“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming bidding.”

So wrote H.P. Lovecraft in his 1928 story The Call of Cthulhu, somehow knowing that all of you would be staying up all night watching us play Desert Bus and bidding on awesome things. Such as…

• This awesome Cthulhu Messenger Bag.
• The Rosco P. Jangles IV Memorial Necklace whose silver stars and green beads will either appease/anger Cthulhu.
• The All Sprites Totoro nail set, sized generously to fit most tentacles hands.
• The Level Up Studios Brentalfloss Prize Pack featuring three (3!) t-shirts, buttons, and CDs!

There’s still more time to bid on these awesome silent auction items!

• Carry all your madness in this arcane Cthulhu Messenger Bag!
• A fantastic Rosco P. Jangles IV Memorial Necklace byLadyRhian!
• A wonderful set of My Neighbor Tortoro by crafter Sandy Wasserman!
• A Level Up Studios pack with with three (3!) Brentalfloss t-shirts (1 ladies M, 2 men’s L) Brentalfloss buttons, and two signed CDs! 

We just received a new song written and recorded by Kitty Shinju!

Click here to download Kitty Shinju’s “Raise Your Bid for the Children”

Lyrics after the break:

The light goes up

and the bidding begins

The eagerly awaited live auctioning

Of something we want to win

And we’re all smack-talking,

and raiding bids

For the children!

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to break right through me

With smack-talk

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to raise your bid

For the children!

I’ve got something really good

to sweeten this pig

Ten Thousand Dollars

And I have a sword

I’ll throw in

Cause we want to raise the bids

For the ones who’ll really win

For the children!

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to break right through me

With smack-talk

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to raise your bid

For the children!

I’ve got the money to back up my mouth

But that’s not what it’s all about

Doesn’t really matter if I win

It’s about raising the bid

For the one’s who’ll really win

For the children!

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to break right through me

With smack-talk

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to raise your bid

For the children!

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to break right through me

With smack-talk

I dare you to meet me

I dare you to beat me

I dare you to raise your bid

For the children!

Want to win the Wizards of the Coast box set?

You have two ways to do it!

1) Draw the “Blue Thumb of God (the Dungeon Master) Crushing Foolish Mortal Player Characters!”

2) Send all entries to contests@desertbus.org with “Blue Thumb of God” as your subject line!

Can’t draw? No problem! There’s another way to win!

We’re also doing a donation drive where every $6.66 enters puts an entry  into the contest! Multiples of $6.66 gives you more entries and so on!

So start sending in your entries, Bus-fans!

Congratulations to Wez Brown for winning the Creepy Dance contest!

Wez Brown\’s Creepy Dance~!

Thanks Wez!

Here are the rest of the entries, including one from a Busser who didn’t have the ability to take video:

Botten Anna doin’ the Creepy!

waZelda’s Challenge Entry!

ValEthrien’s doing the dance as Summer Fun Squall Leonhart!

Mrkmil3526 doing some “Baptist Dancing”

Clairelaferret doing the Creepy shake!

Jeff Lowes dances for us!

Wingdairu does a Creepy MJ for us!

Maldark404 sends us this sexy video. He did it FOR THE CHILDREN.

We just received this amazing  mp3 of Jonas Funk performing “Total Eclipse of the Bus”!

Click Here to Download “Total Eclipse of the Bus”

Huge thanks to Jonas!

Nanomachines in my heart~…

Kristin has been Child’s plays Foundation Coordinator since 2005 and we’re really excited to see her!  Kristin will be in on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:30pm PST! If you have any questions for her, please leave them in the Comments!

2K Games is a developer/publisher with an impressive list of published titles (The Darkness, Borderlands, XCOM, Spec Ops), including a few we all thought would never see the light of day (Prey, Duke Nukem Forever). 2K and their game The Darkness helped spawn Unskippable’s most noteworthy running gag “That was the nth time I died.” It also was the very first game Yahtzee Croshaw covered in Zero Punctuation, so the company holds a deep and warm place in our hearts. We’re also happy to say that after this year, they’ll probably have a nice place in your heart too — they’ve literally given us a huge box of games to give away.

2K Games will be releasing hotly anticipated Bioshock: Infinite in 2013. You can learn more at www.2kgames.com.

Jonathan Coulton is a geek artist and performer responsible for such oeuvres as Code Monkey, Still Alive, and Want You Gone. Currently the house musician for NPR’s Ask Me Another, Jonathan has just released an original Christmas album, One Christmas at a Time, and will be touring the US later this month.

During the call we’ll auction off a surprise mystery thing! So mysterious even we don’t know what it is yet!

JoCo (as we like to call him) will be calling in on Tuesday at 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT. Questions and cogitations should be left in the comment section.