Musecast 9
The flamablamablous cathassus of the recent Westernmost Maryland Kokonvention has now been immortalized in its own Musecast.
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Happy Towel Day 2011!
MuseBlog has been celebrating Towel Day since 2006. This year, with the threat of the Vogon demolition crew a recent memory, seems particularly auspicious. Have a good one, froods!
Our Reclusive Gardens, Part 4
The online daydream is continued from Part 3, where you can read a nice, long description of what it’s about.
Happy Pi Day!
The United States stands almost alone in writing the date March 14 numerically as 3-14. Change the hyphen to a period, and you have the first three digits of pi. Contrived, yes — but any excuse for a party, we say.
(Tau-ists, please hold your peace. Your day will come.)
Song Lyrics, Part 4
Continued from Part 3.
Please put a period somewhere early in the post — perhaps after the song title. Otherwise the lyrics will clog the recent comments panel.
Harry Potter Trivia-Off, Part 4
Display your knowledge of the books that have replaced the Bible, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Disney as this generation’s source of literary allusions.
Preceded by, but not exactly continued from, Part Three.
You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y, v. 2011
Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.
Continued from version 2009.2.
Cooking and Food, v. 2011
Two of our favorite things! Now, let’s hear Choklit Orange’s ratatouille recipe.
Continued (loosely speaking) from v. 2009.
Happy National Pie Day!
For whatever it’s worth, the American Pie Council (www . piecouncil . org/) has declared every January 23 National Pie Day. Although the APC seems to focus mainly on eating pies rather than, you know, we think this new holiday is a peach of an idea (peach pie — yum!) and encourages MBers of all lands to embrace it wholeheartedly. Those who can’t will get another chance when Pi Day rolls around on March 14.
Pie stories, anyone?
Visual Arts, v. 2011
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, 2010.
Happy 119th Birthday, J. R. R. Tolkien!
As hobbits might put it, Professor Tolkien would have been eleventy-nine years old today.
The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone,
When Tolkien woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Tolkien‘s Day.
Piggy’s Chrome Instruction Manual
You’ve waited with commendable patience. Now here it is at last for your delectation:
Something Wonderful
Robert writes:
Our friend Pollyhymnia sent me a link to this YouTube video, which made my day. I’ve often doodled in math class, but never this productively:
Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!
We wish you were here to enjoy it, and we’re sure you would have had interesting things to say about it.
Happy Hagfish Day!
Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010 may be just a happy memory, but you salty sea dogs still have an excuse to party. The conservation group Whale Times has declared today (October 20) “Hagfish Day” to celebrate all weird and/or ugly denizens of the sea. The group’s website (at www . whaletimes . org/HagfishDay . htm) features a gallery of underwater grotesques and directions for hagfish-related activities, some of them involving copious quantities of slime (a hagfish hallmark). Altogether Muserly, we deem.
Dispatches from Collegeland
Jadestone posted a long message about her adventures in Collegeland. We thought the subject merited a room of its own, so we’ve moved her comment from the Random Thread. Other collegians feel free to add your adventures.
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NaNoBraSto 2010
Brainstorming for National Novel-Writing Month, which coincides with November. If you’re unfamiliar with it, NaNoMuBlo-ers will be happy to explain.
Date: October 6, 2010
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, The Universe, Things We like
More Music from Lizzie
Two years ago we posted a violin performance by long-time MuseBlogger Lizzie. Here is a more recent sample of her talent.
Happy 70th Birthday, Ringo Starr!
The cuddly Beatle and veteran of “Shining Time Station” notches up three score years and ten today (Wednesday, July 7).