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Just for letting us know when your copy arrives. NO SPOILERS, PLEASE! There’s a separate thread for discussing the issue.
DUDE FIRST POST
sorry, it’s my first first post!!!!!!!!!!! *does first post dance* well, why do we even have this thread up? my gr.7 teacher hasn’t even gotten her september muse yet!
Mine came today!
3-WHAT! Where do you live?
Sometimes “snail mail” seems like “microbe mail” out here!
ARGH. I had a freaking DREAM about it coming and it STILL hasn’t come!!! grr.
OH WAIT IT HAS.
Yay!
still thin… I think they’re having financial problems.
6- us MBers are the only ones who get it. of course there having problems!
i always get it really late.
7 ~ I wonder how many people really do subscribe. Does anyone know or know if it’s possible to find out?
YO QUIERO MI MUSE!
Got my Muse! YAYAYAY!
9- A lot more than the 40 or so MBers. If it was just us it wouldn’t be in business anymore.
I meant, 7,9-
The circulation (number of issues sold) is printed in every November/December issue, as revealed on the May/June issue’s discussion thread.
14 ~ Ah. I see. ‘Sank you.
It came today!!! I was really surprised, because lately it has been taking a lot longer to come – this came only a few weeks after September’s!!
::dies of excitement::
*drools with desire*
Got it! Earlier than usual methinks. Good job, whoever sends these out.
Some people have them? *SQUEE!*
I got my Cricket and my brother got his Spider, but I haven’t gotten my Muse.
*runs around in circles screaming*
6-Really? If Muse stops publishing, I will throw myself off a cliff and go to the land of the hot pink bunnies.
Not literally.
If Muse stops publishing, would MuseBlog stay up?
(20) If the afterlife involves hot-pink bunnies, then I prefer oblivion. *shudders*
(21) At this point, I’d say that MuseBlog has taken on a life of its own, independent of any other publication — even Muse.
For fun, I just did a little back-of-the-envelope calculation. Since it began in August 2005, MuseBlog has racked up more than 125,000 posts. Assuming an average of 40 words per post (which may not be quite right but seems plausible), that adds up to 5 million words. Wow!
Muse, meanwhile, has published about 100 issues. At 40 pages of text per issue and 500 words per page (again, rough estimates, which you could check), that adds up to 2 million words.
In other words, MuseBlog may already be more than twice as big (or at least twice as wordy) as Muse is. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it’s interesting to think about.
i got it and it rocks. No surprise.
22- But it wasn’t always 40 pages. It used to be 48.
Some of the pages were ads, and some were full-page illustrations. I estimated that 40 pages contained words. If I was off by a couple of pages, that’s still only 5 percent — not enough to affect the “big picture” of the result.
Muse never had ADS!
Yippee-it came yesterday! w00t!
Was that why you guys did the big “meet the muses” page and stuff, to fill up ad space?
i got it yestiddy, ’twas spiffylicious!
Alice – yes, Muse used to have ads. Smithsonian had Muse keep 8 pages extra for ads. For example, on the back page of the CAT issue, there was a “Sweet Tarts” advertisement.
(26) In the early years, Muse ran ads for Nestle’s Quik and other things, including an anti-drug Spider-Man comic (basically, a long advertisement paid for by the federal government). In recent years, the magazine has regularly run ads for other Carus magazines, toys, T-shirts, back issues, etc.
(28) No, the “Meet the Muses” pages are mostly to tell new readers what’s going on. The magazine can be fairly confusing if you pick it up for the first time. I think there ought to be a “Meet the Muses” page in every issue. (Muse ought to mention MuseBlog more often, too, but nobody asks me.)
I had the ads issue once. It was the weirdest issue of Muse I have seen in all my years of reading it.
29- I rember that! of course I just read it last year, but still!
if I bought a back issue with ads, would they be there?
Mine is here, I don’t know when it got here, seeing as I’ve been at Rendezvous. I’m impressed, it used to come about a week into the month. Wow.
It looks good, but I haven’t gotten a chance to read it yet.
MINE IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAMEITCAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please excuse the excess enthusiasm. It’s pretty unwarranted, actually, seeing as it’s still in *********, but it CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh happy day!
Now I need to go to the other house, SOON.
“Came” is a weird word.
im heer
I actually got mine a few days ago but couldn’t post because of massive amounts of homework and a lousy internet connection. *happy dance* :D:D:D:D:D
AHHHHHHH! my oddessy (sp) came, but not my Muse! They always come on the same day!! Oh, no, i’m feeling the effects of MDS! (Muse deficiency syndrome) AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! what if it never comes? october issues are always awesome! *shudder* *shudder*
It is good, I’ve finally just about read everything in it. I’m still amazed at how fast it came, send my congratulatory pies to whoever is in charge of that, if you don’t mind.
Yupyup. Got it.
*hopeful 42nd post dance*
Mine came yesterday.
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The postal workers are going on strike for a week! I’ll never get my Muse!
I got mine.
Just got home for the weekend.
Mine always comes a few weeks late. It’s really depressing, bcuz i have a friend that lives a little away and she always gets hers first. She’s always like, “Did you read that article about… o wait, YOU HAVEN’T GOTTEN IT YET.” And then I’m all like ‘i’m gonna pop off your head.’
I finally got mine yesterday. i haven’t read it. I don’t know if i’m going to read it. I glanced through the pics on the muse mail page, which was all I really cared about. And now i’m angry at Muse. So i’m pouting and not reading it.
Wait, i think i missed something… why are you pouting?
48-BECAUSE IT’S EVIL! I’m not sure if saying why would count as a spoiler or not. probably not, since it’s about what’s not in the magazine, not what is…I don’t even know what is, because i haven’t read it. And i’m angry.
You’re allowed to post spoilers on the October Muse Discussion Thread.
50-I know. But I don’t want to go on there, because I haven’t read it. All I did was glance briefly through the muse mail section. And you should be angry too. You were in one of those pictures.
Ah, so that’s it. Remember, the editors put “Muse Mail” together months in advance. Let’s see what they do in the November/December issue.
WHAT? Does it have to do with the spelling bee, maybe? *is puzzled*
52-I sent it in in June, right before I went to CTY. The september issue of Muse contained a letter tht menitoned the Harry Potter article, which was in an issue that I got while I was at CTY, so it was clearly written later than my letter was. And it got in the SEPTEMBER issue. Why, then, would mine not be in until November/December? And why would an old blind rabbit have priority over a GAPA?!?!?
But why is it evil??? [looking hopelessly lost]
55-BECAUSE they DIDN’T publish my LETTER!!!!!!!! I sent in two pictures of me reading muse in DC. one was at the spelling bee, one was with Robert. Shouldn’t those together be enough to get me in????????????????????????????????????????????
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH NOW i understand [little lightbulb] yeah that is rather moldy-cheese smelling.