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The birthday is today, January 27, 1756. It’s a bit late in the day to start a thread, but there’s still time for a little night music.

‘In that direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a Hatter: and in that direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’
‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’
‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.
‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, logician, fantasy novelist, stutterer, High Victorian, and nonsense versifier supreme, was born on January 27, 1832. He concocted his famous pseudonym by Latinizing his first and middle names (to Carolus Ludovicius), reversing their order, and de-Latinizing them. Though he died 100 years before Muse came along, we daresay he would have approved. Thanks to lifewithoutacellphone for reminding us that today is his day.

Hear the splatting of the pies,
Apple pies!
What a world of misery their crusted warmth belies.

Yes, on the whole it’s a good thing that Mr. Poe didn’t write about Muse. He was an unhappy soul, but his poems and stories have given us many hours of diversion. So we hope that he’ll be of good cheer (in a foetid, sepulchral way) wherever he is (which we shudder to think about).

“The only president of the United States who was never president of the United States,” as the Firesign Theater once called him, was born 302 years ago today (January 17). Hail to one of the most fascinating, down-to-earth, and likable Americans to have trodden the continent in recorded history.

Out there in Valinor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien would be celebrating his eleventy-sixth birthday today. Mae losto, Professor. Belain na le!

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-01 FrigidSymphony’s birthday (1991 – no color, but loud heavy metal music)
01-03 Kari’s birthday (1995)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-05 grnqween2011’s birthday (1994 – green)
01-06 Admiral Penguin’s birthday (1994 – gold, red, obsidian)
01-12 Faye Beauchamp’s birthday (1989)
01-13 Anonymous Coward’s birthday (1992)
01-13 penguini’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-13 Wingnut’s birthday (year? color?)
01-15 Kiara’s birthday (1993 – black, blue, purple)
01-16 Cedar’s birthday (1990)
01-17 The Insane Blue Sage’s birthday (1995 – black, silver, green, and red)
01-22 Veralidaine’s birthday (1992 – your school colors)
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995 – black and whatever you like)
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)
01-31 Dandelions Are Wildflowers’ (::DAW::’s) birthday (1992)
01-31 Birthday of greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (1994 – rainbow)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

On the first day of Newton, Sir Isaac gave to me
Equations for graa-vi-tee….

The 17th-century alchemist, Biblical scholar, and natural philosopher may not have been the jolliest old soul in the world, but he enriched our lives immeasurably. Break open a pack of Fig Newtons in his honor!

Ludwig B. and Jane A. are, of course, immortal, but they would be (respectively) 237 and 232 years old on Sunday, December 16. They are jolly good fellows, which nobody can deny.

Dear Miss Dickinson,

Our felicitations to you on the 177th anniversary of your birth (December 10, 1830).

Robert feels compelled to confess something: You know that poem you wrote, the one that starts “I’m nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody, too?” Robert can’t abide it. Never could. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to him. He is, however, very fond of many of your other poems, including this one for a windy day:

There came a wind like a bugle;
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom’s electric moccason
That very instant passed.
On a strange mob of panting trees,
And fences fled away,
And rivers where the houses ran
The living looked that day.
The bell within the steeple wild
The flying tidings whirled.
How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-12 Johnny Vern’s birthday (year? color?)
12-17 Unintended Pun’s birthday (1992 – color?)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Known Muser Birthdays this Month:

09-02 Der Wachtelschlag’s/Queen Julietaini’s birthday (1993 – orange)
09-02 Hakudemon’s birthday (1992 – sky blue)
09-02 Loupgarou’s birthday (1991 – blue, purple, or green)
09-07 the marmosat’s birthday (pink; dusty dark blue)
09-09 jammin j’s birthday (1993)
09-15 the man for aeiou’s birthday (red)
09-17 rachael’s birthday (1993 – yellow)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990 – black-and-white)
09-21 Evie’s birthday (1992)
09-22 Goddess of Chaos’s birthday (1994 – green)
09-25 Lioness’s birthday (1995)
09-28 Dracasting’s birthday (1993 – green or purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between December 24 and January 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1991.

On Wednesday, August 1, our beloved blog turns two years old.

The date is also GAPA Appreciation Day and marks the beginning of GAPA Appreciation Week (hear, hear!).

Known Muser Birthdays this Month:

08-01 MuseBlog’s birthday (2005) = GAPA Appreciation Day
08-04 Capricious’s birthday (green and blue; rainbow)
08-11 Julieb’s birthday (1992)
08-11 Lawrence of Antarctica’s birthday (1994 – black)
08-13 Sora’s birthday (1992 – all shades of blue)
08-14 bulletproofmarshmallow’s birthday (1993)
08-15 Morbid’s birthday (1991)
08-16 The Bev’s birthday (1992 – green or blue)
08-16 rabbity24’s birthday (1994 – green)
08-21 Alice’s birthday (1993 – blue)
08-21 biblioRose’s birthday (1995 – blue and yellow)
08-27 Elentari’s birthday
08-26 Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas’ birthday (1994 – purple pizzazz)
08-28 Sunrunner Bramblewood’s (=Dragonsrock828’s) birthday (1993)
08-31 Quintessentia’s birthday (1992 – golden)
08-31 shriya siolashrwa jeffica’s birthday (1992 – apple-green and raspberry)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 23 and December 23, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1991.

By happy coincidence, both were born on July 31. (H. P. = 1980; J. K. R. = 1965.) Celebrations may be held on the Harry Potter, Summer 2007 thread.

Getting a jump on July…

Known Muser Birthdays this Month:

07-04 Momothebrainlesspig’s birthday (1993 – purple)
07-05 Koko du Pelle’s birthday (1996 – purple)
07-07 TNÖ’s birthday (1993 – green)
07-09 Lizzie’s birthday (1991)
07-13 Emogrl’s birthday (1989 – black)
07-14 Penguin’s birthday (1994 – color=?)
07-17 agagabagabag’s birthday (1994 – purple)
07-18 PurplishGlass’s birthday (1990 – turquoise)
07-18 Fortune Cell’s birthday (1992 – red)
07-19 Traggle’s birthday (19?? – color=?)
07-22 Phoenix’s birthday (1992 – octarine)
07-25 Evie’s birthday (1995)
07-26 Agrrrfishi’s birthday (1994 – pink, black, and violet, with a touch of green)
07-28 Anata~ChinTsu’s birthday (1992 – charcoal)
07-31 killerchipmunk’s birthday (1992 – blue or dark bluish purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between October 23 and November 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between January 27 and February 26, 1991.

Bet he never thought he’d be a knight.

He’s 65 years old today (June 18). Do we still need him, will we still feed him, now that he’s no longer 64?

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet.
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

Known Muser Birthdays this Month (as always, we’re not sure all of these folks are still active):

06-04 Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd’s birthday (1994 – color?)
06-05 Potato Chip’s birthday (1994)
06-06 Ninja for Christ’s birthday (19?? – color=?)
06-06 Romana2’s birthday
06-11 yesterdays_kinked_moose’s birthday (1992)
06-13 King george the stroodle’s birthday (1992)
06-20 Kricket’s birthday (1993 – light blue, electric green, pastel purple, or tie-dye)
06-29 Brave Sir Robin’s birthday (1993 – tie-dye)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between September 23 and October 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between December 28, 1990, and January 26, 1991.

The creator of Sherlock Holmes was born 148 years ago today (Friday, May 25).

Known MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-02 The AHHH!’s birthday (19__ – color=?)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-15 Qween Mae’s birthday (1992 – dusty pink)
05-15 SupremeMuser2000’s birthday (1994 – aquamarine)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992- blue/purple/green/brown)
05-23 Parmandiriel’s birthday (1989 – silver)
05-28 MemyselfandI’s birthday (1992 – blue)
05-28 Elizabeth’s birthday

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 23 and September 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 27 and December 27, 1990.

Known MuseBlogger birthdays this month (not sure they’re all active, but still an impressive crop):

04-02 Taiwan Hippo Fan’s birthday (1995 – black, purple, blue)
04-03 Angel’s Holocaust’s birthday (1995 – neon green)
04-06 Frodo (the MuseBlogger)’s birthday (1994 – green)
04-09 Prarilius Canix’s birthday (1994 – grurple [=green+purple])
04-10 cHill’s birthday (1992)
04-10 Margaret’s birthday (1993 – purple)
04-11 FantasyFan’s birthday (1993 – turquoise)
04-12 Ven’s birthday (1993 – aquamarine)
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990 – blue)
04-22 Andromeda pineapple-duck’s birthday (1991)
04-22 Piggy the Proud Catholic’s birthday (1994)
04-24 book_addict’s birthday (1993 – green)
04-24 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-27 Em’s birthday (1992 – octarine or black)
04-27 pink stalking penguin of penzance’s birthday (1994 – hot pink)
04-27 Bob’s Your Uncle’s birthday (1994 – orange)
04-29 Tyler L.’s birthday (1995 – blue)
04-30 e~a the sock monkey’s birthday (1990 – chartreuse)
04-30 Princess Heather of Medieval Scotland’s birthday (19__)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 24 and August 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 28 and November 26, 1990.

Born 14 March 1879; died 18 April 1955.

You left the world a weirder place than you found it — and for that, we thank you.

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – color?)
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – purple)
03-07 Arianhrod of Orkney’s birthday
03-13 Magus’s birthday (1992)
03-21 M & M’s birthday (year? – rainbow)
03-22 Violetfire’s birthday (1994 – violet)
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-25 Bellatrix LeStrange (the MuseBlogger’s)Necromancer’s birthday
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – scarlet, deep purple, and/or gold or silver, or tie-dye)
03-29 Luna the Lovely (formerly Michelle W.)’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-30 kokopellic (gradster1?)’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1990.

It’s Monday: same date, same year, two great guys.

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays this month:

02-02 groundhog22 (1989 – denim blue)
02-02 Lady Visala of Reverie (1993 – psychedelic)
02-14 Violindino (1993 – purple)
02-22 Shotgun #10 (1995)
02-26 Ötzi (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 22, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 26, 1990.