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New: ATTENTION! Purple Panda and Taiwan Hippo Fan’s mother is VERY eager to involve Musers in the Pumpkin Drop and would like to hear from other potentially interested parents. Details below.

There was a flurry of interest in this event at the Kokonvention.

The sponsor, West Virginia University, has finally posted information about the drop. As feared, it takes place on a Friday, which may limit Musers’ ability to take part. Anyone possibly interested can find out all about it here (remove spaces):

http:// www. mae.cemr.wvu.edu/ news/20pumpkindrop.php

Muse fielded a team a few years ago, with results recounted in the Koko Bomb Saga.

All kinds of dances and dancing. Anything that moves. Continued from v. 2007.1.

Requested by Alice, who is bursting to talk about it.

Actually, we’ve done this before.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes. That can, and should, take a while.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Writer’s block
Places we’d like to visit

Seems a bit early, but people are requesting it, so why not?

And the polling continues….

Check v. 2007.2 if you want to answer recent questions or feel free to plunge ahead with new ones.

Requested by Disreputable Dragon, who describes it as follows:

all about the quirks of the English language and craunching marmosets – er, phrases that you want to find the origins of (oh dear, I ended a sentence with a preposition! *horror*)

Requested by Alice. We’re a bit late in starting this thread, but there’s still material to be mined, mayhap.

For last year’s version of this thread, search under “obsessed.”

*Middle English for “quiet madness,” a name that doesn’t mean very much but that is undeniably coole.

This ever-popular thread is for foreign languages and other unusual means of communication. Version 2007.1 and its predecessors will give you an idea of how it works.

By happy coincidence, both were born on July 31. (H. P. = 1980; J. K. R. = 1965.) Celebrations may be held on the Harry Potter, Summer 2007 thread.

At this rate, it won’t be long before we’re on part 3,105.

Continued from Books and Reading, Part 4.

Once you’ve read it, all bets are off. For the sake of anyone scanning the “Recent Comments” sidebar, however, please paste the following notice at the beginning of your messages:

SPOILER WARNING: “DEATHLY HALLOWS” SPOILER WARNING.

Make sure to include the period at the end.

That should do it.

Movie 5 is out, Book 7 is coming up — what’s not to talk about? NO SPOILERS from the book, please.

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!

There’s been a clamor for a dog thread, a cat and dog thread . . . well, we know where that can lead. Besides, we like all kinds of animals and MBers have an assortment of pets, so why stop there?

(We could have been consistent and called this Pets 2007.1, since there was a Pets thread in 2006, but we felt the urge to alliterate. And we’re simply not all that consistent. Anyway, there’s no need to restrict the discussion to pets, so a different title makes sense after all.)

Lines poetical and lyrical by the bards of the blog. Continued from 2007.1.

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

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.

More questions, more answers about that perpetually fascinating topic: MuseBloggers.

Continued from version 2007.1.

Here are images of Alice‘s sheep.

Elizabeth‘s photos are below, posted in comment #31.
Also, see kt the gr8‘s artwork at comment #23.

NaNoWriMo’s new sibling debuts today. The challenge: write a 20,000-word script or screenplay in 30 days. So far, 6 10 11 MBers (+ 1 GAPA) have signed on. Others who want to participate, go to scriptfrenzy.org for details.

MB Participants:
Alice
biblioRose
Capricious the Great and Terrible
Ebeth [Whatever Her Current Title Is]
grnqween2011
pen,/ta/to’/nikk (adj)
purplefinch
Purple Panda
Sweet Melpomene
Taiwan Hippo Fan
Zyka
Lady Bunniful

So, Frenzyers, what are you writing about? What are your strategies? Come celebrate, commiserate, advise, or procrastinate. Most of all, have fun!

The creator of Sherlock Holmes was born 148 years ago today (Friday, May 25).