With new faces appearing on the blog almost every day, it’s getting hard to tell everybody apart. So here’s a place to say a few words about yourself, if you like. No full names or identifying details, please: just things like general location (state, or country if foreign and exciting), grade, musical instruments you play, Hogwarts house, etc. Plus a 10,000-word essay on “What Muse Means to Me.” (Just kidding about that last one–though “Muse Mail” does get letters at least that long.)
Again, this thread is strictly voluntary. We’re all for privacy, as you know. If you’d rather stay mysterious, that’s fine, too.
Well… I’m Duncan_Quagmire. I’m not from Canada, but I like moose. My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R. I play the piano badly and I want to learn to play guitar sometime, but it probably won’t happen today. Clowns scare me. One time I saw a bunny being attacked by a bird. It was sad. I’m going into 10th grade. I like the words “malevolent,” “chirality,” “pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,” and many others. My favorite muppets are Bunsen, Beaker, the Swedish Chef, and Sam Eagle. I can roll my tongue. I hate the “It’s a Small World” song. Ich spreche ein Bisschen Deutsch. The May/June 2003 issue of Muse on prepetual motion devices is the first I’ve ever owned and is one of my favorites. Zero-point-nine-repeating equals one. Home makeover shows on TV bug me. At summer drama camp, I played Alex Trebec in a Jeopardy! skit, Thisbe in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Charlie Brown in his “lunchtime is about the worst time of the day for me” monologue. Last year I drew a picture of Kokopelli on my algebra II binder. I own two cats. I like to tell stupid jokes. My sister is watching That’s So Raven right now. I don’t like roller coasters. One time, I met Bill Nye the Science Guy.When I was in The Wizard of Oz, I got to go down a trap door, which was fun. I like coconuts. Everything I’ve written may or may not be true. Guess what? I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to Geico…
My name’s Grant O., but you may add such reverent titles as my pseudonym, and adjectives such as “wonderful,” “incredible,” and “scrumtralescent.” Anyone who would like to know more about me can respond to this.
Later!
I am Lizzie. I play violin. I sort of play badly many other instruments. yay.
I don’t really have any favorite movies, I would rather read. I like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the new version. I saw the old version ages ago and don’t remember it. I like the book too), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. As for favorite books… there are too many so I’ll tell you my favorite authors. J. R. R. Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey, Madeliene L’Engle, George R. R. Martin, Sherwood Smith, Garth Nix, Phillip Pullman, Clive Barker (author of Abarat, I think that is his name) and many many more. Music I like to listen to is the LotR soundtracks (all three of them), Evanesence, the Beatles and lately I have been stealing my brothers Franz Ferdinand CD. Activities I do for school are Cross Country running and skiing, track, plays and math team.
That was from the “welcome musers” thread. I have been getting Muse since the January ’99 issue. I play violin but I am still a begining violinist. 0.999999999… does equal 1. D_Q is right. I was Creon’s Page in Antigone and Princess #12 in Once Upon A Mattress. If you would like to know more about me ask me.
I’m Pheebs. I like to read Muse, any books by Douglas Adams, Harry Potter, books by Roddy Doyle, and books by Lois McMaster Bujold. I like plain old chocolate ice cream and lemon/orange sherbert. I like to talk in this blunt, uninteresting tone. I also like to read Duncan_Quagmire’s Fairy Tales and the website Mugglenet.
PEEPLE! EEEEK!
hehehehe. Sorry.
I can also play flute. Unofficially. Very Squeakily. And the only song I know is “Hot Cross Buns.”
*hides from hot cross buns* that song now scares me after playing it on my evil violin last year.
My pseudonym is TOPFOT. It stands for The Other Person From Over There.
As for everything else… you probably don’t want to know
Violins are not evil!!!! You just need to practice.
I am Morbid.
I am one of the older Fanpage People (in a sense that I have been there longer, not that my actual age is greater), who doesn’t show up much on a regular basis. But I’m thinking I will now.
I am she who is having a birthday tomorrow. Worship me.
I suppose there are a number of people, online and off, who have come to view me as some kinda freaky artist-goth, and they wouldn’t be incorrect. For I draw pretty pictures. Well… pretty in a kind of bad horror movie way (shamelessly pimps DevART account).
It is I who hosted, and still does host, the “official” Kokopelli Campaign pages. Yep. They’re still there.
I hold the belief that electric cello is superior to all other instruments of the string variety. That (obviously) includes violins.
Methinks that’s all for now.
Agent Mothman of The Swollen Eyeballs, signing off.
Kinda-sorta.
My brother plays electric cello. Actually, it’s a regular cello, but he has a pickup on it. He plays jazz. Free jazz. The squeaky-saxaphones-being-tortured type of jazz. And is currently saying that he needs to learn two songs a week. Great. Actually, I don’t mind his playing that much- he’s pretty good.
And yes, practice is very important. I usually practice from two-three hours a day. Sometimes more. Depends how much other stuff I’ve got going on.
I gave up the violin. I was waaaaaaaaaaaay to lazy to practice. At all. The thing gathered dust in the corner. I’m new here if you haven’t noticed ( ^-^) so feel free to correct me in any way. Meh.
I’m going into 7th grade. My favorite food is agadashi dofu. I can eat with chopsticks. I can’t stand milk chocolate. I once did a school project on Guys and Dolls. I was Velma in a dance to “All That Jazz” from Chicago. I was Superman and Tinkerbell in Rebena Hood. I hit my head on a tree going full swing once. I sunburn easily. My lucky number is 16, but I’m partial to 42. My favorite color is orange. I hate squash. I don’t look good in pastel tones. I go to camp on Sebago Lake.
Any questions?
P.S. Scrumtalescent? That’s new. I have a friend who insists that Tom Petty is wonderaciously fabulper.
Konichiwa
Hi I’m ChinTsu. My name means bug in Japanese. I come from Iowa but i’m spending the 05-06 year in Hawaii. I love chocolate, any kind. I’ve been 2 Japan. I play the flute. I can play lots of songs. But “hot cross” is the only one i remember. What a kawinkidink. I luv Manga. I luv rice. I miss my friend pipS.PIPS IF U ARE READING THIS PLEASE WRITE A MESSAGE! I luv rice. i hate okra. I also luv rambling and i think snails are cute.
2 bee continued………n_n
I ‘m going into 8th grade, and I’m homeschooled. I live in a small town in Austria. My dad’s studying theology here. The classes are all in English and so a fair amount of children live in the same town who are brittish or American. I can’t speak German. I’m going to learn more this year, but I know a little Latin. i like to read a whole ton. I have 2 sisters and 2 brothers. i’m the oldest.
I’m Catholic. Totus tuus, Maria!
Hi I’m Phoenix. I am not a particularly exciting person, except for the fact that I have about 20 pennames, and every day I write to Muse under a differant one. It was a struggle deciding which one to use for Museblog.
I LOVE THE BELGARIAD (David Eddings), but no one seems to read it. Has anyone? Hello? Hello?
I can speak English and Hebrew and a little German, and I am learning Arabic.
Shalom L’coolam! L’hetraot! Danke Shoin for reading my letter. Ta ta
I only cought the ‘goodby’ part. Hebrew is easier 2 read when it’s written in Hebrew.
Phoenix-have u had your bat-bar mistva. It’s a great way 2 get money.
n_n
chin tsu: shalom l’coolam means hello/goodbye. I made a mistake with danke shoin- it means your welcome, I meant to say thank you (dannke)!
by the way, I have had my bat mitzvah, I’m a girl and thirteen.
I also don’ t like milk chocolate much. Dark chocolate is much tastier, especially Ghardelli and Droste. (Droste is Swiss chocolate, and it’s REALLY GOOD.)
Phoenix, we’ll never know whether you’re you or someone else unless you stick with one name and leave it at that.
well excuse me! I do stick with one name! Phoenix is one in herself! Muse knows all my pennames; if you don’t belive that I only use the name Phoenix on the blog, you can even ask She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! *stomps away in a huff*
Hi everybody, I’m Hermes, and I dont read Muse. I am on her b/c Phoenix is my cousin, but I don’t talk as much as her. I like dolphins, but (sorry!) not moose. I like math *Phoenix, who is sitting next to Hermes, gasping* my favorite book is The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle. My mouth is too small, and it is getting expanded, and my dad is not happy about that because then I will talk as much as Phoenix. I don’t know what else to say, except that I don’t like anime, so I will stay out of that section of the blog. Oh, yeah, I have aracnophobia. Also I can spell antidisestablishmentarianism
And why don’t you read Muse? Huh? Go get a subscription! NOW, kid!
Phoenix, did you mix up your German with something else? “Danke shoin” is really spelled “danke schon” ( the o has 2 dots over it but I don’t know how to do it on my computer.) It means literally “thank you nicely” but is more like saying just thank you. “Danke” is equivelent to our “thanks’. “Bitte” means “you’re welcome”. “Auf wiedersein” (I’m not quite sure that’s spelled right.) I know THAT much German. When I said I didn’t speak any, I ment I can’t hold a conversation. But I can say hello, goodbye, ect. Just wanted to let you know.
Mirjana,
When you can’t write an umlaut (the two dots) over a letter, German spelling rules allow you to write an “e” right after it. So instead of “scho[umlaut]n” you may write “schoen.”
“Wiedersein” is actually “wiedersehen.” Sehen means “to see.”
–R. C.
Okay, okay! so I wrote it how it sounds, not how it’s spelled! so sue me!
The only phrase I can say in German roughly translates into “You are what you eat”. This is only because it is the name of a song by one of my favorite metal bands, Rammstein. All their songs are in very growlly german, and I can’t understand a word.
Du bist was du esst?
Here’s some new German for you to use:
Du bloed Obstkuchenkopf!
Meaning…
You stupid fruitcake head!
F.Y.I., the oe in bloed is supposed to be an o with an umlaut.
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I thought you meant to MuseBlog, so I was all confused… I guess you mean the magazine itself.
You stupid fruitcake head!
I love it!
As for the song, you got it exactly right. Yay for D_Q!
Sometimes I wish the lot of us could have a Muse convention-meeting of the minds type thing, but there’s whole issue of “don’t attempt to meet strangers from the internet”. Not to mention there’s no knowing what ChinTsu might try to do to me.
I like math!
“Sometimes I wish the lot of us could have a Muse convention-meeting of the minds type thing, but there’s whole issue of “don’t attempt to meet strangers from the internetâ€. Not to mention there’s no knowing what ChinTsu might try to do to me.”
there is also the issue of living far away from each other.. and what ChinTsu might try to do to you…
Phoenix-
I just read what i said before about German, and I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound so mean. I apologize.
Its okay! I should have checked up on the definitions before I put it down. You didn’t sound mean, either, it was my mistake.
Hi! I’m WoojaKitty, but I invent new names regularly as my mood changes. I play the violin quite well. I like the song “Layla” by Eric Klapton, or however you spell it/him. I don’t know if this will ever get read, but that’s ok because of you’re-not-supposed-to-give-personal-information-out-to-strangers. Recently I read the LOTR series and I now have hobbits coming out of my ears. I am an incredibly fast reader. I am wary of telling you people anything about myself, so I’m trying to be candid. How’m I doing?
You, any one of you, should read “The Year of Secret Assignments”. Awesomely funny book.
Hello, I am going to make a dramatic entrance in 3… 2…. 1… Bum Da Da Bum Da Da Dum! *imagine me kicking open the door and leaping in from the shadows, just as lightning flashes in the sky* ‘I am here, never fear, I will make you laugh.’ I like HP, Muse (of course), Kokopelli’s my favorite, I like horses, dogs, cats (I like them EQUALLY), I am very energetic, which leads to a lot of problems, and I am a klutz. You’ll never believe it, but I haven’t ever seen the LOTR movies or read the books (!!!!) I have tried, but I just couldn’t get into ’em. People say I don’t socialize enough, but sometimes you can’t shut me up! I’ve always wondered about that, and believe me, it sometimes keeps me up all night, and then I don’t have to worry about getting up in the morning, ’cause I’m already awake! Ha ha! *takes a very deep breath*
I am a cartoonist, and I love drawing Rube Goldberg type machines. I better stop now, ’cause I think I hear mom coming down the hall and it’s almost 12 pm (good thing I have a computer with satalite internet connections in my room, eh)?
aaaaaaaaaah! i’s jealous…there’s a comp up near my room but it’s messed…and i gots to have hw to bring my mom’s comp up.
*gasp* no lotr??!!! HOW DO YOU SURVIVE??!! poor deprived child…
seriously w/out lotr to obssess over i would like die. or…something. sure. yeah. what i said…erm…earlier. sort of.
be kind to me, i’m tired!!!
nope I haven’t read/watched LOTR at all and I’m still alive… You are sooooooooo lucky that you have a computer in your room… I have to share one with my sis and it’s in the basement!!!!!! I know! I’ll wake up at like 1:00am tommorow and sneak down to the basement to get on here!!!! KITTEN WHERE ARE YOU!
hello, Libro! are you a boy or a girl?
oh, man, mousie, no LOTR?!! you should sue for child abuse!
To answer your question, Phoenix, I am a girl.
…….I KNOW that sounds wierd, but it’s ’cause of my horse (who I really love).
Also, people, the only reason I’ve got the comp in my room is beacause a) I’m responsible b) My little sister has her room connected with mine, and c) Dad is the president of a comp company so we kinda have all the newest .iMac models lying around his office, and there are extras. (hee hee):razz:
And as far as the whole LOTR thing goes, we HAVE the books & the movies, and I struggled through the first 5 chapters of the books, and just sort of ended up never finishing them. That is NOT to say I don’t read a lot; I DO, but I am more into sci – fi and historical fic. (call me crazy) I don’t think I should list my favorite anything when it comes to books and reading, because it would be pages long. Very borning. Yeah, so I think that is everything that got a response. Yep.
Oh yeah! I have full internet access (don’t have to ask to get on), and full email privlages.
I just like rubbing it in.
what does borning mean???? shouldn’t it be boring?????? uh Phoenix, I haven’t read LOTR or even seen the movies… I’ve read the Hobbit though…
Yeah, Kricket, borning should be boring sorry. typo
Ok, it’s now Nov. 15th!!!!!!!!!!! Time to get things moving!!!!!!:twisted::twisted::twisted: Lets see……………… How about Latin? does anyone know Latin (mortuus lingua)? I am starting to learn. Disco Latin (I don’t know what latin is in latin). This is fun……. Ego delecto doctrina mortuus lingua………. Tell me what all this means, and if you can, correct my grammar (if there are mistakes..) cause I’m a grammar freak (sort of). Prospera cum tu!!! (ya know, this is even more fun than elvish!)
Oh, by the way, I live in Wyoming, I play french horn, I
would probably beam a Ravenclaw chaser, I like swimming, and Yo hablo un poco espanol (the ‘n’ should have one of those curvy lines over it…. My comp doesn’t do it & I forgot what their called). Quoque disco Latin unciatim. Anything to get this thread alive…..Not…… working….. POST, PEOPLE, POST!!!!!!!!!!!!! please?
Ravenclaw chaser???
ROCK ON!!!!! that’s me too. whenever i sign up for an rpg (which i usually switch about twice a month) i always check to see if there’s a ravenclaw chaser left for meeeeee! and then if there is i join.
haha. frumpeter. frumpet. frumpet! that is sooo fun to say…
i’m taking latin but i don’t know what you guys said. I delecto something about dying maybe language? you like dying languages? dead languages. ok “I like to speak dead languages???”
um. heh. i have pautsch. be kind to me. we don’t learn anything from her. we’re watching clash of the titans, even after everybody in the class but maybe two people told her they’d seen that. most people saw it w/lamuth. grr. and then we get to watch jason and the argonauts! what fun! i rented that movie ages ago and watched it and hated it. grr. we does too much mythology stuffins! plus pautsch never knows what she’s talking about. she’ll tell us something and we’ll say “no it’s this” and she’ll say”nope you’re wrong” and we’ll be like “whatever” and then the next day it’ll be some passing comment and she’ll be like “no that’s wrong” and we’ll be like “that’s what you told us!” and then she’s like “heh. no. i never said that.” it drives me CRAZY!!!!
oh this is the who’s here thread huh? ok i’m 14, freshman, Ohio, just moved from Michigan, play trumpet, in theater, in itk, muse freak (obviously), lotr obsessed, blahblahblah see h2gmb.
yay Ravenclaw!
personaly, however, my RPG charecter (which is not Nachin, by the way) would be a Seeker. That is, of course, if I were allowed to play… *sigh*
oh come on. seekers are overrated.
chasers rock! and keepers do too. not as much as chasers but they still do.
I said ‘_____ learning dead language little by little’
Well, I must aggre w/ ebeth. Seekers ARE EXTREMELY OVERRATED!!!!!!! so’s grifffindor, for that matter. Actually, in HP board/card games i am incapable of drawing griffindor, and i almost always draw Ravenclaw. I loooooooove chasers. heh heh.
Oh, if you’re into HP, go to http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/index.html and mess around. It is fun
‘eck, i just now tried my link and it actually worked! wow.
how’d you do that? I can’t seem to get any to work…
ummm……. u just make the link in PERFECT spelling, and click on it……. (add the correct html, of course)
Well I’m Cedar, and I think this place rocks. By the way, Cedar is my real name. It’s my first name to be exact. I’ll tell you how to spot me at the Muse convention if there ever is one. I’m unusually tall, I have long, very dark brown hair-almost black to be exact-and will probably be wearing clip-on sunglasses. Oh, and I’ll also be wearing all black, and be decked out in Kokopelli themed jewlery. I have a large collection of Kokopelli themed jewlery, mostly necklaces, plus a Kokopelli watch.
So that’s me.
My name is Klara and I live in Kentucky, but you can call me Eccentric the Afterthought, or just EtA if you wish. I’m now addicted to the museblog! I’m fifteen and in ninth grade at a classical school where I learn lots of Roman history. I play cello and I’m probably crazy, but it’s a lot more fun than sanity.
My name is Alexandra, but I would prefer if you would call me Hufflepuff. Or something to that effect. I live in California. Yay! I dance Irish Step Dance and ballet, I was a toy soldier in the Nutcracker. I used to play piano but hated it and quit. I want to learn to play guitar but haven’t yet. I am younger than 18 and homeschooled. I love LotR and Narnia, hate Harry Potter and all his minons, and absolutely looooooooove barrel racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I’m kiki_the_great, and my parental units would kill me if they found out I told people my name online, no matter how safe the site is. My best friend is Dancing Queen (check the Welcome, Newcomers thread) and I am a Harry Potter fanatic.I love MuggleCast, Tamagotchi, and I use Macs. My house is Ravenclaw and I’ve written one letter to Muse. I always wear my Kokopelli necklace, and I live in Chicago.
This thread is dead.
61- Is it? Why?