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.
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.
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.â€
Happy National Doughnut Day!
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.
Happy (Estimated) 448th Birthday, William Shakespeare!
Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:
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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.
Date: February 21, 2012
Categories: Life, Sound and images, The Universe, Things We like
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.
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!
Date: February 18, 2012
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Sound and images, Things We like
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:
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.
Geeky TV Shows, v. 2012
Yes, those TV shows.
Continued from v. 2010.2. We don’t know what happened to 2011.
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.
Style, Fashion, and Costume, v. 2012
Continued from a diverting but ancient thread launched in 2009.
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.
Happy 77th Birthday, Carl Sagan!
(9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996)
You helped us feel at home in the universe.
NaNoBraSto 2011
Brainstorming for National Novel-Writing Month (also known as November).
Go to NaNoWriMo 2011 for the main event.
Date: October 7, 2011
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, The Universe, Things We like
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!
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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