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Happy Tau Day 2012!

Anything that gets us twice as much pie is fine with us.


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Squid Gallery

Jadestone and Dodecahedron have finished sewing their space squids and have sent us pictures of the celestial cephalopods.

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Things of Which We Are Unreasonably Fond, v. 2012

By request. The description on the original thread:

You know what we’re talking about: things that, for no good reason, you enjoy having around, being around, or doing.


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Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

The gentlest and most poetic of the classic science-fiction writers lived in the October Country:

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”


Happy National Doughnut Day!

Feather Valentine

In the United States, at least, National Doughnut Day is the first Friday in June. If you check your usual sources, maybe you can get a free one. (See? Some of what you learn here is useful.)

This seems like a perfect occasion to reprise the Feather-y Valentine that Cskia sent to the blog a few months ago.


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Happy Towel Day 2012!

Do you know where your towel is?


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Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)

Cover of Where the Wild Things Are
He’s gone.

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Happy (Estimated) 448th Birthday, William Shakespeare!

Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:
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Movies, v. 2012

Remember to post spoiler warnings, please!

Continued from Movies, v. 2009.2.


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It’s Pi Day!

And a blog — a place dedicated to pastry, mirth, and world conquest — obviously wouldn’t disregard one of its favorite days.


Visual Arts, v. 2012

Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.

Continued from Visual Arts, 2011.


You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y


Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.

Continued from version 2011.


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Lizzie’s Recital

Rather than moving a lot of sound files, we’re posting a link so you can hear it on Soundcloud as long as she keeps it there. Enjoy!


Staving Off February

KaiYves has asked us to repost this piece of classic MuseBlogiana. Great idea, Kai!

Back in April 2008, UberMuser Grant O. sent us some sound files of narration for a proposed slideshow about ways to survive winter. He called it “Staving Off January.”

Before we knew it, Midnight Fiddler had drawn up some storyboards, and a New Zealand MBer named Zoe (who then went by Treble_Cone_Freeskier) turned them into a real multimedia presentation.

Here it is, to help you get through the rest of the winter:

Staving Off January.

Poems and Songs, v. 2012

Hail, Poetry, thou heav’n-born maid!
Thou gildest e’en the pirate’s trade.
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
All hail, all hail, divine emollient!

–Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance
(and yes, they knew they were being over the top)

Continued from version 2011.


Music, v. 2012

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2011.


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Geeky TV Shows, v. 2012

Yes, those TV shows.

Continued from v. 2010.2. We don’t know what happened to 2011.


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Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

It is well known that Friday the 13th is an unusually lucky day for MuseBloggers. (More fortunate still, 2012 has three of them.) Below, please note any instances of particularly good fortune that befall you today.


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Style, Fashion, and Costume, v. 2012

Continued from a diverting but ancient thread launched in 2009.


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Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

The author of The Lord of the Rings was born on January 3, 1892, and thus would have been 120 (twelvety?) years old today.


Computer and Video Games, v. 4.0

Continued from v. 3.0, and ready for beta testing.


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Happy 77th Birthday, Carl Sagan!

(9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996)

You helped us feel at home in the universe.


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NaNoBraSto 2011

Brainstorming for National Novel-Writing Month (also known as November).

Go to NaNoWriMo 2011 for the main event.


Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

You’d probably do it anyway. But just to make sure, we’ve activated a plug-in that will make you talk like a pirate whether you want to or not.

In case your piratese needs a little brushing up, this handy how-to video will get you talking the lingo in no time. Yar!


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Best Meteor Ever

This photograph is all over the Internet, but we just have to repost it here. It was taken by Ron Garan, an astronaut on the International Space Station, and shows one of the Perseid meteors streaking downward through Earth’s atmosphere.
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