Our Zeta Album Cover Art Contest results are in! Turns out you guys have quite the eclectic taste in music.

Here’s our winner, “ergo,” who created this lovely (and terrifying) Horrorcore masterpiece!

Here’s the honourable mentions!

And all the entries we received!

Show me Steve Harvey as Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII!

*DING* Emu on the Loose is the number one answer! As winner, Emu on the Loose won the incredible Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition prize pack!

Show me the runners up! *DING*

The Rover Outpost is a Vancouver company that creates beautiful machine embroidered custom designed patches. In addition they also make crests, hats, pins, and key tags! They require no minimum order and can ship anywhere in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.

This is their 7th year in a row sponsoring Desert Bus. They’re the ones responsible for making and donating the fancy Desert Bus patches that get given away. Thank you Rover Outpost for your continued support and contributions!

DONATION DRIVE!

$8.88 (and multiples) until 9:45am

Boo Diddly Blanket! Are you looking for a blanket that will watch you when you sleep? Every time you close your eyes this cuddly blanket will be drawn towards you! Don’t be scared of its smile, it just wants to envelop you in a warm hug.

This blanket was made with over 200 squishy granny squares which were slip stitched together to create a textured “wrong side.” It is so soft and warm that its crafter Marisha constantly had to battle the desire to take a nap once the project was big enough to cover her legs.

Enter to win by donating $8.88 (or multiples thereof) until 9:45am!

Kris Straub will be calling into Desert Bus at 11am PST on Tuesday, November 17th.

Kris is a writer, web cartoonist, and a podcaster. He is the creator of chainsawsuit, Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, F Cords, and BroodHollow. Kris is the co-founder of the webcomics collectives Blank Label Checkerboard Nightmare Comics and Halfpixel.

In 2006, Kris became the co-writer and co-producer of PvP: The Series, alongside Scott Kurtz. From there, he and Scott went on to create Blamination, Kris and Scott’s Scott and Kris Show, and Mappy: The Beat.

Kris currently co-hosts the gaming podcast 28 Plays Later with Paul Verhoeven.

Have a question for Kris? Leave it in the comments below!

Lightning Returns Art Contest!

So bear with us here. We’ve got this awesome prize to give away, namely: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector’s Edition, which includes Japanese cover art, an 80 page art book featuring pieces by character designer Tetsuya Nomura and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo, a stylish pocket watch. and Aerith Gainsborough ‘Midgard’s Flower Girl’ DLC as well as a PS3 copy of Lightning Returns.

Want to win it? Well, here’s where things get weird. We want you to draw Steve Harvey as Lightning (see below, and above, respectively, or just hit up Google image search). Send your entry to contests@desertbus.org and use the subject line “Lightning Returns Contest.” Heads up! This is a quickie contest, so get your entry in before 8:30am!!

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Victoria Pie Co. is Victoria’s first and only pie shop, located in the Victoria Public Market in the Hudson building. Pie is a celebration of all that is fresh, local, seasonal, and inspiring.

Thank you Victoria Pie Co. for providing food donations to Desert Bus 9.

We’re halfway through Matt’s shift, so let’s do another donation drive! Steven Universe fans, we’ve got papercraft art that might interest you. Donate $8.52 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this My Family is a Universe of Stars Papercraft artwork. We’ll run this donation drive until 8:00 AM PST.

During Matt’s shift, we challenged the community to create comedic limericks related to the existential state of limbo. Here’s the winning entry, submitted by Jacob Currie:

Limbo’s a word from theology
To explain its name is just tautology
But sufficive to say
If you don’t behave
You might seek out its etymology

After the jump, we’ve included a selection of runner-up entries for your perusal…

If you died and you never were blessed,
Then to Limbo is where you will rest.
Where the walls are all grey,
And your job, with no pay,
Is a Desert Bus alpha game test.
– Leonhart321

Oh I fear when I die I might dwell,
In the First of the Circles of Hell,
Where babies abound,
No adults around,
All those diapers…dear Lord, it must smell…
–Laserbeaks_Fury

One thought has my mind all akimbo:
What happened to those folks in Limbo?
The moment the Pope
Shrugged and said, “Nope”
Did they all disappear on a whim-bo?
– Catherine

There was a young man in silhouette,
Who walked a dark land for a bet,
The monsters were horrid
The humans most florid
And so he just lay down and contemplated the existential dread of being and watched the two minute version of duck army whilst Cameron narrated as Werner Hertzog until he was et.
– Michael