Well, I’ll be the second one to post. I just did a MAJOR project on biological warfare this year, and I studied a lot of the ways diseases spread, so I found this article wonderfully fascinating. How people knew nothing about the simplest diseases, and they were sooooooo harmful. I am kind of fascinated with plauges…
Obsessed with plagues, yeah, me too. There was one week or so a few years ago when I had nothing at all to do, so I wandered around my grandparent’s house wondering if I was coming down with the bubonic plague. Yeah, cheerful. Looking back, I have no idea what was wrong with me, but something clearly was. I worried a lot when I was ten and eleven, and that was the kind of thing I worried about.
Hi, I”m Kiki’s mom, and though she’s at camp she did tell me to post for her and see what people thought of the article she and her Dad wrote for the Magazine…….I’ll print out people’s comments and mail them to her.
7-Hi Kiki’s mom! Kiki wrote an artical? Pwnsome!!! *can’t wait to get it* What’s it on? This is a spoiler thread, so it’s okay to tell me. It’s not like it’s posted on this huge blog that everyone who reads Muse goes to…
Kiki’s article was cool. I didn’t realize how much money JKR makes. Wow!
11-Have you even read the new Muse yet? Cholera is a disease that is transmitted only through water. Bad water doesn’t cause cholera. But I wonder how the baby did catch it? Oh, well.
I liked your article Kiki!!! It was very cool… I thought that it had a nice way of ending, especially since my stories/random things for language arts certainly end abruptly. Also, I love Harry Potter and the computer games too.
In the Muse Mail section, let me say that I can relate to the person who goes here (to the blog), and closes it when here mom comes over. *whew* I thought I was the only one with parents who are worried that I will for some reason meet some person from the internet without an adult around. geez, I’m not five. Yes, yes, I know they mean well. Indeed I do.
J. K. Rowling could live for the rest of her life on pop and doritos! If she has enough money to buy a big-screen TV, a Wii, a bottle of pop, and a bag of doritos every day for the next 100 years and still have money to spare…. Or she could buy 2,500,000 Alivan wands! What’s Alivan, anyway?
So, I just finished the Potter article and then I saw the picture and the name at the bottom and I spazzed and went “OMGZLES IT’S KIKI!” So congrats!
Being a freak, of course, I noticed some typos in the magazine. I forgot one already, but in Kate’s letter (the first one) it mentions that the “passage if time” is an interesting subject. Shame! (I’m sure it wasn’t Kate’s fault. -nudges almighty editors- How about sending me advance copies to proofread from now on, eh?) And then, in Kiki’s article, not a typo by her, but the photo on the last page of the “Hogwart’s Express” countdown thing intrigued me. I grabbed my well-worn copy of Sorcerer’s Stone and found that on page 95, it does indeed say the following: “A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express, eleven o’clock.” I’m sure most people don’t go looking for misplaced apostrophes as I do, but it hurt me deeply, I can tell you that. (Not any fault of Kiki and her dad but that of the ones who made that awful sign.)
I am slightly confused about The Broad Street Pump. Has it been in Muse before? I know I read about it somewhere and I naturally assumed it was in Muse. Huh.
20 ~ Yep, all forty pages present and accounted for.
Hm. I feel like I had something else to say. But I forget so I’ll post this as is.
SPOILER WARNING FOR RED-TAILED HAWK *******************************************************************************
There, that should sufficiently clog up the recent comments.
Just got it today! Hooray!
Very nice article, Kiki! That was very interesting. Harry Potter is ridiculously overrated, even if it is a good series.
Now we know Kiki’s full name…. Mwahahahahahaha.
Has anyone else noticed that the gloriously random humor and diversity that once was the first page has lost some of its humor and diversity? What happened to things like Miss Monkey Manners Matter, Notscape, and the Alien or Human? checkpad? Oh well.
On a brighter note, the cholera article was fascinating, and slightly horrific at the same time. The threw corpses in their drinking water? Ickick. Even (or especially) the Victorians should have known that.
I think that I am happy. I managed to read the cholera article without being smitten with a sudden fear that I would get cholera, which is more than I could have said two or three years ago. Or even last year, when it comes to that. (I can laugh now, and so can you, but I couldn’t always have.)
So, I’m there, reading through this issue, and I get to the HP article. And I read the authors. And was like “egadthatperson’snameisAllegraitmustbeKiki!” So I go here, and see Comment 7. Egad, indeed! Anyway, applause!
7- Great Job! I easpecially loved all of the numbers facts, but the whole article was good!
I think this was a great issue but it seemed shorter than past issues. The cholera article was interesting, as was everything else.
Okay now I have a cholera anecdote: In third grade my friend checked out an eyewitness book called the epidemic book. In it was many diseases and thier effects, etc. She made up this idea to pretend we were docters and everyone else was sick at reccess. Thus a new game was born.
Friend: It looks like a bad case of cruelella!!
Me: What?
Friend: Its a disease I read about in the epidemic book
so we played it for about a week, until I asked to see the book. It turned out it was Cholera she was talking about.
The magazine shrank from 48 pages to 40 pages in the April 2007 issue. The pages got smaller, too. May someone with a good set of scales will tell us just how much less Muse there is now.
Ak! Why are we shrinking muse???
I was soo happy with this issue, tho it was soooooo much smaller. I am sorta obsessed with that particular cholera incident!!!! I made an entry for the contest too!!! yaay muse is the best magazine ever. and Kiki I love ur article. I agree that HP is over publicized and there’s just too much going on w/ fans and such, even tho I still like the books and movies. Nice math facts too
10, 12 (Koko du Pelle and Piggy)- They drank from and bathed in the Thames – the river into which they threw their garbage, sewage, and dead. It’s a miracle London still exists! That’s how the pilgrims nearly wiped themselves out, you know. It could have come from someone far away, too, who caught cholera elsewhere and somehow transmitted it to someone who transmitted it to the baby. The baby was almost certainly not the first case of cholera ever.
On the subject of plagues, I saw a documentary on the 1912 (I think) influenza epidemic. How is it that we have practically forgotten all about it? People were dropping like flies!
I was going to a party yesterday, and I was reading the article about J.K. Rowling. When I got to the party, we had a huge discussion about Harrry Potter! I was able to impress everyone with my knowledge of Rowling trivia! Thank you, Muse!
diseases don’t just pass on by people drinking the contaminated water, they could eat anything that might have contaminants in/on it, like food from a garden that was fertilized with human waste or getting it on your hands (like a mother changing a baby), then eating or making food for other people
43- This is the disscusion thrad, that it’ll have spoilers is a given. People who don’t want spoilers go to the Roll Call thread.
45- I’m not sure eating the vegtables would do it. Unless the outside of the vegtables got dirty or were washed in the water…
Anyway, congratulations, Kiki! I didn’t know your dad wrote for the Tribune, what section?
As for the contest- I think I’m going to do this one. No, I don’t mean in the halfhearted way I say that sometimes. I thought it’d be interesting to do something like me into my holloween character (yes, I planned out my costume. It was night, I was on a loud boat, and everyone else was sleeping.), one of the crow girls (I got this idea from e~a, even though she wasn’t one last year she was EAP’s The Raven).
It’d have a medium-sized picture of me normal, then underneath it a smaller series of pictures of me getting ready and the last one a larger one of the complete costume, posing or something. The sequence would go from daytime (normal) to dusk to night (crow girl). Even though I’m forgoing de Lint’s description of the crow girls for my own, because, come’on, the feathers make it great.
If I don’t end up doing this (it means actually making my costume earlier than I thought) I might do something else with pictures of something or maybe drawings.
Actually, I wanted to ask that- could I do pictures of me? Before I start this, just to make sure
OMG! (I never thought I’d type that, as it sounds incredibly chat-speakish and juvenile, but there are some situations when nothing else is appropriate.) Is Allegra Rosenberg KIKI THE GREAT?
I don’t think I really could say OMG, though I may have said it once somewhere. The one time I said “Woot”, it felt really weird, and I didn’t even say it with the 0s. Pwns is another one of those, I’ve anly used it once or twice. *ponders*
46-N0, but if they are looking through the recent comments bar!
47-Yup, now HER last name is out.
48-I have said “W00t” a few times around my parents!
44-N0000000000000!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t want to have an entire issue I couldn’t look at! *Hides*
45-O_Kay.
44 (Again)-Enough people can’t stand him that it wouldn’t be right to make an issue we couldn’t look at. I don’t think there has been a Muse before that some people wouldn’t have been able to look at…
I have just come back from a 2-week-long trip to Mexico, and literally walked in the door 5 minutes ago. I feel like I don’t even know how to type (seriously!) and I completely forgot how to use a touch-pad mouse. But right when I walked in the door, I did not help unpack the suitcases, I bolted to the mailbox to find the Muse!!
…And what did I find…KIKI! Congratulations!!
(Sorry I didn’t read the thread yet…I’m a bit culture-shocked, and just wanted to say hi and such. Plus, mi madre is yelling at me to help unpack, so I’d better go!)
When I opened the magazine, I just coincidentally flipped to the Harry Potter article, and I saw the name “Allegra Rosenberg,” I immediately ran down to THF and told her that Kiki wrote an article (I knew her name before this, and was just guessing that it was Kiki – I didn’t see the thing at the end of the article yet), and I read the article really fast. Strangely, when I really want to read something, I read it extra fast. And still, when I was speed-reading, the little subconscious editor in my brain caught a mistake (at least I’m almost 100% sure it’s one – page 31, “The Money” section, line 11, 4th word: Rowlings). But I always do that…it’s kind of annoying sometimes. Whenever I’m reading the newspaper, I have a highlighter handy, because I like to highlight all of the mistakes. But I guess that’s a good thing because I want to be an editor?
By the way, that whole mistake-thing wasn’t supposed to be a criticism of the article. I find thousands of mistakes all the time, and I was just mentioning it. It was an absolutely fantastic article and I loved it!
51- Wow, you’re extreme. But I guess when I read, I always keep an eye out for things I might have done better, so maybe it’s not that extreme. And one time . . . *is pied by people who don’t want to hear her long rants about errors and inconsistencies in books*
I got it yesterday. I am thoroughly shocked. This Muse seemed much, much smaller than the previous issue, even though it was still 40 pages long. I was really disturbed that there were only three (3!) new articles. One of them I did not find interesting at all, so that gave me TWO (2!) interesting Muse articles to read. Gaaaaaaa!!! I feel like my life has lost it’s meaning…Muse is no longer what it was…DARN YOU EDITORS!!!!!!!!!
She looked a lot different from the first time she was in the mag…
I wish I could be more enthusiastic about kiki’s article, but I’m not a Harry potter fan. It is a great article on the topic, but I have not really been reading the books.
53-I know, I’m mad too… Which one didn’t you like?
And the Harry Potter article was awesome! My favorite part about it was that it was written in a true Muse style, with side comments and such. You can tell it was written by someone who “knows the style!”
The fact that JKR is making so much money off of this is a bit disturbing. When you have kids reading an entire book all night so they can say they finished it the next day, you know you have crossed the line of reason into the land of competition. [/dramatic statements]
I haven’t read the Harry Potter books yet, but I’m going to. You see, since I’ve waited, I’ll now get to read them in peace and not have to return them to the library really fast cuz some other kid wants them. You know what I mean? Everyone’s read the first 6 books! I am just behind the times but who cares!
Kiki, that is awesome! I had no idea it was you till everyone else was talking about it! Really good job.
I wouldn’t even know it was shorter than the previous magazines because this was my first issue. We used to get it back in the 90’s and early 2000’s, but I doubt I would have noticed the change. Shame! Still, as my sister said, because of the postage stamps going up, it costs A LOT more money to mail alllllllllll those mags to us people. Even that 2 cent difference is going to make a huge difference when you add it to every single magazine. Therefore I am not mad at the editors even though it is rather sad. *sniff*
Thanks for all the great comments, guys. Since I only just got back, I don’t really have time to read them all, but I skimmed and I really think that I will write another one!
55- I am a year older and I cut my hair.
51- lol. MY FAULT. No really, it was probably ROMANA’S fault. j/k.
47- CHUSS I EM. I hate my last name…
61- It amused me. I could definately see your writing style in it. (that’s why the amusement) It was a good and interesting article, though, good job! I just liked that I could see your style in there.
By the way, MBers have said in the past that they don’t like theme issues — that they’re more likely to find something they like with a random assortment of topics.
64- New game plan . . . typical. I liked the OLD game plan! While the articles may be more random, the first page ISN’T. And the first page was always so brilliant and funny! *sniffle*
49- Maybe the cats and the dogs ones.
66- Yea. The First Page has gotten much worse. “Paneaca for hangnails. It works – if you give it enough time.” *Sniffs and goes off to cry quietly in a corner.*
Robert, you’re involved in Muse. And it’s a really small magazine, right? So could you ask the editors to make the first page wonderfully random and unrelated again? Like Notscape, and the alien or human? quiz, and stuff like that.
(68) I’ve already mentioned to Nak (Nancy Kangas) that some MBers preferred the old first pages, but I think the message would be more effective coming from you — lots of you, if others agree. You can write to the editors using the official website’s now-hidden e-mail page.
Hey, it’s me! Nak, the First Page Fun Drainer-outer -er ? oh dear. To be honest, I’m not sure I knew I was doing anything differently! (I’ve been doing the first pages for a while. — although some of those Classics were before my time) So, maybe my brain is going soft? Or — is it the “Dear Muse Reader” intro-letter thingy that takes the edge off the wackiness? Is it the skinny little people? — too… too … skinny?
Or, maybe it’s just that it is TOO neatly related to the issue?
You can be frank — why not! (oh yeah, my feelings. pish posh. Muse Quality is at stake!)
I don’t mind the skinny people…”Dear Muse reader” isn’t the issue…I think…I think the problem is that maybe some of the recent ones haven’t been deep enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is they haven’t had quite enough material or body to them…Too much “filler” without enough funny parts. It’s rather hard to explain, and it is a general statement…
I don’t mean to offend, and I know it’s hard to please everybody…
75- Well hello! Now I have to file my complaints into an orderly list, neatly balanced with the things I like about the first page. Uh-oh. Hmm. Maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s neatly organized. Yeah, I’ll say it doesn’t. For one thing, it isn’t random enough. That’s the main thing. It has the same format every time, “Dear Muse Reader”. And it has too much to do with the issue. That’s about it. On the other hand, some of your older stuff is brilliant. *coughnotscapecough*
I’m not sure it’s the “dear Muse reader” that is the trouble, I think the fitting too closely to being a letter to us is the problem. I don’t mind if it sys dear Muse reader, but the older ones might not have seemed so much like they were written as a letter…
Yeah, like the notscape (one of my new dreams is to bring that page to life now. it was hilarious) one wasn’t so much a letter-type-ish-thing but just a very funny peice of randomness stuck into the front. It didn’t have anything to do with the issue (I think) but it’s one of my favorites.
I’d look back through them and find better examples but I’m with relitives so I don’t have them here.
87- See, the problem is that if we had a page for the MB in the mag it would attract too much attention to the blog, and it would be swamped with newbies and pointless posts. The thought scares me.
I loved the article about Maria Sibylla Merian’s life and her drawings of plants and insects. She was so bold and brilliant! And her drawings are beautiful. I’m stunned that I’d never heard of her before. I studied botany and plant pathology in graduate school but somehow didn’t learn about her.
Heheh. No one’s got it yet, have they. It’s rare that a thread stands open so long without anyone posting.
Well, I’ll be the second one to post. I just did a MAJOR project on biological warfare this year, and I studied a lot of the ways diseases spread, so I found this article wonderfully fascinating. How people knew nothing about the simplest diseases, and they were sooooooo harmful. I am kind of fascinated with plauges…
Did Kiki the Great really write an article?
Obsessed with plagues, yeah, me too. There was one week or so a few years ago when I had nothing at all to do, so I wandered around my grandparent’s house wondering if I was coming down with the bubonic plague. Yeah, cheerful. Looking back, I have no idea what was wrong with me, but something clearly was. I worried a lot when I was ten and eleven, and that was the kind of thing I worried about.
Oh, you said fascinated with plagues. That’s what I am now.
Hmmm… don’t think I am obsessed yet…
Hi, I”m Kiki’s mom, and though she’s at camp she did tell me to post for her and see what people thought of the article she and her Dad wrote for the Magazine…….I’ll print out people’s comments and mail them to her.
Kiki’s mom (Rachel)
7- I haven’t got it yet, but what was it about?
7-Hi Kiki’s mom! Kiki wrote an artical? Pwnsome!!! *can’t wait to get it* What’s it on? This is a spoiler thread, so it’s okay to tell me. It’s not like it’s posted on this huge blog that everyone who reads Muse goes to…
There was some crucial info missing from the cholera artucla. The outbreak came from one baby who died of Cholera, but where did the baby catch it?
10- Cholera is caused by poor sanitation, bad water, etc.
Kiki’s article was cool. I didn’t realize how much money JKR makes. Wow!
11-Have you even read the new Muse yet? Cholera is a disease that is transmitted only through water. Bad water doesn’t cause cholera. But I wonder how the baby did catch it? Oh, well.
12- I don’t have it yet.
13-Then STAY OUT! This thread is for discussing the new Muse, so if you have’nt gotten it, you have no place on this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations, Kiki!!!!!!
I like your article…very informative…and it’s so cool that you wrote it with your dad!
I didn’t realize untill other MBers talked about it that Kiki the Great and and her dad wrote “What hath Harry wrought?”
I liked your article Kiki!!! It was very cool… I thought that it had a nice way of ending, especially since my stories/random things for language arts certainly end abruptly. Also, I love Harry Potter and the computer games too.
In the Muse Mail section, let me say that I can relate to the person who goes here (to the blog), and closes it when here mom comes over. *whew* I thought I was the only one with parents who are worried that I will for some reason meet some person from the internet without an adult around.
geez, I’m not five. Yes, yes, I know they mean well. Indeed I do. 
J. K. Rowling could live for the rest of her life on pop and doritos! If she has enough money to buy a big-screen TV, a Wii, a bottle of pop, and a bag of doritos every day for the next 100 years and still have money to spare…. Or she could buy 2,500,000 Alivan wands! What’s Alivan, anyway?
Alivan is an online shop that sells wands and other Potterish equipment. Like Diagon Alley on the Web.
I have a question for people who’ve got it: Is it still 40 pages long? Because I’ve been having awful nightmares lately.
So, I just finished the Potter article and then I saw the picture and the name at the bottom and I spazzed and went “OMGZLES IT’S KIKI!” So congrats!
Being a freak, of course, I noticed some typos in the magazine. I forgot one already, but in Kate’s letter (the first one) it mentions that the “passage if time” is an interesting subject. Shame! (I’m sure it wasn’t Kate’s fault. -nudges almighty editors- How about sending me advance copies to proofread from now on, eh?) And then, in Kiki’s article, not a typo by her, but the photo on the last page of the “Hogwart’s Express” countdown thing intrigued me. I grabbed my well-worn copy of Sorcerer’s Stone and found that on page 95, it does indeed say the following: “A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express, eleven o’clock.” I’m sure most people don’t go looking for misplaced apostrophes as I do, but it hurt me deeply, I can tell you that. (Not any fault of Kiki and her dad but that of the ones who made that awful sign.)
I am slightly confused about The Broad Street Pump. Has it been in Muse before? I know I read about it somewhere and I naturally assumed it was in Muse. Huh.
20 ~ Yep, all forty pages present and accounted for.
Hm. I feel like I had something else to say. But I forget so I’ll post this as is.
21- it was in the july or agust cricket back in 2004
SPOILER WARNING FOR RED-TAILED HAWK *******************************************************************************
There, that should sufficiently clog up the recent comments.
Just got it today! Hooray!
Very nice article, Kiki! That was very interesting. Harry Potter is ridiculously overrated, even if it is a good series.
Now we know Kiki’s full name…. Mwahahahahahaha.
Has anyone else noticed that the gloriously random humor and diversity that once was the first page has lost some of its humor and diversity? What happened to things like Miss Monkey Manners Matter, Notscape, and the Alien or Human? checkpad? Oh well.
On a brighter note, the cholera article was fascinating, and slightly horrific at the same time. The threw corpses in their drinking water? Ickick. Even (or especially) the Victorians should have known that.
I think that I am happy. I managed to read the cholera article without being smitten with a sudden fear that I would get cholera, which is more than I could have said two or three years ago. Or even last year, when it comes to that. (I can laugh now, and so can you, but I couldn’t always have.)
So, I’m there, reading through this issue, and I get to the HP article. And I read the authors. And was like “egadthatperson’snameisAllegraitmustbeKiki!” So I go here, and see Comment 7. Egad, indeed! Anyway, applause!
7- Great Job! I easpecially loved all of the numbers facts, but the whole article was good!
I think this was a great issue but it seemed shorter than past issues. The cholera article was interesting, as was everything else.
Okay now I have a cholera anecdote: In third grade my friend checked out an eyewitness book called the epidemic book. In it was many diseases and thier effects, etc. She made up this idea to pretend we were docters and everyone else was sick at reccess. Thus a new game was born.
Friend: It looks like a bad case of cruelella!!
Me: What?
Friend: Its a disease I read about in the epidemic book
so we played it for about a week, until I asked to see the book. It turned out it was Cholera she was talking about.
25- It was shorter than past issues. It was only 40 pages long.
26- it has been that way for the tenth birthday issue and on
27- No, I don’t think so…
26 ~ WAIT! You’re right! -splutters in indignation- And here EM2B had me thinking it was usually forty!
29- Really? It used to be 48, but last month it was changed to 40.
Yeah I figured something was up when I finished it so fast. It’s amazing what a difference eight pages can make!
(26-31),
The magazine shrank from 48 pages to 40 pages in the April 2007 issue. The pages got smaller, too. May someone with a good set of scales will tell us just how much less Muse there is now.
I caught on when one of the magazines braged that it was an extra long issue because it had 48 pages.
I wonder why it shrunk…
Ak! Why are we shrinking muse???
I was soo happy with this issue, tho it was soooooo much smaller. I am sorta obsessed with that particular cholera incident!!!! I made an entry for the contest too!!! yaay muse is the best magazine ever. and Kiki I love ur article. I agree that HP is over publicized and there’s just too much going on w/ fans and such, even tho I still like the books and movies. Nice math facts too
(33, 34, 35) We’ve been discussing the shrinkage over on the May/June issue thread.
10, 12 (Koko du Pelle and Piggy)- They drank from and bathed in the Thames – the river into which they threw their garbage, sewage, and dead. It’s a miracle London still exists! That’s how the pilgrims nearly wiped themselves out, you know. It could have come from someone far away, too, who caught cholera elsewhere and somehow transmitted it to someone who transmitted it to the baby. The baby was almost certainly not the first case of cholera ever.
On the subject of plagues, I saw a documentary on the 1912 (I think) influenza epidemic. How is it that we have practically forgotten all about it? People were dropping like flies!
(37) Do you mean the pandemic of 1918? It killed many times more people than the world war which proceeded it.
Was that documentary from a few years ago? I remember seeing something about it.
38- Yeah, that’s it.
I’m not sure when the documentary was from. Maybe a few years ago. We got it at the library.
Did anyone see the letter from Rebekah S. about the bunnies looking like playboy? I thought that sounded familiar….
I was going to a party yesterday, and I was reading the article about J.K. Rowling. When I got to the party, we had a huge discussion about Harrry Potter! I was able to impress everyone with my knowledge of Rowling trivia! Thank you, Muse!
32- It DID??? I never noticed! How could you??
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS SPOLERS
YAY IT CAME!!! THE WORLD IS SAVED!!!!!!!
I read the small parts already, but not the longest articles.
I saw Kiki’s article…It is longish, too, so I have not read it.
My mom often likes to read the articles with me so I think I will drag some willpower out and wipe the dust off and wait…
I loved the Harry Potter article, but I really wish Muse would do a whole issue on it.
diseases don’t just pass on by people drinking the contaminated water, they could eat anything that might have contaminants in/on it, like food from a garden that was fertilized with human waste or getting it on your hands (like a mother changing a baby), then eating or making food for other people
43- This is the disscusion thrad, that it’ll have spoilers is a given. People who don’t want spoilers go to the Roll Call thread.
45- I’m not sure eating the vegtables would do it. Unless the outside of the vegtables got dirty or were washed in the water…
Anyway, congratulations, Kiki! I didn’t know your dad wrote for the Tribune, what section?
As for the contest- I think I’m going to do this one. No, I don’t mean in the halfhearted way I say that sometimes. I thought it’d be interesting to do something like me into my holloween character (yes, I planned out my costume. It was night, I was on a loud boat, and everyone else was sleeping.), one of the crow girls (I got this idea from e~a, even though she wasn’t one last year she was EAP’s The Raven).
It’d have a medium-sized picture of me normal, then underneath it a smaller series of pictures of me getting ready and the last one a larger one of the complete costume, posing or something. The sequence would go from daytime (normal) to dusk to night (crow girl). Even though I’m forgoing de Lint’s description of the crow girls for my own, because, come’on, the feathers make it great.
If I don’t end up doing this (it means actually making my costume earlier than I thought) I might do something else with pictures of something or maybe drawings.
Actually, I wanted to ask that- could I do pictures of me? Before I start this, just to make sure
OMG! (I never thought I’d type that, as it sounds incredibly chat-speakish and juvenile, but there are some situations when nothing else is appropriate.) Is Allegra Rosenberg KIKI THE GREAT?
47- Yup.
Isn’t it cool?
I don’t think I really could say OMG, though I may have said it once somewhere. The one time I said “Woot”, it felt really weird, and I didn’t even say it with the 0s. Pwns is another one of those, I’ve anly used it once or twice. *ponders*
THIS POST CONTAINS 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 SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
46-N0, but if they are looking through the recent comments bar!
47-Yup, now HER last name is out.
48-I have said “W00t” a few times around my parents!
44-N0000000000000!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t want to have an entire issue I couldn’t look at! *Hides*
45-O_Kay.
44 (Again)-Enough people can’t stand him that it wouldn’t be right to make an issue we couldn’t look at. I don’t think there has been a Muse before that some people wouldn’t have been able to look at…
RtH
I have just come back from a 2-week-long trip to Mexico, and literally walked in the door 5 minutes ago. I feel like I don’t even know how to type (seriously!) and I completely forgot how to use a touch-pad mouse. But right when I walked in the door, I did not help unpack the suitcases, I bolted to the mailbox to find the Muse!!
…And what did I find…KIKI! Congratulations!!
(Sorry I didn’t read the thread yet…I’m a bit culture-shocked, and just wanted to say hi and such. Plus, mi madre is yelling at me to help unpack, so I’d better go!)
…Sorry for the double post…
When I opened the magazine, I just coincidentally flipped to the Harry Potter article, and I saw the name “Allegra Rosenberg,” I immediately ran down to THF and told her that Kiki wrote an article (I knew her name before this, and was just guessing that it was Kiki – I didn’t see the thing at the end of the article yet), and I read the article really fast. Strangely, when I really want to read something, I read it extra fast. And still, when I was speed-reading, the little subconscious editor in my brain caught a mistake (at least I’m almost 100% sure it’s one – page 31, “The Money” section, line 11, 4th word: Rowlings). But I always do that…it’s kind of annoying sometimes. Whenever I’m reading the newspaper, I have a highlighter handy, because I like to highlight all of the mistakes. But I guess that’s a good thing because I want to be an editor?
By the way, that whole mistake-thing wasn’t supposed to be a criticism of the article. I find thousands of mistakes all the time, and I was just mentioning it. It was an absolutely fantastic article and I loved it!
51- Wow, you’re extreme. But I guess when I read, I always keep an eye out for things I might have done better, so maybe it’s not that extreme. And one time . . . *is pied by people who don’t want to hear her long rants about errors and inconsistencies in books*
I got it yesterday. I am thoroughly shocked. This Muse seemed much, much smaller than the previous issue, even though it was still 40 pages long. I was really disturbed that there were only three (3!) new articles. One of them I did not find interesting at all, so that gave me TWO (2!) interesting Muse articles to read. Gaaaaaaa!!! I feel like my life has lost it’s meaning…Muse is no longer what it was…DARN YOU EDITORS!!!!!!!!!
I think it’s cool Kiki the Great wrote an article. I had no idea she looked like that….
She looked a lot different from the first time she was in the mag…
I wish I could be more enthusiastic about kiki’s article, but I’m not a Harry potter fan. It is a great article on the topic, but I have not really been reading the books.
53-I know, I’m mad too… Which one didn’t you like?
55 – The one about plant drawing. And though the cholera one was interesting, it was just kind of long.
I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but I found the numbers thing interesting!
Kiki-if you’re back, I loved your article. I’m not totally obsessed with Potter (Or am I…?), but It was great, and very well-written. Congradulations!
I really liked the article about the Cholera.
And the Harry Potter article was awesome! My favorite part about it was that it was written in a true Muse style, with side comments and such. You can tell it was written by someone who “knows the style!”
The fact that JKR is making so much money off of this is a bit disturbing. When you have kids reading an entire book all night so they can say they finished it the next day, you know you have crossed the line of reason into the land of competition. [/dramatic statements]
I haven’t read the Harry Potter books yet, but I’m going to. You see, since I’ve waited, I’ll now get to read them in peace and not have to return them to the library really fast cuz some other kid wants them. You know what I mean? Everyone’s read the first 6 books! I am just behind the times but who cares!
Kiki, that is awesome! I had no idea it was you till everyone else was talking about it! Really good job.
I wouldn’t even know it was shorter than the previous magazines because this was my first issue. We used to get it back in the 90’s and early 2000’s, but I doubt I would have noticed the change. Shame! Still, as my sister said, because of the postage stamps going up, it costs A LOT more money to mail alllllllllll those mags to us people. Even that 2 cent difference is going to make a huge difference when you add it to every single magazine. Therefore I am not mad at the editors even though it is rather sad. *sniff*
LAWL!!!!! I EM BOCK!!!!
Thanks for all the great comments, guys. Since I only just got back, I don’t really have time to read them all, but I skimmed and I really think that I will write another one!
55- I am a year older and I cut my hair.
51- lol. MY FAULT. No really, it was probably ROMANA’S fault. j/k.
47- CHUSS I EM. I hate my last name…
61- It amused me. I could definately see your writing style in it. (that’s why the amusement) It was a good and interesting article, though, good job! I just liked that I could see your style in there.
I didn’t see any sort of theme to the articles this time. Germy water, plant and bug paintings, and harry potter. Odd.
New editors, new game plan? We’ll see.
By the way, MBers have said in the past that they don’t like theme issues — that they’re more likely to find something they like with a random assortment of topics.
64-That’s possible, but if they chose a great topic, the more the merrier!
But random is good!
64- New game plan . . . typical. I liked the OLD game plan! While the articles may be more random, the first page ISN’T. And the first page was always so brilliant and funny! *sniffle*
49- Maybe the cats and the dogs ones.
66- Yea. The First Page has gotten much worse. “Paneaca for hangnails. It works – if you give it enough time.” *Sniffs and goes off to cry quietly in a corner.*
Robert, you’re involved in Muse. And it’s a really small magazine, right? So could you ask the editors to make the first page wonderfully random and unrelated again? Like Notscape, and the alien or human? quiz, and stuff like that.
(68) I’ve already mentioned to Nak (Nancy Kangas) that some MBers preferred the old first pages, but I think the message would be more effective coming from you — lots of you, if others agree. You can write to the editors using the official website’s now-hidden e-mail page.
68 – Nancy Kangas writes the first pages. You can ask her!
69- I wrote.
70- But how to get a hold of her?
She drops by the blog sometimes. I’ll invite her to come here.
72- Okay.
If anybody wants to read the special Muse Ble page, go here.
Hey, it’s me! Nak, the First Page Fun Drainer-outer -er ? oh dear. To be honest, I’m not sure I knew I was doing anything differently! (I’ve been doing the first pages for a while. — although some of those Classics were before my time) So, maybe my brain is going soft? Or — is it the “Dear Muse Reader” intro-letter thingy that takes the edge off the wackiness? Is it the skinny little people? — too… too … skinny?
Or, maybe it’s just that it is TOO neatly related to the issue?
You can be frank — why not! (oh yeah, my feelings. pish posh. Muse Quality is at stake!)
75-Wow! Hi!
I don’t mind the skinny people…”Dear Muse reader” isn’t the issue…I think…I think the problem is that maybe some of the recent ones haven’t been deep enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is they haven’t had quite enough material or body to them…Too much “filler” without enough funny parts. It’s rather hard to explain, and it is a general statement…
I don’t mean to offend, and I know it’s hard to please everybody…
Red-tailed HAWK
75-well ,it’s just that we want more like october (screamazon)
and feburay 06 (felid guide to yet-unknown-humanods)
75- Well hello! Now I have to file my complaints into an orderly list, neatly balanced with the things I like about the first page. Uh-oh. Hmm. Maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s neatly organized. Yeah, I’ll say it doesn’t. For one thing, it isn’t random enough. That’s the main thing. It has the same format every time, “Dear Muse Reader”. And it has too much to do with the issue. That’s about it. On the other hand, some of your older stuff is brilliant. *coughnotscapecough*
I’m not sure it’s the “dear Muse reader” that is the trouble, I think the fitting too closely to being a letter to us is the problem. I don’t mind if it sys dear Muse reader, but the older ones might not have seemed so much like they were written as a letter…
79- That’s what I meant. The format.
Yeah, like the notscape (one of my new dreams is to bring that page to life now. it was hilarious) one wasn’t so much a letter-type-ish-thing but just a very funny peice of randomness stuck into the front. It didn’t have anything to do with the issue (I think) but it’s one of my favorites.
I’d look back through them and find better examples but I’m with relitives so I don’t have them here.
What is this famous Notscape? Could someone describe it, please?
It’s hard to describe. Nak (Nancy Kangas) invented it, and it was on page 1 of the October 2004 issue.
Yeah, see, I didn’t get that issue. My first one was the bird/dinosaur one.
84- I didn’t get it either. But it’s not to be missed. That’s what libraries are for.
I was wrong about the dates, though. I think that I just didn’t get that issue.
This doesn’t exactly have anything to do with the July/August issue of Muse, but I wasn’t sure where else to post it.
2 ways to improve Muse:
1. Every January, Muse puts out a special issue, that is ten pages longer then usual. To get things started for the new season.
2. New section: Muse-Blog Update. On this page, readers of the magazine, are updated on the most current threads of the blog.
GAPAs, if there is somewhere else that you could redirect this, please feel free to do so.
By the way, the article on Choelera was gross.
87 – except I doubt 2 would work, since I believe someone (Robert?) said somewhere that Muses were written 4 months in advance or something like that.
87- See, the problem is that if we had a page for the MB in the mag it would attract too much attention to the blog, and it would be swamped with newbies and pointless posts. The thought scares me.
I loved the article about Maria Sibylla Merian’s life and her drawings of plants and insects. She was so bold and brilliant! And her drawings are beautiful. I’m stunned that I’d never heard of her before. I studied botany and plant pathology in graduate school but somehow didn’t learn about her.
this therd should be cloused…
nobody will read this but…
after people started to talk about notscape I randomly chose a back issue and it was the on with that!