Has it really been a whole year since the last time we said that? It seems impossible, but logic tells us it must be so. Have a wonderful holiday, everybody*!
*Those living in countries that don’t celebrate American-style Thanksgiving should give it a try; it’s very nice. And Canadians have our permission (and wholehearted encouragement) to celebrate it again. It’s party time!
An ever-popular and flourishing thread:
Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.
Continued from version 2009.1.
This online daydream started with a comment by oxlin:
Bah. I’m sick of society. I want to go live in a shack somewhere with Teal and not pollute and eat mushrooms and herbs we gather and carrots we grow and draw and write and be happy.
For the benefit of those who weren’t around then, here is the conversation that followed, leading to the creation of the original thread: Continue reading “Our Reclusive Gardens, Part 3”
The famous astronomer and most Muserly explainer of science would have turned 75 on Monday, November 9. Happy birthday, Carl! Sixty-two revolutions on your home planet weren’t nearly enough. Our corner of the cosmos salutes you.
Attention, MBers within driving distance of Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University will hold its 22nd annual Pumpkin Drop on Friday, October 30.
What’s a Pumpkin Drop? Nancy Kangas and her son Aaron can tell you. So can Purple Panda and her family. They’ve all dropped pumpkins in previous years.
You can find more information at www . mae.cemr.wvu . edu/news/news-details.php?item=1272 .
And you can see how Pan & Co. did it right here on the blog.
= NaNo BrainStorming = generating ideas for NaNoWriMo = National Novel-Writing Month, which takes place in November. Someone will explain….
This year it be on Saturday, September 19. What be ye doin’ fer it, mateys? Continue reading ““Talk Like a Pirate” Day 2009″
Remember to post spoiler warnings (ending in periods), please!
Continued from Movies, v. 2009.1.
They’re things we all have in common, yet we haven’t had a new thread about them since last year. So what are we waiting for? Let’s eat talk about eating!
The last thread devoted to this topic started in 2007. It’s high time for another one.
(including tall ships and very large lakes).
At least one MBer has recently run away to sea and returned; others have dabbled in matters maritime and notions nautical; still others just like reading about them. Here’s a place to talk about the whole watery Weltanschauung.
Continued from v. 2007.2.
Requested by cellogirl26, who adds: “Not classic rock, either. Classical!”
The beat goes on.
Continued from version 2009.1.
Continued from version 2009.1.
Larry Gonick fans will know (and lament) that Larry’s non-Muse Web comic came to a standstill after discovery.com stopped publishing it. But be of good cheer: “Raw Materials” is now back in business at www . simple-talk .com/author/larry-gonick/
The 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee is in full swing in Washington, D.C., just a block and a half from Robert’s office. We don’t know whether any Musers are in it, but At least one Muser is competing this year, and there may be more; it’s the kind of place where they hang out (witness emmatheduck and speller73 of yore). So warm wishes to all contestants, and good luck to any orthographoMusers in the pack.
Requested by IBCF. Any other enthusiasts out there?
Whether your medium is traditional, digital, or in a realm of its own, if it’s visual (or you hope it will be one of these days), here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas, no matter if you’re an artist or not.
Continued from Books and Reading, 2009, Part 1.
Even now, your Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seem realer than many people we see every day.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
In celebration of this fateful birth,
Herein the GAPAs will communicate
In lines ten syllables in length apiece
(Or thereabouts). You’ve heard of it before:
Iambic (yes) pentameter–i.e.,
Five two-beat feet, one stressed, one unstressed. All
MuseBloggers may, of course, write that way too.
It’s easy once you get the hang of it
(Well, not exactly easy, but still fun.)
From there to here, from here to there,
Funny things are everywhere.
Indeed they are — and nowhere more so than on MuseBlog. We’re pretty sure the good doctor would have approved of Muse, the Muses, and us.
Axa brought up the idea: “I always thought it’d be cool if we all took a picture of what the sky looked like outside our respective windows/houses (no scenery for the most part) but I think it’s be too much work for the GAPAs. And maybe boring? I dunno, I like stuff like that.”
Later in the conversation she added, “It sounds like windows are the window to the soul then, huh? haha. It’s definitely interesting to see things that are commonplace for someone else, how they perceive things.”
Why don’t we try it with verbal descriptions? You could even describe what you’d like to see. (But tell us about your real-world view first.)
Raynpho sent this cheerful reminder that Valentine’s Day is about more than couples and ugly little putti. We all know it’s about HPBs. (And [insert your favorite spelling of cacao-based foodstuffs here].)
Raynpho sent this cheerful reminder that Valentine’s Day is about more than couples and ugly little putti. We all know it’s about HPBs. (And [insert your favorite spelling of cacao-based foodstuffs here].)
