Friday, 3 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Those indefatigable podcasters Purple Panda and Taiwan Hippo Fan have assembled their fifth MuseCast for your delectation. It’s twice as long as any of the others and is ver-r-r-ry interesting.
If you’ve come in late, you can also listen to MuseCast 1, MuseCast 2, MuseCast 3, and MuseCast 4, right here on the blog.
Date: August 5, 2007
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business
Cool!
Wow, HAWK sounded a lot different than I’d always imagined him sounding. Older, kind of. And more serious. Hmm. I wonder if it will affect the way I read his posts from now on.
I must get into the next one. I sent Pan a desperate plea for iChat help, because frankly it’s twice as hard as algebra.
I like fashion. But not miniskirts so much, it’s true. Not that I’ve anything against miniskirts. I have several in my closet.
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Ah, yes, I shall listen on the plane to D.C!
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W00t! That was great!
1- I noticed it too…I didn’t realize my voice was so deep already…
I hope my part wasn’t too boring…*heads to kokonspiracy thread*
Was I the first male Muser in a MuseCast? Come on, guys! Send stuff in! 
It sounds great!
RtH
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1-He does sound wierd…
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won’t… download…fast enoooooooouuuuuughh.
oof. Can’t wait to hear it!
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Aw, that was amazing, you guys! This is definitely the best yet. There was a wide range of topics covered, and I think they each had a good amount of time devoted to them. If you know what I mean? It was laid back but it had a steady pace. Once a topic was done, you moved to the next one to cut rambling. And HAWK, great contribution, it was very articulate, and you did sound older!
Who did you ask to spell, when it sounded like you were in a crowded room? That whole section was funny, and your brother was cute. Also I liked the music at the beginning. Oh, and maybe I missed something, but in which Muse was the letter from Alice about the Kokonspiracy?
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6- It wasn’t in a mag. I just sent it by the mail form.
Live words. I had a dream about live words after listening to this. *shakes head*
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Oh, by the way, I agree with THF. Put it up without editing, Pan!
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6-Oh, I don’t know if it will ever be published. She just got two e-mails back from Muse from two Muses.
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9: Gotcha.
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6 – we were on the porch of our house and there was a lot of background noise. We asked my mom, brother, and 3 of our cousins.
I’m glad you like it! 
Any suggestions, etc.?
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I need to listen to it, don’t I? I will soon, but my laptop’s battery just died so I’m on a library computer. Maybe I’ll try anyway…
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i wanna be on one of the podcasts…maybe i could do something about the aug. 15th ko-konvention…dunno…
i have no ideas for the next one besides kokonvention reports!(fun fun fun)
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Will post responces while listening.
“g to the izzle?” Oh my. Odd cousins.
Live words, fun.
Hahaha just thought of the word ‘spontaneity’ just before you said penty liked ‘spontaneous.’
Red-Tailed HAWK sounds slightly like a guy from my school…
Fashion would be boring to me also.
I would contribute seeing as we have a mike and iChat, but I have nothing to say. Pity.
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11- I don’t know, I can’t even think of what I’ll talk about. How awful iChat is, probably.
My sister says it’s boring. She wants you to make it cheesy again. I like the new version perfectly fine. I just want to get onto the next one. Argh.
Siiiighhhhhhhh.
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llawwwwllll
I LOVED IT!!! Except for the fact that I’m not in it. but whatev.
Wow. RtH sounds so weeeiird. Probably cuz he’s a boy, though. One month of complete separation from the male faction of human beings does weird stuff to you.
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I like the new one more, as the topics flow better…
*thinks of things for the next one* Maybe a report on how well our plan will have been going!
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Wow, R-t H, you sound a lot like someone I know named Alexandro. Scary… You sound exactly the same, I think.
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Oh, and how old are PP and THF? Because at they sound like people who I know, but all this could just be me being weird. It probably is.
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I still can’t think of HAWK’s voice really sounding like that. And when I can, I basically fall off my chair. I wonder how many people will think I sound weird when I get on there…
Yes, i am going to get on there, one way or another. Most likely through a different audio chatting system.
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19- Pan is fifteen, and THF is (I think) twelve.
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21-I think that’s right…
My mom says I don’t normally sound so “somber” as she put it, but I think that is because I was reading what I typed up. If I had tried to say it without thinking first, it would not make any sense. But I am rather startled at how much deeper my voice is. It used to sound higher than I thought it was on recordings, but now it sounds waay deeper…*falls out of chair* I suppose it would happen to any of our male MBloggers…
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20- Yeah, I give everyone their own voice when reading posts, and that was not how I had his sounding…
Of cource, I read my posts with how I sound in my head and I’m pretty sure I don’t ound like that in real life. Pity.
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22- It’s not that I find it hard to imagine your voice, it’s just that you sound really serious and not very expressive, whereas when I read your posts I imagine you sounding much more expressive.
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24-When I read things out loud, I must admit I sound like a droid. But in normal conversation, like on the blog, I do sound sort of normal…I was so afraid of sounding stupid messing up on the recording, I became all tense. Odd, yes…I sounded even more droid-like the first time, but that was when both of my parents were in the room and I was nervous or something…
I will probably sound better in the next one…
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I think that that was one of my favorites. And you mentioned my name!! Thank you. I feel honored!
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Yeah, I didn’t think Hawk would sound so serious/somber. Hmm. Ah, well.
11- Hmm, back-to-school-ness. A “study” showing the ratio of the average amount of time spent on MuseBlog to the average amount of time spent on homework? Interesting ways to make dull classes interesting.
And, speaking of Antarctica, I have a teacher who wants to buy an island there, rule over the penguins, and charge people tuition for going in his airspace or the three miles of sea all around it. He’s really quite brilliant, just also eccentric.
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I will not sound like a droid. I will not sound like a droid. I will not-wait, I do!
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27- Oh man. Is he accepting subjects? XD
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I want to be in one! @_@ *tries to think of a topic*
27-You should put your teacher into the Musecast, so Antartica will finally get to be in it.
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Does anyone have any other suggestions for future MuseCasts, etc.? We’re submitting it to iTunes soon, under a new name (we can’t use MuseCasts anymore, because it’s taken) – does anyone have an idea for a name?
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31-WHO TOOK MUSECASTS?!?!?! Or am I just clueless about itunes and it’s taken because you have used it?
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If Larry Gonick hasn’t trademarked the term, you could call them “Intelligent Air.”
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But MuseCasts is already on iTunes. isn’t that you? It says, “MuseCasts Yay!” or something like that.
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Suggestions for topics:
A history of Museica.
The Terraformed RRR and its completion.
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And names:
Hippandarama (super cheesy, but it was all I could think of.)
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35-Oh, yeah, the progress of the RRRs would be good.
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We have done it! Now we just need to think of something to talk about.
35- I was considering the latter, actually.
That was really weird. My sister and I are conferring among ourselves as I type.
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Yeah, we are MuseCasts, but we can’t add any more to it, because our apple trial thing ended. So we’re adding it through another website, but we have to call it something different. Intelligent Air sounds good, what does everyone else think?
Also, Rebecca – do you have any kind of picture? No rush or anything, we were just wondering if you figured out how to do it. Thanks!
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Well, Opal wants to discuss HP, so I’ll let her discuss HP. She’s been on a few times, under the names Opal, Undefined Identity, and Stardust, so I imagine she counts just enough to get on the MC (or IA, or whatever you’re calling it).
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(39) Sorry, guys, I’ve been swamped. Maybe we can talk about it Friday.
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35 – Good idea! Do you have anything specific you want said?
38 – Cool!
40 – No problem, it’s fine
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I’m going to talk about RRRs in general, not least Teraformed. (Not that I’m playing favorites or anything. 
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“I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.”
– Joseph Conrad
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42- I would like it if you thanked all the writers (Alice, me, Earth 2 Muse Blog, Lord Ragevuire the Shadow Mage) and the editors (Alice and Cat’s Meow, I think.) Give a summary of the story (no spoilers) and where to find the part that’s been edited so far.
With the Museica thing, just go here https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=601#comment-5 for a historically accurate and poetically phrased summary (written by me), dealing mainly with Ships’ Logs, but also giving a brief history of Museica.
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43- Oh, I see. You’re the one talking about it. Say whatever you like, I know you’ll come up with something good. Ignore post 44, unless I’ve hopelessly misunderstood.
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PraCan – if you have recording technology, you can record something and send it in…if not, you can either type something up for me to say, or I can try doing it myself. Unless you want Alice to just cover it all.
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45- Your confidence in me is touching, and ill-placed.
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46- I have something that might record, but I’m sure not to get my parents’ permission. Also, I’m paranoid. Sorry.
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45- I can read my history. 
But of course I’ll have to expand it.
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48-Same on the parents permission. =/ Otherwise I would do it.
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how do you do audio chats like in the past mc’s?do you need a special program?????
also if you were to make a think like rth did what kind of format would it need to be in?
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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nice musecast, i like.
if you wanted I could probably send in some violining, maybe, but all the things I’m doing right now are like 10 min long at their shortest so that might not be so great.
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That’s great, guys! Keep up the good work. And like everyone else, I would not have guessed RTH sounded like that!
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kt-I used Audacity, a free thing you can download, and it worked on my mac. I sent the recording to the GAPAs in an MP3 format or whatever that sort of option was…Recording is relatively simple, and you can record it in peices if you don’t like how you souded in a certain part. They have different ones to download, depending upon your computer. If you have more questions-let me know…
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54- Audacity is terrible for windows. I don’t know about for Mac, but I heard about it from someone (a composer) with a mac and I tried it on windows and it wouldn’t import MIDI properly. But the person that had it on Mac loved it.
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sort of stemming from 52- Perhaps if people sent in music that they played it could be used for the starting music? Then you’d get different types.
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55- I didn’t love it. But my microphone didn’t work until today, when I started out using the one that ought to have worked and it didn’t. So I went back to sing the microphone that was ultra-sensitive and gave me a LOT of feedback (and I mean a LOT), and it worked perfectly fine. Weird…
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I used Audacity to record a radio show off the interwebz and it worked fine.
Musecast was v. nice, thanks to everyone who worked on it.
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29, 30- Haha, he’d probably think it cool.
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Lovely MuseCast — and yes, you’re right, the GAPAs like pie.
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60- Good! *pies all the GAPAs*
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Thanks. How about a MuseCast on Antarctican pies? I noticed the debate on the MuseCast as to whether Antarctica would be of interest for a MuseCast. I think so, even if it were to focus on non-pie topics.
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Hey I know: since “MuseCasts” is already taken, why not just use “MuseCast” (no “s”). I think, but I’m not sure, that most podcast titles in the “____cast” form are singular.
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52 – You can send part of it in, and we can fade it in and out. If it’s major, we could probably play one through most of the MuseCast, if you want.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE – If you have parental permission, a videocamera, and a videocamera/computer adapter thinger, you can video yourself saying something, send the video to the GAPAs, (I think you can do that), and the GAPAs can send it to us. We will then use only the sound in the video, and voila, you’re in a MuseCast.
62 – I love Antarctica, and eventually, we’ll probably put a bunch of stuff about it on a MuseCast. There are just so many current MuseBlog events, and I think we’ll cover those and then wait until the school year kicks in and there will hopefully be enough space for us to talk about random interesting things.
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Hey! Here’s an idea for your pod-cast! You can read aloud snippets of some of kthe RRR’s! Antarctica is a good idea though! We could get different opinions about why Antarctica is important to different Musers.
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I can’t listen to it because I don’t have that verison of whatever, and my computor freezes and I have to do a cold boot!
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That sucks… Try right clicking and doing the equivalent of “save link as”. It’s an mp3 file, so that might work.
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Or, even better, PP&THF or I could e-mail the mp3 file to the GAPAs, who would then send it to you. Or they could do the whole thing themselves. I don’t know.
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This one was nice, but I’d like a closing song too, or something, because it was suddenly over and I fell in to shock!
I think we need an entire podcast about fashion with emphasis on miniskirts now to see if anything can be muse-ifed until it’s awesome, even miniskirts.
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69- I have a few very nice miniskirts. In fact, I have a lot of “fashionable” clothes, and I’m an extremely dedicated Muser.
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how do you have audio-chats? what program do you need and does it work on PC?
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ooh ooh u can call it: hotpinkbunny-pie-cast(musecast)
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71- You can use iChat, which only works on macs. I don’t know what else there is, though.
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73- Skype. It works on both. I think.
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Right. *hits himself for being such an idiot* I have no idea if it works on both, but I can find out with our family’s sucky windows machine.
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My computer wont let me listen to it!!!
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i felt so alone before i listened to that and now i feel full of joy. wow R-tH sounded WAAAAAAYYYY different than i imagined.
my one suggestion would be to fully scrip your podcasts to get rid of awkward pauses and ums, ers and such. otherwise i loved them all. i really liked the theme songs to the first 4.
20-me too. no offense ment AT ALL to you R-tH. it was just different.
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i feel that Rt-H sounds like a evil geunis.
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78- *giggles maniacally* I wonder what you’ll think of MY voice.
It may be a while before I do this, because a) I’m still not sure what I’ll say, and b) my sister is being really irritating by asking every few hours if Pan is on Skype yet and I don’t want to encourage her. *goes off to write a vague outline*
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you all sound very….. american…..
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A lot of us are. That could explain it, embarrassing as it is.
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I’m American but I have been told I have a British accent. I don’t think I do, but I’ll let you be the judge.
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80-I thought you said that on the kokonvention pictures thread too! 
*is american*
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81- please don’t take any offence it’s just that americans sound different from canadians- urg this souds really awful
83-i did
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WOW. i just realised my post could be interpreted in a bad way. what i mean is: It’s hard to type something that sounds polite explaining that americans sound different from canadians….. this is awkward…. froget i ever posted here.
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85- I’m not offended. Of course we sound different. We live in a different country, even if we do, as a rule, speak that same language.
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84- It is completely fine. I wish that I didn’t have an American accent, but these things can’t be helped.
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Verry funny. I liked it a lot, thanks PP and THF for giving everybody the Musecasts on that CD thingy, I’ve listened to them all numerous times now.
R-t H was a lot different than I expected when I met him, and then when I listened to the Musecast, I was surprised again. Geez, I’m really slow, I guess. *pies self* (By the way, this is not a bad thing, I really enjoyed meeting all the musers.)
77~ I agree, it would be improved by not having the ums and ahs, but other than that it’s really clear and understandable. Assuming, of course, that you speak the language of Musers!!!
Kagcomix~ I’ve met a few Canadians, and they all sound similar to Americans, as far as I can tell. Except for my one friend, who has a REALLY strong French accent. I’m not offended, I don’t care, and it doesn’t sound mean.
Purple Panda sounds a lot like a girl I used to know. It’s actually sort of creepy, how much she sounds like Sylvia. 
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Hey guys, have you guys stopped updating the Musecast through Itunes anymore because the updates haven’t been coming through? Also do you guys still have the website and is majority still written in Latin? Really impressed with the last two Musecasts
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89 – Yeah, we were submitting them through an Apple Trial, but then our trial ended, so we couldn’t submit them anymore. But we’re working on submitting it again (probably under the name “Intelligent Air,” because everything remotely related to “MuseCast” is taken). We’ll let you know when we do – we’re getting a picture from Rebecca before we submit it.
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Hi, Alice of the Blackberries. I know it’s frustrating … but the GAPAs discourage using the MuseBlog to initiate off-blog/non-parent-mediated conversations. So I snipped your note to Pan
— Rosanne
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That’s okay. I thought you might, but I wasn’t sure if that counted since we already have the contact information…
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Thanks for being understanding
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More off-blog communication??? I’m glad the GAPA snipped that…
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We were trying to record for MuseCast, but it wasn’t working.
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No. Bother.
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Here’s the list of suggestions we have from this thread:
–Cut “ums”
–History of Museica
-https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=601#comment-5
–Terraformed RRR and its completion
-Writers: Alice, Prarilius Canix, Earth to MuseBlog, Lord Ragevuire the Shadow Mage
-Editors: Alice, Cat’s Meow
-Summary
–Harry Potter
–Undefined Identity
–Stardust
–Antarctican Pies
–Excerpts from RRRs
–Kokonvention
Does anyone have anything else?
If someone wants to write things about the topics (for example, if someone could write something about the RRR that we can read – or record something and send it in), that would be fantastic!
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You said something about putting the audio form the Kokonvention on a MuseCast, did you mean music or ALL of it? Because some of it wouldn’t make much sense out of context.
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Definitely not all of it – probably the next episode is going to be some of the Science Magazine discussion, and we’ll put a different song in every episode. Does that sound okay?
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97- We’re going to discuss Opal? For goodness’ sakes, WHY?
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100 – oohhhhhh. I get it. I just went back and read the post and realized what “Undefined Identity” and “Stardust” were. The first time I must not have understood it or something and taken it as a topic to be discussed on MuseCast.
So, you can take those out. Unless you would like to discuss your sister, of course
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I’m confused. What is this thread?
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101- Nah, I’ll pass. Granted, my sister is a fascinating topic, but it wouldn’t be very nice.
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If people don’t want the next to MuseCasts to be solid Kokonvention material, will you write something for us to talk about/read?
102 – it’s discussing MuseCast – the links are at the top of the page.
Does someone want to write something about the RRR or Museica (or anything else)?
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GAPAs – I sent in MuseCast #6
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105- Yay!
104- Once I get enough funds to buy a mic and a computer that will use one, I’ll talk about the RRR.
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106 – Awesome!!
If you can’t, you can always just type something up and we’ll say, “Alice says: blah blah blah” or something along those lines.
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close and take this therd off the “don’t fogret list”
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Why? People can still listen to and discuss MuseCast 5 if they like.
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I can think of no good resion.
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Yay! I finally got it to work! Yay!
That was awesome.
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Thanks!
Suggestions? Comments? Ideas?
(Sometimes THF and I get stuck…ideas and contributions and such really help)
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I’ll probably make a contribution once I et my mic to work.
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We just listened to this, and it was great! We especially loved the piece on live words.
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