Sunday, 11 May 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
del•i•quesce: 1. to melt away; esp., to dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air. 2. Bot. To ramify into fine divisons, as the veins of a leaf.
In Part Two of this month’s random thread, all Musers are expected to ramify into the finest divisions possible.
Dear Miss Dickinson,
Our felicitations to you on the 177th anniversary of your birth (December 10, 1830).
Robert feels compelled to confess something: You know that poem you wrote, the one that starts “I’m nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody, too?” Robert can’t abide it. Never could. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to him. He is, however, very fond of many of your other poems, including this one for a windy day:
There came a wind like a bugle;
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom’s electric moccason
That very instant passed.
On a strange mob of panting trees,
And fences fled away,
And rivers where the houses ran
The living looked that day.
The bell within the steeple wild
The flying tidings whirled.
How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!
Alice launched the first RPW thread in May 2007, describing it as follows:
Everyone makes up one character (made up, mind you!) and we decide on plot, time, etc. just like usual. Then we start. It would be in the form of letters or e-mails, and we would say at the top of our post who the letter was to.
Everyone would have to read all of the posts, though, to prevent conflicting plot twists, but their character wouldn’t know about whatever the letter said unless it was addressed to them.
Get it?
If not, then phooey. That was hard to explain.
Even though the original one is still going on, we’re starting a new Role-Playing Writing thread from scratch so that newcomers and latecomers can participate. Have fun!
Date: December 5, 2007
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, Nonrandom Craziness
For discussions that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.
Continued from Hot Topics, v. 2007.7.
Sorting through the triumph and wreckage of National Novel-Writing Month.
Date: December 1, 2007
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe, Things We like
In which we all absorb moisture from the air, and melt. If that’s how you’re feeling, this month’s random thread is the place for you.
Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.
Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Publishing
Snow
Recent hostage-taking at Clinton campaign office
Coming soon: [any ideas?]
If you feel quite at ease,
Come in anyway, please.
The reception you get might surprise you
As each blogger, completing
Our time-honored greeting,
Cries, “Hail, fellow Muser!” and pies you.
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.
(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
Chronicles of Museica (IBCF)
The Kokonspiracy (Mostly Harmless) (IBCF)
Pie Isle (IBCF)
Life on the Pieceful Pie Planet(IBCF)
LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Just Friends (Red-tailed HAWK, Cliff Eagle, Beavo)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (Red-tailed HAWK)
Homeschoolers (Red-tailed HAWK)
Global Warming (Red-tailed HAWK, Beavo)
Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and Other Chilly Holidays (Red-tailed HAWK)
Evolution (Beavo)
Movies (rabbity24)
The Kokonspiracy (Mostly Harmless) (Vixen)
SILLY FUN
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Robert, Beavo)
Triangular Sentences (Red-tailed HAWK)
Alliteration (Red-tailed HAWK)
Coy Woodnesse (Purple Panda)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Off with Their Heads! (Beavo, groundhog22)
WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (Purple Panda)
Fractured Fairy Tale (the man for aeiou)
Dreamland (the man for aeiou)
Time Travel (the man for aeiou)
Etheterre (the man for aeiou)
The Original (separate pentity)
Spirits and Blood (the man for aeiou)
Terenika (the man for aeiou)
Free Form (POSOC)
WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Writing (BeMoreAmazed)
Role-Playing Writing (Purple Panda)
Poems & Songs (oxlin widdershins)
Muse Fanfiction (Beavo, Cinnamoon)
Muse Legendarium (Purple Panda)
OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Food and Cooking (Purple Panda)
Dreams (gimanator)
Song Lyrics (Red-tailed HAWK)
Books and Reading (ebeth)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels (Drops of Jupiter)
Computer and Video Games (Drops of Jupiter)
Seriously Awesome Comics (Drops of Jupiter)
Known Muser birthdays this month:*
12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-12 Johnny Vern’s birthday (year? color?)
12-17 Unintended Pun’s birthday (1992 – color?)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1991.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
This one’s odd: an art magazine called Muse from Armenia.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260187989556
Attention, D.C.-area Musers! A couple of Muselike events are coming to town soon:
– “Spamalot” at the National Theater, December 11 through January 6
– The Washington Revels at the Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University), December 8-9 and 14-16.
If you’d like to organize a MuseBlog expedition to either event, please have your parents get in touch with the Administrators at gapa @ musefanpage.com.
P.S. “The Golden Compass” opens in movie theaters on December 7. I hope it’s good; the trailer looks great.
You can find out more about the Revels at www. revelsdc.org/ events.html
Continued from the saga that started on Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories, v. 2007.4. This is MuseBlog’s first-ever long, continuous multi-author smiley story. Catch up, and join in!
Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!
NOTE: This is not the thread for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That’s here.
Requested by the man for aeiou, who describes it as follows:
We don’t know exactly what he has in mind, but we’re eager to find out.
An outlet for your frustration, now that MBers have stopped pieing one another in anger. 
The monthly random thread, so named to commemorate life’s small pleasures and National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!
NOTE: This is not the NaNoWriMo thread. That’s here.
These Muses are different. They’re not the magazine of life, the universe, and pie-throwing. They’re the identically named magazine of the Canadian Museum Association. You probably won’t want to buy them, but if you’re curious you can see them at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250185576372
It’s today, November 5. In Britain, they say “Remember, remember the Fifth of November” and celebrate by trundling scarecrows from door to door and burning them on bonfires with fireworks bursting all around them — all to commemorate an explosion that famously did NOT happen there in 1605.
MuseBlog notes the occasion every year. Here are our threads from 2005 and 2006.
This month’s random thread takes its name from
(1) National Novel-Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), which will be depriving several MuseBloggers of sleep this month;
(2) the small pleasures of life (nano-joys, if you will) that everyone on the blog is hereby encouraged to celebrate.
Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!
NOTE: This is not the NaNoWriMo thread. That’s here.
Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.
Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.
Current topic: Endangered or extinct animals
Vampires
Disaster preparedness or maybe Soccer
(or possibly Soccer Preparedness or Disastrous Soccer — things are a little confused here at the moment)
Allergies
Martial arts
Pets
Ideas for future topics:
food (cooking, gross foods, etc.)
mythical creatures
The place for new arrivals to go for advice and a hearty MuseBlog welcome. (Hint: It involves pie.) Crusto volanti noli obstare!
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.