May/June 2007 Muse Discussion
Spoilers are inevitable on this thread.
Date: April 20, 2007
Categories: The magazine
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pie parade
in April 20th, 2007 @ 16:09i havent gotten it yet but i just want a first post really bad!!!!!!!!!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in April 20th, 2007 @ 16:311-Hmmm… Ok, but try not to do that usually.
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jammin j
in April 20th, 2007 @ 17:27should we be discussing something? how about love!(just kidding) okay, what do you think about the internet? do you think it should be commecialized? i mean like owned by a private companies like verizon and comcast? well, i don’t know if anyone wants to discuss this but who cares! i like randomness!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 20th, 2007 @ 17:32The idea is to discuss things that were in the magazine, after you’ve read it.
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emmatheduck
in April 20th, 2007 @ 17:381-Posting just because you want a first post and don’t have anything to say is generaly frowned upon on MB.
3-That’s more the kind of thing that should go on the incredible morphing chameleon, or the April discussion thread, or whatever it’s called. The Muse discussion thread is specifically for discussing whichever issue of the magazine the thread title suggests.
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Insane Moose (FfD)
in April 20th, 2007 @ 17:55I’ve not gotten mine yet. It is only the middle of April though.
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jammin j
in April 20th, 2007 @ 19:47ohhh……what was the mag about? i forget :blush:
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Lady Moonstar
in April 21st, 2007 @ 11:045- Well, it’s that or leave this thread blank. MOST of us haven’t got ours yet.
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agagabagabag
in April 21st, 2007 @ 19:56*Looks at mag* Hmmmm… Oh! Okay. Here’s a hint. *pretends to be dead*
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Dragon Wings
in April 22nd, 2007 @ 11:45Jeez, it’s not May yet. I haven’t got mine yet.
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chocokoko
in April 22nd, 2007 @ 17:31yeah me either
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Fossiliferous Whisk
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 10:14Anyone see the Muse Contest? I was in it! At least, thats what one of my friends said.
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sonybalony
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 15:47I got my issue. It’s on MONEY. MONEYMONEYMONEYYYYY. It talks about economics and stuff. There’s also an article about an internet video game whose peices are so valuable to some people that they’d pay real money to buy them on eBay. No joke. The article also talks about money’s transition from the tangible world to the virtual one.
Also, it’s nearly May, so those of you who havent’ gotten it yet will soon. The only bad thing about the issue coming early is that now i have to wait for the July/August issue in 2 months.
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johnkerry
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 16:18i wish there was a june muse
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Kiki the Mindbogglingly Magnificently Great
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 16:41I liked it, especially the article on how the economy works. It made me ROFLMAO!!
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Piggy
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 18:46that mag was awesome. i liked the article on how the economy works, too. hilarious! liked the 1/3 to bill gates thing. LOL
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Eliana
in April 23rd, 2007 @ 19:53I really enjoyed the issue on grameen. Is anyone else here interested in sustainable development? I thought the whole issue was fascinating.
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Pentatonikk
in April 24th, 2007 @ 11:58I love Dave Barry. I love Grameen. I love lawling at srs business internetsers. General consensus: Good issue. Yay.
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Julieb
in April 24th, 2007 @ 18:12How is it that I love every issue of Muse more than the last? They reprinted a Dave Barry article! The internet game thing was just sort of weird, though I know they can be really addictive. “Banker for the Poor” was really interesting.
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Kiara
in April 24th, 2007 @ 18:45If you want to learn more about stocks or actaully have a (pretend) one, you can go to investopedia.com. Really cool stock simulator there.
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Koko du Pelle
in April 25th, 2007 @ 11:52Hi. I jus… OOOOOOPS! Wrong thread! Cool. The comment at the end of the economics article was true. Even though I can’t FATHOM a lot of what he said, I don’t think the economics people understand economics either. I LOVED the Ultima Online article. As to Koko and comp., that dollar bill DID turn Kokonino County backwards. Craww chasing Pwt is sdrawkcab, Mimi not getting along is the OPPISITE of her character, etc., etc. Bo was right!
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Cat's Meow
in April 25th, 2007 @ 19:16SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
That should be enough. If not…oh well.
Anyways! I just got my mag today and it was AWESOME! The economics article was hilarious, and I loved the stuff about the virtual currency because that’s what my school project was on last trimester. Yay for Muse!
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M & M
in April 25th, 2007 @ 22:56Dave Barry is briliiant. Maybe Muse should feature more of his articles.. :]
The time travel Q&A thing was really interesting too..I was also wondering…how come muse mag’s size shrunk?
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Red-tailed HAWK
in April 26th, 2007 @ 18:58Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!
Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!That should be enough.
9-That was last month.
This issue is about money.
Not to offend, but do any of you play that expensive game? I guess you have to be really good at it to make money.
Now on to how to get some newbies to come here… Um, somebody named Elizabeth wrote in… COOLCOOLYAYAYAY!!! T.N.O. is in there!!! COOL! Anyway…
The Ivars Peterson page was interesting too.
I think I’m going to send something in for the Muse contest. I never have, so I should at least try. Something has always stopped me.
12-Was that for the April Muse? What is your real name? I don’t see the name “Fossiliferous Whisk” anywhere…
THIS IS THE END OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS POST!!!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in April 26th, 2007 @ 18:59Um, my “spoilers” got a little messed up
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Fossiliferous Whisk (SM2K)
in April 27th, 2007 @ 16:1824- It’s an ugly Black & white picture of 4 peeps and was sent in by Sarah L., Texas. Which is me.
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E2MB
in April 29th, 2007 @ 16:48The May/June issue is SMALL!!! It’s an entire half-inch smaller than usual on each sides!!! My Muse collection has all the muses lined up on my bookshelf, all exactly the same size. This issue just doesn’t fit in.
I don’t think I need to put 10 lines saying “SPOILERS SPOILERS” in front of that.
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E2MB
in April 29th, 2007 @ 16:5024 – I entered in the Rube Goldberg machine contest a few years ago. Problem was, those things are so big they were only able to fit three contest winners over 2 pages!
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emmatheduck
in April 29th, 2007 @ 20:05It was fun. I liked the Dave barry article. And the one about the online thing. That conversation with PayPal was funny. People are so stupid.
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E2MB
in April 30th, 2007 @ 13:50OH BOY AM I MAD. NOT ONLY WAS THE ISSUE A 1/2 INCH SMALLER ON BOTH SIDES, IT WAS ALSO 8 PAGES SHORTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAUUUGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE !@#$%^&* HECK IS UP WITH REMOVING 1/6 OF THE MAGAZINE!?!?!? I WANT MORE MUSE, NOT LESS!!!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 30th, 2007 @ 13:51All I can say is: muse@caruspub.com.
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E2MB
in April 30th, 2007 @ 16:3531 – I sent a letter by snail mail.
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E2MB
in April 30th, 2007 @ 18:57I rate the April Muse:
8 out of 10.
The articles were very interesting and very good. I would’ve rated it 9/10 if it was 8 pages longer.
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E2MB
in April 30th, 2007 @ 18:57I mean the May Muse, dangit!
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I-Man
in April 30th, 2007 @ 22:2922 – What the heck is a trimaster?
I am SO entering the contest!
Also, I thought the Muses never touch money (see 1/07 issue). What’s up wit dat?
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I-Man
in April 30th, 2007 @ 22:30I mean trimester.
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I-Man
in April 30th, 2007 @ 22:33Is the blog running on mountain time? If it is, that’s probably why my last three posts were so late!
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Fossiliferous Whisk (SM2K)
in May 1st, 2007 @ 12:29Carp. I just now realized that the picture I was in was the APRIL Muse. So, If you look in it (in the contest) you will see ME!
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emmatheduck
in May 1st, 2007 @ 17:1535-Maybe this takes place before that, and they decided after that that money was a bad idea.
35-I think a trimester is like a semester, except there are 3 of them every year instead of just two.
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purplefinch
in May 3rd, 2007 @ 05:34The quote was by Samuel Beckett, I noticed. My dad had big black book about him, I think. And I used to call it the Beckett-Booket. And then, by accident, I tore off one of the pages with pictures in the middle. So that is how I remember him .
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E2MB
in May 4th, 2007 @ 09:1835 – I noticed that too!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 4th, 2007 @ 11:43Now you see why they never touch money.
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E2MB
in May 4th, 2007 @ 15:43I back-ordered the April issue so I’ll now have it.
That side article “under the spell” made me seriously think about MuseBlog and my C+ in Algebra 1. I won’t be spending as much time here until the summer because I need to do math!
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Alice
in May 4th, 2007 @ 15:51Huh! It reminded me of MuseBlog too, except for the fact that when I have something better to do, I don’t come on here. Just when I’m bored.
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E2MB
in May 5th, 2007 @ 11:20Well, I’ve had that C+ for most of the year, but MuseBlog sure is making it harder to get all the assignments done!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 18th, 2007 @ 08:05Okay so Fossiliferous Whisk is also SM2K and got in the contest in the April Muse? Cool!!!!! *Adds what Fossiliferous Whisk looks like to memory of all pictures seen of other Musers* Let me see…I’ve seen a picture of PP, THP, E2MB, and now you. OH and I know what I look like. So that’s, um, five. *must go*
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 22nd, 2007 @ 07:11This thread is dying!!!
PLEAse HelP THIs DYing thread!!!!!!!!!!!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 6th, 2007 @ 07:15Man this thread is most definitely, totally, completely, indiputably DEAD.
Not that it should be closed, though.
Red-tailed HAWK
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 6th, 2007 @ 21:18I asked the GAPAs to put this on the “don’t forget these threads” thread, and that’s how I got here, but nobody else has…
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E2MB
in June 6th, 2007 @ 22:53I’m here!!!
Um…….what shall we talk about?
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 7th, 2007 @ 07:26The May/June Magazine!
I was shocked about that online game thing!!!
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E2MB
in June 7th, 2007 @ 17:06Yea….it sounds so dumb how people would pay good money for something that doesn’t even exist!
That conversation between Julian Dibbel and Paypal was sooooo dumb. JD won the argument, and PP just tried to ignore that fact that he was right. Cursed Paypal……
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E2MB
in June 7th, 2007 @ 17:0846 – Don’t forget c+q! And Kiki the great’s photo in the muse mail Jan 07 issue!
Also, that photo of me is like 6 years old. I look TOTALLY different now.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 7th, 2007 @ 20:5552-No, I think PP might have a point. If you sell and ship tickets to a foorball game, that’s covered, because you’re selling a tangible good, the tickets, not an intangible good, the football game. But if you sell a UO account, and ship a peice of paper with the password on it, that’s not covered, because you’re actually selling the account, and that’s an intangible good. They don’t cover intangible goods if the intangible good is what’s actually being sold. Or maybe it was because it wasn’t real money, cause at the top it said PayPal couldn’t give him his money back because it wasn’t real money, it was Brittania gold pieces that are completely worthless outside Ultima Online.
41-So did I! That’s three!
46-There’s me, I got a photo of myself reading Muse in Muse Mail! Alan D. (Don’t zap that, GAPAs! The HG2MB says you can supply your last initial! But you knew that…) That should make… 5 minus 1 because the E2MB photo is out of date, plus 2 for c+q and Kiki the Great, plus one for me, makes 7! w00t! You now know what 7 different MBers look like, and would (I assume) recognize them if you met them on the street! w00t again! Why does w00t always have to be an exclamation? That’s something to think about… Ojkay, I have to wrap this up cause it’s 9:55 here and my dad gave me two minutes… Bye!
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Alice
in June 8th, 2007 @ 15:1954- But if you sell the piece of paper, not the account, then they would cover that?
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E2MB
in June 8th, 2007 @ 17:1455 – That’s what I was thinking.
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E2MB
in June 8th, 2007 @ 17:1554 – Ooooooh! Which issue were you in?
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Koko du Pelle
in June 9th, 2007 @ 13:3755-Probably, but he isn’t selling the piece of paper. I think. And it still wasn’t real money! 57- Lemme check.. *goes off to check* March 2007! *recieves random whim* Maybe I’ll change my name to Ligers-rule Man//? Or something about ligers… Suggestions, please? *RANDOM WHIM!* Who is entering the contaest? Or should that be on the polling place?
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E2MB
in June 10th, 2007 @ 15:2858 – Cool! Though I can’t exactly see your face because it’s reading everybody’s favorite magazine!
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Koko du Pelle
in June 11th, 2007 @ 10:2459-Yeah…
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Koko du Pelle
in June 12th, 2007 @ 09:24This thread is dying…
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Koko du Pelle
in June 12th, 2007 @ 12:42Dead thread dead thread dea thread dea thred dead thead dead thread dead thead…
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E2MB would like to encourage everybody to join an RRR because some really cool stories can be generated through RRRs
in June 12th, 2007 @ 17:16I think it only qualifies as a dying thread if nobody visits it for several days.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 13th, 2007 @ 12:0963- Okay, if nobody (not counting this post) posts here before June 15th, I will take steps to save a dying thread…
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E2MB
in June 14th, 2007 @ 23:30I POSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 hee hee
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E2MB
in June 14th, 2007 @ 23:31Half an hour before your deadline too!
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Koko du Pelle
in June 15th, 2007 @ 10:58You did that just so I wouldn’t tkae steps! That was a Pointless Post!!!!!!!!!!!! *fines E2MB 1,000,000,000 boxes of virtual choklit* Ha Ha! I am a PoPoPoer! *fines E2MB 1,000,000,000 pieces of virtual choklit* And don’t let uit happen agIMN!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 15th, 2007 @ 17:1567-When did YOU become a part of the POPOPO??? I didn’t hear about this. It’s fine you fined him, but the choklit goes to the POPOPO, not you.
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Ebeth the Titleless
in June 15th, 2007 @ 17:5768-all you have to do is declare yourself.
“I am a PoPoPoer!”
And it’s the PoPoPomen/women who EAT said virtual choklit, so i don’t see that it really matters. *takes some of the choklit from koko du pelle and nibbles*
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E2MB
in June 15th, 2007 @ 23:2867 – Congrats on being a MuseBlogger for an entire year! You came on June 11, 2006, and now, 369 days later, you can wear the badge of honor that states “I have been on MuseBlog for an entire year!” *pies*
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Koko du Pelle
in June 16th, 2007 @ 18:5270-Ooh! *puts on badge* Of course, I was on MB off and on for that year…
69-“Titleless”? Your title is Titleless, and therefore, you are notv titleless!
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Alice
in June 16th, 2007 @ 20:0971- That’s the point, I think.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 17th, 2007 @ 09:5372-Oh. *pies*
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E2MB
in June 17th, 2007 @ 21:34Weird. It’s been 14 posts since anyone has said anything about the May/June issue.
Since the new Muse issues have shrunk considerably compared to the old Muse issues, I dub this era of Musery “the age of the mini-muses”.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 18th, 2007 @ 12:2474-Yeah, it really got changed.
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E2MB
in June 18th, 2007 @ 13:01*pies whoever made muse smaller*
I remember at first, it felt too small. Then when I compared it to other Muse issues, I was shocked. I felt like I was holding a tiny replica of a Muse issue, not an honest-to-goodness Muse.
But at least Muse doesn’t repeat issues. Kids Discover does, and it’s ticking my friend off because all the new issues he already has.
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Alice
in June 20th, 2007 @ 11:40Jeez! I just got a subscription! Who made it smaller? ROBERT! Are’t you one of the makers of Muse? Why did you make it smaller?
Koko du Pelle, where is your piccy? Oh no, that was another Muse, not this one . . .
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E2MB
in June 20th, 2007 @ 11:4977 – Wait! I just figured it out! Robert isn’t the culprit!
If you look at the March 2007 issue (the last mega-Muse), and look on page 2, you’ll see the staff listed. Diana Lutz is the the Editor in Cheif,
Grand Pooh-bah, King and Tyrant, and so on and so on.If you look on page 2 of the April 2007 issue (the first mini-Muse), lo and behold: Diana Lutz is no longer in charge! Ramona Prokopiw is the new Editor in Cheif,Grand Pooh-bah, King and Tyrant, and so on and so on.I highly suspect that she is the main culprit.Koko du Pelle’s picture can be found in the March 2007 issue of Muse on page 6.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 20th, 2007 @ 11:53Sorry — I’m not in the driver’s seat at Muse. I just write part of the Q&A column. The shrinking issues were a surprise to me, too.
A lot of magazines have gotten smaller in the past few years. Publishers do it to save money on paper and postage (lighter magazines cost less to mail). The publishing industry as a whole is in a big financial bind just now, largely because people just aren’t buying as many magazines as they used to. They have less time to read, and they’re reading more stuff on the Web. With less money coming in, publishers look for ways to cut costs. Unfortunately, making your magazine smaller virtually guarantees that even fewer people will want to buy it. So circulation falls even more, and publishers cut even more costs, and so on.
Someone on the blog recently mentioned that
National Geographic KidsKids Discover had started republishing whole issues. If so, that’s clearly part of the same phenomenon.If you’re upset about smaller Muses, I’d say the Muserly thing to do is to tell the publisher.
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E2MB
in June 20th, 2007 @ 12:39I sent a letter in a while ago. I got their typical check-in-the-box postcard reply, along with a note that says they wish it could be longer too. They didn’t say why it shrunk, but cutting costs does seem to be the main suspision.
National Geographic Kids repeating issues? That can’t be. They always have “coolest new inventions of this year” articles, reviews of the newest movies, and other stuff that couldn’t possibly be reissued.
Kids Discover is repeating issues, though. I have some very old issues of the magazine from about 10 years ago, and my friend who currently subscribes is starting to get all those issues. What ticks me off is how in the old issues, they say they never repeat issues in the past, present, and future. Now, on the new repeated issues, it no longer has that claim.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 20th, 2007 @ 12:55My mistake — I meant Kids Discover.
A few more facts to work with: As required by law, Muse publishes its circulation figures (the number of copies it sells) every year in the November/December issue. (In 2006 it was on page 47.) By taking that number and multiplying it by the cost of an issue, you can figure out how much money Muse has coming in. That’s the budget. Everything the magazine does has to come out of that money, or the magazine goes into debt. By looking at the circulation statements in back issues, you can calculate how things have been changing over the past few years. That’s how to think like a publisher.
Interesting, no?
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E2MB
in June 20th, 2007 @ 13:3081 – *gets out all November/December issues he owns*
Muse income in
1998: $2,194,272.00
1999: $2,281,425.09
2000: $1,989,607.62
2001: $2,044,074.06
2003: $2,293,887.75
2004: $1,692,449.01
2005: $1,977,705.45
2006: $1,669,106.25It doesn’t seem to be terribly in trouble.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 20th, 2007 @ 13:36No? Income dropped by more than 25% in the three years between 2003 and 2006. That doesn’t sound good to me.
And we don’t know what was happening to costs during that time. Postal rates went up. Paper? Rent? Salaries? It’s hard to say.
What are the circulation figures, by the way? How many Musers were there in all those years?
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E2MB
in June 20th, 2007 @ 13:4483 – Yes, in 2004 the sales were bad, but in 2005 they were back to normal. In 2007, the sales might go back up.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 20th, 2007 @ 13:53Let’s hope so. Meanwhile, though, the magazine has to get by on less money — and Musers have to get by on less magazine.
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Alice
in June 20th, 2007 @ 14:10Oh dear. I suggested in my letter (that I just wrote) that perhaps it was the fault of Bunnius Evilus. It doesn’t seem to be the case.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 20th, 2007 @ 17:22Yeah! The shrinking Muse is caused by Romana Prokipiw, who maybe thinks Diana was making Muse too long. So she shrunk it. Though to be honest, I hadn’t noticed it shrunk.
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Alice
in June 20th, 2007 @ 17:2587- I would never have noticed, except E2MB pointed it out. Heheh.
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E2MB
in June 21st, 2007 @ 12:5488 – I didn’t notice it myself for about 2 1/2 months.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 21st, 2007 @ 13:17I thought it didn’t feel as big all along. It used to feel like you were actually holding something important, those few inches meant something. Now it feels like a travel-sized mag!
AHA and did Muse think about kids carying these around??? I might not carry them around if they are any smaller. I hope the people in charge there are looking at this page to see our disappointment.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 21st, 2007 @ 13:25They know about the blog, but I don’t think they ever come here. Your best bet is to tell them using the magazine’s little-known online e-mail form.
(87) The past tense of “shrink” is “shrank.”
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E2MB
in June 21st, 2007 @ 13:3090 – I know. Muse, back when it was heavy, felt big. Now those lost ounces make it feel small. Too small. Muse has lost it’s weight appeal.
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Alice
in June 21st, 2007 @ 14:18Maybe if we all submit complaints and promises to advertise, they’ll make it big again.
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Red-tailed HAWK the Prime Muser of Ice, and don't you forget either!
in June 21st, 2007 @ 20:03But still there will be a few in our collections of the small size!
HEY they could be valuable if they do go back to the big ones! But really it feels like a travel size.
91-Okay!
RtH
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E2MB
in June 21st, 2007 @ 21:3494 – Yea!!! The small Muses could be collectibles!!!
Unless, of course, the Muse issues stay small forever, in which case the big Muses will become collectibles.
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Alice
in June 21st, 2007 @ 21:4495- *sniff* Do not speak to me of that!
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E2MB
in June 21st, 2007 @ 21:4996 – I was talking to RtH.
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Alice
in June 21st, 2007 @ 22:0797- Good point.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 22nd, 2007 @ 06:27(93),
It can’t hurt, but I’m not sure that MBers’ promoting the magazine adds up to much in publisher-style arithmetic. Let’s see…I guess there are about 40 active MuseBloggers. If each of you recruited three new subscribers, that’s 120 new Musers. At about $30 per subscription, the publishers would get an extra $3600 a year. I’m sure they’d be happy to see it, but it wouldn’t solve the magazine’s financial problems. According to E2MB’s calculations in comment 82, it would take at least 100 times that much to make a dent.
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The HAWK of ICE
in June 22nd, 2007 @ 07:4799-But if we could convince enough people to drop off because of being smaller!
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Alice
in June 22nd, 2007 @ 09:46100- Then it would go out of business, just like my dad’s maritime magazine. And I would HATE that.
99- *begins to scheme* It’s worth a try. If I meet another Muser who is not a MuseBlogger, I’ll ask them to advertise and direct them to the blog.
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The HAWK of ICE
in June 22nd, 2007 @ 12:56101-No he means to get new people to get the mag to boost their profit. But getting more bloggers would be nice.
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in June 22nd, 2007 @ 17:57102- I know. Direct them to the blog so that they can join our grand scheme.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 23rd, 2007 @ 10:28The last post that had anything to do with th May/June Muse was Comment 58. This comment I’m posting is 104 (I think). 104 minus 58 equals… 56. It ha been 56 posts since anyone talked about the May/June Muse. Unless you count 59 and 60.
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in June 23rd, 2007 @ 10:49Well, we’re good at keeping on topic, aren’t we?
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Koko du Pelle
in June 24th, 2007 @ 12:56We need to get this thread back on topic. The same thing happened to Expeditionj for the Scribblemaya.
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Alice
in June 24th, 2007 @ 16:03106- But why? We are having a nice conversation, why break it off by on-topic-ness?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 24th, 2007 @ 16:17Seems to me this discussion is sufficiently Muse-related and was, after all, prompted by the diminution in size of the issue in question.
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Alice
in June 24th, 2007 @ 16:19I tried to get someone interested in Muse yesterday, but he wasn’t very…
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Koko du Pelle
in June 25th, 2007 @ 09:39108-But it wasn’t about the May/June issue.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 25th, 2007 @ 12:59110-But it was smaller!
w00t I love last post more than first! I hope the GAPAs close this thread now!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in June 25th, 2007 @ 13:00Why should we close it? People might still be discussing the May/June 2007 issue a hundred years from now, for all we know.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in June 25th, 2007 @ 13:22112-Oh. I thought you always closed a thread when the new one came, but maybe not…
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in June 25th, 2007 @ 14:17(113) In the case of sequential series, such as parts 1, 2, 3, we close threads to avoid any more confusion than what one should expect of an MB thread, whereas this is more of a free-standing subject.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 26th, 2007 @ 07:55114-How true. You close Part 2 of the random thread when Part 3 arrives, but you don’t close the May/June 2007 Muse discussion when the July/August 2007 Muse dicussion arrives. And you’re right, they might still be discussing the May/June 2007 issue in 2107.
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in June 27th, 2007 @ 11:27115 – We’re actually more discussing Muse’s diminishing size.
This isn’t the first time Muse has lost some bulk. The first blow came in 2002, when the publishers announced the December issue would no longer be published. We went from 480 pages of Muse-filled goodness a year to 432 pages. Now in 2007 we’re down to only 384 pages per year, and the pages are smaller too. This is not looking good.
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in June 27th, 2007 @ 11:29Actually, that’s not quite correct. We’re only getting 360 pages of Muse-filled goodness a year. That means we’ve lost 120 pages of Muse yearly in just half a decade.
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Alice
in June 27th, 2007 @ 11:37*sob* Don’t they know that we all want more, not less?
I wrote a letter, and they sent me back a polite email, but I don’t think that they’re going to publish it. Despite the fact that I included my
brilliantHPB theory.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 27th, 2007 @ 15:40118-What’s your theory?
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Alice
in June 27th, 2007 @ 16:02119- That there are two species, Nicegoodus and Evilus, that look exactly the same. You seriously didn’t know that? :wideeyes:
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Vixen of the Ruby Eyes
in June 28th, 2007 @ 08:59I sent them a suggestion that we musers could write short articles for them so they could fill up those eight pages. mostly i tried to make them feel a bit guilty.
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Koko du Pelle
in June 28th, 2007 @ 09:24120-I wanted to make sure it was the same theory.
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rabbity24
in June 29th, 2007 @ 12:54121- aren’t a lot of us writing stories about the muses? Couldn’t they have the 8 pages filled with our stories AND articles? It could be pretty interesting and we could sorta meet the people we meet on muse blog
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Cinnamon Moon
in June 29th, 2007 @ 14:45I explained your bunny theory to one of my friends. This was after she was wondering why I drew HPBs everywhere, but wrote “Beware of the bunnies – they are evil” on a note, which had pictures of HPBs on it. As this was in the middle of a german lesson, it was a difficult feat. But she understands now.
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Alice
in June 29th, 2007 @ 14:55124- Did you have to explain in german?
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Cinnamon Moon
in June 30th, 2007 @ 03:55125- Sort of.
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E2MB
in June 30th, 2007 @ 10:33126-How do you say hot-pink bunny in German?
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in July 2nd, 2007 @ 11:14127- Erm . . . bunny . . . uh . . . I think it begins with h . . .
My mother would despair of me. I can’t remember what hot is either, and I never learned pink.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 2nd, 2007 @ 12:01According to Babelfish (which must be handled with care), “hot-pink bunny” is “heiß-rosafarbenes Häschen.” The plural is “heiß-rosafarbene Häschen.” I assume that’s in the nominative.
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E2MB
in July 2nd, 2007 @ 12:09Heiß-rosafarbenes Häschen sounds a lot more like it’s something important than hot-pink bunny.
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widdershins (e~a)
in July 2nd, 2007 @ 12:14Hot-pink bunny in Spanish is “Conejo de color rosado brillante”
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in July 2nd, 2007 @ 12:17(131) Boy! By the time you managed to shout out a warning in Spanish, it would be too late.
(130) (For those who know even less German than I do, “ß” is a sort of abbreviation for “ss.”)
Again according to Babelfish, rabbit is Kaninchen, hare is Hasen, but bunny is Häschen. Rosafarbenes just means “rose-colored.”
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Alice
in July 2nd, 2007 @ 14:49132- I knew that. (The ss thing.) Kaninchen. Yeah, I remember now.
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Purple Panda
in July 4th, 2007 @ 18:56I’d say just HPB in Spanish, which would sound somewhat like achay-pay-bay. Much easier to say, and if we get the name internationalized, everyone would know what it stood for!!
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Ebeth The Titleless
in July 18th, 2007 @ 11:21Is the shrinking thing the cost of printing so many pages or paying people to write articles? Because you could do part of it online or through emails or something.
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Ebeth The Titleless
in July 18th, 2007 @ 11:23btw, i wouldn’t know about any of this because i renewed it and it hasn’t come yet…i’m wondering if it got lost or something, but this is the first time i’ve renewed after missing a couple issues…usually i renew before the time runs out. How long does it generally take?
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Alice
in July 23rd, 2007 @ 21:01135- Not a bad idea, really. Maybe I’ll go write them another letter now…
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in July 23rd, 2007 @ 21:02123- Well. I suppose it’s possible, but Muse isn’t really a fiction mag. That’s what Cricket is for.
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