At 1:00PM, we will be joined by Russ Pitts, former Editor-in-Chief of the Escapist and good friend of LoadingReadyRun, who will be calling to wish us well, and chat with us for a bit. Russ has been in the games press for a while, and has been a driving force in making new media more accessible and interactive for end users. He’s a great guy, and we look forward to chatting with him.  Currently his writing can most often be found at his blog, http://www.falsegravity.com/

If you have anything you’d like to ask Russ about, you can post it in the comments for this post. Tune in to hear what he has to say!

Wil Wheaton, actor/writer and occasional LoadingReadyRun special guest, has always shown himself to be a genuinely nice guy, (even if he doesn’t always play one on TV). It’s not then surprising then that the law of Internet civility was given his name (Wheaton’s Law).  With acting credits ranging from Star Trek: The Next Generation, to Big Bang Theory, to Leverage, to The Guild, and writing credits including Just a Geek, Memories of the Future: Volume 1,  and Happiest Days of our Lives, Wil is well known as a Geek Icon.

He’s calling in at 10:00AM, have your questions ready and tune in then!

Singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton will be calling in at 6:00PM tonight to talk to the Desert Bus crew.  Jonathan Coulton routinely headlines the PAX Saturday night concerts, and of course, the JoCo cruise bears his name.  He often appears with acts including Molly Lewis, Paul & Storm, and John Hodgeman. His work has been featured  on TV and in video games, most notably  “Code Monkey” was used as the theme for G4’s Code Monkeys, and his songs “Still Alive” and “Want You Gone” were featured as the end themes of Valve’s Portal and Portal 2 respectively.

Get your questions ready, and tune in this evening.

Molly Lewis is a talented songwriter and ukulele player, who can often be seen playing alongside Jonathan Coulton or Paul & Storm at shows such as W00tstock, or the JoCo Cruise.  Well known for her Comedic style in both writing and performance, she’s even had opportunity to play her song “An Open Letter to Stephen Fry” for Stephen Fry himself. In 2009, she released her EP, “I Made You a CD…   But I Eated It” with DFTBA Records.

She’ll be calling in at 4:00PM, so make sure to tune in, with your questions ready.   Don’t miss it!

Justin McElroy is a podcasting legend, famous for his hard work on the Joystiq Show and his project, My Brother, My Brother and Me. He is also the reviews editor for Joystiq.com, star of The Time Belt, and a generally fantastic human being.

Justin will be calling in to wish our drivers well at 2:30 PM PST, and we’re very much looking forward to hearing from him. You should too, so check in on the drivercam in one hour!

Best known for directing The Guild, Sean Becker is a new media and webseries pioneer, with projects ranging from his award-winning short Tuesday, to the Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy hour, to work with Team Unicorn, Sean has left his mark across the internet. He’s won Streamy awards, as well as the first Youtube Sketchies award, and has been screened at The San Diego Comic-Con International Film Fesival, as well as the Wizard World Film Festival in Los Angeles, (where his entry took the “Best in Fest” prize).

Sean Will be calling in at 1:00PM, so make sure to check this call out.

Board member of the Ümloud! charity gaming event held each year in San Francisco, Seg is also a content programmer for Telltale games. Seg will be calling in at 8:00AM to talk to us for a little bit about the Ümloud! RockBand night, some of the things they plan to do this year, and why you might like to attend yourself, to keep helping the kids even after the bus has stopped rolling!

Tune in when Seg calls at 8:00AM.

There’s probably not a lot I can write here about Notch that you don’t already know. He made Minecraft. He’s making Scrolls. He founded the Mojang AB game studio. He called into Desert Bus last year. He’s an awesome dude.

If you care to laud his work on Minecraft, or find out what it’s like to have made one of the most successful indie games of recent memory, if not all time, your chance is now!

Star of The Guild, Dragon Age: Redemption, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Felicia day is one of the most famous faces in webseries today. With additional acting credits including Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Eureka, and House MD, Felicia has also done voice work for Guild Wars II, Dragon Age II, and Fallout: New Vegas.

A genuine geek, and always a pleasure to talk with, Felicia will be calling in at 8:00PM. Don’t miss it!