Two things:
Those of you who’ve bought merchandise at Wearable Extras, the online store of all things Westerfeldian, should pat yourselves on the back today. As I mentioned back when Wearable Extras opened, I don’t get any money, but one dollar of each purchase goes to Katrina relief.
Now a horrible admission: I suck at administrative details, and hadn’t totaled up the sales or found a charity to send the money to. But that turns out to have been a good thing, in a way. With Hurricane Gustov roaring through the Gulf, I’ve buckled down and finally figured out how to collect from Spreadshirts. So $531, representing 531 of your T-shirts, went to the Red Cross yesterday to aid victims of Gustov.
All best of luck to anyone who got evacuated or otherwise soaked. Our thoughts are with you.
Secondly, Librarian DOA just sent me this cartoon review of the Uglies series.
The cool thing is that it was made with Toonlet, a cartoon-producing tool for those of us who are drawing impaired. (Which very much includes me.)
Click here to see it full size.
September 4th, 2008 05:46
why is “the smoke lives” t-shirt sold out?
*pout*
September 4th, 2008 06:30
wow thats awsome my dess shirt is my favorite shirt. i wear it in airports to maximize confusion.
September 4th, 2008 06:41
3rd comment yay! I’ve never been top 5 before.
I wish I could shop online but I don’t have a credit card or nothing
That’s cool that you donated the money to a good cause tho’.
funny and cool comic! I can’t draw very well either but I’m working on a little.
September 4th, 2008 07:03
wow… i bought 3 things from the website… so i gave $3!
September 4th, 2008 07:08
Thats soo cool that it helps with the Red Cross. I want to get stuff from there but my mom is listening impared sometimes…….The comic was kinda weird…..Fifth commentwoot!
Peace.
September 4th, 2008 07:20
that is sweet that all that money goes to red cross, i’m so getting something.
September 4th, 2008 07:49
Seventh comment! Wooh!
And I don’t have a credit card, or anything, so I can’t buy anything D:
September 4th, 2008 08:07
I just made an order on Wearable Extras a few days ago. I contribute.
Nice cartoon. Bubbly-making.
September 4th, 2008 08:10
Sweet cartoon.
September 4th, 2008 08:21
Thanks for posting DOA’s cartoon. I recommended the series to her, and very much enjoy them myself!
September 4th, 2008 08:27
That old Wearable Extras post was the first one I ever commented on.
Unfortunately the mindcaster symbol wore off my You Are So 11:59 shirt (after frequent wear and an awesome Halloween costume…) so I don’t really wear it anymore…sad.
top ten comments for once? even when back in school and internet-less?
September 4th, 2008 08:28
Awww….nice cartoon though.
September 4th, 2008 08:33
*pouts*
Why is my family so against book promoting t shirts?…and iTunes?…and bookstores?…and….I’m gonna stop now.
The Uglies cartoon scared me.
September 4th, 2008 08:40
hi peeps my school started yesterday and i’m bummed
8th grade math sucks
September 4th, 2008 09:09
Algebra and Algebra 2 are easier
September 4th, 2008 09:13
Ah Ha thats awsome!!!!!
I just need money
I really want one of your shirts,
September 4th, 2008 09:33
hey. loved the cartoon.
i should buy a tshirt. that’s so nice of you to donate some money to the Red Cross!
September 4th, 2008 09:35
luv that cartoon!
and i got a smoke lives tee, so i contributed!!!! woooohoooO!
i’ll stop now. i’m tired. i need food. i’m weird.
i got kicked at school today. it stank. i was reading waiting to be picked up and these boys started fighting around me and someone kicked me for emphasis. hard. but i ignored ‘em and they went away. but it was annoying.
September 4th, 2008 09:42
and the halls’re reaaaally hectic. and for phys.ed today we had to walk around a set of bushes while brain-missing (both in slang and literally) kids had recess on the other side of the grass and they kept on trying to diss us. they failed. it was annoying, tho and my feet hurt. and since the gym isn’t built yet, we have to wear our gym uniforms all day. and we have gym two days in a row. sigh. it’s just been one of those days huh? let me seee….what else should i rant about? the caf is really noisy and crowded, so it’s nearly impossible to find a seat or anybody you know for that matter. i’m having enough trouble getting around from class to class WITHOUT all of the pushing and shoving. sigh. i’m sacking out tonight, though i was asleep for like, an hour when i got back from school.
September 4th, 2008 09:43
and my lock hates me and will never open. and my locker’s a pit.
September 4th, 2008 09:43
i still need half a million supplies. i’ll stop ranting now.
September 4th, 2008 10:20
i kinda want a shirt now.. i’ll go check them out.
and the cartoon was, er, interesting.
yay for new post!
Because I’ll totally make the Top 100
September 4th, 2008 10:43
Ha. My school’s full too.
September 4th, 2008 10:50
I love that you’re posting so much! I love your blog majorly! keep it up!
September 4th, 2008 10:58
sweet cartoon!
my heads all better FINALLY!
i got to practice today! i was so happy! 
September 4th, 2008 10:58
i know, right? i could definitely get used to this…
Because I’ll totally make the Top 100
September 4th, 2008 11:19
Thanks for posting my cartoon! I thought it came out really bubbly-icy all that stuff.
I was about halfway through Uglies when I decided I had to run out *now* and buy the rest of the series. Snared them on my way to work and pretended to be doing librarian things with the books en mano.
A real review is in the works. There is so much to think about with each of the books. I haven’t read anything science fictional in a long time that was also so page turning.
I’ll be reading all your other books as well. Payday is imminent.
D.O.A.
September 4th, 2008 11:23
i just added another song to my list of imminent Uglies Movie soundtrack songs:
Knights of Cydonia by Muse (if you listen to it, it’s a TOTAL chase scene song)
other songs include:
From the Sky by Saving Jane
Beauty in Ugly by Jason Mraz (duh)
Because I’ll totally make the Top 100
September 4th, 2008 11:32
Pfft. I would so NOT have let anyone get away with kicking me UMR-wa
seriously.
And I think EVERY high school is BEYOND crowded….it’d be great to have a hoverboard….maybe Scott-la should build some and sell them to his loyal fans….and sneak suits too…thatd be rad.
School=sad-making((&&&tired-making))
Later.
September 4th, 2008 11:35
Yay! that’s awsome! red cross is a good thing.
ugh my high school has 2,500 people in it. We don’t even all fit in the cafeteria even though we have split lunches.
I would pay a lot to have a hover board! not to menchion a sneak suit!
September 4th, 2008 11:45
My “pen pal” only has 800 kids in her school this year, next year she’ll have about 1600 (They have a freshman academy…) and then she’ll have almost 3000 kids in high school
September 4th, 2008 11:45
I have about 1400 kids in my school
September 4th, 2008 13:14
I actually have thing against the Red Cross after years of volunteering with the army… but I guess a little help is better than no help. I’ll be defiantly getting a shirt as soon as I get paid.
September 4th, 2008 13:20
cool…
September 4th, 2008 13:22
There is a moth in my lamp. Its so stupid. And annoying. And it keeps hitting itself on the outside. dumb moth…
I didnt buy anything….i know, i am a shame.
URG! The moth is trying to attack me!
September 4th, 2008 13:31
I think Im gonna save up to get the “Im an extra” hoodie, I really like it, that or the cat vomit one. lol
September 4th, 2008 14:09
oh no!! moths eat clothes! kill the moth! kill the moth!!
and don’t worry Bran-la… your not the only one..
guys i think i have become very accident prone lately..
let me list the things i have done in just the last 2 weeks…
1. got a concussion
2. almost fell getting off of a treadmill (and i was in a room full of football guys… how much more embarrassing can i get??)
3. fell going up the stairs (this morning… but not many people were around…)
what will i do next? …i’m kinda scared.
September 4th, 2008 19:03
My school has around 1500 students…it’s not a big school but well, we have the same recess slot so it’s pretty crowded. Luckily I had the tendency to stay in the classrooms to eat my bread even though we were told not to. It’s better than trying to squeeze into the canteen anyways. =D
I don’t quite understand the cartoon though. >.<|||
September 5th, 2008 09:24
I bought five shirts from there, so yeay!
September 5th, 2008 09:24
Good thing this is my last year of high school. Freshmen get their own lunch so upper classmen (sophmore, junior, senior) all have the same lunch. At least we eat first cuz Juniors and Seniors go to SCC. Freshmen get second lunch =P
I want one of those Specials shirts!!! >.< And the Hurt You one too. but I need a credit card. And a trabajo. No tengo trabajo.
September 5th, 2008 10:05
i wouldn’t have let them get away kicking me like that–had they been a couple years younger, shorter, less of them, and not having putting myself in risk of going to the dean’s office on the second day of school. but as it was, these boys were waaaaaaay older than i am, veeery tall, and it was veeeery crowded, so i didn’t even flinch. which i’m proud of. i dunno if they even remember kicking me. sigh. i’m tired. i’m always tired lately. and i dont’ even have that much homework.
i have no idea how many kids’re at my school. there’re 200 kids in my grade, so, w/e. al i know is it’s veeeeeeeery crowded.
September 5th, 2008 10:06
at least they looked tall and old from where i was, which was reading on the floor. i’d say at least two years older than i was.
September 5th, 2008 10:12
i’m bored. my days seem long and packed, but afterschool, with the aforementinoed lack of homework, i’m BORED! i know, it’s weird, but i would kill for something to do, like…a good book ,cuz the library just gotta delivery, but my mom didn’t get there before they closed. GRRRR. anyone have any suggestions as to what to do
September 5th, 2008 10:39
If you like Twilight the first 12 chapters of Midnight Sun are on Stpehenie Meyer’s website.
September 5th, 2008 11:56
EWWW! They eat clothes. If i would have known that last night i would have killed. Only God knows where it is now!
September 5th, 2008 12:21
My friend (who’s like my email pen-pal), Kayla, her “aunt’s” grandma had a stroke and might die, they don’t know wether or not they should tell her little sister, because she’s only four. I’m trying to think of some goods and bads about telling her.
(And if it helps you feel any better Kay-wa, she tripped on the school stairs while rushing to her locker, causing her backpack to hit her in the stomach, sending her face first onto the staircase and hitting herself accidentally on the head with her flute. Then she slipped all the way down the stairs and had to rush BACK up them. And when she finally got to her locker it hit her in the as she opened it and then she dropped her book down the stair railing while walking past it, hurried into Spanish and her chair fell off the desk and on top of her…)
September 5th, 2008 17:09
Haha.
The cartoons are funny.
And now i am wanna buy a shirt.
September 6th, 2008 06:52
thats sooo sweeet
i should probably buy one haha
and that cartoon is sooo cute
September 6th, 2008 07:46
netta-la, is that thing about the girl true?!
September 6th, 2008 07:55
Scott, you are amazing!!!
I hate to compare, but even Stephenie Meyer, who is making thousands of dollars, has not donated to any charities.
You, Scott, are the reason we read. *bows* =)
I’m psyched for Leviathan!
<3
September 6th, 2008 08:04
Uh..both parts are true, but which one are you talking about?
September 6th, 2008 08:08
I would but from the store, but my mom won’t let me
Lol, funny cartoon though.
September 6th, 2008 09:35
Haha. My stomach just made a funny sound.
I always wish i had a pen-pal type thing. I always thought it would be cool. I mean you dont know the person and you dont know what they look like. Your only talking to them for who they REALLY are. Always saounded neat.
September 6th, 2008 09:48
Well, I don’t know what YOU look like and you don’t know what *I* look like…I can’t remember what half the people I see everyday look like, though…
September 6th, 2008 09:54
HaHa, wow. Awesomeness on the siteness of the moneyness for charityness, and yeahness. Can you tell I feel like saying ness?
September 6th, 2008 10:03
I bought a flame-bringer T-shirt because we all know Flame-Bringers are the best. Ok Dess Quit Laughing. Melissa what did you just whisper to Rex? Well at least Jonathen likes me. Right Jonathen? Jonathen? He went to get a ice-cream!? (Sigh)
September 6th, 2008 10:17
Hey, Scott, I had a question for you.
I ordered an older version of the first Midnighters on Amazon from a used book vendor, and I got sent an advanced reader’s copy that says ‘do not sell’ on the cover. Were they in violation of some laws by selling it to me? (I’m assuming they were, but since the book’s been out for awhile I wanted to run it by you since I’m not very familiar with the laws on these things). I love the idea of having it, but I found it disconcerting that I didn’t order that version and that you wouldn’t be getting any money (however small) for it.
September 6th, 2008 10:50
wow. lol. that does make me feel a little better! i hope her “aunt’s”grandma’s okay though!
today i was playing 1st and the catcher through a really crappy throw and i streched for it and it bounced and hit me in the cheek/jaw popping my jaw out. hurts to eat.
well i gotta go take pictures at the football game. laters.
September 6th, 2008 23:12
you simply rock.
September 7th, 2008 02:16
i mean the girl who kept on making the mistakes and such…y’know?
September 7th, 2008 04:39
Yeah…
September 7th, 2008 06:11
Some girl on a Twilight forum just wrote “Oh, there’s this great book called Peeps, but i don’t remmember who wrote it..”
I completely freaked out and wrote back: “Criminal!! How can you possibly forget the name of the best author ever?!?!!1!”
And we started a whole discussion about how much we liked Peeps=)
I just wanted to share that.
September 7th, 2008 06:14
When I read the charity part I called my friend and told her “hug Uglies for me.”
She did.
I’m wierd, I know..
September 7th, 2008 08:57
Yay! Btw, I love the cartoon!
(I just read PEEPS, its amazinggg!!!!!)
September 7th, 2008 11:09
So, my friends and I are addicted to your books. Is it weird to be loved and stalked by thousands of teenage girls? Teenage girls who love you so much that I’d be worried? (See number 57, one of my friends. I’m so sorry. I’ve tried to stop her, but I completely understand about the restraining order. How many miles away must she stay?)
September 7th, 2008 11:10
Sorry, she’s number 56.
September 8th, 2008 03:30
Hey there again. Politics again. A good friend of mine sent this to me and i wanted to know if you had seen it Scott. I like the fact that it doesn’t single anyone out and makes fun of all. So anyway hope you enjoy! I was in tears it was so funny. Although now the song is stuck in my head
http://www.peteyandpetunia.com/VoteHere/VoteHere.htm
September 8th, 2008 04:44
December 12 is right, I guess I am stalking you in a way.
That is so cool about the t-shirt money and all. I did buy a t-shirt.
Yay for Extras!
September 8th, 2008 08:23
Netta-la: That is a good point. I dont know what you look like. And if you happen to know what i look like…well…thats just a little creepy.
September 8th, 2008 09:47
i am such a procrastinator. all day i’ve been meaning to write my story for my school newspaper.. cuz it’s due tomorrow but i just can’t seem to get it started. and i have a feeling it’s going to be dry. that it won’t be interesting enough.
it’s about how our local McDonald’s is closed for rebuilding and how that affects the students who work there. ughh… i can’t decide how to start it.
September 8th, 2008 10:21
why did i ever even volunteer to write this story? silly me. i should stick to what i’m good at: photography.
September 8th, 2008 12:06
grr. i only have 2 paragraphs. i keep getting distracted… ughh. how do i make myself focus?? plus after i finally finish writting my story i still have math homework, biology homework and studying for my biology test.. homework sucks! grrr…
September 8th, 2008 13:03
Homework does suck. I just finished mine, argh. Um, I’d tell you what to do to not get distracted but I’d be a hypocrite cuz I’m extremely distractable. Good luck!
September 8th, 2008 23:41
My school has a newspaper but there aren’t really any “articles”, and it only comes out like every 2 or 3 months.
That also reminds me that I have to study for an Algebra 2 test tonight
September 9th, 2008 06:24
Hehheh, this is me, procrastinating ==> :-9
“Ugh…can’t…reach…tongue…to…nose!”
September 9th, 2008 06:55
i hate homework, too….i always have the feeling that i’ve forgotten something or didn’t do it right….it’s annoying. it’s like…a pathalogical fear or something….idk.
September 9th, 2008 06:57
i aaaaaaaaaaaaaalways procrastinate! it’s…a very bad habit or mine. sigh. idk. idk. idk. idkidkidkidkidkidkidkidkidkidk.
kay that’s like kid over and over again.
I LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC!
sry that was random. i had to do that. yipes. ignore me.
srsly. it won’t do you any good to read this. it’ll only hurt your mind’s stability. i’m just that deranged in the head.
what’s deranged mean?!
September 9th, 2008 07:09
I understand………….i think.
September 9th, 2008 08:33
My pen pal and I agreed to take an OCD test online
51-100 meant it was likely you had it
I got a 65 and she got a 68
September 9th, 2008 10:25
i finished all my homework last night… it took me until freaking 1:30 a.m. but i got it done. and my schools newspaper is awesome. we publish once a month. and i take most all the photos. i don’t like writting stories as you can tell.. i think my McDonald’s story lacked meaning… like it didn’t have any deep emotional conection or anything so it was kind of dry. i don’t know. i think i’m gonna add a bunch more quotes and stuff and spice it up.
i am so mad at my friend. softball practice got over at 5:15 and i was ready to go… she decided that she was gonna give me her bag and have me wait in the locker room while she ran over to the football field (which is like 100 ft from the school) and told her cheer coach that she wasn’t going to cheer because there wasn’t much time left in the game anyways. so this whole time i’m waiting in the girls locker room and my mom is ferious because she’s had to wait for 30 minutes for me to come out and everyone else had already left and she had a 5:30 appointment and it was now 5:45… so she left me and told me she’d call dad to come get me and my friend. so then my friend calls me and says she’s gonna stay for the game and that she doesn’t need a ride. so now i’m pissed because i waited for 30 freaking minutes for her and i have all her crap so i just left it. and when i got out to the parking lot i had to wait for another 15 minutes for my dad to get there. so practice was over at 5:15 and i didn’t even get home till 6 o’clock, that would be understandable if i were out at the fields but i was at the school cuz the fields were too wet so we practiced in the gym and the school is like 5 blocks from my house. ugghhh….. and if our roles were switched her mom would have chewed my a$$ off. but my mom is too nice to do that… she probably won’t mention it to my friend and she’ll just be mad at me for it. ughhhhhhh… sorry for the rant. it’s just been way too long of a day on not enough sleep.
September 9th, 2008 11:51
can’t say i love the cartoon…
September 10th, 2008 08:26
I personally find the cartoon a bit…odd, but that’s just me. It’s so nice that Scott-la donated money to the Red Cross from his tee-shirt sales. I really want one, but hate shopping online. Plus my friends already think I’m a tad obsessed with Scott Westerfeld’s books. I don’t even want to think about the kind of stares I’d get if I wore one of them to school–it’d be funny to find out, though, lol.
September 10th, 2008 09:20
OMG that is so stupig arg hate totally make it go away jeez dorko’s
September 10th, 2008 09:20
top 100 wahoo
July 14th, 2009 06:32
cartoon was cool. looked at shop, neat stuff. so awesome that money’s donated to charity. that gives me an excuse to buy it. haha!
April 1st, 2010 00:45
hm. hope to see same more info. Can we speake about it?