Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.
Shadow Play, Part 3
Closed to comments, but still readable.
Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight
It’s visible from the eastern half of North America to Western Europe, and points south. Worth a look if it’s not too cloudy where you are. Details are available at NASA’s eclipse page (delinked version below; paste it into your browser, and delete the spaces before “gov” and “html”):
sunearth.gsfc.nasa. gov/eclipse/lunar. html
Off With Their Heads! The Origins and Culture of HPBs — Part 2
What are hot-pink bunnies? Where do they come from? What do they want? This unflinching thread continues the investigation detailed in Part One.
WARNING: Potentially disturbing content within. 
RRR* The Sea Roc (a.k.a. Capt. Pye & Co.) — Part 4
Continued from Part 3.
*Round Robin ‘Riting
Muse Academy RPG*, Part 2
The *role-playing game continues just in time for class. Continued from Part 1.
Happy 199th Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!
It must be frustrating to turn 199 and realize that the really big party is a year off.
MuseBlog By the Numbers
If you thought blog traffic was heavy in January, you weren’t imagining things. See inside.
If you thought blog traffic was heavy in January, you weren’t imagining things. It was the fifth busiest month in MB history. In contrast, January 2007 was the fifth slowest month in MB history.
Since we ♥ charts and maps, here are a couple to ponder.
MuseBlog Monthly Comment Totals by Standard Calendar Year
MuseBlog Monthly Comment Totals by Blog Year
Shadow Play, Part 2
The February Random Thread: don’t try this at home!
Continued from Part the First.
(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)
The February Random Thread: don’t try this at home!
Continued from Part the First.
(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)
Just Friends, v. 2008.1
A thread for discussing non-romantic relationships.
Continued from Just Friends, Part 2.
The Peace of Zemtee, Part the Second
The end of the latest Classic Pie War marked a new chapter in the Musiverse. The turning point came here. This thread continues the story.
Happy Year of the Rat!
Today begins the Year of the Rat on the Chinese lunar calendar. How do you plan to celebrate the noble rodent?
Dealing with Stress
Sometimes life just seems too much. Too many obligations, and not enough time. Too much work, not enough fun. What do you do then? What works best to get you back on track?
Life on the Pieceful Pie Planet, Part 8
Neither long ago nor far in the future, in a galaxy — who knows? Maybe this one. Anyway, it’s a pleasant place to be.
Continued from Part 7.
Neither long ago nor far in the future, in a galaxy — who knows? Maybe this one. Anyway, it’s a pleasant place to be.
Continued from Part 7.
Here is the OFFICIAL ROSTER OF PPP PWNERs:
1. Tupisodaloric Groves – ΡÖŞÎĈ
2. Beevlonic Island archipeligo – Beavo
3. Feather and its two sister countries, Spinach and PPP 2 – The Man For Aeiou
4. Taruva – Cat’s Meow
5. Kokonillendor – Kokonilly
6. Duckland – Emmatheduck
7. Good Karmalot – beatlesrockr
8. New Atlantis – Alice
MOONS
1. Milkshake Moon – ¡Ã߀ƒ!
Attention, Pie Warriors!
The Administrators end the Pie War.
‘Way back at the dawn of history (April 2006, to be precise), your beneficent GAPAs proclaimed that “real” online wars would be banned from the blog but permitted MBers to engage in fantasy pie wars.
Since then, we’ve gradually relaxed that policy. MBers on “Pie War” threads have introduced swords, armor, explosives, and other accoutrements of warfare camouflaged with pielike names. Saying that a weapon is made of pietanium, however, doesn’t make it pastry — especially when the MBer bearing the weapon uses it to maim and slaughter. The results have been a steady string of duels, massacres, and assassinations on the threads and some nasty personal disputes behind the scenes — all highly unMuselike, and excruciatingly boring to anyone not directly involved.
Therefore, we are reasserting our original anti-war policy and taking steps to enforce it. The pie war thread in question will be closed to further comments. So will the hidden Jadestone and Glassboro Planning Thread (though we will still visit it occasionally to hear the singing bunnies). Attempts to continue the war or arguments about it on other threads will be ruthlessly suppressed. If you’re scrapping for a fight, go to World of Warcraft or some other site. That’s not what we’re about here. We have spoken.
–The Administrators
Ble! Newluj—No Fulst, Part 1
Muse‘s very own language, which Nak unleashed on the world in the November/December 2003 issue.
Continued.
Welcoming Committee PIES Needed
Please report to the Neophytes thread.
Religion and Religions, v. 2008.1
Continued from the 2007 edition.
Continued from the 2007 edition.
The List:
Muslim: FantasyFan?!?!
Jewish: Sphinx, Quintessentia, hypermoocow, FairyDragon
Reform: yellowsharpiemarker, Sobriquet, Cliff Eagle Teh Pwnage
Reconstructionist: Kiki The Great, Anata~ChinTsu
Conservative: Copper Bigfoot, Brave Sir Robin, Zyviva, The Insane Blue Sage, RainbowFish
Orthodox: Phoenix, Jessie, groundhog22
Jewish Atheist: Lizzie, emmatheduck, speller73
Christian: Vendaval, Donaldo, MontgomeryGurl, Ninja For Christ, Eccentric the Afterthought, Lady Cinnamon Moon, IBCF, muselover
Lutheran: Queen-o-random, Capricious
Catholic: Kiara, Romana2, Ebeth, davidude, Piggy the Proud Catholic, Tumsymonster
Eastern Orthodox: Sunrunner Bramblewood, Dotty ‘Kay
Quaker: Zallie, Red Tailed HAWK, Liesolotte, Purple Panda, Taiwan Hippo Fan
Protestant: book_addict, VanZepplin, Otzi, Kagcomix
Mormon (LDS): Skwerl Overlord, Veralidaine, Zyka
Methodist: grnqween2011, bibliorose
Presbyterian: Elizabeth, gimanator, Kari
Baptist: jammin j
UCC:The Man For Aeiou
Catholic by birth, unsure now: Beavo, Kokonilly
Catholic plus Jewish holidays: Gaea
Hindu: ♥ shriya siolashrwa jeffica ♥
Buddhist: 100% cotton
Agnostic: Sweet Melpomene, curious and questioning, SupremeMuser2000, Lady Visala of Reverie, Gwendolyn, Alice (?), POSOC
Wiccan: emogrl, FairyDragon
Mixed Bag of Random Beliefs: Pentatonikk, Unintended Pun, Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas, Otzi, Axa, elassë~adael, curious and questioning, Musketeer Number, Sweet Melpomene, Drops of Jupiter
Druid Reconstructionist: Millie
Atheist: Skipper Nancy, johnkerry, Purple Panda, Taiwan Hippo Fan, Darth Yoda, Lizzie, penguini, violindino, Yup, Bobbyjkl, First Sorceress, Shadowkat, curious and questioning, Potato Chip, Cat’s Meow, C++darkmage, Drops of Jupiter, La Mort, nerdz_r00l, The Bookworm
Spiritual Atheist: The Bev, Harmony with short red hair
Radical Atheist: Queenie J, Drops of Jupiter, dark duke of darkness, agagabagabag
Happy Atheist: philosophical.bunny
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM): Necromancer, Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon
Asatruar: Frigid Symphony
Green Cow: curious and questioning
The Church of the Carrot: emmatheduck, Unintended Pun, NerdAndProudOf It, Beatlesrockr
Very Confused: lifewithoutsuffering
Graeco-agnosticism: /gradster(1)/
Non-practicing Believer of Subwayism: Faye Beauchamp
Dumr-Sirism/Jedi (on Earth): KaiYves
Unitarian Universalist: Logogeo96
Synesthesia
Tasting colors, seeing musical tones — in general, perceiving anything through the “wrong” sensory channel — has fascinated scientists since they first identified it in the 19th century. Several MuseBloggers appear to have experienced it firsthand. Here’s a thread for discussing it, by special request of Faye Beauchamp.
Postcards from Muse Academy
Those of you who don’t have time to follow and take part in the role-playing game might still manage to scribble a few lines to the folks back a home. E-mail messages are acceptable too, of course.
Let’s Get Physiognomical, 2008.1
It was a hit last year and is bound to be again. Here’s how we described it then:
“Physiognomy” (which rhymes, sort of, with “Frog? Nah, me.”) is a fancy word for face. Here, by popular request, is a thread whereon MuseBloggers can guess what other MBers look like.
Jokes & Riddles, v. 2008.1
Riddle me this: how did two years pass without a new Jokes & Riddles thread?
No, This Is Pie War 2008, Part 1
Technically this should be “No, This is Pie War 2007.2, Part 5, but who’s counting? Continued from 2007.2, Part 4.
Closed to comments.
Shadow Play
February 2008 Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
Closed to comments, but still readable.