Month: March 2006

Need Help With Upcoming Muse

The next issue of Muse after one is about language and we’re running an article about a guy who invented a language called Tho Fan for a game called Jade Empire. We’d like to translate a short bit of something into Tho Fan as an example. Does anyone have any suggestions?

It has to be really short, like 200 words. Maybe something about language but maybe not puns which might blow a translator fuse. Something funny? Something pop? And as always we need it yesterday (actually by Friday the 10th). No Elizabethan.

–She Who Must Not Be Named (Sorry, don’t know how to flourish on computer.)

“An Instant Classic”

Read what this week’s Time magazine says about Polly Shulman’s book Enthusiasm:

OK, we’re helping out a friend here. But we just had to post Musepal Polly’s latest news about her book:

Please excuse the self-serving email, but:

Time Magazine reviewed Enthusiasm!!!!!!!

ENTHUSIASM
POLLY SHULMAN

Julie Lefkowitz is accustomed to public embarrassment: “When your best friend goes around town dressed in armor constructed from cookware, eyes naturally turn your way.” Julie’s best friend is Ashleigh, and Ashleigh is an enthusiast: she gets obsessed–way, over-the-top obsessed–with things like King Arthur or ballet or juggling. Ashleigh’s latest craze is Jane Austen, and in addition to dressing in gowns and talking in period English, she persuades long-suffering Julie to crash a dance at a fancy all-boys private school, hoping to meet a Mr. Darcy, or at least a Mr. Bingley. Winsome and witty, loaded with lunatic junior-high aperçus (“Juliet’s not even 14 yet,” a young Shakespeare scholar remarks. “He’s going to kill himself over an eighth-grader?”), Enthusiasm has the makings of an instant classic.

(It should be on newsstands now; it’s on the web, anyway.)

Mews Nuse, 2006.1

A musepaper for newsers, by popular request (original idea by Kricket, name by Jadestone). We’re not sure whether you want to write news about the places where you live (carefully disguising local names, etc.) or to write news about the blog and the magazine, but we’re sure you’ll sort it out. Double pink-bunny bonus points for writing it in real newspaper style.