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We'll be having a STABBBYA meeting, next week.  The blessed event will take place Tuesday, November 14^th from 4-6pm.  What do you need to get ready for the meeting, you ask?  Well, just read a book from our lovely collection from our private STASH at the library.  Come in ask me what I'm talking about if this e-mail appears to be gibberish.

Specs for the STAB T-Shirt and the Ms. Spider costume.

A few of you were interested in helping out at the Childrens Program on November 4th by wearing the Miss Spider costume. You can see what the costume looks like and get a little bit more detailed information. Scroll down until you see "Miss Spider" and click on the more info button: http://www.costumespecialists.com/childrens_book_characters.html#

Many of you have expressed interest in designing the shirt. I'm getting excited to see what you guys come up with since you are all so creative and talented. And not in the disturbed, Van Gogh kind of way, which is refreshing. I'm still working on putting the particulars together, but here are some general guidelines to guide you in your design/field testing:
-Use this site to choose the material for your shirt: http://www.companycasuals.com/catalog-servlets/CustomBrowser?customer=suzy23

   I'm not sure if we'll be using them, but at least it will give you and idea of the colors of shirts available.
-No more than 2 ink colors per shirt
-When designing the shirt consider that a number of different people will be wearing it, such as you, other STABies, the chaperones, perhaps some of the BBYA members and, most importantly, me.
-I'm torn as to whether I'd like the shirts to be unique to the conference or more general STAB shirts. I'm open to either at this point, but it may be something you want to consider.
-Keep the shirts clean (ie. language and violence, not with scotch guarding). Sure, almost everyone knows and loves us as STAB, but there is at least one person out there that hasn't heard of us. When that person sees a bunch of teens wearing shirts that say "STAB" in big, red letters, they may get on the hotline to security. You can mention STAB but creatively, subtly and a bit surreptitiously. For example, if I were designing the shirt and I wanted to mention STAB, I might print on the shirt, "My favorite character from Law & Order: SVU is Det. STABeler." (Hope I didn't steal anyone's idea.)
-I reserve the right to make any editorial changes in the final product.

Thanks for your help and for your interest in all of the wierd things that STAB does on a regular basis!

Weve got another opportunity to sit and chat with an author. Eoin McNamee is from Ireland and his book, The Navigator, will be released in January 2007. Well be meeting with Mr. NcNamee on October 16th from 3:30 until about 5pm. I only have one book to go around so I would like people to start reading it right away and then pass it around quickly. Hopefully you wouldn't need longer than just a few days to read it.

For more info on the book try out amazon.uk and Barnes and Noble online.

And here is a picture of him in case you were wondering:

Hope you can make it!