Category: At the Top of the Blog

“Sticky” regardless of chronological order, until released at the end of the month.

International Darkness Appreciation Month, Part 2

Fireworks, neon, strings of decorative lights at holidays…they need the darkness to make their colors glow to their fullest splendor. Part 2 of the October Random Thread continues our salute to the brighter side of darkness. Continue reading “International Darkness Appreciation Month, Part 2”

International Darkness Appreciation Month

As the nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, it strikes us that darkness gets a bad rap. People associate it with evil, as in “the Dark Lord” and “the Dark Side of the Force.” Ridiculous! (Every MBer knows that evil is pink.) To redress the imbalance, MuseBlog hereby dedicates October and its Random Threads to the wonders and delights of darkness. Continue reading “International Darkness Appreciation Month”

Welcome, Neophytes! (September 2009 edition)

Ahoy! Are you new to MuseBlog? Don’t just wonder around bumping into people and breaking things. Come in here, where our cheerful welcoming committee will pie you fill you with pie and bloggerly wisdom. Come on in!
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Best of the Blog

Use the comments here to swap tips about outstanding, little known, and/or underutilized parts of MuseBlog. (In four years, we’ve accumulated an amazing number of chasms, subterranean passages, sunken cities, and fossiliferous formations.) Be sure to include the URL (Web address) so others can share your finds.

Don’t Forget These Threads (August 2009 edition)

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Continue reading “Don’t Forget These Threads (August 2009 edition)”

Lunacy Appreciation Month

Forty years ago this month, Apollo 11 astronauts landed on Earth’s moon. In commemoration of the historic anniversary, MuseBlog dedicates the July random threads to moons and moonlets everywhere. After all, the word “month” comes from “moon.” What could be more apt? Continue reading “Lunacy Appreciation Month”

Don’t Forget These Threads (July 2009 edition)

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Continue reading “Don’t Forget These Threads (July 2009 edition)”

Logomania Unleashed!

The title of the June Random Thread (from the Greek words logos, “word,” and mania, “madness,” used as a suffix meaning “an infatuation with or passion for something”) celebrates words and language in all their giddy vertiginous kaleidoscopic splendiferous wonderfulness. Continue reading “Logomania Unleashed!”