A place to note things you think other MBers ought to own, use, or experience.
Continues the original Musers Recommend thread launched in 2007.
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1. Playing a kazoo to the soundtrack of a video game.
2. Telling an Eladrin that they’re not hot; you, as a Tiefling, are.
3. Almost get your character eaten by a giant squid.
4. Type the RPing of more than one character in rainbow font. Violently rainbow font.
5. Naming your character Despair.
6. Picking up a jellyfish.
7. Sing the lyrics to a Broadway musical while walking around your house. Sing them loudly.
8. Get told another MuseBlogger’s friend thinks you’re a pedophile. (Actually, don’t experience that, it’s not fun.)
9. Ride down a waterslide…on your stomach, feet first.
I do not recommend picking up jellyfish.
This is one of the strangest posts I’ve ever seen on the Recent Comments bar.
My dad once threw jellyfish at me.
I can vouch that #2 is also not a good idea. (Teleporting bolts hurt.)
1.1; I did it and turned out fine.
Gary Larson also once got hit in the face by a jellyfish, and look what he did!
1.2; I did it and survived. Might be because I am a mighty Tiefling Warlock and threatened to wear a chainmail bikini. (That or hit him with an Eldritch Blast crit.)
Still, insulting one of the Fair Folk is not a good idea. You never know what kind of connections they might have.
I’ve already done 7 and 9, and i also recommend them.
1. Get a Wii.
2. Go to a summer sleep-away camp.
3. Have a cat curl up on your lap and fall asleep.
4. Be brainless for a day.
5. Get sucked into the stupidity of an America’s Next Top Model marathon.
6. Trip up stairs. (It’s a great conversation starter.)
7. Play dress-up like you’re five again, except in a friend’s closet.
8. Play truth or dare at 3 in the morning in the back of a bus with a bunch of crazy friends. (8th grade trip, if you couldn’t tell.)
Many thanks, GAPA. But I must point out that the 2007 thread was a continuation of the Recommendations thread begun in 2006.
As I was saying earlier, I highly recommend gala apples.
Gala are good, but I recommend Honeycrisp over them.
I prefer McIntosh apples.
axa recommends consulting with the oracle aka the piggy before embarking on life altering quests or before taking menial action
*nods sagely; prophesies*
Would it be wise to bring a sketchpad and pencil to a mandatory dance?
Quite. If the desire arose to use them, they would be available; if not, no harm would have been done.
You mean that isn’t normal? If I have to go to a social event I always bring a notebook/sketchpad and pencil.
I find them too sweet… I do rather like McIntoshes though.
McIntosh apples are my favourite apples; red delicious are my least favourite. (They make me gag.)
I recommend Goblin Fruit (google it, it is a poetry online journal). I recommend Great Big Sea (a band). I recommend sitting on a (preferably flat) rooftop at night. I recommend tea.
I recommend printing out several copies of the towel quote from the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and handing them out to people who look like they should be enlightened. ((That was a terrible sentence, wasn’t it.))
This summer, I recommend that you:
-Fall in love with a good book.
-Bake cookies for someone who is having a bad day.
-Listen to Modest Mouse while driving nowhere in particular.
-Give random hugs to people you have never met (do not try while in the middle of a sketchy neighborhood or an intervention).
-Instead of creating drama in real life situations, take up acting. You can have as much as you want without consequence.
-Feed a squirrel that looks too skinny.
-Climb a mountain: it can be as tall as everest or as short as a pile of dirt.
-Swim out into the middle of a lake on a raft, and float back in to shore. This is more fun if it is with more than one person.
-Do something spontaneous (but not life-threatening).
-Volunteer at a local animal shelter and play with puppies for a day.
-Hide in the middle of a clothes rack at any store, and when someone walks by, jump out and yell “PICK ME!” Be prepared to be kicked out of said store.
-Go cliff-diving. Yes, there needs to be a body of water beneath the cliff.
-Build a gigantic Jenga. The most fun part is knocking it down.
-Write a novel about something that inspires you.
-Try to find the most beautiful garden near your house, and then take a group of friends to take pictures there.
I recommend that you print out a colour picture of every single Doctor and hand them up on you wall.
I recommend that you also do that with a colour picture of every single Jellicle Cat in Cats.
On top of that I recommend reading Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.
And also watching Cats. The Dutch version is amazazing too.
Silver Lining reccomends one day, talking in third-person for as long as you can.
I also reccomend the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness. And giving out as many hugs as you can.
I recommend kilts.
Agreed. *looks furiously for kilts*
I recommend Daniel Pinkwater.
I recommend making friendship bracelets, watching Annoying Orange on YouTube and going to Hershey Park.
I recommend European cheese.
I recommend a towel.
And perhaps a companion cube.
Please explain what exactaly is a companion cube is.
See Castle’s avatar.
Oh. I thought it was a stone block, like the kind used to build castles.
I recommend swimming in lakes, and looking up at the world from under the water.
I recommend kittens.
I recommend rereading every issue of Muse you own. New project. I have 72.
I reccomed you
• read The Red Pyramid.
• Go on Rick rioadan’s blog, magic and mystery.
• read The Name Of This Book Is Secret or listen to it’s audiobook.
A Companion Cube is an inanimate object from the legendary meme inducing game Portal. Commonly recognized as one of THE BEST games in existence, it has spawned various jokes, toys, spinoffs and mods. The Companion Cube specifically is a Weighted Cube with hearts on the side. One of the levels in Portal requires you to hold the Cube in front of you to block incoming energy balls. At the end of the level, you are asked to euthanize your faithful cube by throwing it into the Aperture Science All-Purpose Emergency Incinerator. See this article on the Cube. Safe link, GAPAs, have no fear. When you reach the page, hit find (ctrl+f/pc, comnd+f/mac) and type “Companion Cube”. Hope that explains.
Aperture Science would like to remind you that your companion cube is a friend. It will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, is an inanimate object that cannot talk. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube DOES talk, you would be well advised to disregard its advice.
A “SPOILER WARNING” would have been a good thing to put, since you explain what happens at the end of the companion cube level. *scolds*
Jorge Luis Borges. I’d start with Ficciones.
I recommend you
-Smile once a day
-Defend your castle from evil gnomes
-Let anger fuel you (as in running)
-Play pokemon
-Play on a Wii
-Post something really random
-Hug a tree (even trees need love ^.^)
-Tell someone that they’re special
-Get kicked out of Wal-Mart for doing something ridiculous (Google search “333 ways to get kicked out of Wal-Mart)
-Meet another Museblogger
I would amend the first: Smile at least once a day.
Whoops. El crapo.
Lots of great suggestions! I’d like to add:
– Let your eyes wander over a map of the world that includes place names, randomly “traveling” wherever you want and thinking about what you’ve heard of the places in fiction or from others.
– Try writing a poem. It doesn’t have to be “good”. Just try.
– Make up a crazy story combining two things you love.
– Watch a meteor shower.
– See a lunar eclipse.
– Run barefoot on a grassy lawn and then drink cold lemonaide.
– Stand on the front half of your feet at the beach and leave weird catlike half-footprints in the wet sand.
– Build a drip castle.
– Don’t just build a sand castle, build a city with harbors and defensive walls and pyramids and monuments and lighthouses and canals…
– Tell a little kid a really cool science fact and watch their eyes light up.
Many of those things can’t exactly be done Away from the Coasts. And meteor showers are difficult to watch if you’re not in a rural area.
I recommend living on or near a coast.
Ah, yes, defensive walls and canals are a must-have on sand castles if you want them to last the incoming tide. My brother and I used to make the most elaborate defense mechanisms to keep the water away. When they all got washed away, we would resort to just sitting in front of the castles…
20.1- I didn’t mean this summer. I meant at least once in your life.
I recommend:
-Going to deviantArt and write a long appreciative essay on every piece of (Pokemon or not) art that deserves one. Don’t forget to ask for whether they want critique.
-Making something Pokemon related. Draw a nice picture. Write short story. Dream up a really complicated fan fiction plot and (maybe) try to write it out.
-Staring at a cloud and finding 42 Pokemon in it within a minute while talking nonstop to an (imaginary or not) friend. (If it’s a non-Pokemon-loving friend, you can use animals.)
-Make friends with a fly, a slug, or an ant.
-Make friends with another odd person.
-Figure out the latest Pokemon news. (Oh no!) Disappoint/Happify yourself.
-If you’re not a Pokemon fan, enlighten yourself with the awesomeness of Pokemon. Sometimes I feel guilty knowing i’m having all the fun.
Would creating a reasonable explanation for how the Space Shuttle Columbia can be in the Pewter City museum count as a really complicated fan-fiction plot?
Hmmm, I don’t know.
I recommend:
-Sleeping outside at least once a year
-Going to a desert then to a temprate rainforest
-exploring lava tubes
-white-water rafting
-learning a new language
-reading a whole lot
-spending much time on MB (no duh)
-finding a muser who has never been to MB but should and dragging them to a computer to enlighten them
-getting at least one of your friends as addicted to your favorite TV show as you are (preferably Dr. Who)
-playing in the snow
-seeing REAL mountains, esp. if you live in a plains state. And while I suppose the appalachians count, I’d reccomend the Rockies or the Cascades, or, for that matter, the Olympics.
-leaving the continent (it’s okay if you come back)
-discuss particale physics with some random guy you meet at summer camp
-dance in the rain with your best friend.
1. Failed that already
2. Already been to both, though not consecutively in that order
3. Done that
4. Should do that.
5. Doing that
6. Of course- what do you think I do on the weekends?
7. Yeah.
8. 3 times.
9. Twice.
10. A bunch of times- I’m in MA for heaven’s sake.
11. I should do that
12. I’ve done that.
13. Not particle physics, but fractal dimensions. Does that count?
14. Nope.
I’d say fractal dimensions count. I love fractals—So PRETTY and math nerdy
1. WAY more than once.
2. High desert and then Redwoods – does that count?
3. Yes! Lava Beds National Monument = awesomness.
4. Haven’t done that; and I’d probably be too scared.
5. My parents want me to, but…
6. Of course!
7.See above.
8. No, sadly.
9. No, because I didn’t watch Doctor Who until after my friend was gone.
10. See 6 and 7.
11. I live in Oregon. Of course I have done that.
12. Yes, but that was quite a while ago.
13. No, I don’t understand particle physics enough to do that.
14. Maybe. I can’t really remember the last time I was with my best friend in the rain.
Of course the redwoods count! redwoods=awesomeness
11 was on there cause once I met a girl who lived in…Kansas, I think, and showed me pictures of the molehills they were calling mountains down there. So I showed her a pic. of Mt. Olympus (couldn’t find one of the Cascades) And having just been to Oregon (class trip—really a lovely place) and seen the 3 sisters (SO PRETTY) I don’t doubt that you have seen many a real mountain.
OOH do you live near Oregon? ‘Cause I’m thinking KOKON!
1. Yup. It’s fun.
2. I wish.
3. What?
4. Does white-water kayaking count?
5. Doing that.
6. But of course!
7. No duh is right.
8. I’ve tried. Am planning to do so to H soon. (She likes HP, LoTR, HG2G, DW, and is flamabulously geeky in general.)
9. In process with five people.
10. Yep. And shoveled it off the driveway (huge driveway, uphill, steep hill) afterwards.
11. Yup. Climbed them, too. (I climbed Mt Fujii on New Years, a long time ago… I was five or so, I think.) Ooh, the Rockies. I love the Rockies.
12. Yup. Japan several times, Hawaii once.
13. I need to do that.
14. Not best friend, but a pretty good friend. We sang at the top of our lungs, too, and got scolded by my mom for being soaking wet when she picked us up after dance.
1. Can’t. Horrible allergies.
2. If the redwoods count, then yes. I live in NV, for goodness sake!
3. Not yet.
4. I wish. *wishes*
5. Duh.
6. Double duh.
7. Once. Didn’t work out well. *shudders at memory*
8. My friends are already addicted to my favorite TV show. *glee*
9. Yupers.
10. I’ve skied at Breckenridge. Does that count?
11. Once. Ahhh, Jamaica …
12. Um, no. Sorry.
13. How about dancing in the desert with your best friend? And I mean DESERT.
Laying outside on a patch of grass in summer and watching day turn into night. Not just sunset, but before and beyond it.
yes
I recommend
~ taking a dry camping trip
~ climbing a short tree and sitting there
~ enjoying algebra
~ playing a instrument
~ performing (anything)
~ writing free-verse poetry
~ taking a pottery class
~ making a list of the books you want to read
~ baking apple crisp
~ using Google Sketch-Up
~ finding your house on Google Earth
~ laughing insanely
~ having great friends
Wow. I have done all of that…. this is cool.
All but the first one! (And my list of books is ‘all books not produced for mass consumption)
I recommend:
-Finding or rediscovering an obsession
-Taking a long hike up a mountain/hill, then enjoying the view
-Talking to yourself
-Finding time to sit down and really think
-Going to the beach when nobody’s there
-Going to the beach in winter
I recommend Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.
-THUMBS UP-
-HIGH FIVE-
I recommend cinnamon toast with cream cheese.
I LOVE cinnamon toast with cream cheese! I have it all the time!
I recommend chocolate.
I recommend choklit!
I recommend XKCD.
I recommend not letting a hair fall into your mouth and get caught in your braces during tightening, and then getting afore-said hair caught in your throat for a while until drinking water and choking on said water allows you to swallow it.
I recommend not giving me ideas.
Case in point: just now (I’m in homeroom) somone told me not to “look up gay pictures of that gay whatever-his-name-is”. (Meaning David Bowie)
Because he’s such an idiot, there are now several tabs open with pictures of Bowie.
Don’t listen to any Adam Lambert songs in front of your Oldies-Obsessed Dad.
1. Getting on a bike and taking long, lovely rides around everywhere you can, with your hair trapped beneath a helmet and the wind whapping your face.
2. Making delicious red chili that makes your tongue feel like it’s giving off sparks.
3. Getting baked, as alike an oven, inside your car.
4. Opening your eyes, taking a glance at the clock, and feeling a nice warm rush inside you when you see it’s past nine.
5. Rubbing cool blue aloe vera all over your arms and shoulders and back, and wincing because it was dumb not to put on sunscreen.
6. Eating hot peach crumble.
7. Wearing an animal-shaped Beanie Baby on your shoulder, everywhere, and watching the smiles on people’s faces as they see you.
8. Sitting in front of a fan in the middle of the library with the sun beating down on your back and the fan blowing a tiny breeze at your face, reading the first Harry Potter for the twelfth time.
9. Going to a day baseball game, and spreading out a jacket like a blanket beneath you on your seat so that you don’t burn yourself by sitting on the hot green plastic, sipping an ice-cold, overly artificial lemonade and being so close to heatstroke you can barely tell which team is up to bat.
10. Going to a night baseball game, and getting clam chowder in a bread bowl where both are so warm that it makes your stomach feel actually happy.
11. Going to the house of a friend who possesses plastic light sabers and having swordfights with them.
12. Finding a jasmine bush, picking a few flowers, squishing the petals, and rubbing the juice behind your ears and on your wrists.
13. Running into a natural lake, then diving in headfirst once you’re deep enough, and coming up screaming with water running from your nose because it’s so incredibly cold.
14. Sitting on your back porch, late at night, with your arms wrapped around your knees, looking at the stars that are so faint you can barely see them.
I recommend relaxing.
I recommend floating in a pool, just floating, looking up at the sky.
I recommend spending lots of time in the library.
I recommend following dreams.
I recommend life.
I recommend sunrises.
I recommend waking up before the sun and the rest of your house are up, and just relaxing, curled up in bed with a book.
I recommend farmers’ markets.
I recommend Super Mario Bros. 3, Mackinac Island, and Sculpey clay.
I recommend learning to solve a Rubik’s Cube. It’s not too hard to do, and it makes everyone think you’re a mystical guru of some sort.
I recommend standing alone in a rainstorm, relaxing. And closing your eyes and hearing the thunder, or smelling or tasting the rain, or just being. And opening your eyes and watching the lightning, or the rain on the grass or on a spiderweb, or the play of light the rain makes.
I’ll second that!
I don’t really think this is a double post, seeing as the previous one was months ago.
I recommend attempting to psychoanalyze yourself while you are too tired to think straight. It’s quite interesting, and I find that squiggly thoughts are more revealing of character than straight ones anyway.
Don’t listen to “We Will All Go Together When We Go” at school. The administration does not like it. Apparently it is “inappropriate and hurtful.” Seriously, how can Tom Lehrer be hurtful?
I do recommend the following: wait until it rains really hard (in singapore, that’s pretty much every day) and everyone goes inside. Then find a nice wide, empty field, forget about lightning, and lie down and let yourself get completely drenched. It feels great.
Also, if you have synesthesia- or even if you don’t-: listen to “Spring” by Vivaldi while drinking hot chocolate. For me, it produces a wonderful rainbowish effect.