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Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

*Round Robin ‘Riting Sans Magic And Space-Time Travel

Just in time for the post-NaNo season, a brand new RRR. Suggested by Prarilius Canix, who pointed out “that the two sci-fi RRRs we had both had space travel, and the innumerable fantasy RRRs all had magic. I think it’s time to pull a Monty Python and say ‘And now for something completely different.’ I think that the writers on the blog (including me) might enjoy a challenge.”

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Chronicles of Museica (IBCF)
The Kokonspiracy (Mostly Harmless) (IBCF)
Pie Isle (IBCF)
Life on the Pieceful Pie Planet(IBCF)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Just Friends (Red-tailed HAWK, Cliff Eagle, Beavo)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (Red-tailed HAWK)
Homeschoolers (Red-tailed HAWK)
Global Warming (Red-tailed HAWK, Beavo)
Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and Other Chilly Holidays (Red-tailed HAWK)
Evolution (Beavo)
Movies (rabbity24)
The Kokonspiracy (Mostly Harmless) (Vixen)

SILLY FUN
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Robert, Beavo)
Triangular Sentences (Red-tailed HAWK)
Alliteration (Red-tailed HAWK)
Coy Woodnesse (Purple Panda)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Off with Their Heads! (Beavo, groundhog22)

WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (Purple Panda)
Fractured Fairy Tale (the man for aeiou)
Dreamland (the man for aeiou)
Time Travel (the man for aeiou)
Etheterre (the man for aeiou)
The Original (separate pentity)
Spirits and Blood (the man for aeiou)
Terenika (the man for aeiou)
Free Form (POSOC)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Writing (BeMoreAmazed)
Role-Playing Writing (Purple Panda)
Poems & Songs (oxlin widdershins)
Muse Fanfiction (Beavo, Cinnamoon)
Muse Legendarium (Purple Panda)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Food and Cooking (Purple Panda)
Dreams (gimanator)
Song Lyrics (Red-tailed HAWK)
Books and Reading (ebeth)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels (Drops of Jupiter)
Computer and Video Games (Drops of Jupiter)
Seriously Awesome Comics (Drops of Jupiter)

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

12-06 KitKat’s birthday (1994)
12-09 Zwendelina’s birthday (1991)
12-09 Achoo, son of Asneeze (Sphinx)’s birthday (1993 – red, no grAARGH!)
12-12 Johnny Vern’s birthday (year? color?)
12-17 Unintended Pun’s birthday (1992 – color?)
12-20 Cheese Monkey NUMBA 1’s birthday (1993)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 25 and April 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

This one’s odd: an art magazine called Muse from Armenia.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260187989556

Attention, D.C.-area Musers! A couple of Muselike events are coming to town soon:

– “Spamalot” at the National Theater, December 11 through January 6

– The Washington Revels at the Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University), December 8-9 and 14-16.

If you’d like to organize a MuseBlog expedition to either event, please have your parents get in touch with the Administrators at gapa @ musefanpage.com.

P.S. “The Golden Compass” opens in movie theaters on December 7. I hope it’s good; the trailer looks great.

You can find out more about the Revels at www. revelsdc.org/ events.html

Continued from the saga that started on Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories, v. 2007.4. This is MuseBlog’s first-ever long, continuous multi-author smiley story. Catch up, and join in!

Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

NOTE: This is not the thread for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). That’s here.

Requested by the man for aeiou, who describes it as follows:

We don’t know exactly what he has in mind, but we’re eager to find out.

An outlet for your frustration, now that MBers have stopped pieing one another in anger.

The crusty caloric chaos continues.

The monthly random thread, so named to commemorate life’s small pleasures and National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

NOTE: This is not the NaNoWriMo thread. That’s here.

These Muses are different. They’re not the magazine of life, the universe, and pie-throwing. They’re the identically named magazine of the Canadian Museum Association. You probably won’t want to buy them, but if you’re curious you can see them at

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250185576372

Begun as a discussion on HPB Culture #2, this thread attempts to solve the mystery of what came between the bunnies and their bodies, along with the social, psychological, and cultural developments subsequent to the lagomorphic intercision.

WARNING: Potentially disturbing content within.

Week Two Begins. Continued from Part 1.

*National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who have not yet been swept up in the madness.

MuseBlog Participants (official or unofficial):

100% Cotton
2,3-dimethylPENTane (The Golden People)
Alice (West of West)
Axa
Beavo the Online Stalker (Magic: Handle With Care)
curious and questioning (Alter Egos and How to Enjoy High School) (A Self Called Nowhere)
:DAW: ( About me being Celli)
Der Wachtelschlag Fliegender (science fiction)
Ebeth
Fortune Cell
Glassboro (The Lord Groundhog)
/gradster(1)/ (Mixed-up-patched-together-pile-o’-words…)
greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (Full Blooded Moon)
Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas
Hafiz
Jadestone
jammin j (absolutely no idea)
Kiki the Great (Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie)
kricket
Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange
lifewithoutanipod
Lizzie
MontgomeryGurl (How to Defeat a Grandolean)
oxlin widdershins
philosophical bunny
Prarilius Canix (Fourhenge)
Purple Panda (Muse Academy)
purplefinch (the evil R. Coontz and his Link Gnome minions)
Red-tailed HAWK (Prairie Passings)
Supergeek and the Deathly Hallows
Sweet Melpomene (fantasy)
Synthrael (Kitty Cadawell and the Curse of the Shadowslayers)
Taiwan Hippo Fan
the man for aeiou (Monster’s Land)
TNÖ (the Excelsior/Earth thing)
Unintended Pun
Vendaval
Lady Bunniful (Eccentricities of Red)

It’s today, November 5. In Britain, they say “Remember, remember the Fifth of November” and celebrate by trundling scarecrows from door to door and burning them on bonfires with fireworks bursting all around them — all to commemorate an explosion that famously did NOT happen there in 1605.

MuseBlog notes the occasion every year. Here are our threads from 2005 and 2006.

So that useful advice won’t get lost, here’s a place you can share your favorite tips and tricks or ask for specific help such as: How do you increase your word count? Keep your characters straight? Come up with names? How do you prepare yourself to withstand the dreaded Second Week Slog?

For general comments, word count announcements, or anything else NaNo-related, proceed to NaNoWriMo 2007, Part 2.

This month’s random thread takes its name from
(1) National Novel-Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), which will be depriving several MuseBloggers of sleep this month;
(2) the small pleasures of life (nano-joys, if you will) that everyone on the blog is hereby encouraged to celebrate.

Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!

NOTE: This is not the NaNoWriMo thread. That’s here.

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Endangered or extinct animals
Vampires
Disaster preparedness or maybe Soccer
(or possibly Soccer Preparedness or Disastrous Soccer — things are a little confused here at the moment)
Allergies
Martial arts
Pets

Ideas for future topics:
food (cooking, gross foods, etc.)
mythical creatures

The place for new arrivals to go for advice and a hearty MuseBlog welcome. (Hint: It involves pie.) Crusto volanti noli obstare!

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Incredible Beasts of Museica (Various Gnomes Who Wish to Remain Anonymous)
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher)
Pie Isle (Lady Cinnamon Moon of Orange)
Pieceful Pie Planet (emmatheduck)
The Kokonspiracy (Mostly Harmless) (¡IBCF!)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Global Warming (Red-tailed HAWK, “Sschmarbdra”)
Evolution (“Sschmarbdra”)
Hot Topics (“Sschmarbdra”)
Thanksgiving 2007 (Purple Panda)

SILLY FUN
Ask the GAPAs (Purple Panda)
Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (“Sschmarbdra”)
Coy Woodnesse (Cliff Eagle)
No, This is Pie War (Cinnamon Moon)
Let’s Get Physiognomical (agagabagabag)

WRITING – RRRs
The Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
The Original (Watashi wa Suika Janai! [Mina-san] )
Spirits and Blood (agagabagabag)
Dreamland (agagabagabag)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Role-Playing Writing (Purple Panda)
MuseBlog FanFiction (“Sschmarbdra”)
Muse FanFiction (“Sschmarbdra”)
Writing Challenge: Theme with Variations (Vixen)
Poems and Songs (oxlin widdershins)
Writing (agagabagabag)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Musers Recommend (Purple Panda)
Music (dark duke of darkness, “Sschmarbdra”)
Words and Names (speller73)
Computer and Video Games (Drops of Jupiter)
Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels (Drop of Jupiter)
Questioning the Net (Raven of the Hawk)
MuseBlog Book Club oxlin widdershins
Dreams (Kari)
Books and Reading (oxlin widdershins)

Known Muser Birthdays This Month*:

11-09 Phoebe’s birthday (1993)
11-12 lifewithoutanipod’s birthday (1993 – black or very dark green)
11-16 Kiwimuncher’s birthday (19__? – green)
11-20 Copper Yeti’s birthday (1993 – green)
11-26 kt the gr8’s birthday (year? – green)
11-27 Purple Panda’s birthday (1991 – purple)
11-27 curious and questioning’s birthday (1993 – green)
11-27 Cinnamon Moon (1994 – yellow)
11-27 Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon (1992 – red)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between February 23 and March 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between May 30 and June 28, 1991.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Impatient Eager writers have been brainstorming on the NaNoBraSto thread. The moment you’ve been waiting for arrives at November 1, 12:01 AM by your local clocks, just in time to take advantage of the Halloween sugar buzz.
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It’s almost time, so it’s time.

Continued from Part Tw0.

Chapter I: Preparing the Pumpkin Device

Chapter 2: At the Drop