Thank you all so much from the bottom of our hearts for making this incredibly milestone possible! We are honored and humbled that you have given so much to those who have so little!
We’re not done yet, Desert Bus Fans: ONE MILLION DOLLARS ISN’T EVEN OUR FINAL FORM!
Thank you for everything from all of us at Desert Bus for Hope. You give us hope.
We’ve received a few songs during this year’s Desert Bus and we thought that you all deserved to see them! Click below to see three fantastic songs! Sing them, record them, send them back to us and we’ll post that too!
That’s right, Bus-fans, an unexpected, unprecidented, and unbelievable new live auction coming your way right now!
This is a Penny Arcade lot that contains the following items:
Thanks to the Penny Arcade for donating this awesome haul!
Considering there’s an online law named after him, you likely already know who Wil Wheaton is. But even if this is your first time on the Internet, you may still recognize him from his roles in the Big Bang Theory, The Guild, Eureka, Star Trek: The Next Generation and many, many more. He is currently working on the web series Tabletop and generally being an awesome guy. Also, sometimes he gets really excited when people propose.
During his call in we’ll be auctioning off this lot of Wil’s signed books. Fantastic!
Mark your calendars for Monday at 6:00 PM PST, 9:00 PM EST, 2:00 AM GMT, as that’s when Wil is going to call in. Leave your questions in the comments.
While the action may seem to be in the live auctions, our silent auctions have some really awesome stuff that you can bid on right now!
You have only two and a half hours left to bid on:
The votes are in and Kris has chosen the winner of the Kronfidence challenge to be this entry by OcelotOnABus:
Kris had a tough job picking between these Runners up:
And a special “So Smart That It Couldn’t Win” mention to this entry, whose selective use of spell-check shows that when you have kronfidence the only words that you recognize are “I CAN”:
Thanks to everyone for their entries. Browse through the gallery below and maybe some of the kronfidence will rub off on you!
![Kronfidence[2]](https://desertbus.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Kronfidence2.jpg)
Bus-fan Piety sent in this email earleir today:
“On Saturday I went out to get a Christmas wreath and ended up adopting a kitten. I submitted a challenge to help name him and here he is:
Captain Ollie Hungry Whiskers.
He won’t hold still long enough for a good picture.
-Peity”
Kathleen began her driving shift by asking people to name her mix drink. The winning entry, submitted by Taos, was The Kitty Paw Cocktail.
Want to make your own and play some sort of Desert Bus drinking game? Here’s the recipe (though you might have been able to figure it out from the image above).
Kathleen’s Kitty Paw Cocktail
If you have your own Desert Bus themed mix drink, why not leave the recipe in the comments?
No, really, he is!
If you’ve been living under a rock you might not know who Kris Straub is (then again, with free WiFi from the local coffee house you still might). So for the unenlightened: who is Kris? Well, heathen, Kris is a webcartoonist who created chainsawsuit, Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, and F Chords. He co-founded the Blank Label Comics and Halfpixel webcomic collectives and even wrestled a giant blue troll to create the series animated series Blamimation and stars in the Kris and Scott’s Scott and Kris Show with Scott Kurtz. You can catch both series at Penny Arcade’s PATV.
When he’s not doing everything in the known world Kris even finds time to write horror fiction and created some fantastic Creepypasta. Oh, and he’s also a minister. BOOYAH!
Tune in and see him on the couch with us!
Bill Amend is the award-winning cartoonist behind Foxtrot, a widely-circulated slice-of-life strip that’s been running for 25 years and that you undoubtedly remember from the days when newspapers were a thing. Now updating on Sundays only, Bill has more than 30 books to his name, including the newly released Jasontron: 2012.
BIll will be calling in on Monday at 3:30 PM PST, 6:30 PM EST, 11:30: PM GMT and there will be a live auction for this sweet Foxtrot lot featuring a signed Foxtrot book and a custom Desert Bus drawing!
If you have any questions for Bill, please leave them in the comments!
