Monday, 5 May 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Read more »
Known MBer birthdays this month:*
July 03 Kokonilly’s birthday (1996 – light blue/lime green)
July 05 shadowfire’s birthday (1996)
July 07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
July 09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
July 15 the mole’s birthday
July 19 La Mort, La Vie, L’Amour’s birthday (1992 – black, silver, and red)
July 20 Silver Lining’s birthday (1997 – lime green and silver)
July 21 Moo I’m a Cow’s birthday (1995)
July 22 IBCF’s birthday (1993)
July 26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – sky blue, navy, and bubblegum pink)
July 28 Amelia Peabody’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 24 and November 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between May 4 and June 3, 1990.
You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in January.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
Purple Panda Cat’s Eye is looking for an opponent for a game of online chess.
bookworm wants to play Capablanca-style chess. (That’s the version with two extra pieces, described a couple of dozen threads below.)
Anyone up for either of them?
Continued from Quotations, 2009.2, after that thread erupted into a heated religious discussion.
WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!
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*Role-playing game, for those who have been in suspended animation since the 1970s.
Time travel, blasters, light-sabers called something else, and the whole shebang, by overwhelming popular demand. Possibly descended from an idea that Enceladus and Armada hatched here and here, possibly not.
Always looking for ways to improve our beloved blog, the Administrators have decided to try something new: We’re pulling the under-used Muse Academy Student Lounge off the main body of the blog. It will still be accessible to anyone who has been posting on MuseBlog for at least six months (“paleophytes,” if you will). To visit it, you’ll have to register and then log in using a password. Along with the lounge, we’re creating a companion thread for discussing the experiment. Read more »
Or winter, for MBers in the Southern Hemisphere. Today (June 21) is the solstice, which marks the official start of it, in either case.
MBers go through these threads like potato chips. Continued from Part 5.
This is the game played entirely with kings, queens, and pawns. Read more »
Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, and the Great Pyramid have nothing on this joint literary project.
Continued (of course) from TERRA Formed, Part 1: The Edit — continued.
A thread for discussing non-romantic relationships.
Continued from Just Friends, v. 2008.1.
The Irishman had a way with words.
The girl goes dancing there
On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
Grass plot of the garden;
Escaped from bitter youth,
Escaped out of her crowd,
Or out of her black cloud.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!If strange men come from the house
To lead her away, do not say
That she is happy being crazy;
Lead them gently astray;
Let her finish her dance,
Let her finish her dance.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!