Those appearing and answering phones include Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Christina Applegate, Jennifer Aniston, Lance Armstrong, Halle Berry, Beyonce, Jack Black, Mary J Blige, Josh Brolin, Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Jon Favreau, Fergie, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Neil Patrick Harris, Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson, Masi Oka, Danica Patrick, Rihanna, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank and Carrie Underwood, among many others.

In addition to making financial contributions of any amount online or via phone on Friday,  there are a few entertaining options for doing the same. You can bid on celebrity experiences and personalized videos from the cast of Lost and other TV, film, music and sports stars.  All proceeds benefit SU2C.

I have already placed an order for one of the above for a friend (details are hush hush until she receives it). Over on my Lost blog, I have the following contest in place and wanted to extend it to everyone.

If you make a donation of any amount or purchase one of those experiences/videos above from now through Sunday, simply send me an email or leave a comment below and your name will be put into a hat. The name I pull will receive an autographed Counting Crows iTunes gift card and a season of Lost (or your favorite show) on DVD.

Easy enough, right?

We all know someone who has been affected by cancer. Tune in on Friday. It’s time to stand up.

Although I’ve been working for days on a new blog template in order to unveil the new logo in grand style, my lovely hosting service (yes GoDaddy, I’m talking about you) has decided to combine the old with the new and it is not pretty.

So please excuse their dust and stay tuned for the actual new look in the next few days.

Thanks!

The winning designer is Brian Kelley, for his second entry:

We are going to tinker with it a bit and perhaps change the background color, but when I placed this particular logo atop a mock up of my new blog template and upon t-shirts and other merchandise, it really popped and looked both amazing and professional.

I informed Brian via email today, and for his winning design, he has chosen to split the $100 value prize in two; $50 cash (for a new Wii game) and a $50 iTunes gift card!

THANK YOU so much to Josh B, Nick H, jbyrondeansigns, John N & Anna H for their contributions! I am in awe of your artistic abilities, my friends.

MONDAY (tonight)
Raising the Bar
TNT

The Middleman
ABC Family

WEDNESDAY
Bones
FOX

Sons of Anarchy
FX

Project Runway
Bravo

FRIDAY
Stand Up To Cancer
ABC, CBS, NBC

SUNDAY
Mad Men
AMC

True Blood
HBO

Entourage
HBO

Sorry, but I’ve never followed Prison Break, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl or The Shield. And I will not be tuning in to the new 90210 either; not without Andrea Zuckerman!

Thank you to everyone who participated – I really appreciate it.

Thoughts??

I will post all on Monday so that you can post your thoughts and vote on your favorites from the 10 entries.

Thanks Anna!

Thanks John!

I have no idea whether any additional designs will arrive before midnight, but I really appreciate all of these submissions.

Stay tuned…