Every so often, Muse‘s editor-in-chief (She Who Must Not Be Named) sends around a packet of recent letters to the magazine for her minions to read. We can’t reprint them here, because some of them might be bound for the Muse Mail page, but we can summarize what they say. Here’s the most recent batch:
Who’s writing: 8 girls, 4 boys, 1 male Elf, and 1 male mixed-breed dog
Ages, where specified: 8, 10, 11, 12 (two writers), 13 (four writers), 15, 17, 18
Where they live: California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Scotland
Favorite Muses, where specified: Kokopelli (4); Crraw tied with Kokopelli (1); Urania, Bo (1 each)
Least favorite Muses: Aeiou, Pwt
Favorite things from the magazine: “Baffled Brain” issue, bonobos, LOTR issue, Notscape, “The Incredible Upside-Downs”
Dislikes: Self-esteem issue; reference to evolution in the Bonobo article
Requests: pen-pal service; where Devil is; articles on band instruments, how CDs work, music piracy, invention of the telephone, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings (again?!), rugby, Japan
53- boo! 64- yea!
Hee hee… I like pirates. For anyone who doesn’t know, September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day.
I’m afraid that you people may have missed Be A Brit Day, in early august – All the British enthusiates had tea for breakfast, talked with accents, and called every thing “bloody”. It was lot sof fun.
I’ll be sure to remember Pirate Day.
Yah, Forgot to add, this “Be A Brit” thing was at camp. Maybe the rest of the world doesn’t do it…
I wonder if She Who Must Not Be Named ever reads what we write on here…
Cool! I enjoy reading what other people have to say, even in a somewhat abreviated form!
I never knew about be a pirate day. No one is going to belive me if I tell them about it…
who likes moose?
I knew about talk like a pirate day. Someone told me about it at camp. I just didn’t remember the exact date……
I like moose! In fact, on the old GABOOMBA, we had lengthy discussions about moose, if I remember correctly.
The Pirate Guys have a website — http://www.talklikeapirate.com
actually, Duncan, I was joking about the moose. I do like them, though, but wolves and humpack whales are my favorite animals. I just wrote moose because I like the name, it sounds so random.
YES YES YES!!!! I LOVE MOOSE/MEECE/MEECES/MOOSES/ WHATEVER!
Baby moose are so cute.
Last year, the high school robotics team based their theme on pirates (because the subject was DNA/RNA so they made it arrrrrrr NA) so they had a link to talklikeapirate on their website, which was cool..
Meese are horrible and delicious.
Note concerning meese for D_Q: Consider, for a moment, an episode of IZ that happened to be titled “Room with a Moose”. This should obviously occur to you, seeing as the fanpage is named after the episode. Now, ponder for a moment the name of the horrible monster-thing behind the wall in Mr. Vasquez’s other great masterpeice, JTHM- quite plainly, “The Moose”.
I still haven’t read Johnny…
Hey speaking of meese, what happened 2 RMP?
URGANT NOTICE:
PLEASE GO TO THE ‘MUSE MOVIE?’ SECTION RIGHT AWAY, AND POST YOUR IDEAS FOR A LIVE ACTION/COMPUTER ANIMATED* MOVIE VERSION OF ‘ATTACK OF THE SMART PIES.’
* KOKOPELLI IS A COMPUTER ANIMATED SHADOW
PS: THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!
OFFICIAL POST FOR THIS SECTION:
BONOBOS RULE!
IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE WONDERFUL PRIMATES, GO TO AMAZON.COM, AND PURCHASE EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
1. ‘BONOBO-THE FORGOTTEN APE’ BY FRANS DE WAAL
2. ‘THE LAST APE’ BY TAKAYOSHI KANO
WARNING: BOTH BOOKS CONTAIN STRONG SEXUALITY, BECAUSE BONOBOS USE SEX AS A WAY OF SHAKING HANDS!
I WOULD RECCOMEND BOTH BOOKS FOR READERS AGES 14 AND UP!
PS: IF YOU LIKE GIRL POWER, YOU’LL ADORE BONOBOS!
OKAY GAPAS, LET’S PUT TOGETHER A SECTION TITLED ‘THREADS THAT DON’T GET NEARLY ENOUGH ATTENTION,’ SHALL WE?
I know of two things that would be on the list:
1. Request/ideas.
2.Fan mail boildown.
I’m sure you can think of others.
But then they would get attention. Unless of course that’s the idea. Although i don’t know if the boildown still exists…*looks quizzically at GAPA and sharpens quill*
HOWDY EBETH!
Getting them attention is the idea!
Things like Requests/ideas are really good threads, but they get way less attention then they deserve.
We should reawaken the interest. Don’t let them get old. Keep them young and fit for as long as pssible. Pretty soon they’ll have to go to an old thread’s home, and who wants that?
Okay I’m sorry if that sounded a bit weirdo.
Bye.
SEE WHAT I MEAN?
It’s been days since I posted # 20 on this thread, and no one has dropped by.
Jeez.
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im done now
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I think that I might like to see an article/issue on the hot-pink bunny issue up-to-date, too.
More bunnies will be coming along soon.