Welcome to the Arid Zone - it's been a long, strange trip.

Hey all,
I have an idea to help the Katrina hurricane survivors and also bring the gaming/scifi/fantasy/etc culture together.
I call it "dice for disaster.'

I've sent out the follow email to a few different people around the net that explains the idea:

to (Insert name here)

I'm wondering if you could help me. I have an idea to help the people
in New Orleans (etc.) Something I call dice for disaster. (Dsquared?
DnD?)
If we gamers could get, in each major city in America, 1,000 fellow
gamers to come to a place to game for a day and pay a $10 dollar fee,
we could raise alot of money for the relief effort.
Say 1,000 gamers show up in each city. Pay a $10 dollar cover charge.
If we get 10,000 gamers that'd end up being $100,000 dollars.
Now what I propose we do with this money is to help relieve the
boredom and tedious nature of the situation they are in; buying games
(video and table top) books, magazines, etc etc. I know that the
basic survival needs will be met; what about after that and all these
people are still left with out homes?
I'm emailing other people with this idea (Mainly webcomic and game
creators at the moment) but I thought maybe you might know people that
I could get in touch with. I know this would be a big undertaking but
it would be for a very good cause.
This doesn't have to be a totally pen and paper event either; it would
be nice to set up a LAN and have competative gaming and/or maybe bring
in old arcade games (Either using the actual cabinest or emulators.)

If there is anyway you can help or point me to people that can, I'd
apperciate it!

Thank you for your time.

I'd like to know if anyone would like to help in this.

Email me at: wordsmith04@gmail.com or just leave a message here and I'll get back to you ;-)

I'm currently working on getting a web site up and also contacting various organizations in different cities around the country.