Author: Robert Coontz (Administrator)

Robert’s Time Capsule: Children’s Theater

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.

Pictures after the jump.

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.

Welcome, Neophytes! (October 2008 edition)

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.

Don’t Forget These Threads (October 2008 edition)

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

The Hare & Hedgepig, Vol. I, No. 7

As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons, Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required

As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons, Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required

Continued from Vol. I, No. 6.

October 2008 “Happy Birthday” Thread

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.

Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic Randomness! Part 3

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.

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!)

Harry Potter Trivia-Off, Part 2

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.

Points

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!