Dinner tonight AND tomorrow night with Tom Scola so that he can see as many LAistas as possible! See F2F for details, and please let me know if you are coming ASAP so I can make reservations.

I have free Spotify accounts to give out. Email me at my profile addy if you want one. I'm really enjoying the service, though I still use Pandora to expose me to music that I wouldn't otherwise be aware of.

Ooops. Apocalypse, right?

If you are a Daily Science Fiction subscriber, a very short story from me will be in your inbox on Monday. If not, the story will appear on the Daily Science Fiction website on Sept. 12. (eeep!)

SFistas! I will be in your city from Sept 8 to 12! Then I will be taking a side-trip to Seattle for a couple days, then I will be returning to SF on the 15th before leaving on the 17th! I would like to meet-up with as many of you as possible. We can discuss our options in the F2F thread.

I also (of course) have pictures of my trip so far, starting here, and continuing here.

4 days before i walk 60 miles for breast cancer

donation page ( still looking for about 400.00)

[link]

and for bayarea buffistas - if you want to do some cheering

Cheering Stations

Friday, September 9

Mile 9.9, 9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Ocean Beach Parking Lot Great Highway & Balboa Street, just below the Cliff House San Francisco, CA 94121

Mile 15.7, 10:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Alta Plaza Park 2501 Jackson Street, north side of Park along Jackson San Francisco, CA 94115

Saturday, September 10

Mile 8.5, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. UC Berkeley Clock Tower In front of Sather Tower, just west of Birge Hall Berkeley, CA 94720

• You must walk into campus. Please visit [link] for a campus map.

Mile 16.7, 10:40 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Oakland City Center (Near water fountain) 1200 Clay Street, 1 block east of Broadway & 12th Oakland, CA 94612

Sunday, September 11

Mile 4.5, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Strawberry Point Elementary School 117 E. Strawberry Drive Mill Valley, CA 94941

• There is parking available in the lot.

Mile 10.0, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Dunphy Park 1600 Bridgeway Sausalito, CA 94965

Hey Buffistas, a friend of a friend's daughter has gone missing in Germany -- last seen in Nordrhein-Westfalen area in Germany.

If you're on Facebook, you can see the details here: [link]

Will you share it on Facebook, please?

Also, for those of you on Twitter, I tweeted it here: [link]

I'm asking you to please retweet my message. There are a lot of us and we know people from all over, so I'm hoping we can boost the signal. Thanks!

edit...

I just came back to post that the kids have been found and saw Vortex beat me to the punch. Thanks V. Thanks, Buffistas.

I just checked out and this has been posted

Boys and girls, it's over! The police in Hamburg have them. They nabbed them in the Reeperbahn train station

Chicagoland Buffistas are strongly encouraged to check out Farmhouse, a new restaurant that I have a familial interest in. It's at 228 West Chicago, and I understand the drinks are great!

To celebrate getting 75,000 Facebook fans Criterion is having a 50% off sale on all of their in-stock DVDs and Blu-Ray discs for 75,000 seconds (well, about 68,000 seconds now). [link]