Reliable sources inform us that the Muses will visit the blog this evening (Tuesday, December 1918) at some time between 6 and 7 p.m., blog time. Watch for ’em on this thread!
Patience, Please
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Sweet. BUt today is the 18th, not the 19th….
I shall post now to test what time this is in blog time. My time zone is currently at 3:00.
It’s 6:06 my time.
So they won’t be coming for another hour, I guess….
Curse my failing eyes. It is indeed the 18th, and tonight is the night. Blog time is U.S. Central Time. 6 p.m. blog time is 4 p.m. Pacific time, 5 p.m. Mountain time, and 7 p.m. Eastern time. That’s midnight in London, and 1 p.m. on Wednesday (the 19th!) in New Zealand.
Or two. The Intelligent Air message was imprecise.
2- it is 5:13, blog time. I am in blog time.
6- or intill 12, midnight, like last time…
That was a strange evening. Yes, anything can happen.
Ooh. Most excitinglike.
Here’s a question for whichever Muse a) shows up first and/or b) feels helpful first.
How did you acquire Kokonino County?
Yay Muses! ::waits eagerly::
Muses? WHERE? *search*
Hmm… all I found was a few deleted files and a tracking cookie — wait! I’ll have to get that fixed! *fix*
All better.
Humans? Where?
They shall show up in… *calculates*
15 to 75 minutes.
Acquire Kokonino County? I don’t think we acquired it, exactly. More like, I watered it and cabbage grew. And there wasn’t anyone around to chase us out, either. Not like that parking lot in downtown Chicago.
None of us has any money, of course, so I tried to take out a mortgage, but this was waaayyyy back in the day before subprime mortgages, when people didn’t just throw money at you, and you should have seen the forms I had to fill out! I think it was when I put down “Muse of Getting Along with People” as my Occupation that they laughed me out of the bank.
15- What happened to Krazy Kat and all the rest of Herriman’s characters?
So? Anything you want to know?
From Kokopelli, me or Bo?
Urania’s here, and so am I,
So fire away, or feel a pie!
17– They were collected into books.
17- that’s coconino county.
MUSES!!!! Welcome! ::flings pies::
::ducks incoming pies from Kokopelli::
hello muses! get AEIOU on here! look at my name!
Koko, Feather and Mimi have showed up so far. ‘m so excited.
Kokopelli- Can you give me any tips on the proper method of throwing pies, and the most aerodynamic/devastating recipes?
Feather- If you don’t mind me asking a rather personal question… what species are you?
Mimi- Have you ever mediated a conflict between two angry wallabies?
Crraw- How did you learn to talk?
EEE! They’re here! *refrains from singing “they’re coming to take me away”*
Let’s see. Questions. I’ll think on that.
Here I am. This is so strange and embarrassing. I don’t talk, but I do type. Usually it’s just code, though. 22, where did you get that name? What does it **blush** mean?
19- But if they were collected into books… the Muses appear in a book too, and they’re still in Kokonino County! And the strips in the books appear in Kokonino, therefore…. *what Keats calls a “wild surmise”*
20- Krazy spelled it Kokonino.
BO!!!!!! (and Koko too, I guess)
When I tell people random facts, they just say (and I quote)
“Otzi, you would be alot funnier if you didn’t sound so intelligent all the time.”
help?
Hello, Aeiou.
I assume you inspired the GAPAs to create this blog. Where did you get the idea?
And AIEOU!
How do I stay organised?
(plus, where did you get that AWESOME dress?)
Two bloggers? Does anyone want to go onto some of the other active threads and tell ’em we’re here?
23, Feather has NO IDEA what species he is. Take it from me. Pwt, being the Muse of Animals, might be able to answer the question, but the last time I looked, the poor Muse chased Crraw right off the edge of Mighty Monstrous Mesa and hasn’t gotten out of the hospital yet.
Aww. Send her my pies. I assume you can throw that far…?
I Just saw PWT in Cartoon History to the universe 2! I cant tell you what page it was on but it was in a section about the Egyptians and the Nubians.
30–Staying organized is the easiest thing! Whenever I want to organize anything, I always consult my Master List of Orderly Steps. It never fails. Step one is always…… just a second… I’m just looking for the list… I’ll have it in a minute, because I have another list called How to Find Lost Objects. &^%$#@!+&!!!!! [terrifying Mongolian curses never printed in the magazine] I’m positive it was around here somewhere….
Can I get back to you on this? I’ll write your name in my computer and file it in my Miscellaneous folder, and also on a little piece of paper, so I’ll have a backup…
31- Hmm.
Feather, what’s your earliest memory?
35–Trick Question, right? That was in Kokopelli and Company! You tell me!
I have uncovered one of the best-kept secrets of the Musiverse. *screams in sheer terror*
33- was it a boy or a girl?
26- I have no clue. ask koko.
do you know any types for linux/ mac os x/ upgrading/ VMware?
Chad- have you built a mac ever?
37- what! tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
33–That was Cartoon History of the Universe 3.
And Krazy Kat was set in Coconino County. With a c.
36- It was your first birthday party, as I recall. Kokopelli, about the same age, was present. What were you two doing in Kokonino? Chad and Aeiou are human, and they can’t be much older than 40. But you’re ancient. Therefore, you must have had your 1st birthday before they invented Intelligent Air, or were even born. Therefore… *gasp* You and Koko knew each other in your pre-Muse past!!
38–With my deep, systematic understanding (and after IM-ing Mimi, whose name is IM backwards twice), I know what your name means!!! (giggles, digs toe into ground). U r into computers 2! But maybe using online abbreviations has affected your spelling, Manfor. Do you mean tips or types?
36- you got an acorn for your first birthday. and kokopelli stole it.
38–Of course Chad builds Macs. Lots of them. If by “build” you mean throwing them against the wall to see what falls off.
41- well, koko lived there most of his life, since he was a GOD to native americans, and feather, well, feather?
44- My deductions in post 41 may interest you.
42- tips.
41–Wait a minute. Are you saying 40 isn’t *ancient?*
46- ah.
Is Ötzi still around? I should know, but I have a touch of factoiditis. One of my stomachs is stopped up, so I can’t regurgitate information as well as usual.
“I’m not old. I’m chronologically challenged!”
48- Of course not. 1000 is ancient.
43- I thought that he got the acorn and buried it, and it was a tree when he went back to look…
does the cartoonist know if you will send him stuff for the sequal to attack of the smart pies ?
We have to take a little break to watch the cactus grow. Will return in half an hour. (8 PM east coast time, 7 central).
I don’t know what to say. In the presence of the great Muses, and I am lost for words.
Feather, are you a GOd like koko was?
54- Nooooo! I missed it! I just missed it! Now I have to wait for another half an hour!
55- any thing. they know thing we only think we know things about.
Wow, this is one of the fastest growing threads! Welcome, Muses!
Here’s a question: Do Hot Pink Bunnies ever roam around in Kokonino Country? I am researching their kind, and I still haven’t found their orgin.
MUSES!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE HERE!!!!!!!! YAYAY!!!! Are you still here?
HI Kokopelli! I’m doing my best at throwing pies on the pie war thread!
HI Bo! I like cows! (NOT to eat, I’m vegetarian)
HI Feather! As said above, I’m vegetarian, and I will be planting a vegetable garden this coming spring! GO bird muses!
HI Crraw! GO bird muses! Sorry for posting so much bad poetry on the blog, I don’t mean to compete!
HI Chad! I like mechanical stuff etc. and proton accelerators (how do you make yours again?) I’m Prime Muser of CHAD in Museica!!!!!
HI AEIOU! Ummm, Rebecca is probably more interesting than me on your topic, sorry! Not that the topic isn’t interesting, just I don’t have anything interesting to say about it!
HI Pwt! Muse of Animals! Yay animals! Just please don’t hurt Craww, he’s a good crow really
HI Urania! I like stars and such! I wish I could see your observatory, and all of kokonino county!
HI Mimi! Getting along with people is good!
*Pant pant*
HI Larry! I read Attack of the Smart pies! Yay Intelligent Air and Smart pies and Feather’s c00l house!!!!!!!!!!
*Pant pant again*
Go Muses!
Red-tailed HAWK
60- you know, that’s a good question! Robert says one thing, paul another, and the museiverse a third!
GAH! I MISSED IT CAUSE I WENT TO HAVE DINNER!!!
Ah well, they’ll be back in about ten minutes.
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Koko, as you are my favorite Muse, I will offer you my spike pie O doom. It severly stings the face of whoever it hits. Have fun with it!
Wow, you can’t imagine how little a cactus grows in half an hour. What’s up, bloggers?
It’s a good thing MuseBlog was open in Firefox next to my actual schoolwork *mutters about China*… anytime now the Muses will come back, if they haven’t by the time I finish writing this post.
um… hi! How are you?
Pwt, if s/he shows up- This is kind of awkward to ask, and I apologize in advance, but are you male or female? The drawings are kind of ambiguous, and there has been discussion on it over the blog.
Aeiou- You said you were IMing Mimi… what’s your screenname? (if the GAPAs let you post it. O Great and Powerful Administrators, having the power to instant message one of the Muses could be a wonderful thing. Please don’t zap it…) Are you on Facebook or some other social networking site, or better yet, do you have your own website (and what’s the URL)?
Aeiou or Chad can answer this one, I guess- PC and/or Mac and/or Linux? Why?
Chad- Have you ever built a theremin? (I’m assuming the answer is yes and proceeding to ask questions from there, feel free to not answer them or talk about some other project if the answer is no.) How difficult is it to play? What modifications did you add?
Crraw- Did you write a novel for NaNoWriMo this year?
Kokopelli- Are you playing a flute or clarinet or recorder or oboe or something else entirely? (I think this might have been answered previously, but if so I’ve forgotten.)
Urania- What would you say are the main differences between the Old Muses and the New Muses? Do you have a favorite astronomical body?
Sorry about all the questions. It’s in my nature (and pseudonym…)
64–thanks for the emotipie. Where’d you think it up? Any more like that lurking on your computer?
KOko, As I said above, I am trying various pies for throwing and I of course would be very happy to have some recipes. If I’m going to be throwing these things at people who aren’t sure if they’ll vote for you, I should be throwing the absolute best pies around, those made by you, the master himself!
Feather? I like donuts too, by the way! And, it would be very cool to have an even better sense of what your house and gardens are like, and how they are arranged, etc. Your home just seems so cozy!
Chad? How many major “appliances” for lack of a better word do you have? What I mean is how many large machines do you have, roughly, and which do you use most? And how many paperclip proton accelerators alone do you have?
Pwt? What do you know about Hot Pink Bunnies? The good ones, I mean?
Sorry if I’m forgeting something from the magazine or Attack of the Smart Pies!
Red-tailed HAWK
67- You want to see a lot of pies?? Go to the Classic Pie War Thread!
Feather & Koko- How did you get to know each other in you pre-Muse past? See post 41.
66–Wow! What a lot of questions! We love it when Musers ask questions!
Oh… you want some *answers* too? Let’s see… my computer system is a home-built thing running an operating system of my own divising. I tried to make it compatible with everything, but some days it just sits there wheezing sadly. This kind of explains why the Muses aren’t on Facebook; all those Humans crash our computers.
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Red-tailed HAWK
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An Atomic Pie, property of L’Equipe Noir!
Cool, 72!
What’s the China homework, 66?
74-HI AEIOU! *waves at Muse* I didn’t know I’d ever be doing that!
Red-tailed HAWK
73–EEK!
Ciao, chums! We can only stay a short time now, but let’s do it again sometime soon! All the Muses join me in saying how much we enjoy hearing from you!
And now, G2G!
what, there leaving!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re gone!
BYE MIMI!!!!! IT WAS GREAT SEEING YOU ALL!!!
Red-tailed HAWK
Aw man, I missed them! I was at a writing class, though.
AADKFHALFASG!!!
But if I had to ask a question, I would ask Urania if she’s discovered the Pieceful Pie Planet yet.
By, Muses! Thanks for stopping by, I’ll look forward to seeing you soon!
That was informative. *passes out*
Yes! Finally! I’m Back! …and they’re gone. D’oh!
Thanks for answering some of our questions, Muses. I hope we didn’t scare you off. Come back soon!
71- That’s cool! It’s too bad that the computer doesn’t always work, though. Although it seems cute to have a computer wheezing sadly, I’m glad mine doesn’t do that. Although it gets angry at me sometimes…
aww… missed them. I was doing my homework. hello and farewell Muses!
66-I’d be
cringinginterested whenever I get ahold of Craaw’s NaNoWriMo.Hey, can you wrime Wrimo with
wompthingsomething?Pity I’m in the wrong time zone for this (GMT +2) Ah well.
I missed it.
Ahg, missed ’em. *sad*
40- …Just a name, or obscure reference to Prairie Home Companion?
90- well, it wasn’t Ruth Harenson.
GARGHGHGHGHGH! I can’t belive I missed the Muses! Snorglemeister! *sigh* Now I’ve got 8 finals tomorrow. And no museful memories to cheer me up…
Hey Koko!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you like my Pie Nuke >[) that is what it looks like
I hope pie nukes aren’t the same as atomic pies, which are sole property of L’Equipe Noir…….
No they aren’t they are 100% MINE ONLY, they just go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww KRA FLIPPIN SPLAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they also cover an area the size of Alaska which is where i WISH I LIVED
95- 20 more!
*sobs* I missed them!
*wanders of sobbing and bumping into the occasional wall, still sobbing*
*runs around duct-taping three layers of foam to occasional walls and other occasional
yhard surfaces so Penguini dosn’t splat her head/pop all her acne because that hurts.I’m here…late…>
Dang it. Did I miss them?
*sigh*
*cries over missing them*
i hate missing them.
They’ll be back.
Hand over the Smartest pies there–SPLAT!
Crows? did someone say crows?
Yo, muses! why do you live in a desert? a rainforest might work,
more cover for throwing pies.
Hey Larry Gonick! where did you come up with synthetic prune juice–you don’t make it do you?
Hmm. They don’t have names in bold, but they came right after Robert’s post, so they *could* be the genuine article.
108- I say mouse!
109- I agree.
in fact they’re definetely not the genuine article, just because they come below Robert’s post does not mean he posted them.
would any one like to know that we’re inventing smarter than smartest pies? yep, 50% smarter than the rest of the smarter pies put together.
“RUN!!!”
“run? why?”
Are those the real Muses?
Red-tailed HAWK
115- Nope. The real muses names are in bold letters.
And plus the fact that both the muses appeared two minutes apart from each other. That’s about how long moderating takes right about now, innit?
Let’s just say that I didn’t expect the Muses to be back right away, and as far as I know, they haven’t been.
*gasp*
IMPOSTERS!
*grabs a pitchfork*
*Joins Beavo*
*joins them both*
*joins*
ATTACK THE IMPOSTERS!
GAHHH!!! I missed them by a year! COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way, anyone seen anyone by the name of “da tmaster”?! *smile* Okay.. my smiley isn’t working… MUSES!!! RETURN!!
AAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!impostor muses! terrible!rid Kokonino of the impostors! AAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Letters often come
from fans far and wide
their praises were abundant
no comments were snide
for other magazine none of them
can abide”
“IMPOSTOR! GET THAT CROW!”
this thread is soooooooooooooooooooooo dead.
*one month later*
You think?
Are the Muses ever considering gracing us with their presence again?
I’ve tried to entice them hither, but without success. I suggest a direct appeal to Larry Gonick via his Web site, www. larrygonick. com.
Oh, I hope they do!
Let’s see if my attempt at making this bold works.
Nope. My name wasn’t bolded. Drat.
131-I hope they do too. You people are soo lucky, you were here. I JUST miised them. By 8 days. Oooooh, i’m so sad.
the muses are gone…old thread. really old. Let’s liven it up a bit again…
When will the Muses come again?
That’s a good question.
When I saw this in the RC Bar, I thought this was a parody of the Rapture.