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They’re starting to arrive. Let us know when yours appears. No spoilers, please–that’s a separate thread.

Quieter than most, but a jubilee all the same.

You know the drill: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

They’re the original long fantasy stories. Like ’em? Hate ’em? Either way, let’s hear why.

We’re back, having converted the file to MP3 format. Let’s see if that works better. Now, where were we? Oh, yes…

Not content with soap sculpture, Purple Panda and Taiwan Hippo Fan, with the help of Kiki the Great, have turned their talents to audio production. With luck, you’ll be able to listen to a sound file of their MuseCast by clicking here.

KitKat has requested an imaginary virtual online store. As usual, we have trouble imagining what she has in mind. Still… why not?

“Happy” might not be the right word, and a pie in the face seems distinctly inappropriate. So… a goblet of Amontillado, Mr. P.?

Shadowkat says she needs a little mayhem to relieve her ennui. Thread granted, but please keep the carnage contained, all right?

It’s called The Cartoon History of the Modern World. Ebeth has read it. Anyone else? Check this thread out in any case; the ingenious Mr. G. says he’s likely to stop by soon.

By special (and repeated) request of Kiki the Great: a new place to post things you’ve written and/or to talk about writing in general.

Suggested title: The Etheterre Chronicles or The Codex Aetherica

Continued from (naturally enough) Part One.

*Round-Robin ‘Riting.

The first Hot Topics thread was started in November 2005 because discussions on some of the other threads were getting too intense. The Administrators decided to carve out a special space on the blog for (as the original description read) “politics, religion, and anything requiring an extra dose of civility.” The idea was that if MBers wanted to discuss something controversial, they could bring it here and swap opinions and information in ways that didn’t make one another mad. In between controversies, Hot Topics would lie dormant.

People seem to have lost sight of that original purpose. Instead, a lot of MBers evidently think that (1) at any given moment, there always has to be a hot topic in progress, and (2) “Hot Topics” is a place where you’re supposed to try to make other people angry.

Not so. This isn’t talk radio or Fox News. We’re all Musers here. (Every now and then, someone has to finish that sentence.) Please remember what this thread is for, and use it for its intended purpose. And if no potentially inflammatory topics happen to be roiling the blog at the moment, don’t try to manufacture them. Give ’em a rest. Everybody needs a rest sometimes. Oh, and remember: Crusto volanti noli obstare.

Thanks for your attention.

–The Management

You know the drill: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

Shadowkat’s idea. Her description:

Everyone posts as if they were from a year of their choice (i.e. 1774, 1203, 500 B.C., 5178). They would have to identify the year they were from, and act and talk like people really did/will back then/when that year comes. And no one would be able to have the same year as anyone else. They could have a consecutive year (i.e. 1567, 1568), but not the same.

*Round-Robin ‘Riting, a multiauthorial MuseBlog tradition.

Darth Yoda is looking for four or five dedicated writers to help start a new story. Any takers?

This amazingly effective procrastinatory device first appeared on the blog more than a year ago in Triangular Sentences and Other Typographic Tricks. As before, they’re starting to overrun other threads. Post them here, please.

Prarilius Canix’s idea is so weird that we just had to try it. His description:

A thread to discuss wungs. What are wungs, you may ask? Animal, vegetable, mineral, subatomic particle? Nobody knows. Yet. This thread could be a place to post recent wung sightings and theories, and to cross-check them with other people. I know it’s crazy, but this could be the next big thing. Plus, we’ll eventually figure out what they are. Maybe.

This topic is taking off over on the January random thread, so we’re giving it a thread of its own.

Requested by Sweet Melpomene.

Bunnieluv named the first random thread of the new year.

You know the drill: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

The rules? Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. And, as always, have fun.

Step right up to receive your welcome pie and ask the old hands what’s going on around here. First, though, please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).

There’s been a request for a special thread for these. So… Happy New Year, everybody.

You can find them at “Musery Loves Company” (http://www.cafepress.com/musery).

Let us know if we missed any that you can’t live without. We can easily add items to the online catalog.

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays in January:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992)
01-01 FrigidSymphony’s birthday (1991? – …um…octavarium?)
01-03 Kari’s birthday (1995)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-06 Sir Penguin’s birthday (1994)
01-13 Anonymous Coward’s birthday (1992)
01-13 Kororra’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-17 The Insane Blue Sage’s birthday (1995 – black, silver, green, and red)
01-30 Skipper Nancy Blackett’s birthday (1992)

(And, of course, Muse itself came into being in January 1997.)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1990.

Somehow we never get tired of these. Let’s get the jump on the New Year with a fresh batch.

(Newcomers may want to glance at SSSS, version 2006.2.