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Good morning guys! You know what time it is. It's time for Radio Free Monday! Let's dive in, shall we?

Ways To Give

So then A TORNADO touched down in Central Oregon. That kind of shit never happened when I lived there. Fortunately no one is injured, but there's been a lot of property damage and the Red Cross (Willamette Chapter, Marion County Fund) is collecting monetary donations and looking for cleanup volunteers.

frenchroast linked me to reannon, whose car has died on her, leaving her to choose between rent, car repair, and her son's birthday (and of course Christmas). She's accepting donations and you can find more information here.

FictionAlley, a Harry Potter fandom archive and discussion forum, has been doing a fundraiser since September to cover their site hosting fees for 2010/2011. Fundraising site Razoo will match up to $1000 in donations to FictionAlley during December, which means that if they bring in $1000 in donations, their hosting fees for 2011 will be covered. They've already raised nearly $800 and are giving a wristband to every non-anonymous donor until they run out. More explanation here and you can donate via the links here.

nirethak's fundraiser for Luis, linked two weeks ago, is still going on! There's a yarn sale over on Ravelry, ending soon!

Super triggery ahead, discussion of rape and survivorhood. Without getting too far into Wikileaks (which I know is important but find deathly boring) and the Assange rape allegations, Tiger Beatdown is trying to draw attention to the way rape is treated in media and society, and organized a protest on twitter (which got trolled pretty badly). They have a a fundraising call out for donations to anti-rape organisations like RAINN. If you're looking to make some end-of-year donations, RAINN is a pretty good place to give.

mcgonagalls_cat let me know about the World Food Program Quiz: for every person who takes the quiz, funding for a hot meal will be donated to the World Food Program. It only takes a few minutes!

Fans Contacting Fans:

holli is desperately seeking a roommate! She's in the DC area and if you're looking for a fan-friendly place to live (with a Patrick Stewart standup in the dining room, so I'm told) you can reach her at hollimichele at gmail.

Be Aware!

Amazon.com thinks it knows what kind of books you should read, especially what kind of porn you should read. If you've bought an ebook they disapprove of, they'll come into your Kindle and remove it. And if you call to get a refund, their customer service reps will scold you for your taste in reading material. Way to be, Amazon. I am so glad I quit you.

And Finally...

Some fun stuff to end the post with!

Jennifer turned up some frankly rather adorable amateur Shelock Holmes fanfic in the British Medical Journal, of all places.

From the Department Of Awesome And Terrifying Science, romanaorfred notifies us that we can now breed male mice with each other and have created a sliding scale of the universe. I use "we" in the loosest possible sense here. I don't take much credit. :D

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. :) You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com (PMs are kind of a bad way to reach me; email or comments are much preferable). If you're not sure how best to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help.

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When I came in to work this morning, there was a large bucket of Garrett's Popcorn on my desk.

Garrett's Popcorn is a Chicago thing. They're all over downtown and they definitely can be a tourist destination, but they're mostly a local delicacy. They make several flavours of popcorn, but the most popular are the cheddar popcorn and caramel popcorn. They often sell the two as a mix; it sounds disgusting together but when you try it, it's like eating joy.

Anyway, the office of the building left me a two-gallon drum of cheddar-caramel mix on my desk as an end-of-year gift. I can't possibly eat this all myself and hauling it home will be a pain, so I've set it out with cups next to it on the edge of my desk. I guarantee it will not last the day.

Next to it was a red gift bag with a card on it reading "To Sam, from Santa". Inside the bag was a bottle of Merlot.

Popcorn and wine: breakfast of champiOMG WAIT Coworker K brought me a samosa. A GIANT SAMOSA.

This is the best breakfast ever!

I am not actually drinking the merlot at work. That would spoil a perfectly good red.

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LINKBOMB

Creating the universe with cookie dough, including Ikea shelves and Okapi.

Jean has drawn what I think is probably the most brilliant illustration of an artist's journey ever.

onebrightroad (whose birthday it is today!) linked me to Reception Desk World, which believe it or not is a blog dedicated completely to reception desks. Check out this punky one, made from mines.

It's the most glorious parking lot ever courtesy of paintyourlunch.

I beta'd a story for Jenny in which Merlin kicks all the ass ever.

Matt Bomer and Simon Hall's kids are adorable.

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We officially have a winner for the Most Inappropriate Holiday Card of This Year, courtesy of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority:

I literally opened the envelope and went "Oh! No!"

Truth is it's actually kind of glorious, but I got a faceful of it with no warning and was a little bit startled.

Bankrobber

Title: Bankrobber
Rating: R (Peter/Elizabeth)
Warnings: None
Summary: Peter robbed a bank, Elizabeth stole a painting, crazy hotel sex couldn't be far behind.
BETA CREDIT JESUS: neifile7 and 51stcenturyfox beta'd the daylights out of this fic (and it loved every minute of it).

( "So you think we can do this?" )

Fake cut takes you to the story at Dreamwidth.

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IT HAS BEEN A MONDAY.

Have some White Collar porn.

Title: Bankrobber
Rating: R (Peter/Elizabeth)
Warnings: None
Summary: Peter robbed a bank, Elizabeth stole a painting, crazy hotel sex couldn't be far behind.

( "So you think we can do this?" )

It took me three tries to post this damn thing correctly. THAT IS HOW MUCH OF A MONDAY IT HAS BEEN.