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Ask questions; find out about one another; repeat ad infinitum.

Continued from v. 2008.2.

It’s not looking good, folks. So far this month, Musery Loves Company has sold exactly ten “Kokopelli for President” buttons — and those are ones that Robert bought. It looks as if our lazy, self-absorbed, non-campaigning candidate is about to reap the rewards of his non-effort.

Oh, well, there’s always 2012…

A place to cool off, chill out, and converse. (Not to be confused with the Astronomy Tower.)

This thread is affiliated with the Muse Academy Halloween Ball, running from October 13 to 31, blog time.

The next generation of future bunny fighters fights on. Continued from (wait for it) Part One.

It’s at www.musemagkids.com. Check it out!

Continued from the plain-vanilla Computer and Video Games thread, and probably self-explanatory.

When GAPA Robert Coontz was Muser-age, he acted in a couple of plays with the Children’s Theater of Arlington (next door to his home town of Alexandria, Virginia) and worked as a stage hand for various children’s and adult shows. He’s still in touch with some of his fellow actors, including the mother and aunt of new MuseBlogger Ham.

A few photos from that era:

Robert (second from left) played the Tortoise in “The Great Cross-Country Race,” a retelling of the story of the Tortoise and the Hare. Ham’s mother (second from right) is practically invisible in this photo in her role as an all-black bird, a rook. Ham’s Aunt Diana worked on the costume crew and made the Tortoise’s shell, which was even more uncomfortable than it looks.

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Ham’s mother, center, looking pert in “Rumpelstiltskin.”

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Ham’s Aunt Caroline, kneeling at center, in “The Prince and the Pauper.” Caroline excelled in emotional roles and got to plead and cry a lot.

Canadian Thanksgiving is on Monday, October 13. Thanksgiving in the United States doesn’t come until November 27.

Requested by Kagcomix, who (naturally enough) lives in Canada.

This month’s random thread promises to be full of October surprises.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Factoids
Children’s TV shows

A neophyte is a fancy word for a newcomer. If you’ve just arrived on the blog, MuseBloggers on this thread will welcome you with pies (momentarily) in hand and help you find your way around.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Pieceful Pie Planet (IBCF)
Ships’ Logs: Beyond Museica (IBCF, kiwimuncher)
Muse Academy Student Lounge (vaxiddxvii)
Muse Academy Halloween Ball Planning Thread (vaxiddxvii)
Muse Scouts (Zinc the sorceress)
“Mostly Harmless” Theme Park (Zinc the sorceress)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
College/University/Higher Education (Axa)

SILLY FUN
Off with their Heads! (IBCF)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories [SSSS] (IBCF, Midnight Fiddler)
Round-Robin Smileys (Zinc the sorceress)
Alter Ego Thread (Piggy)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Let’s Get Physiognomical (Armada)

DAYDREAMS
Our Reclusive Gardens (kiwimuncher)

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher)
Muse Academy RPG (IBCF)
RPG Alternative (Zinc the Sorceress)

WRITING – RRRs
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
Alchemy (kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Theme with Variations (Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon)
Muse FanFiction (muselover)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
History (Purple Panda, Midnight Fiddler)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
Chess Lesson (Purple Panda)
Harry Potter Trivia-Off (Luna the Lovely)
Music (Midnight Fiddler)
Song Lyrics (Midnight Fiddler)
Books and Reading (Syllabub)
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Cooking and Food (Taiwan Hippo Fan)

USEFUL ITEMS
Suggestion Box
Last Month’s DFTT
HG2MB v.2008.1

Continued from Vol. I, No. 6.

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

10-01 Kiki the Great’s birthday (1995 – bright purple)
10-06 Leafygreen’s birthday (1997)
10-07 TOPFOT’s birthday (1992)
10-07 HMOTT’s birthday (19?? – light green)
10-08 nerdz__r00l’s birthday (1995 – light green)
10-09 Gimanator’s birthday (1993 – purple)
10-11 E2MB’s birthday (1994 – green)
10-12 Ebeth’s birthday (1991 – blue or octarine)
10-13 Paul Baker’s birthday
10-14 Isabella’s birthday (1994 – deep, pensive indigo, or whatever)
10-16 Bannaya’s birthday (1996)
10-16 astronomerrox’s birthday (1993 – blue)
10-16 Kagcomix’s birthday (1993 – green)
10-18 cilroxmysox’s birthday (1994 – orange)
10-20 Dark Lord of Darkness’s birthday (1993 – yellow, red, black, or purple)
10-23 kokopelli #13’s birthday (1992 – camouflage)
10-24 hotstuff trinity’s birthday (1992 – lime green)
10-25 Red-tailed HAWK’s birthday (1994 – blue)
10-26 Calla Lily’s birthday (19?? – )
10-29 Eccentric the Afterthought’s birthday (1990 – black and/or dark red)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between January 24 and February 23, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between April 29 and May 29, 1992.

10-20 Midnight Fiddler is 6,000 days old

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

A place to post things you’ve written and/or to talk about writing in general. Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon has just pointed out that we haven’t created a new version of this thread since version 2007.2, so here goes.

Not to be confused with Books in Progress, which focuses on book-length writing.

All right, organizing committee — get to work!

Discussions began on the Suggestion Box thread.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” column, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:

SPOILER OCTOBER MUSE SPOILER.

(That’s long enough. Remember to include the period, though, for the benefit of the sidebar.)

Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

The third installment of this month’s Random Thread winds up with a hard-to-read symbol of back-to-school days of yore. Call it the 19th-century equivalent of a laptop.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

Impress your fellow MBers by showing how much you know about something that doesn’t matter very much.

(NOTE: This is thread number 1492 — and coincidentally, 1492 is the year in which something significant happened to a prominent denizen of Hogwarts. Who was en, and what was the event?)

Continued from Part One.

Continued from Books and Reading, 2008, Part 3.

Bilbo and Frodo were both born on September 22, on different years of the Third Age of Middle-earth. All hail the heroic hobbits (even if Merry and Pippin were funnier)!

The autumnal equinox occurs at 1544 Universal time on Monday, September 22. That’s 10:44 a.m. blog time (U. S. Central Daylight Time). Have a lovely fall, everybody!

This year ’tis on Friday, September 19, me buckos! Let’s hear yer plans and yARRRns!

LadyGaladriel asks:

What exactly are the types of points?
Who can give out what points?
Do you have to have points on your blognickname to be able to give them out?
Can you make your own points?
What do the different types of points mean?
Why are you awarded points?

To which we would add: What exactly is the point of points?

Concerned neophytes and GAPAS want to know!