During today’s Alpha Flight, we challenged the community to create artwork related to Andy’s Arstotzka crossing guard character. Here’s the winning submission, from Garfman:
Thanks to everyone that submitted their creations to this challenge! Here are some additional honorable mentions from our community.
DoomsdayLLC
EpocaDoFim
R2-JL
SidewinderSky
We’ve just received word that our friends at Fangamer are now accepting pre-orders for a second run of Desert Bus for Hope 2020 T-Shirts. If you’ve been waiting because a particular size or style was sold out, check out the Fangamer store now! Hurry, because these shirts are only available during Desert Bus for Hope 2020.
We’re starting another Donation Drive, this time for a rather unique item… a custom crafted Leather Dice Tray, Journal, or Back Patch… your choice!
Matthew Webb is an accomplished leatherworker specializing in tooled leather items with a gothy or geeky motif. He has offered to do a custom leather item for the winner of this lot. The winner will have their choice of a custom leather bound journal, back patch, or dice tray! Matthew can incorporate iconography from Vampire: The Masquerade, Dungeons & Dragons, and Call of Cthulhu to create a unique item to the winners specifications.
Whether you need a journal to hide all of your dark secrets, a back patch to openly display your dark secrets, or a dice tray to randomly determine your dark secrets, this is the lot for you.
Donate $13.13 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this Donation Drive until 5:30pm PST.
We here at Desert Bus for Hope would like to thank one of our prize sponsors for this year’s event: Roxley Game Laboratory.
Roxley Games specializes in games that are innovative, well-developed, and highly-polished. At Roxley, they pour their heart and soul into every game they have the opportunity to work on. Some board games you might have played recently that they’ve published include Dice Throne, Santorini, Brass: Lancashire, and Gorilla Marketing.
Thank you Roxley Game Laboratory for your support of this year’s Desert Bus for Hope!
This year, we’ve asked our community to share what Desert Bus for Hope and Child’s Play means to them, and what impact they’ve had on their lives. Here is a selection of these community submissions…
My childhood was spent too sick to leave my home but I always had TV and video games to help me get through the pain, fear, and loneliness. Being able to help children who have to deal with the same struggles but without the comfort of their own home is an honest joy <3 #DBtoMe
— Erik Bowers (@Fluffy776) November 15, 2020
Our pup Yuki is 3 today and he's keeping us good company while we watch @DesertBus. We bribed him with puppy cake. #DBToMe pic.twitter.com/KX4ZOX9xa6
— Robert Hanson (@RxPalindrome) November 16, 2020
@desertbus has meant alot of different things to me over the years. I look forward to it and work towards after havinf been in the craftalong the last 3 years now its something i enjoy with my husband and commuity desert bus is the definition of self care and communtity #DBToMe
— PixelnStitches Aka The Geeky Quilter (@TheGeekyQuilter) November 14, 2020
@DesertBus led me to a huge change in life and the best job I've ever had. As one of the Patient Techs that @CPCharity funded, I have been able to help kids Play Games and Feel Better. Because of amazing Child Life guest callers in previous DB runs, I found my passion. #DBTOME
— Marty McMahon (@Martizz1e) November 18, 2020
Desert Bus is one of the things I most look forward to every year. I've been watching for 8 years now. DB has helped me through some of the hardest and busiest points in my life. There is so much kindness and joy to experience. Much love from me and Whaleiam Pladdington #dbtome pic.twitter.com/eqLypEAu3p
— Meg! Staying Home 🐳 (@WhalePlaid) November 16, 2020
We want to hear your story! You can tweet using the #DBToMe hashtag throughout the rest of this year’s run. We’ll be retweeting submissions throughout the run on the @desertbus Twitter feed and highlighting a selection of tweets from the community here on the desertbus.org blog.
As always, thanks for being a part of our community and your support of Child’s Play!
We’ve got a spooooopy giveaway starting right now. The very charming and very warm Creepy Doll & Spoopifer Scarf could be yours in this Donation Drive.
Stay spoopy and warm with this double knit (two layer) reversible scarf. This one-of-a-kind scarf features Harry the Creepy Doll, Spoopifer and Desert Bus 2020 motifs and took approximately 90 hours to create. Hand knit with a lightweight and soft wool/nylon yarn in solid black and white tweed, this scarf measures 8.5”/22 cm wide and 60”/152 cm long.
Donate $6.85 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 3:00pm PST.
Thanks to everyone that’s submitted a photo of #DB2020 at home. We’ve been posting many of your submissions over at photos.desertbus.org. Here’s a small sample of what you’ve sent to us…
Photo by Quietcat
Photo by Diana ‘Kiwijelly’ McKenzie, with special guest Sylvie the cat
Photo by John, Kari and Jack O’Briant
Photo by Sonjo
Share your photos of #DB2020 at home at yourphotos.desertbus.org and we may share them on-air and at photos.desertbus.org.
Today is long time friend of the bus and one of today’s Alpha Flight guests Andy’s birthday! In honor of Andy, we’re kicking off a Creative Challenge just for him.
As requested by Andy, we’re challenging the community to create artwork related to Andy’s Arstotzka crossing guard character from the LoadingReadyRun sketch “Papers, Please.” We’re leaving this challenge open-ended, so let your creativity run wild.
Send your creations to contests@desertbus.org with the subject line “Andy Arstotzka Art.” Please attach your creation as a PNG or JPG. Be sure to name the file and include in your email the name you’d like to go by on air and on the blog should we highlight your submission.
Get going… we’re accepting submissions to this challenge until 4:30pm PST. The winner of this Creative Challenge will receive a Desert Bus for Hope 2020 T-Shirt and the limited edition DB2020 DBloon!
We have two special guests with us today on Alpha Flight… Andrew Cownden and Madeleine Suddaby! For the second day in a row, they’ll be joining us all shift.
Andy is a professional actor/writer/oddball and has been a Desert Bus regular since 2007. Please forward all complaints to @AndrewCownden on twitter.
Madeleine is a singer/dancer/actor/animal-crosser/makeup-artist from Vancouver, BC. Notable Desert Bus moments include singing the ever-loving bus out of Wicked, singing a duet from Anything Goes with Andy, and making Ben cry while singing Moana. It’s mostly singing. Check out “Madelaide” on YouTube and Instagram for her makeup antics!
If you’ve got a question or challenge for Andrew or Madeleine, you can submit those here on the Desert Bus website. Make sure you’re logged in to your donor account, then go to https://desertbus.org/participate/challenge.
Hello and good morning! Or good night! I’m not gonna shame your sleep schedule!
How are all you wonderful little bussers out there? Doing good? We’ve had a wonderful start to day 6 of Desert Bus for Hope! Today we were visited by Laser from The Doubleclicks!
And we kicked off the day with our next round of Coffee Pong!
And a WHOLE. BUNCH. OF. SINGING.
And we had a very….totally functional…not at all broken game of Wheel of Fortune!
But let’s not forget the biggest head explosion of all! We had a LIVE AUCTION for a beautiful cross stich made by Sarah Serinde!
This live auction actually hit a NEW RECORD for all time high! $13k!
We now christen the $13k bid A ROAD QUEST! Joining the legends behind it such as a $5k Houseboat, and a $10k Silica Gel.
And to finished out a wonderful morning, we had a concert with The DoubleClicks!
We had a whole bunch of other fun happen, so take a look at the youtube channel where our lovely VST ghosts are showing you all. the. things.
Have a good day and see you tomorrow!!