So remember last year, way back to Desert Bus 2009 when we had a lovely gentlemen by the name of Ken Steacy on the air with us? The very same Ken Steacy who left us with the now infamous nickname Ken “Value Added” Steacy? Yah, he’s coming back!

For those who don’t know who this wonderful man is, I lifted this directly from his Wikipedia page.

Ken “Value Added” Steacy is a Canadian comics artist and writer best known for his work on the NOW Comics comic book series of Astro Boy and of the Comico comic series of Jonny Quest, as well as his graphic novel collaborations with Harlan Ellison (Night and the Enemy, 1987) and Dean Motter (The Sacred and the Profane, 1987). Ken was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets 386 Comox Squadron.

He entertained the masses last year and even though he won’t be here in person (he’s back east this year) he’s sure to do it once again!

So make sure to tune in: 6:00PM PST

Here is just a small sample of some of the things going up for Auction this evening.

Greg Tito is a freelance games journalist who has found steady work of late in the employ of The Escapist. He’s an avid gamer, both on the console and the tabletop. He will also be calling us in about an hour to show support, talk about us, talk about himself, and maybe talk about things you want to talk about. Be sure to have the feed open at 1:00 to catch his call!

If you have a question for Greg, post it to the comments below, and we’ll get to it if we get the chance!

This is one of my favorite parts about desert bus, the amount of creative works of art wether they be Songs, Pictures, Fan Fiction that come from you guys.

This is one of the best Desert Bus themed songs we’ve gotten in the 4 years of doing this.

There is a great disturbance in the internet … as if an entire table of PCs just wondered “Where is my DM,” and were sorely confused. Thankfully, we know the answer: that Penny Arcade illustrator Mike Krahulik will be calling us in a scant half-hour to throw his support behind the cause!

Mike is famous on the internets for his fantastic illustrations, and love of games, Star Wars, and–recently–Dungeons and Dragons. As a co-founder of Child’s Play, his dedication to the children is also strong. We look forward to hearing from him, and hope you do too!

*$60,000.00

So hey, we’re at 64,000 as of the time I’m writing this blog post. Chances are when this post actually hits the blog, that will probably be even higher. You guys rock, here are some pretty pictures!

Sorry we’re falling behind on the milestone pictures, Jer has been driving and I (James) was at home sleeping. But I’m back now so steady as we go for the first weekday of Desert Bus 2010 in terms of blog posts!

In the wee hours of Monday morning I gave the chat a challenge to draw their ideas for other wearable items for me to turn t-shirts into. We got some very neat ideas, and here they are. I will totally have to try some of these!