As the Random Thread sets off on its year-long voyage of historical discovery (still in the era of Ancient Greece), throngs of well-wishers turn out to wish us fair winds and a following sea. Some of them even seem to be trying to blow a little extra wind our way… Continue reading “Random Thread: Anchors Aweigh, Part 2”
Attention, Would-Be North Carolina Kokonventioneers!
Two parents (Koppar’s and Tesseract’s) have reported in, and we are putting them in touch with each other to plan the Kokon.
Are any others still missing? (Ahoy, kiwimuncher!) If so, please have them write to the GAPAs (gapa @ musefanpage.com) soon.
Things We Like and/or Don’t Like, v. 2010.1
Requested by Alice, who points out that we haven’t had a thread like this for a long time. (There may be some overlap with “Rants and Complaints,” “Good News,” “Guilty Pleasures,” and “Things of Which We Are Unreasonably Fond,” however.)
Good News
By popular request, here’s an antidote to the Rants and Complaints thread: a place to talk about things you’re happy about. We could all use a little good news.
Muse Fanfiction v. 2010.1 Planning Thread
These are not RRRs but solo projects which share the same thread. Start your own, or just stop by and visit.
This thread is now reserved for planning and general discussion of Muse fanfiction. Post your actual writing on Muse Fanfiction, v. 2010.1
Visual Arts, 2010
Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.
Suggestion Box, v. 2010.1
What do you want to see on the blog, at Musery Loves Company, or anywhere else in the GAPAs’ domain? Here’s where to make your wishes known.
Hot Topics, v. 2010.1
This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.
MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.
Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.
Continued from version 2009.5.
A Year of Random Time Travel
In 2009 we used the Random Thread themes to observe a year of random celebrations. For 2010, as noted on Anchors Aweigh post zero, we are traveling to different eras or events in history. We have some ideas in mind, but we’re open to suggestions. Let us know when/where you’d like to visit.
Books and Reading 2010
Continued from 2009.
Thank you, MuseBlog!
…for all the lovely birthday wishes, pies, hugs, chocolate HPBs, and sundry presents virtual and/or invisible. You really made my day! As you so often do. Indeed, I feel sorry for adults who don’t have the chance to be GAPAs.
As long as I’m at it, let me add how much I appreciate your many comments about my graphics. There are few pleasures more satisfying than to make art for people who enjoy it with the same spirit in which it was created. As far as I’m concerned, you are the real Muses (but please don’t tell the others, I do need their continued cooperation).
Now before I become impossibly and irretrievably sappy, I can add only this 
As ever, yours faithfully,
Rebecca, Lady Bunniful
Happy Eleventy-Eighth Birthday, J. R. R. Tolkien!
The author of The Lord of the Rings would have been 118 years old today (January 3, 2010).
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
“He [Bilbo Baggins] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step onto the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.'”
–Frodo, in The Fellowship of the Ring
Anchors Aweigh
Welcome, Neophytes! (January 2010 Edition)
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er, hi
Continue reading “Welcome, Neophytes! (January 2010 Edition)”
Random Thread Has Gone to Bed
We’re taking it down early tonight so the Administrators can celebrate the new year. There will still be sporadic moderation on other threads. Good night and happy 2010, everybody!
January 2010 “Happy Birthday!” Thread
Known Muser birthdays and 5K Days this month*:
01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-01 Elias Eiholzer-Silver’s birthday (1991 – no color, but loud heavy metal music)
01-02 BlackBird’s birthday (1999)
01-03 SilverLeopard’s birthday (1998)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-04 ZVX’s (or ☮iŹ√Ҳ!☮’s) birthday (year? – black)
01-05 Alyss (the green one)’s birthday (1994 – green)
01-12 Faye Beauchamp’s birthday (1989)
01-13 penguini’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-21 JJjetplane-girl and Thanks For All The Fish42 are 5,000 days old
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday
01-23 Alice turns 6,000 days old
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995)
01-29 Sunrunner Bramblewood turns 6,000 days old
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)
01-31 Dandelions Are Wildflowers’ (::DAW::’s) birthday (1992)
01-31 Birthday of greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (1994 – rainbow)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 25 and May 25, 1996.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between November 3 and December, 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.
January 2010 Muse Roll Call
Let us know when your issue arrives.
NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
January 2010 Muse Discussion
WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!
To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:
SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER.
Roma Aeterna
By popular request, a thread for discussing the enduring influence of ancient Rome
Mathematics
Not “Math and Math Geeks” this time around. This thread is math with di gnity.
Happy Winter 2009-10, Everybody!
Winter officially began in the Northern Hemisphere (summer in the Southern Hemisphere) today at 17:47 Universal Time or 11:47 a.m. MuseBlog Time (which happens to coincide with Central Time, in honor of Muse‘s home base in Chicago).
Making Music
Whether you’re in band, orchestra, or chorus, or if you jam with friends in your garage, this is your thread.
Demigod RPG, Part 2
Continued from its blockbuster beginning in Part 1.
Salute to Symmetry! Part 2
Muse Academy 2009 Holiday Party Gift Tree
Place your presents under or on the gift tree for the Gift Exchange.
Note: this thread is only for posting gifts. All other comments or discussion should be on the Holiday Party thread. When it’s time to reveal the contents, they will be posted here as well.
Describe the outside appearance of your gift. (Wrapping paper, size, general shape, what it sounds like when shaken…however you’d like to describe it.)
Suggestion: make sure you keep track of your gift and its description, so you don’t risk forgetting what you gave.