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Self-explanatory, and requested by Sweet Melpomene.

“Physiognomy” (which rhymes, sort of, with “Frog? Nah, me.”) is a fancy word for face. Here, by popular request, is a thread whereon MuseBloggers can guess what other MBers look like.

Vixen proposed this on the Ask the GAPAs thread. How could we refuse?

The Washington, D.C., Kokonventions are coming up next month. Check here for news and announcements.

Latest roster:

Friday, August 10
Julieb
curious and questioning
Shadowkat
Lady Visala of Reverie
Midnight Fiddler
Quintessentia
Capricious
Green Qween
Red-tailed HAWK
Purple Panda & Taiwan Hippo Fan
Glassboro

Wednesday, August 15
kt the gr8
Quintessentia
Green Qween
Red-tailed HAWK
Ebeth and her brother

Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon requested “a place, perhaps, where we poor MBs who aren’t incredibally gifted in music, and perhaps some who are, can talk about our art.”

(We had another Visual Arts thread last year.)

Requested by jammin j, who describes it as “a new journey into the art and tastes that we all share–music.” Bon voyage!

As of today (Monday, July 2), we are halfway through 2007. No, it’s not an official holiday, but any excuse for a party, we say.

Getting a jump on July…

Known Muser Birthdays this Month:

07-04 Momothebrainlesspig’s birthday (1993 – purple)
07-05 Koko du Pelle’s birthday (1996 – purple)
07-07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
07-09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
07-13 Emogrl’s birthday (1989 – black)
07-14 Penguin’s birthday (1994 – color=?)
07-17 agagabagabag’s birthday (1994 – purple)
07-18 PurplishGlass’s birthday (1990 – turquoise)
07-18 Fortune Cell’s birthday (1992 – red)
07-19 Traggle’s birthday (19?? – color=?)
07-22 Phoenix’s birthday (1992 – octarine)
07-25 Evie’s birthday (1995)
07-26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – pink, black, and violet, with a touch of green)
07-28 Anata~ChinTsu’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)
07-31 killerchipmunk’s birthday (1992 – blue or dark bluish purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 23 and November 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1991.

Requested by niugnep.

Just a quick reminder that you can reach Muse‘s editors and publisher using the magazine’s little-known online e-mail form.

The summer blockbuster, continued.

The year is 2020. The heroes: a few dozen young men and women, most in their late 20s. Fifteen years earlier, four friendly-seeming but mysterious people gathered them on what was then known as the World Wide Web, dropped hints about an important destiny or mission they were to fulfill, and then vanished. Over the years, some of the group kept in touch; others drifted apart. Now a great danger has brought them all back together again…

Muse‘s publisher, Carus Publishing, also puts several other magazines. We’re curious: Do you read them? Did you ever? Do you even know anything about them? If so, what do you think?

For reference, the magazines are as follows:

The Cricket Magazine Group

– “Bug” magazines: Babybug, Ladybug, Spider, Cricket, and Cicada

– Nonfiction magazines: Click, Ask, and Muse

The Cobblestone Magazine Group

Appleseeds, Calliope, Cobblestone, Dig, Faces, Footsteps, Odyssey

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

NO SPOILERS, please. Just let us know when your issues arrive.

By overwhelming popular request, a thread for fans of the ultimate summer reading.

The year is 2020. The heroes: a few dozen young men and women, most in their late 20s. Fifteen years earlier, four friendly-seeming but mysterious people gathered them on what was then known as the World Wide Web, dropped hints about an important destiny or mission they were to fulfill, and then vanished. Over the years, some of the group kept in touch; others drifted apart. Now a great danger has brought them all back together again…
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Righto, Talented Youth. Here’s a place for you to discuss your summer programs.

Some MBers have already left on their summer adventures. Here’s a place to report in from afar, or to recount your peregrinations after you return.

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

By special request of Alice: a thread for thinking up creative new catch-phrases to put on Muse‘s cover. Right now it’s “The magazine of life, the universe and pie throwing.” That’s not bad — and it’s certainly more exciting than what was there before. Can you do even better?

Bet he never thought he’d be a knight.

He’s 65 years old today (June 18). Do we still need him, will we still feed him, now that he’s no longer 64?

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet.
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

Still blowing through the jasmine in our minds.

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

It’s hard to believe that we haven’t had a dreams thread since last year. With school out, MBers are bound to be sleeping more. Let’s hear some of those midsummer night’s dreams.