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By popular request. It has been a while since Libraries, Books, and Bookstores and Books.

It’s hot. Well, no, it’s cold–extremely cold. But it’s in the news, and MBers are already talking about it. So here’s a place for anything more that needs to be said.

Any excuse for a party, we say. Five thousand days is about 13 years, 8 months, and 8 days (varying slightly depending on the month and year). Many of you have already reached the big five-oh-oh-oh. For the rest, you can easily use a spreadsheet to figure out when the big day falls.

You turn 5,000 later this month if you were born between December 14 and December 22, 1992. It happens in September if you were born between December 23, 1992, and January 21, 1993. We’ll try to keep you posted about future quintimillennial dates, if we remember.

The issues are back from the printer, all fresh and inky. Let us know when yours arrives and, later, what you think of it.

[Righto, no spoilers here. Let’s just track how long it takes the postal service to deliver them. We can discuss the issue on a different thread. –Admin.]

This month’s random thread, continued as the weather starts to cool.
Continued from (naturally enough) Part One.

It’s that time of year again, alas.

This is an experiment: a thread with required reading, Huston Smith’s book The World’s Religions (known in earlier editions as The Religions of Man). If you really can’t find Smith’s book, we’ll accept The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Religions as a substitute. It’s not very good, though.

For the background to this thread, see https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=349.

Now discussing: Hinduism.

Samantha Sordyl’s friend Pat Dahl has agreed to come on board the blog and talk about your ideas for a Muse movie. He works in Hollywood (in TV, but knows a lot about movies) and has read Attack of the Smart Pies.

(For those who came in late, planning and lobbying for a Muse movie is Cedar’s big project. You can read more about it at Muse Movie? and Muse Movie? Part 2.)

(At the risk of sounding self-congratulatory…) Kiki’s idea.

It’s been almost a year since we started the last thread on this topic, and the fans are getting restless. Here you go.

(Suggested by Axa.)

(Technically, they’re called “quotations,” not “quotes.”) By request of Jadestone. Fire away.

After the Great Pie War came the rebuilding of Civilization. Now, while landlubbers compose the Chronicles of Museica, a few hardy sea dogs are preparing to sail for unknown territory. They were just getting under way at the end of the Rebuilding Civilization thread. This is their story, if they care or dare to tell it.

Thread closed to posting; continued on Part 2.

The original Muse How-Tos thread described itself thus:

“… the best way to make chocolate chip cookies, a good method of doing homework, the secret to jump-roping, etc.”

We can’t improve on that description (or on the cookie recipe). Herewith, a place to post your favorite helpful hints, tips, recipes, trade secrets, shortcuts, and workarounds.

A place to post all celebratory greetings. This month’s known Muser birthdays:

08-01 MuseBlog’s birthday (2005) = GAPA Appreciation Day
08-04 Capricious the great and terrible’s birthday (colors: green and blue; rainbow)
08-13 Sora’s birthday (1992 – all shades of blue)
08-14 bulletproofmarshmallow’s birthday (1993)
08-15 Morbid’s birthday (1991)
08-16 The Bev’s birthday (1992 – green or blue)
08-26 Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas’ birthday (1994 – purple pizzazz)
08-27 Elentari’s birthday
08-28 Dragonsrock828’s birthday (1993)
08-31 Mer’s (=WoojaKitty’s =Quintessentia’s) birthday (1992 – golden)

(Some of these folks haven’t been around for a while, but maybe they’ll stop by to receive their birthday pies.)

After the devastation of the Great Pie War, the survivors labored to rebuild civilization. Now the saga continues.

(Where were we? Something about pie-rates…)

NOTE: The saga continues to continue in Part the Second.

Aye, ’tis true: our beloved blog came into being one year ago today. We were so young then…

For whatever it’s worth, some thoughtful MBer has seen fit to designate this date as GAPA Appreciation Day. We’re not sure exactly what that entails or how it’s to be celebrated, but we’d be very surprised if airborne baked goods didn’t enter into the equation.

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).

Hi, all. I’m back from my week off. Anybody care to bring me up to date about doings on the blog?

–Robert

Version 2006.3 is ancient, and FantasyFan says she feels the need to rant. Rant away, one and all–carefully, of course.

By special request of, but not limited to, kiki_the_great. The rest of you know what to do.

Two pies in every face! A trebuchet in every garage! He’s a candidate whose time at last (alas) has come.