It starts at 11:30 a.m. blog time (12:30 Boston time). No doubt the Kokonventioneers will find a way to report in during the proceedings; in any case, we’re sure to hear from them eventually.
In honor of this momentous event, here’s a reprise of the song Robert wrote for last year’s Southern California Kokon (to the tune of the Beatles’ “Ballad of John and Yoko”):
Headin’ to the big KokonVENtion,
Musers from all over the place.
The man with the pie
Said*, “I won’t ask you why
You’ve got Pantone 219** on your face.â€
Cake, you know it ain’t easy.
You know how wild it can be.
The way things are goin’
They’re gonna bunnify me.
No one looks the way I imagined.
Everybody’s friendly but shy.
They’re funny and nice
But we can’t break the ice
Until someone calls out, “Let’s have some pie!â€
Cake, …
Can’t believe we’re all here together,
All those kids I met on the threads.
The man with the pie
Said, “You’re throwing too high.
See, the crust is going over their heads.â€
Cake, …
Musers always make an impression.
People all pretend not to see.
The folks in the crowd
Said, “They’re laughing too loud,
And they don’t look ‘mostly harmless’ to me!â€
Cake, you know it ain’t easy.
You know how wild it can be.
The way things are goin’
They’re gonna bunnify me.
*[TMFASudoRandom thinks “says” would make more sense here than “said.” We like the disorienting effect of the mismatched tenses, but if it bothers you, you have permission to sing the song whichever way you prefer.]
**[Pantone 219 is an industrial code for a shade of fuchsia very close to hot pink.]
Yay! First post! And the kokon is today!
Wait, you’re bringing your iPod Touch, right? That means if MIT has free Wi-Fi then we can alert MuseBlog to our proceedings of world domination!
I’m bringing my iPod Touch as well. And yes, Robert, what a delightful (and appropriate to this situation) song!!!! I was singing it yesterday in the halls. Three hours….well technically two because of the car ride…
12:30 is in 3 hours! I can’t wait that long! I thought today would be the easiest, but it’s the hardest!
SFTDP, were those lyrics here before? I don’t remember seeing them. Anyway, they are very appropriate, in my opinion, to this Kokon, what with three Beatles worshippers finally meeting.
Nope, just added them.
You mean four. I worship the Beatles, I just am not obsessed with George Harrison.
You should be! You could join our cult!
Ah, but the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. All of the Beatles together are pwnsomer than one by enself.
We have a thread already? Wow.
10:20….. 2 hours, ten minutes. ARGH.
10:33. 1 hour, 57 minutes.
My mom wanted to know if anyone wanted to come over to our house afterwards. Probably not, but we had offered it before, and we’re trying to figure out how much we should prepare.
I dunno. You’d have to talk to my dad, Sudo. The parental units probably won’t mind, but… that’s how my parental units work, I guess.
My mom says, “It depends what everyone else wants; if we do do that, we’d have to go back to [my dad’s] workplace. In other words, possibly.”
I say, “Sure. That could be fun.”
1.1-Yes. I am definitely bringing my iPod touch.
SFTDP
Guys, I’ve been looking at some old kokon pictures, and I think we’re going to have a REALLY good time.
I couldn’t find the linguistics issue of Muse, so I’m bringing the memory one. In case anyone cared.
I have the Mona Lisa issue, The Black Holes issue, Extreme Origami, Optical Illusions, Exploding trousers.
Dead silence since the Kokonvention started. I hope they haven’t run into bunnies.
Oh gosh…what if they have and then they’ve been kidnapped….and…..and……. *faints*
I love the lyrics at the top of the page.
Hmm…..bunnies are a definite possibility. But maybe their iTouches got clogged up with pie? I’m sure we’ll hear about it if they all survive.
Oh, good grief. I hope they haven’t run into bunnies.
They might catch something (hot pink-ness) and contaminate us.
Posting from Beetles iPod at the Boston/Cambridge kokon
Beetles:Wow. I had no idea what these people looked like. This is AWESOME!!!!!!
Ambystoma Maculatum: This is great.
Enceladus: This is indescribably flamablamablous. I can’t believe this is happening. But it is.
!
SudoRandom: Robert- we did run into some bunnies. Silver Lining brought them. We’ll send in some pics. Also, we got a letter from the Beauticious Kate that had a picture of me in my dress and hat. It is flammy.
Keiffer: “Its a thingy! A fiendish thingy!!”
Silver Lining: Wow there are mysterious symbols on the ceiling! And if you stand on the large eyeball you might get transported into The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But we didn’t. Boohoo.
Pseudonym: To craunch the marmoset.
Atantsyal. Awesome , gtg though
Princess_Magnolia: Go to the window. Beatlemaniacs abound. Enc looks like Julian
I brought a towel! The voice in the crowd says they’re
laughingsinging too loud and they don’t look mostly harmless to me…Purchasing bunnies sounds like asking for trouble. But we’re certainly glad to hear from our intrepid kokonventioneers.
Hello. I am in the car coming home from the Kokon. I had sooooooooo much fun! We ate at a Chinese restaraunt and everyone was laughing and talking and singing way too loudly. (How many times did we randomly break into song, again?) And then I took out the marshmallow peeps, the pink bunny kind, and we all figured out a way to destroy them. (Sudo ate one covered in soy sauce!) Next we went to the museum and it was interesting there. Lots of hypnotizing chair-building machines. We left lots of Muserly messages in the guestbook. And then we all just starting goofing off and taking pictures and fighting over Magnolia’s towel. What an exceptionally lovely day.
Wow, awesome! Did everyone look like what you expected? Was it hard to find one another?
*is stalker* Heh. Kidding.
Hey. It was also covered in Hot and Sour soup.
No, it wasn’t. I think we broke out into song… six times? It was also covered in sweet and sour sauce.
Oh. I thought you got Hot and Sour soup.
I did, but we didn’t put any on the bunny.
I realized my tongue got stained pink from all the bunnies.
I thought that your bowl of hot&sour soup was the bunny’s jacuzzi?
No…
In my opinion, soup is not a good marshmallow jacuzzi.
Flavours would mingle and become… *shudders* something I don’t want to imagine, really.
Covered in soy sauce?!
Really, Sudo? (He eats people! *murders Keiffer*)
Ugh. Peeps+soysauce=I am barfing at the very thought.
I saw those hpb peeps the other day…
Actually, it tasted pretty good. You should try it! It also had sweet and sour sauce on it.
Didn’ we also drown that one first? Or was that the one Pseudonym impaled?
In think they’re the same one. It was drowned, staked, and covered in soysauce.
I hope you guys had fun.
Haha! I am back from the kokon! It was AMAZING and guess what? Enceladus looked almost exactly how I imagined him, but his face was a bit rounder, and his hair was a teensy bit shorter. Oh well. That’s why they have photoshop.
Also, at the museum, everyone locked me in a closet. That’s the second time that’s happened to me.
Oh, and I found out that me and Enceladus live practically next door. Well, neighboring towns.
I always suspected. Ever since I saw him in the grocery store…
My dad gave permission to post pictures! Will he need to email you?
Yes, please.
I’m home! The Kokon was indeed amazing. We killed lots of the bunnies. One of them, we put a stake through it, drowned it, and then covered it in soysauce and sweet and sour sauce. It was delicious. We also staked one through the heart. (You should like that, Speller.)
People looked almost nothing like I imagined. I guess the closest would be Silver Lining. Finding each other was pretty easy too. Everyone was seated at a big table.
Once we were in the museum, it was so fun. Near the end, Pseudonym, Beetles, Keiffer and I did an Abby Road parody. I was Lennon, Keiffer was Ringo, Pseudonym was Paul (She did remove her shoes and walk with the other foot forward), and Beetles was George. We of course, also did Muses in front of faces photos. And Kokopelli-hand photos. And photographs of the staked bunnies. It was soooooo amazing! *hopes another Kokon will happen soon*
Oh yes, and in the Abbey Road parody Sudo wanted to be the yellow buggy, but he didn’t fit in the photo.
Oh, please. Sweet-and-sour sauce and soysauce on a peeps hpb?
NO.
I might remind you my mother is Japanese and I was brought up with Japanese ideas and principles as well as American?
Ok, so soysauce and sugar on mochii is yummy.
But a peeps and sweet&sour? *barfs*
Don’t knock it before you try it. Keiffer, Enc, and I all had it, and all thought it was good.
Well, when you say “good” you mean “ok” and when you say “ok” you mean “not bad” and when you say “not bad” you mean… well, you get the point.
No. I thought it was genuinely good.
You staked it with my favourite pencil! But anyway, everyone looked relatively liked how I imagined them, except for Keiffer. And guess what. Remember how I dropped my camera? Well, it turns out it’s broken! But don’t worry, the photographs are all intact. *hopes for another Kokon soon as well* And in my picture of the Abbey Road thing, you can see Sudo’s hat. (His hat kept popping up in every single picture…)
Ah yes, the Pseudonym is Dead Hoax.
I’m jealous. *pouts* Hope you guys had fun!
*is also jealous* *has an upcoming kokon though*
Oooh, which one? I wish someone would have a Detroit kokon.
North Carolina!
14-Ha! Not having fun at a kokon? Are you insane?
Sounds like you all had a great time, I can’t wait for pictures!!
17.1~ ^.^
I can’t wait for pictures either. I’m sad because noone on MB lives by me.
This is how I imagined a bystander might describe our group:
“They were a group of boys and girls, many of whom were wearing odd hats. They held up a box of pink bunny Peeps and took pictures of it. Several times, they would simultaneously begin singing Beatles songs.”
We had fun.
I love bursting into song randomly. It’s fun.
My younger sister and I have certain songs that are connected to certain things people say/sitiuations…
AlpacaLips makes a bad pun, I say it isn’t funny… we start singing. “But that joke isn’t funny anymore, it’s too close to home and it’s too near the bone…”
My mom wants us to throw the trash away. “Throw it away, throw it away, throw it away now.” and variations of such (give it away, etc).
And so on.
This was a somewhat unrelated post. Oh well….
Anyhow. I now really, really, want to find myself an odd hat.
Or, “Deranged mob of rabid children! Must. Back. Away. Slowly. ” I bet some people thought that too.
I’m sure they did. I mean, that’s perfectly reasonable to think since they don’t know that we’re mostly harmless.
Rabid?
Psuedo, really? (You eat people…)
I’m considering changing my name, something music-related no doubt.
Opinions?
If you change your name you won’t be Fireh anymore! No name changes please, I like your name.
Okay, I just got back from the Kokon, and I am tired.
It was spectacular, really it was. What with the bursting into song, the fighting over Magnolia’s towel, the playing with the viking hat horns, the Abby Road parody, and totally bunnifying the museum, it was quite a spectacular sight.
Restaurant: I wish my mom would have let me get the roasted bitter melon, but that was the only unfortunate thing. (That happened to us, at least.) The bunnies were drowned, impaled, staked, covered in soy sauce and sweet and sour sauce, and eaten. We sang so loudly, that every head turned to stare. (Which is totally normal in most of our cases.) Uh, Pseudonym and I fought over pointless things, as usual, and we met other MBers. Muses. Princess_Magnolia kicked her bag over, and I found a random calculator. Oh yeah, and we distributed contact information.
Walk to museum: It was raining, duh. People kicked puddles, and we talked about random things. Then we found these square pole things in the ground and jumped on top of them and had the parental units take pictures. After that, we j-walked across the street to the entrance of the museum.
In Museum: Took off coats. Dug out cameras. Then came the muse in front of faces and the Kokopelli sign pictures. We browsed around the first floor, and then tramped loudly up the stairs to the second floor. where more peep HPBs came into being mysteriously from Enceladus’ bag o’ muse. We walked around for a little bit until we come across this computer that supposedly answers questions. We asked it, What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? It said, thankfully, forty-two. But then we asked it, Who is the best Beatle? It did not know the answer. And when we asked it who the surprised kitten was, it said the same thing. Although, when we asked it who George Harrison was, it gave a really, really long answer.
Later, we we in a room that had a bunch of weird machines and stuff in it, and Enceladus, AM, and I, had a hard time trying to find a good spot to hide a url for MuseBlog. We finally decided on a spot that you’d have to look to find, and it wasn’t inside a work of art, so the security people wouldn’t get “aggravated” at us. We tested the rest of the Kokonventioneers, and Silver Lining was the only one who was able to find it. Sudo and Silver Lining were then arguing about who was a better Muser because Sudo had come on MB before Silver Lining, but Silver Lining had found the URL.
Then we circled back to another room and came across a hot pink screen with holes in it, where the peep HPBs appeared again, and Enceladus and AM held them up against the screen, where more pictures were taken. Then the HPBs bunnified Enc’s face, and more pictures were taken. (His face mysteriously became Enc-ified again.)
And because I can’t really remember what happened right after that, I’ll skip to the part about the bathrooms.
Bathrooms: So, the semi-aquatic girl-oids ventured into the horribly intimidating girl bathroom, which turned out to be an anteroom. It had a sofa, and a huge painting.
Then all of us ventured into the boys bathroom, which turned out to be…. *holds for suspense* …. a hallway! The we talked about how unfair it was that the girls had an anteroom.
Down the hall: We sat around and made post 11 because Beetles got WiFi on his iPod. Then AM had to leave for something.
After that we made the Abby Road parody, which was already explained by Enc. (Post 16)
Then the parental units made us leave.
Down in lobby: We got our coats on, and split into the “car group” ad the “subway group”
Subway Group: Me, Enceladus, Beetles, SudoRandom, Atan’tsyal and the parental units.
Car Group: Everyone else.
Okay. Sorry about the long post.
We also wanted to give the guy who designed the machines a Muser Unaware award.
What kind of machines were they?
Kinetic sculpture. Look for it on Wikipedia.
Ah, cool.
Yeah, I couldn’t remember that much of certain conversations, and I didn’t include the closet part, or the part behind the curtains in the empty room.
Thanks for reading all that.
-Keiffer Lining
SFTDP. The guy’s name is Arthur Ganson.
*waits impatiently for pictures to be posted*
By the way, Sudo- You’ve inspired me to search for my ancient hot pink cap. I haven’t even thought about it in ages. You should feel special!
Sent in some photos! I don’t have any group ones yet, those are on my mom’s camera, but there should be some of Enc and I devouring peeps, one of Pseudo joyfully stabbing a peep to death, and one of an ad we saw on the train that we thought could be quite… helpful to the Kokonspiracy.
*sigh*
And all my mostly-squelched dreams of having a KoKon revive…
Cake. No Musers live near me.
Oh well. Back to work on squelching them again.
Unless there’s any MBers in Philidelphia… (We’re going there this summer.)
Errata: Several MBers (and one Administrator) live within shouting distance of Philadelphia. It’s not at all unlikely that you’d be able to see some of them when you’re in town.
I live close to Philadelphia and I know that LBK among others who I probably can’t name off the top of my head live around here as well. Not sure if the parental units would let me go, though. The chances are pretty slim unfortunately.
AlpacaLips would like to know where in Texas are you? (you’re in Texas, right?)
Yep, Central Texas. Why?
ME! ME! OVER HERE!!!!
Hm… So there is a chance. Assuming LBK, Starr, and I can all get permission, (I don’t know about LBK, but getting permission for me to do it is by no means a certain thing, I’m really not sure how my parental units would react. They might agree… But then again, they might not.)
Anyway, it’s worth a try. I think we’re going to be in Phildelphia sometime in June.
Also, Fireh, you’re in Tennessee, right? We’ll be stopping in Tennessee on the way up there…
*schemes*
Like I said, unfortunately probably not me either.
My parents are pretty strict, so I don’t know if I would be able to get permission from them. To be perfectly honest, I’m not even sure how I feel about it, either. Don’t worry – this is nothing personal, but even though I’m sure you guys are all great people, I don’t really feel comfortable meeting someone I only know of from online. I do feel like I can trust you, and the idea of Kokonventioning is something that I think would be very exciting and I definitely want to do, but it never hurts to be careful. It’s a bummer that this whole “safety paranoid’ thing has to get in the way, but unfortunately neither my parents nor I can make it go away.
That being said, I would definitely be willing to talk to my parents and think about what they say. I do think it’s worth discussing, but I’m afraid by no means can I say that I can commit to it.
Your parents would have to do more than just give permission. They would have to be involved, and they would also have to be there. The parents send us their e-mail addresses; we put all of them in touch one another; and then they do the planning. Those are GAPA rules.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up, although I’m pretty sure I was aware of all the GAPA rules already. Never hurts to be reminded, though. If they (or we) agree to go, I’m sure they will insist on going and being involved regardless of any rules anyway.
I sorta know how you feel. Kokoning would be amazing, lots of fun, etc., but how do I really know you’re not creepy? I mean, I doubt you are, if I had to say I’d say none of you were, but…
But yes, I’ll talk with my parents about it. My impulse is to say that they wouldn’t agree, but it’s still worth a talk.
Now that I think about it, it seems like the only MBer that actually couldn’t come to a Kokon was Enceladus, and it seems like… Yes, he appears to have gained permission. It doesn’t seem like most parents have too much of a problem with it.
My parents are supportive of kokons- in fact, AlpacaLips has asked me on various occaisions if any of you guys live near us.
We should probably move this to the Kokon thread, and let the Boston Kokoners have their thread back. *moves*
I sort of want to know when I said the thing about “said”.
Sorry, TMFA. I misremembered. ‘Twas SudoRandom: https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=2361#comment-314655.
I did? Oh. No, I didn’t think it sounded better, I just got confused.
So you guys were kokoning at MIT? Flammy. *may be in that neck of the woods this summer* And yes, I approve of staking the bunnies.
*oozes jealousy from pores*
Seems like you guys have a fantabulous time….no encounters with bunnies, I see. Other than marshmallow ones.
Pearyyyy! We should have a Central NY kokon!
YES!!! I’m not sure if my parents would let me, but YESS.
Pictures??
I sent some, I think some others have too, we still need permission from some people.
My Dad’s going to send in a permission email… soon.
Did anybody take a picture of the crazy guestbook? The one we
vandalizedimproved ?Nooooo….
I briefly thought about it, but I did take a picture of all the fabulous messages (including Sudo’s lovely uplifting message from the IlluMimiNati) that we left on the magnetic board.
I can’t wait!
Oh, great. Now I probably sound like a deranged stalker who sits at my computer all day in a hooded black cloak (
Just the thought cracks me up.) hitting the refresh button until pictures come on. Jeez.
What you said=absurd mental picture=
My mom sent permission. Did you get it, GAPAs?
My mom did too, did you get it, GAPAs?
So far we’ve received parental permission for Enceladus, Keiffer, Princess_Magnolia, Pseudonym, and Silver Lining. Still waiting for the others.
You need AM and Beetles? I’ll go email them and ask them to tell their parents.
SFTDP and Atan’tsyal which I don’t have the email of.
Atan’syal *mangles name* ! Pllleaaaseeeies send permission! And Beetles and/or AM, who are related!
And Sudo, right? I didn’t see his name on the list that Robert just posted.
Yes, we have permission for Sudo from the previous kokon.
Oh goodie.
I don’t think (but I could be wrong) that I need to send in permission again. I didn’t have to last time, I think.
I don’t know about my parents…
Please encourage them to let us know one way or another.
Gotcha.
Pictures? *hopeful*
Make the puppy dog eyes! *makes puppy dog eyes*
We want pictures! Pet the gicture?
CAKE!! I MISSED IT! Sorry. I live less than a hundred miles away…*sobs* how could I miss it?
SFTDP-
Hey, Rose and Peary-
The uh…Central NY area? You mean, like, Madison or Otsego or, say, Central Park?
37) I was think more around the lower Fingerlakes area….you live near there?
Careful! You’re approaching the Information Boundary.