Acrochallenge!

Hello, lovers of letters, lovers of life. Bet and Milo here (sleeping at my feet), bringing you another round of acromania.

Well, folks, the time is here again. This Saturday Stennie and I, we of the Hucklebug podcast, will be participating in the national Blogathon. Only we're doing a podcastathon. Yes, Saturday morning at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific (oooh, sorry, Stennie) we will go on the air. For the next 24 hours we'll be doing a short podcast every half hour. That's 48 podcasts in 24 hours. We'll be asking for pledges of donations to the American Cancer Society. Yes, we're podcasting for 24 hours to kick cancer's ass.

How can you help? Well, first of all, you can go to www.hucklebug.com and read the first post, which will give you the link where you can sponsor us. It's easy as pie and only takes a minute. You can pledge a penny an hour if you like, or a flat fee of a thousand dollars. We don't care.

You can also leave us some ideas for topics. I mean, we have 48 spots to do - we're going to need something to talk about! You can email them to either Stennie or me, or just leave them as a comment - either here or on the Hucklebug site.

And you can also join us. We'll be there till 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific on Sunday morning. Podcasts will go up on the half-hour. Tune in through the site and say hello, we'd love to hear from you. Really, the one we did a couple of years ago, in those wee hours your comments were about all that kept us going. Do you want to come on the air and join us? Did you devise a quiz, or want to hum theme songs to see if we'll know them? All you need is Skype and a microphone. Let us know!

When we first announced the podcastathon, and said it was to help kick cancer's ass, a question was raised - well, who wouldn't want to kick cancer's ass? Our short list included Nazis, child molesters, and bed-wetters. Which brings us to tonight's acrotopic? "Who Wouldn't Want To Kick Cancer's Ass?" What kind of vile human excrement would turn a blind eye to eliminating cancer?

All the rules are the same. Everyone gets three entries to come up with the best acronym they can, one that matches not only the topic above, but also the letters below. The letters are randomly drawn from the acrobasket. The acrobasket was pressed into service last time, we had an acro during the podcastathon. We might do that again. Then tomorrow night at 10:00 est I shall be reading the entries and naming the winners.

So the acrotopic: "Who Wouldn't Want To Kick Cancer's Ass?" The letters:

C H D R W

So there. Acro, and please make a pledge for us, if you would. Thanks!

Betland's Olympic Update:
* Milo likes to chew. Funny how that surprised me. I just keep forgetting he's a puppy. A very good, smart puppy, but a puppy.