Previously, I had mentioned that my guest tonight on The Eclectic Word was scheduled to be Susan Gubar, author of the brilliant Poetry After Auschwitz. Alas, Ms. Gubar has been detained by a family emergency, and will have to be rescheduled for a later date.

Thankfully, I have superheroes ready to step into the breach, and tonight, at 7 p.m. EST Friday, January 18thth, my guests will be poets Derrick Brown, Amber Tamblyn and other contributors to Write Bloody Press' The Last American Valentine. We will be discussing the language of love, so give it a listen!

Hey Buffistas! It's that time of year again, and I'm looking for donations for the board monthly fees. A huge thanks to everyone who's given in the past, and if you never have, why not do it now? Any amount you can give is appreciated.

You can send money via paypal to donations at buffistas dot org, or email for my mailing address if you want to send a check.

Thanks!

Drollerie Press is sponsoring an e-zine (yes, another one), to promote and support e-books and electronic content. We even pimp the November 3rd Club! Check it out here: [link]

If you would like to see your website, e-zine, or other cool electronic content featured in the next issue, drop me a note at my profile addy.

Beauty and the Bug has a new entry up (well, a bunch of them, actually), but I thought since this one focuses on the Buffistas (without naming them...gotta keep the family away!), I'd share.

On Always Having a Place to Stay

Poke around the site too. There are some new project pictures up and a new Valentine's Day header (I do love my Deena!), plus three trip-inspired blog entries that were posted while I was in St. Thomas.

Enjoy!

Hear ye, hear ye!

We have three cities officially in the running for this year's Midwest F2F: Madison, Minneapolis, and Houston. (Detroit/Ann Arbor may also be added soon). This is your last chance to declare yourself point person and pimp another city. Any takers? We've had the discussion up for a couple of weeks, so we're planning to vote for city tonight.

Come to the F2F thread for discussion/additional pimpage.

Shameless self-pimpage:

Am about finished with a big navigation redesign at travelswithchild.org and would love any feedback

thanks to a brilliant suggestion by Raq, we now have drop-down by-region and by-age categories. Plus a bunch more - book reviews, a monthly post about places to visit... your suggestions for topics are more than welcome!

And I ordered a bunch of moo cards... swag may be coming soon -

t goes back to real job. looks back longingly.

I just figured out I haven't been getting confirmation emails from paypal, so THANKS, y'all, and I'm sorry if I don't get individual emails to everyone.

We're about ready to vote on a city for F2F 2008! If you would like to add information about a city, ask questions, or do something else I've forgotten, join us in F2F.

Update time at Gothic Charm School! Of Goths Suffering Harassment, of Vampires, and of Skull Accessories

F2F 2008: The Midwest!

Poll is now open for voting here.

City Pimpage Here:

City: Madison
Point Person: SailAweigh
Pimpage here: SailAweigh "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Dec 3, 2007 8:07:13 am PST And additional hotel info here: SailAweigh "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 25, 2008 10:42:01 am PST

City: Minneapolis
Point Person: Juliana
Pimpage here: juliana "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 17, 2008 10:05:45 am PST And additional hotel info here: juliana "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 25, 2008 11:07:26 am PST

City: Houston
Point Person: Dana
Pimpage here: Dana "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 18, 2008 8:32:44 am PST And additional hotel info here: Dana "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 25, 2008 10:49:01 am PST

City: Detroit
Point Person: Aimee/Ailleann
Pimpage here: Aimée "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 25, 2008 9:10:19 am PST And additional hotel info here: Aimée "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Jan 25, 2008 10:59:41 am PST

VOTE NOW! The poll will stay open until Wednesday at 9PM EST.

(We haven't chosen a date yet--we'll tackle that once we've picked a city.)