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Here is the blog before we get on the plane to fly to Atlanta. I thought while I was freaking from my phobia that I’d try to use some of this nervous energy (if we could harness it, we could fix the energy crisis of at least the Eastern Seaboard) for a good cause. One of the comics we read daily is Howard Taylor’s "Schlock Mercenary", I even did an intro for his second collection. We found something interesting in his blog and thought we’d share.

Songwriter and performer Tom Smith was injured on stage in late spring. His livelihood depends on him traveling to conventions and performing, but now he is trapped in a wheelchair undergoing physical therapy.

He’ll be fine, but he is missing the 2008 convention season entirely, and is racking up medical expenses instead of income.

If you’ve been paying attention to sites other than mine, you’ve probably seen plugs for the Mr. Smith Goes To The Hospital fund-raiser from notables and luminaries like Randy Milholland, Phil and Kaja Foglio, Rob Balder, everybody at the FuMP, and Steve Jackson. The plugging, pleading, and exhortation has been drawn out across the summer in order to maximize the benefit to Tom, and it has fallen to me to go last.

Jon bought the songs, and they are hilarious. My favorite, so far, is "I want to be Peter Lorre". Jon loves the Trans Poly U fight song. It’s what mad scientists would sing about their ala mater. The songs are very fun, and for a worthy cause. How many times in your life can you do the right thing, and have a great time doing it? Not often enough.