MuseBlog

Or “home scholars,” as Dana Mannino calls them. Many of the latest crop of MBers appear to be home-schooled and want to talk about their experiences. Talk away!

In absentia, alas. The author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books (b. 11 March 1952, d. 11 May 2001) would have been 55 years old today. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

We keep coming back to this topic. In a series of threads last year, MBers discussed their own religions as well as many others. Now FrigidSymphony has requested a (so to speak) revival. Here you are.

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic:
Pet peeves
Death
Anorexia, recovering from
Wikipedia article about Muse
Home videos
Eclipses
Race? or Guantanamo Bay?
Naruto
Archaeology/Paleoanthropology/Paleontology

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.

We haven’t done this in almost a year. By special request of Sweet Melpomene, who needs to vent.

By popular, or at least repeated, request.

We’ve been creating a lot of new threads lately, so this will be the last one for a few days unless something absolutely irresistible comes up.

For discussions that need to be handled with care.

Continued from version 2007.1.

Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.

Continued from Music, v. 2006.3.

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

And a most impressive performance it is, too. You can hear his sound file by clicking here.

It’s formatted for Windows Media Player, but Macs should be able to handle it. Note: You might want to turn down the volume first.

All types. You know who you are.

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

Current topic: Seinfeld Guitars Musical instruments Airsoft Lego Complaints.

(This topic could last a while. It’s probably good thing that the next chameleon thread is just a few days away.)

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.

“Happy” might not be the right word, and a pie in the face seems distinctly inappropriate. So… a goblet of Amontillado, Mr. P.?

The first Hot Topics thread was started in November 2005 because discussions on some of the other threads were getting too intense. The Administrators decided to carve out a special space on the blog for (as the original description read) “politics, religion, and anything requiring an extra dose of civility.” The idea was that if MBers wanted to discuss something controversial, they could bring it here and swap opinions and information in ways that didn’t make one another mad. In between controversies, Hot Topics would lie dormant.

People seem to have lost sight of that original purpose. Instead, a lot of MBers evidently think that (1) at any given moment, there always has to be a hot topic in progress, and (2) “Hot Topics” is a place where you’re supposed to try to make other people angry.

Not so. This isn’t talk radio or Fox News. We’re all Musers here. (Every now and then, someone has to finish that sentence.) Please remember what this thread is for, and use it for its intended purpose. And if no potentially inflammatory topics happen to be roiling the blog at the moment, don’t try to manufacture them. Give ’em a rest. Everybody needs a rest sometimes. Oh, and remember: Crusto volanti noli obstare.

Thanks for your attention.

–The Management

This topic is taking off over on the January random thread, so we’re giving it a thread of its own.

Requested by Sweet Melpomene.

Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.

The rules? Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. And, as always, have fun.

There’s been a request for a special thread for these. So… Happy New Year, everybody.

Known Muser and MuseBlogger birthdays in January:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992)
01-01 FrigidSymphony’s birthday (1991? – …um…octavarium?)
01-03 Kari’s birthday (1995)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-06 Sir Penguin’s birthday (1994)
01-13 Anonymous Coward’s birthday (1992)
01-13 Kororra’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-17 The Insane Blue Sage’s birthday (1995 – black, silver, green, and red)
01-30 Skipper Nancy Blackett’s birthday (1992)

(And, of course, Muse itself came into being in January 1997.)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1990.

We’re not sure what to post here (memories of 2006? resolutions for 2007?), but it seems like a good excuse for a new thread. Make of it what you will.

Muse turned out to be a tiny place, one of those towns that people describe as “a wide spot in the road.” It’s not far off the beaten track, but you probably wouldn’t stumble across it if you weren’t looking for it.

It has a smattering of wooden houses,

two lodge halls (Kokonventioneers take note!), a church or two, a beauty salon, a day school that appears to double as a general store, a post office (see above), an elementary school,

and not much else.

Cell-phone photos taken on a gray, drizzly day in late December probably don’t do it justice. All the same, it’s probably never exactly picturesque.

In other words, it’s absolutely bursting with potential.

Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.

Almost certainly the year’s last installment of MB’s forum for subjects that need careful handling and/or an extra dose of civility.