Bunnieluv named the first random thread of the new year.
You know the drill: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!
January Jubilee
Continued above.
Month: December 2006
January 2007 DiscussionIncredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
Less random than the random thread. More continuity, focus, and attention to spelling, punctuation, and other niceties.
Current topic: Alcohol Caffeine “The Gilmore Girls” Foreign languages
Welcome, Newcomers! (January 2007 edition)
New Year’s Resolutions
There’s been a request for a special thread for these. So… Happy New Year, everybody.
“MuseBlog Signature Edition” Goodies Are Up at CafePress
You can find them at “Musery Loves Company” (http://www.cafepress.com/musery).
Let us know if we missed any that you can’t live without. We can easily add items to the online catalog.
January 2007 “Happy Birthday” Thread
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.
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories, v. 2007.1
Somehow we never get tired of these. Let’s get the jump on the New Year with a fresh batch.
(Newcomers may want to glance at SSSS, version 2006.2.
The Art of Being an Alien, Part 2
It’s amazing how many people on the blog were born on or have been heavily influenced by other planets. Kiki requested that we revive this thread in their honor. The original Art of Being an Alien thread may or may not give some idea of what to expect.
Old Year New Year!
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.
Life on the Search for Pieceful Pie Planet, Part 4
MuseBloggers’ adventures in extraterrestrial colonization. Continued from Part Three.
December Delirium, Part Three
Ships’ Logs: Beyond Museica, Part 5
The nautical saga remains as incomprehensible as ever. Continued from Ships’ Logs: Part Four.
Books and Reading, Part 2
The latest of many threads about books, including
Books and Reading,
Libraries, Books, and Bookstores,
and
Books.
Muse, Pennsylvania
Robert passed through it while driving home to Virginia after spending Christmas with his sister in Ohio. More photos inside.
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.
Alter Ego Thread, v. 2006.2
Same rules as before, but new identities. Shadowkat’s description:
…a thread where everyone posts under a different (new) name, and pretends to be their alter-ego. We could even take it a step further, and have everyone try to guess who each alter-ego-name actually is. Once somebody figured out who you were, if they ever did, you would post under your original other-thread name, and just keep talking and trying to guess who other people really are if that makes any sense
Eragon: Book(s) and Movie
People who want to talk about this really want to talk about it. Here’s your thread.
Happy Winter Solstice!
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, winter officially begins today (Thursday, December 21) at 6:22 p.m. MuseBlog time (U.S. Central time, the time at Muse headquarters in Chicago). That’s 4:22 p.m. Pacific time, 5:22 p.m. Mountain time, and 7:22 p.m. Eastern time. In Switzerland, it’s 1:22 a.m. on Friday, December 22. In New Zealand, it’s 1:22 on Friday afternoon.
MuseBlog Generations
Hard-working Purple Panda went to the “Who’s Here” page, counted and tabulated everybody there, and then turned the numbers into three graphs. They certainly look as if they ought to illuminate something. Click below.
January 2007 Muse — Discussion
What did you think about it? How did you like it?
WARNING: This thread is bound to contain spoilers. Better read the issue first.
January 2007 Muse Roll Call
Let us know when your issue arrives. Don’t post spoilers, please. We’ll have a separate thread for discussing what’s in the issue.
Music, v. 2006.3
Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.
Do re mi fa so la ti do and all that jazz. A place to talk about music.
RRR*, version 2006.1, Part 4
*Round-Robin ‘Riting, a MuseBlog tradition in which MBers take turns writing a story.
Continued from Part 2 (the one about the afareet). The story before that was summarized on the RRR 2006.1.3 Reference Text.
December Delirium, Part Two
Continued.
Alter Ego Thread
Shadowkat’s idea. Here’s here description
…a thread where everyone posts under a different (new) name, and pretends to be their alter-ego. We could even take it a step further, and have everyone try to guess who each alter-ego-name actually isonce somebody figured out who you were, if they ever did, you would post under your original other-thread name, and just keep talking and trying to guess who other people really are if that makes any sense
Halloween Picture
This year, Purple Panda, Taiwan Hippo Fan, and their father wore Muse costumes. To see their ensemble photo, click on “Continue Reading” below.
Taiwan Hippo Fan as Urania, Purple Panda as Kokopelli, and their dad as Chad