A couple of weeks ago Lyssa and I hooked up with House Eclipse to buy seats at a second table at Persephone's Ball 2007, the annual fundraising dinner held by the Open Hearth Foundation in their effort to set up a community center for the pagan community of the Washington, DC metropolitan area. They've been at this for almost ten years now; I've been keeping my eye on it for about five but this is the first time that I've ever participated in one of their functions. We weren't sure what our schedule was going to be like on Saturday …

No, really. He's autographed and donated the keyboard he wrote most of The Sandman with, along with a bunch of other things to the Open Rights Group, a grassroots organisation dedicated to setting up a sane digital rights infrastructure and bringing to light abuses of same.

No, really. He's autographed and donated the keyboard he wrote most of The Sandman with, along with a bunch of other things to the Open Rights Group, a grassroots organisation dedicated to setting up a sane digital rights infrastructure and bringing to light abuses of same.