$4.44 Donation Drive

Our good friend Bonnie Burton called in to say hello, answer some questions, and speak about some projects she’s been working on.

She also issued a donation drive which will be ongoing until 7:30pm. Until then, donate in increments of $4.44 for a chance to win a Bonnie Burton Prize Pack, plus, as a pig sweetener, a MegaCynics print, courtesy of Dengler!

The four couples in the Moonbase are playing a game of Relationship Russian Roulette, which is to say: The Newlywed Game!

 

Our brave teams are:

• Jer and Tally
• Ian and Cori
• Graham and Kathleen
• James and Ashley

 

Squirm in your seat as the dudes and ladies take turns guessing how each other will answer questions about their relationships!

So far it has been truly harrowing stuff. One blogger compared it to witnessing the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and knowing the dominoes that are now about to fall.

Make sure to tune in now, as the girls are about to take their turn to see how well they know their fellas!

Desert Bus is very excited to welcome a new call-in this year: Bonnie Burton! Bonnie will be calling in at 6pm PST on November 21st.

Bonnie Burton is a former Senior Editor of both StarWars.com and the Official Star Wars Blog. She was also a staff writer for Star Wars Insider Magazine and has published a metric ton of books, including: The Star Wars Craft Book,You Can Draw Star Wars, Draw Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Planets in Peril, and Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers.

She has also worked as a magazine writer for Digit, Bust, Geek Monthly, Wired, Yahoo! Internet Life, Organic Gardening, and presently writes a geek girl column for SFX. Bonnie also hosts a personal website, Grrl.com and is also quite prolific on Twitter and Pintrest.

Bonnie has hosted a number of shows, including the Denver music video show “Teletunes” and the San Francisco music video show “Subculture”. She presently hosts several shows, including Ask Bonnie and Geek DIY on Stan Lee’s World of Heroes, and co-hosts Vaginal Fantasy Book Club with Veronica Belmont, Felicia Day, and Kiala Kazbee. In addition to all that, Bonnie and Anne Wheaton are the founders of the Googly-Eye-Art-Movement, VandalEyes.

Have a question for Bonnie? Leave it in the comments below.

 

Another

Donation Drive

is underway

 

The in-house artist of Card Kingdom, Joe Vollan, has donated, this Skull-Moth MtG playmat. Donate in increments of $10.10 for a chance to win! The drive ends at 4:45pm, which is only 8 minutes from now!

And we’ve sweetened the pig! The winner also gets a chocolate Companion Cube.

Amanda took first honours (?) in our Embarrassing Stories contest, with her cringe-worthy tale of accidental insensitivity.

In her own words:

TV can be educational! It’s the early 80s; the Roots series about America’s history had just been rebroadcast on PBS. But no one thought to educate 3-year-old me about what I saw. That is, until we were at the Detroit airport, and tiny me, in my incredibly loud voice, announced “LOOK MOM! SLAVES!” at seeing my first non-white people. Apparently my parents are good at disappearing in a hurry. Oops.

Sorry, Amanda, but for your troubles you at least get a sweet prize pack including The Selling of Scarry Manor DVD (Signed), a pair of hand-made Minion Slippers, and a Dengler sticker-book!

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Speaking of Dengler, who powered through the speechjammer to read out the best stories with nary a stutter, he will be hanging out in the Moonbase today for all your challenges and questions. Thanks Dengler!

It’s time for another

Donation Drive!

Donate an increment of $9.48 before 3pm for a chance to win
this stunning

Wasteland art print

hand-numbered (48 of 500) and signed by the artist, Barry E. Jackson

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Meanwhile, don’t forget to get in those Embarrassing Stories! Remember: seventy (70) words or fewer, and try to keep them PG-13 please!

That contest runs until 2:30pm, so get them in to contests@desertbus.org quick!!

Good job everyone! Bring it in for a high five!

Uh, OK, yeah. Cool.

 

We had a fun morning and only broke Alex like… twice… three times maybe…

…that or he just stayed broke.

Either way, the coffee wasn’t helping the situation

We had a Super Saiyan Fight… it was as eventful as you can imagine. Note Maya’s reaction in the back

It snowed inside the Moon Base (thanks Engineering!) to get the Cheevo.

The Official Desert Bus Stained Glass went up for auction – Paul used his super powers to get the bidders to keep going higher and higher with our own Dix needing to bow out at $2.5K. The bidding went on for nearly 30 minutes with Raiger winning it at $4000.00 for the Children!

Raiger did had special shipping instructions though….

That’s right folks, Raiger gifted his hard won bid (which he won from his phone while at work) to Dix.

Thank you. So much. Tears and laughter and excitement and all the feels – before it was even 8am.

Then we were all regaled with some amazing Ashton and Dix fan fic with James narrating and the other characters voiced by their namesakes. It should be noted that Dix only resisted once.

Paul sang us songs! Ashton’s shift ended with him beating Jer’s total! This is the first time a Zeta shift has beat the total of a day shift – well dong!

Bill & The Mighty Bill’s Mom joined us for the day time shift, played Jenga, and chatted with Jim Sterling!

We had an art contest set up by Bill’s mom that was based on a story about Bill needing to pee.

Steve Dengler of Dracogen and XE.com Inc. fame came for a visit and dressed up because… Star Trek (continues), that’s why. He is the self-declared King of Desert Bus – he’s pretty cool and he brings his own crown so we don’t argue.

 

And, perhaps most notably, we hit 500 Fluhes!! Whew!

Story-Time Contest!

Prize – The Selling of Scarry Manor DVD (Signed)
Pre-Sweetened – Minion Slippers!
Dengler-Sweetened the prize further with a goodie he brought from home (book w/stickers!)

You have to send us, in 70 words or less, your most embarrassing PG-13 story.

Steve will have to read out the top 3 stories with the speech-jammer.

Send to Contest@desertbus.org

You have just over 45 minutes to submit your best!

Your urine-themed entries were positively inspired!

Erik has won Dungeon! The Board Game About Dungeons! for this masterpiece

 

And Phosphatide has won Murder in Baldur’s Gate 7 for their awesome entry

 

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted it was a tough call but the hard call had to be made, here are some notable submissions for your viewing pleasure!

Eddie Gorodetsky is calling in!

Eddie Gorodetsky is the creator of desert bus and a television writer and producer. His credits include Desert Bus, Mom, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Mike & Molly, Saturday Night Live, SCTV Network 90, and Late Night with David Letterman. He has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning one.