New address, links

versailles_rose comes through with a new address to mail things to for the hurricane refugees in Texas (Helping Hands isn't taking anything more by mail for at least a week):

St. Vincent de Paul Society
FOR KATRINA EVACUEES
Ozanam Outlet
610 MemoryLane
Houston, TX 77037

ETA: jennem gave me the heads-up on the_fund which is a community specifically set up to help raise money for BTVS/AtS fans who were affected by the hurricane.

This has nothing to do with charity, but if you haven't heard of Barbara Bush's offensive comments yet I think you should. Honestly, I don't even know where to begin. Working well for the poor - Oh. My. GOD. Yes, the death and destruction of life and everything they knew is working out really well for the poor people of New Orleans. It's like Christmas come fucking early!

Help the helpless

bdbdb has a special offer for members of AtS fandom who donate money to Katrina.

Beyond that it looks like links and info of the sort I've been collecting have been slowing down. Which may be just as well as I'm having a not so fun week health-wise.

Updates of various sorts

Artists at CD Baby have chosen to donate their entire wholesale price to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund.

cheesygirl, herself affected by Katrina, has info about things to donate to the Coast.

The Louisiana Library Association is taking donations to "assist school, public, and academic library restoration efforts in southeastern Louisiana."

Can anybody tell me where the fire in the Garden District was? I can't find anything about it on NOLA.com and of course the national news networks think "historic Garden District building" narrows it down enough.

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Unrelated to anything about Katrina, a few people gave me the heads up about this post, which details an RPG with a remarkably Protocol-like scenario. I don't mind. If people get inspired by stuff I write I figure that's just the grand ol' scheme of how we all got started with fanfic. Paying it forward, as it were.

Now if somebody was stealing my writing word for word, then I'd... well not so much mind but I would want to point and laugh at them. "Steal from someone who knows how to spell!" I might be heard to say.

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Unrelated to that, as a heads-up to folks who know what's been going on with me health-wise (who I remind that this is a public post) right now (and through the past week or so) I'm going through a bunch of no fun. I'd say it's possibly on a level of 10, with 1 being hugs and puppies. So that's my public mea culpa for any flakiness that you've been seeing from me in email and the like. Sorry about that.

For the record

I've officially lost respect for Ben Stein.

I know he's a Republian, I know he worked for Nixon, but dude - DUDE. Either engage me on a smarter level than "Bush did not cause the hurricane." or shut the FUCK up.

On more positive news, stakebait provided the heads up that there's a place collecting books for the Katrina evacuees in Houston. You may remember from an earlier post that the folks are hurting for something to read to help take their mind off of things.

And on a final note of the night, mega thanks to those of you who took the time to send me well-wishes, healthwise. Unfortunately tonight I think I'm ending up around 12 or 13. But I'm going to bed like a good girl so hopefully things will be better in the morning.