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Current topic:
Annoying ailments
Butterflies
Fears
Favorite sculptures

Continued from Part 1 (what else?).

= NaNo Brainstorming = generating ideas for NaNoWriMo = National Novel-Writing Month, which takes place in November and will have to be described on the thread.

It arrived early Sunday morning, blog time. How do you like it so far?

New: ATTENTION! Purple Panda and Taiwan Hippo Fan’s mother is VERY eager to involve Musers in the Pumpkin Drop and would like to hear from other potentially interested parents. Details below.

There was a flurry of interest in this event at the Kokonvention.

The sponsor, West Virginia University, has finally posted information about the drop. As feared, it takes place on a Friday, which may limit Musers’ ability to take part. Anyone possibly interested can find out all about it here (remove spaces):

http:// www. mae.cemr.wvu.edu/ news/20pumpkindrop.php

Muse fielded a team a few years ago, with results recounted in the Koko Bomb Saga.

All kinds of dances and dancing. Anything that moves. Continued from v. 2007.1.

“Talk Like a Pirate” Day is Wednesday, September 19. (No, the GAPAs didn’t make it up. It goes far beyond MuseBlog.) How will you mARRRk the occasion?

Requested by Alice, who is bursting to talk about it.

Actually, we’ve done this before.

Phlethreno Musisgrate from the year 2106, an occasional visitor to MuseBlog by way of Prarilius Canix, has requested “a thread about MBers’ predictions for the future.”

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes. That can, and should, take a while.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Writer’s block
Places we’d like to visit

Seems a bit early, but people are requesting it, so why not?

For discussions that need to be handled with extra care. NO FLAMING.

Continued from Hot Topics, v. 2007.6.

And the polling continues….

Check v. 2007.2 if you want to answer recent questions or feel free to plunge ahead with new ones.

On the DC Kokonvention Scrapbook, continued thread:

â–ºThe long awaited video from Purple Panda documenting the festivities of Friday, 10 August.

â–ºA slideshow of Day Two. See comments with slideshow of Day One for technical notes.

The questions just keep coming.

Continued from Ask the GAPAs, No. 3.

Anagrams are words, phrases, or sentences made by rearranging the letters in other words, phrases, or sentences.

Requested by Cedar and Red-tailed HAWK. (Cedar is also interested in words made from subsets of the letters in other words.)

First installment: We take over Barnes & Noble.
Slideshow: Day One (comment #47)
Purple Panda’s movie (comment #63)
Slideshow: Day Two (comment #138878)

More pictures below. See comment #47.

Requested by Disreputable Dragon, who describes it as follows:

all about the quirks of the English language and craunching marmosets – er, phrases that you want to find the origins of (oh dear, I ended a sentence with a preposition! *horror*)

We will post more sights and sounds from the DC Kokonventions in the coming days. To give you a taste of what to expect, here is the first installment of video highlights sent to us by Purple Panda.

Requested by Alice. We’re a bit late in starting this thread, but there’s still material to be mined, mayhap.

For last year’s version of this thread, search under “obsessed.”

The Friday Washington Kokonvention is history (albeit recent and glorious history). The Wednesday Kokon’ is still to come. The kokonversation continues.

Continued from Part 1.

Don’t worry if you don’t feel inspired to make pseudopies (“dry pies”). The GAPAs will whip up some quick-and-sloppy ones this weekend so nobody will go without.

If you haven’t made yours yet but plan to, think small. These pie-oid objects are symbols, not offensive weapons. The lighter and more portable they are, the happier you will be as you lug them around the scorching, steaming, sizzling streets of Washington, D.C., which non-natives have been known to mistake for the surface of the planet Venus.

This announcement will be repeated on the Kokonvention Kountdown thread.

Also known as a “not-so-random discussion thread,” this forum tries to stay on topic longer than the random threads do. Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Nervous habits
Irrational fears
Superstitions

*Middle English for “quiet madness,” a name that doesn’t mean very much but that is undeniably coole.

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