The stately Marquette Building, home of Carus Publishing until it moves a few blocks away in January.
The entrance leads into an elevator lobby decorated with bronze images of Midwestern explorers.
Each elevator cab bears this seal and contains speakers that play Mozart. As you may have guessed by now, the Marquette Building is rather full of itself.
Muse‘s offices are on the fourteenth floor. Among many other treasures there, the archives contain copies of every issue of the magazine.
Here’s the temporary cubicle where I worked on a top-secret project you’ll see next year. To the left of the keyboard sits a copy of the very first Muse.
Samantha Sordyl (a.k.a. Samablamablous, a.k.a. Samblam, a.k.a. Sam) confers with art director John Sandford and layout guru Walter Mendoza about the November/December issue.
One night Sam and her husband, Mr. Sam, took me to a great Italian restaurant in their neighborhood.
And that’s the story, or as much of it as I’m allowed to talk about at this point.
*drools over all the muses*
cool pictures
first post?
THAT IS SO COOL!!!!
Now I know where I will find the muse headquarters if/when I ever get to chicago…
*dons Ninja costume*
*mission impossible theme*
Mwa ha ha…
Or maybe they’ll just let me in if I ask nicely and bake cookies…
wow.
*sobs* I wants the archive for myselfs………..
Hmmmm, maybe I can bribe them with choklit…….
*virtually steals the 1st issue of muse*
GAHhhr!!! I used to own that one!!!!
I’m so jealous. I’m going to run away and sneak my way into get copies of all the back issues that I don’t own.
HI SAMABAMABLOUS AND ALL YOU OTHER FROODS!!
HII!!!!!!
The fonts are really small on this computer…..weird.
That is so amazingly cool.
That’s all you can discuss? THERE”S CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, THEN?!? *drools* I must venture into these mysterious offices…..once I get my liscense and can travel to Chicago….okay, that was a bad idea.
I can barely read what I’m typing…please ignore any spelling errors…..
You don’t have to sneak in. Kiki just phoned Samablamablous and asked for a tour. She saw everything. Right, Kiki? I think they even fed her pie.
Oh great and mighty and lovable GAPA
*bows respectfuly*
Have i given you choklit yet today?
*hands over 1,000,000 pounds of choklit*
You know, i hope, that your liscence plate is the envy of everyone, both east and west of the mississippi
*hands over six batches of fresh home-baked choklit chip cookies*
Now what was it about the secret project…
*hands over 3,827 truckloads of fresh baked pies (assorted varieties)*
Muse….uses….Macs
Your More Awesomer Than Ever!
Wow. That is so groovy.
Shame on you for telling us about the top secret project due out next year though.
Now it’s going to be torture waiting for it to arrive.
I’m sorry, I hate hype.
I SO want a copy of the first muse XD Can’t wait to see the top-secret project! Is that the fan page up on your comp?
Oh btw i was born in marquette! (MI, not the building XD)
Yes!!! I saw everything that Robby saw…. and Samantha gave me apple pie!!! I didn’t see Mr. Sam, though. I don’t think I’m sllowed to reveal Samantha’s phone #, though. I met John Sandford, too. He was working on this month’s cover. I got to see a preview of the c*******ng article, and the first page.
I actually did get a couple of back ishes…. Robert, I have a couple pictures that I would like to share. Make an account on nationstates. join the land of the muse. find me, and send a telegram to me with your email. I can email the fotos to you.
TRUE: Brave soul Kiki visited and ate pie with Samablamablous –
without incident. I know Samablamablous. I dare not come within yards of Samablamablous and a pie.
Sam and Mr. Sam. Of course. Does he work for Cricket?
I have to go and take the tour like Kiki did. I love the fact that the speakers played Mozart. Actually, the complete M-zart collection of 170 CDs arrived at our house last night, from We-Know-Not-Who. I bet if I arrive in a Muse-ish outfit, and bear bribery, and threaten, they’ll let me in.
Cool elevator seals, by the way. Bark bark.
“Pray silence for the Prime Minister of Antarctica! Arf arf arf arf!”
If they’ve got all the magazines, why does the cartoon archive only start at 2002?
really? can i have some pie too? preferably chocolate.
if you don’t let me in when i’f i’m ever in chicago and feed me chocolate pie, then i’ll just have to set melly on you *fighting over keyboard* hey?! why me? why can’t i set YOU on them?!*more fighting over keyboard* because YOU’re the alter ego, remember????
i’ll be back…..
cu in chicago!!! hopefully…
really?
10- Mac users rule!!!!!!!!!
P)
14-What?! I’m jealous…..
16- Yay!! I remember you!! You were working on the cover. :p
I also got to give SS some ideas!!
How about all the Chicagoland (ooh, mystical-I love that word) Musebloggers meet at the Marquette Building sometime for our own tour with Samablamablous? I know you’re not supposed to randomly meet people you’ve met on the internet, but this would be in a public place, and we could bring our parental units/guardians/valets/friends/etc.s along…and people have talked about a MUSE meeting. And besides-we could be the Fan Emissary! The People’s Voice!
Now, what to bribe them with-pie? I have pecan…hmmm…plotting is difficult.
25-Have it over some type of vacation like spring break or something because there’s a slim chance i might be going to chicago soon, and i’ll be able to beg extra hard if there’s a muse tour! Only problem is, i don’t know when we’re going (if at all *snibble*) Chicago’s farther away than it used to be *sigh*
I wish I could visit the Muse HQ…or even Chicago…My parents are afraid of going to big cities. It’s so weird.
25- YEESSSSSSSS!!!! set up a date and RSVP asap!!
that is awesome! I wish I could go!
Oh , the images, the images! They are burned into my brain. One day, I shall visit Muse Central. I have spoken. 6000 miles is not a sufficient deterrent. I will make plans. Alas, by the time they come to fruition, Muse Central will have moved “down the road”. The phrase is ominous. I just hope that the new residence of this august publication will retain the bronze plaques. And the pie.
PB&JGAPA
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
are you deterring our dream of invading the Muse HQ? are you?? oh great and powerful GAPA, please don’t do that!
we shall all die of incompletness if we don’t go. sob.
what if we send you even more pie and other varioius pastries???
Me Da might go to Chicago (I think) somtime in the near future. If he does, I’ll have to make him:
A: Take me
B: Go to muse HQ
C: Take pictures of Muse’s HQ building
D: All of the above
E: Except maybe A, unfortunately
F: Oh well
G: *is sad*
H: *is pied*
cool. Mozart is interesting…
NOTE TO OCTOBER NEWCOMERS:
First of all, very happy to have you here with us.
Second of all, it would mean a lot to me if you typed
Muse Movie in the search box, and clicked go.
Go to any of the Muse Movie threads and post.
Guide to MM’s:
Muse Movie = general ideas about the movie
Muse Movie-Part 2- Scripts = scripts of course
Muse Movie-Part 3-Expert Advice= run questions by Patrick Dahl of Hollywood (please note: he is not there very often, so have patience)
I hope all you newcomers will join into my cause.
See you at Muse Movie.
omgosh! haven’t posted for a while MUSE HQ!! YAY!!!!
15-or, he could just email you. he knows your email, you know….
unless you dont put it uop when you post, which i dont think is allowed.
She can send them to us right here at the blog: gapa@museblog.com.
*stalks*
I wish sooooooooooooooooooooo much that I could go to the Muse HQ. The archives would be awsome. My grandma lives in chicago, so next time we visit her I will beg to go there
hello, ellisium. Would you like a pie? *doesn’t wait for an answer* *pies with no-filling pie* pies with gargantuan pie that changes to whatever flavor you like or don’t like*
Cool story. But why was it told? I know that the center of this Blog is randomness, but…?
*pies ellisium* Welcome to the museblog!! Whee! *pies* That was you’re welcome pie. Enjoy it. [}~ It’s Key lime.
Cool name, by the way.
Reffering to picture #5 – It’s next year. Have we already seen your top-secret project? If so, what was it?
It was the January “tenth anniversary” issue of Muse.
43-Ooooh. That was cool. The vegetarianism article was my inspiration for an article for my school newspaper.
I want to go to Chicago now. D= (Yeah, right. We don’t have family friends or relatives there, so we’ll never go)
43-OH! i’ve been wondering for ages when we were going to see that thing….now i feel so stupid….lol
I told my mom today that i wanted to go to Chicago, and she said we could go this summer insted of CTY, but i said i don’t want to QUITE that much, and maybe after both sessions of CTY are done, but she said no. She just wants to talk me out of CTY. lol.