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All right, it doesn’t quite rhyme. So sue us. This thread can still be very helpful to newcomers who need a little orientation and a faceful plateful of pie. Come in and say hi!

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Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher, Red-tailed HAWK)
Pieceful Pie Planet (Kokonilly)
Chronicles of Museica (Red-tailed HAWK)
Muse Academy (Red-tailed HAWK)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Romance & Relationships (treble_cone_freeskier!)
Advice (Unintended Pun)

SILLY FUN
You Know You’re Addicted to X, When You Y (treble_cone_freeskier!, Red-tailed HAWK)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher, Red-tailed HAWK)
Ask the GAPAs (Red-tailed HAWK)
Ble! Newluj — No Fulst (groundhog22)

WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
RRR SMAS-TT (Cat’s Meow)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Writing Challenge (oxlin)
Muse FanFiction (Cinnamoon)
Poetry (Agrrrfishi)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Music (Kari)
Books & Reading (oxlin)
Cooking & Food (Red-tailed HAWK)
Visual Arts (Red-tailed HAWK)

With the “Recent Comments” sidebar temporarily (we hope) out of commission, here’s a workaround for telling your fellow MBers where you’ve been posting.

What are hot-pink bunnies? Where do they come from? What do they want? This unflinching thread continues the investigation detailed in Part One.

WARNING: Potentially disturbing content within.

If you thought blog traffic was heavy in January, you weren’t imagining things. It was the fifth busiest month in MB history. In contrast, January 2007 was the fifth slowest month in MB history.

Since we ♥ charts and maps, here are a couple to ponder.

‘Way back at the dawn of history (April 2006, to be precise), your beneficent GAPAs proclaimed that “real” online wars would be banned from the blog but permitted MBers to engage in fantasy pie wars.

Since then, we’ve gradually relaxed that policy. MBers on “Pie War” threads have introduced swords, armor, explosives, and other accoutrements of warfare camouflaged with pielike names. Saying that a weapon is made of pietanium, however, doesn’t make it pastry — especially when the MBer bearing the weapon uses it to maim and slaughter. The results have been a steady string of duels, massacres, and assassinations on the threads and some nasty personal disputes behind the scenes — all highly unMuselike, and excruciatingly boring to anyone not directly involved.

Therefore, we are reasserting our original anti-war policy and taking steps to enforce it. The pie war thread in question will be closed to further comments. So will the hidden Jadestone and Glassboro Planning Thread (though we will still visit it occasionally to hear the singing bunnies). Attempts to continue the war or arguments about it on other threads will be ruthlessly suppressed. If you’re scrapping for a fight, go to World of Warcraft or some other site. That’s not what we’re about here. We have spoken.

–The Administrators

Please report to the Neophytes thread.

Speak, Friend, and Enter! If you’re new to the blog, come on in for a little orientation and some pie.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

02-02 groundhog22’s birthday (1989 – denim blue)
02-02 Shadow Gallery’s birthday (1993 – psychedelic)
02-12 Dot Keet’s birthday (1991 – bright orange)
02-13 The Tominator’s birthday (1996)
02-14 Gingersnap’s birthday (1993 – purple)
02-21 Karrdash’s birthday (2000 – red)
02-22 Shotgun #10’s birthday (1995)
02-24 tralalalolly’s birthday (year? color?)
02-26 Ötzi’s birthday (1993 – cerulean)
02-26 KaiYves’s birthday (1993-purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between May 26 and June 23, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 27, 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.

Unintended Pun says, “Not everyones’ names are on there, but it’s for the entire MB, including the newbies who come after it.”

Full-size editions of the valentines may be viewed by clicking on them individually, or you can browse the whole album.

MBers can’t seem to get enough of them.

The indefatigable podcasters Purple Panda and Taiwan Hippo Fan weigh in with their longest MuseCast yet, entitled Life on Mars.

Previous MuseCasts are still available:
MuseCast 1
MuseCast 2
MuseCast 3
MuseCast 4
MuseCast 5
MuseCast 6
MuseCast 7

You’re needed on the Neophytes thread.

New year, new place to submit your ideas for threads or anything else you like. Continued from version 2007.2.

Continued from Muse Fanfiction, v. 2007.2.

These are not RRRs but solo projects which share the same thread. Start your own, or just stop by and visit.

New year, clean slate. Continued from 2007.4.

The plot thickens, as seen in the previous installment.

Speak, Friend, and Enter! If you’re new to the blog, come on in for a little orientation and some pie.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

We didn’t know there was an Italian edition. That certainly doesn’t look like Urania on the cover.

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She explains, “I was decorating my Christmas tree a few days ago… And I opened a box and out sprang an hpb. It made off with an ornament and unplugged the tree.” And adds: “The bunnies took me by suprise, hence the bad focus and weird angles.”

(Photos are below the fold.)

More questions. Occasional answers. Continued from No. 4.

Reliable sources inform us that the Muses will visit the blog this evening (Tuesday, December 1918) at some time between 6 and 7 p.m., blog time. Watch for ’em on this thread!

Some of you have noted that non-Musers don’t seem to grasp the true menace of hot-pink-bunny garments and actually think they’re “sweet” and “cute.” Our new designs on Musery Loves Company should leave no doubt. Check ’em out. More soon!

Last month Robert, Rebecca, Midnight Fiddler, and Red-tailed HAWK kokonvened in Washington, D.C. in order to look at art and eat lunch. At least that was the cover story. Our true purpose was to act foolish in public and pose for silly pictures.

Don’t ask. We don’t know what we were doing, either.

Kokopelli sign times four!

Many thanks to the parents who took the pictures for us!

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.