, or someone just decides they want to send you something, they won't be sending you, for example, white chocolate (an abomination!) or candied ginger (I'm allergic) if you don't like it/can't eat it/wouldn't wear it/don't know what it's for.

If you've already sent me info but things have changed, send me an update and I'll put it in the file. The questions are:

Buffista name:
Real name:
E-mail address:
Mailing address:
LJ, Blogger, WordPress, MySpace, FaceBook or other user name (s):
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?...)

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:
Your website if you have one:
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’):

For those that are interested the latest episode of B-Movie Bastards is up. If you like B-Movies please give it a listen. This episode is a short one that we recorded behind the scenes at Halloween Horror Nights.

Urgent for Halloween Fang-Wearing Types:

I've heard this news a number of places now, but here's an article about it.

Seems that some (most?) fake fangs have 100 times the allowed amount of lead in them. You may want to ditch the fangs tomorrow.

WWK: Joss+Tim+Eliza = Dollhouse on Fox :D