Limited-Edition “MuseBlog Signature” Shirts

Some MBers have asked Rebecca and Robert to create CafePress shirts with their signatures on them. We think that’s a great idea. Send your signatures in electronic form (scanned or created with a tablet or a drawing program) to gapa@musefanpage.com, and we’ll compile them all into a big file and slap them on the backs of various items of Musewear. The deadline is blog closedown* on Wednesday, December 20. No last names on the signatures, please–blognames and/or first name plus last initial only.

(If you don’t know what “Musewear” is, you can see some examples at http://www.cafepress.com/musery .)

*No, the blog isn’t shutting down. That just means whenever the last Administrator goes to bed.

Happy 176th Birthday, Emily Dickinson!

It’s on Sunday the 10th. Ms. Dickinson wrote:

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.

She also wrote:

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Poems and Songs, v. 2006.5

Elassë~Adael (currently calling herself “e~a the sock monkey”) humbly requests a new installment of the Poems and Songs thread. There’s plenty of room left on Poems and Songs, v. 2006.4. We’re all in favor of humility, however, so here’s one more P&S thread to round off the year.

“Musery Loves Company” Is Open For Business

The only Muse-themed online boutique in the known universe is ready to accept orders. Its instigators, blog moderators Robert Coontz and Rebecca Lasley, will be happy to answer questions.

One tip: we’ve found that shipments can take twice as long as CafePress says they do, so don’t wait until the last minute to order holiday presents.

Musery Loves Company

Robert writes:

Over the past few months I’ve mentioned a couple of mysterious Muse-related projects that I’ve been working on. One of them, a collaboration between me and my fellow moderator Rebecca Lasley (a.k.a. Lady Bunniful), has now reached the sneak-preview stage. It’s not up and running yet, so please don’t try to do anything with it. But if you’d care to visit www.cafepress.com/musery , we’d love to hear what you think.

Project number two will be unveiled in a few weeks.

December 2006 “Happy Birthday” Thread

Known MuseBlogger birthdays (are all of you still here?):

12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1993.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1990.