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Ask fellow Musers what they think, feel, or prefer; get instant answers. You can see how it works on version 2006.3.

(New version requested by Emogrl.)

A fresh thread for poems and songs of interest. Elassë~adael’s idea.

1962-2006. The world is a little bit darker.

Robert writes:

I once read that men tend to like smooth ice cream, while women prefer ice cream with lumps and such in it (marshmallows, chocolate chunks, veins of caramel, etc.). That’s definitely true of me: except for mint chocolate chip (with very small chips), I like my ice cream smooth. How about you? The blog must know!

Feel free to broaden the discussion to peanut butter, if you like.

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

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.)

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.)

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

‘Twas brillig and the slithy toves, quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” A continuation of the poems and songs thread because Kuai Zi Angel Pentatonikk asked. A place for your creations or others’.

So much for what you were going to read. What have you read, and how did you like it? Tell the world!

It’s been three months since v. 2006.2. So here’s yet another chance to find out what other Musers think about anything you feel like asking about.

Closed to comments; continued on v. 2006.4.

Lewis Carroll’s Mock-Turtle called it “drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils” (drawing, sketching, and painting in oils). How many MBers are artists? What are your favorite media and implements? Any technical suggestions? Here’s a place to spill it all.

This is the opposite of a random thread. Once a topic is chosen, posts must stay on the topic until someone decides to change it, and a GAPA agrees. GAPAs will zap as necessary to keep things on track.

NEW TOPIC:
Architecture again
Birds
Soccer
Architecture
Plants
Origami and Paper Folding
Musicals
Camp
The May/June 2006 issue
Sheer Joy
It starts at Comment 1.

Irish poet, 1865-1939.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

More about Yeats at http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/

Skipper Nancy’s idea for a thread. Is it a Good Idea? Time will tell.

Thanks to Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas and Jadestone for suggesting this thread.

Love him or loathe him, he’s a huge landmark on our imaginative landscape. So break out the tantalus and gas up the gasogene. The game is afoot!

Reports from Towel Day celebrants throughout the galaxy — at Ebeth’s request.

Copper Bigfoot’s idea. She says:

I like Perals Before Swine, Foxtrot, and Mother Goose and Grimm.

Mother Goose and Grimm is hard to type out…. anywoof, I loved how they made fun of the fact that the new nintendo is going to be called “Wii” pronounced “Wee”

An experiment: the opposite of a random thread. Once a topic is chosen, posts must stay on the topic until people someone agree decides to change it. GAPAs will zap as necessary to keep things on track.

(Thanks to Pink Stalking Penguin of Penzance and Purple Panda for the idea for this thread.)

Architecture
Plants
Origami and Paper Folding
Musicals
Camp
The May/June 2006 issue
Sheer Joy
It starts at Comment 208.

Requested by several MuseBloggers, most recently General Yoda. All kinds–whatever you listen to, whatever you like to play.

It’s coming up fast: you could almost hold your breath until the end of school. Then comes your chance to do some real reading–untrammeled, unfettered, free.

So…what’s on your list, and what do you recommend?

This falls into the category of “saying nice things about our friends,” but Robert has just finished reading book three of Larry’s Cartoon History of the Universe and just has to tell the world how utterly brilliant and wonderful it is. If you’re tired of memorizing lists of kings and wars for school and really want to understand how history works, this series is a must.

OK, end of rhapsody. (A rhapsody is like a rant, only complimentary.)