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Anything that gets us twice as much pie is fine with us.

By request. The description on the original thread:

You know what we’re talking about: things that, for no good reason, you enjoy having around, being around, or doing.

Known MBer birthdays and “K Days” this month:*

06-02 ZNZ’s birthday (1997)
06-04 Drama Llama’s birthday (1999)
06-09 Beetles’s birthday (1999)
06-09 FantasyFan turns 7,000 days old
06-13 muselover’s birthday (1997)
06-19 Raynpho’s birthday (1994)
06-29 Selenium the Quafflebird’s birthday (1996)
06-29 bluefire27’s birthday (1997)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between September 24 and October 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between December 29, 1995, and January 27, 1996.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between April 3 and May 2, 1993.

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

Continued from Dreams, v. 2011.

This time capsule was inspired by Choklit Orange’s recent encounter with sculptures by the French artist Auguste Rodin, which she said she would like to pie. As it happens, Robert also had a Rodin experience once upon a time — one that involved a different kind of food. Over to him:

It was when I was in my 20s and sharing a house with some high-school buddies near Washington, D.C. My friend J. J. Martindale, whose name some of the older MBers will recognize, was working in New York and came down for a weekend to sleep on our couch and see some sights. She was feeling mischievous, as usual, and I was delighted when she and my housemate John agreed to try something I’d been pondering for a while.

It involved “The Burghers of Calais,” a bronze sculpture by Rodin, one cast of which stands in the sculpture garden of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. The sculpture, a larger-than-life representation of half a dozen mournful-looking men with ropes around their necks, commemorates something that happened in France during the Hundred Years War. When the city of Calais surrendered after a long and miserable siege, the victorious English army demanded that six prominent citizens come out in their underwear, with nooses, to be executed. The English changed their minds at the last minute and spared them, but it was a close call.

J. J. and John and I went to an upholstery store and bought some large cylinders and thin sheets of foam rubber, which we took home and carved into the shapes of oversized buns, meat patties, and leaves of lettuce. We glued them together to look like hamburgers, stuck some watermelon seeds on top to approximate scaled-up sesame seeds, and spray-painted the foam murky green and black to resemble weathered bronze. Once the hamburgers were dry, we stuffed them into knapsacks and drove to the Hirshhorn.

J. J., who hailed from Surrey, England, by way of Cambridge, distracted the guard by pretending to be a confused tourist. (“Excuse me, could you tell me whether that large building over there is the White House? Oh, it’s not? Are you sure? The Capitol, you say? What do they do there?”) Once we were in the clear, John and I unzipped our own foam mini-sculptures and slotted them into place. Voilà:

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Known MBers’ birthdays and “K Days” this month.

05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday (1995)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-07 Thief of Light’s 5K Day
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42’s birthday (1996)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992)
05-28 MissSwann’s birthday (1996)
05-28 gradster’s 7K Day
05-29 Selcothe Sikaria’s 6K Day
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 28 and December 28, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 and April 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between June and July 7, 1990.

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

Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:
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For times when you need HELP!!!

(You can read the 2011 edition here.)

A place where people applying to college can ask questions of college attendees, and college students can ask questions about grad school.

Continued from v. 2011.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Tell us about it, won’t you?

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

04-02 THF’s birthday (1995)
04-08 Beavo’s birthday (1995)
04-09 POSOC’s birthday (1994)
04-10 Vendaval’s birthday (1992)
04-11 FantasyFan?!?!’s birthday (1993)
04-15 small but fierce’s 5K Day
04-17 Grant O.’s birthday (1990)
04-17 bookgirl_me’s birthday (1995)
04-18 Maths Lover’s birthday (1996)
04-22 Piggy’s birthday (1994)
04-23 Ducky’s birthday (1997)
04-24 speller73’s birthday (1995)
04-26 KaiYves’s 7K Day
04-29 Mikazuki’s 5K Day
04-30 Oxlin’s birthday (1990)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between July 25 and August 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between October 29 and November 27, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between February 1 and March 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between May 8 and June 6, 1990.

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

Born on March 14, 1879, Einstein made the world universe a much more counterintuitive place. Thanks, Herr Professor!

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995)
03-03 Adelieae’s birthday (1997)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday
03-20 Rosebud2 turns 5,000 days old
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (1996)
03-23 Bibliophile’s 5K Day
03-23 Kittymine’s 7K Day
03-24 Oxlin’s 8K Day
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996)
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990)
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 24 and July 24, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 28 and October 28, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between April 7 and May 7, 1990.

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

Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.

Continued from Visual Arts, 2011.

Sorry we took so long to upload these pictures. (No excuses — we forgot we had them.) More below the fold…

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Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.

Continued from version 2011.

KaiYves has asked us to repost this piece of classic MuseBlogiana. Great idea, Kai!

Back in April 2008, UberMuser Grant O. sent us some sound files of narration for a proposed slideshow about ways to survive winter. He called it “Staving Off January.”

Before we knew it, Midnight Fiddler had drawn up some storyboards, and a New Zealand MBer named Zoe (who then went by Treble_Cone_Freeskier) turned them into a real multimedia presentation.

Here it is, to help you get through the rest of the winter:

Born on the same day in the same year: February 12, 1809. Two Very Important People, by anybody’s standards.

They’re each a year older today (Friday, February 8). Lob them a few pies on the February birthday thread, would you?

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

02-01 Keiffer’s birthday (1997)
02-02 groundhog22’s birthday (1989)
02-03 Agent Lightning’s 5K Day
02-08 Birthday of Cerulean Pyros (1996)
02-16 cromwell’s birthday (1996)
02-17 TMFA’s 6K Day
02-21 marfwarrior’s 6K Day
02-21 Luna the Lovely’s 8K Day
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, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between August 30 and September 27, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between December 3 and December 31, 1992.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between March 9 and April 6, 1990.

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2011.

Yes, those TV shows.

Continued from v. 2010.2. We don’t know what happened to 2011.

Piggy’s description:

We could share factoids we’ve read, advice from personal experience, observations about the world, what-have-you. Everyone learns something new every day, and I’d like a place to share.

Continued from v. 2011.2.

Your wish is our command.

Continued from version 2011.

Continued from a diverting but ancient thread launched in 2009.