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O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our soul’s as free
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
These are our realms, no limits to their sway-
Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.
Ours the wild life in tumult still to range
From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave!
Whose soul would sicken o’er the heaving wave;
Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease!
whom slumber soothes not – pleasure cannot please –
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried,
And danced in triumph o’er the waters wide,
The exulting sense – the pulse’s maddening play,
That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
That for itself can woo the approaching fight,
And turn what some deem danger to delight….

— George Gordon, Lord Byron, after six threads worth of Ships’ Logs, as overcome as the rest of us

Continued from part 6.

In a hammock, on the beach, or just sprawled out on a couch. What’s on your list?

Alice’s idea, sort of a cross between RRRs and RPGs with a touch of epistolary novel. Here’s how she described it:

Everyone makes up one character (made up, mind you!) and we decide on plot, time, etc. just like usual. Then we start. It would be in the form of letters or e-mails, and we would say at the top of our post who the letter was to.

Everyone would have to read all of the posts, though, to prevent conflicting plot twists, but their character wouldn’t know about whatever the letter said unless it was addressed to them.

Get it?
If not, then phooey. That was hard to explain.

It’s almost here! How are you going to spend it?

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

Em’s description:

I was going to send these awhile ago, but I never got around to it. The
first picture is from my trip to Germany, and there is a rather lengthy
story behind it.

*Ahem*

Long Long ago, when you weren’t even born, and we had to walk 2 miles
every day in the snow just to get to school,(Where did we live, anyway,
Alaska?) a lovely person named Paul Baker (You may have heard of him)
wrote an article for Muse Magazine on the subject of those lovely little
carvings in cathedrals on the roof bosses and miserychords and such. When
Em went to France and Germany this past winter holiday, she entered many a
cathedral and church, these being the major points of culture in Europe.
(Aside from beer and outdoor cafes, of course) Keeping in mind the afore
mentioned article, she spent most of her time staring at the ceiling.
(Tourists don’t really have enough time to request special tours of the
choir lofts) Finally, in Germany, (The people in Paris had much better
taste than this) she came across several green men (see aforementioned
article) and took some photos of them.

Yes, it is quite a lovely story, Isn’t it? The second picture is my
much-improved Hpb pic (You may remember the first one) and I threw it in
simply for kicks. Please show the lovely Green man to the MBers!
Otherwise, what was the point of me spending so long looking for it?
(Okay, so I had to go in the churches anyway)

Continued from Part 1.

Does practice ever make perfect?

Continued from 2007.2, as you might have guessed.

Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about. Hey, is ♥ a word?

We all could use a little peace and quiet — or a little piece of pie, for that matter. More adventures on the exoplanetary oasis, continued from (where else?) Part Five.

We’re not sure whether anyone on the blog gets the New York Times, but there was a Muse connection in last Sunday’s book-review section. You can see it here.

And speaking of reviews, did anyone see Pollyhymnia’s review of the upcoming Nancy Drew movie?

(Pollyhymnia, a.k.a. Polly Shulman, is a Y.A. writer and reviewer who pops up on MuseBlog occasionally. We’ve had a series of threads about her novel, Enthusiasm.)

Alice
Anata ChinTsu
Beavo the Great
Capricious
Cat’s Meow
Cinnamon Moon
Curious + questioning/Dodecahedron
dark duke of darkness
Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd
Dotty-kay
e~a
Ebeth
emmatheduck
E2MB
Glassboro
grnqween2011
Jadestone
Julieb
Kiki the Great
kt the gr8
Margaret
NatTheCat
Paul
Penty
Piggy
Potato Chip
purplefinch
Purple Panda
Red-tailed HAWK
Rebecca
Robert
Rosanne
Shadowkat
SuperSaiyan424
SupremeMuser2000
Sweet Melpomene
THF
T.N.Ö. Lilbro
The Skipper Nancy
Traggle
Vendaval
wingnut

The artwork will be posted as soon as possible — probably sometime this weekend — before we upload it to CaféPress so we can be sure we have all the correct signatures.

Another popular homework replacement, fastershorter than National Novel-Writing Month but equally enticing to MBers.

The inevitable.

Continued from Part 3.

Requested by Shadowkat, who said: “What, no Mothers’ Day thread? Sheesh, they are so underappreciated.”

*Role-playing game, of course. By popular clamor.

We shudder to think where this will lead.

Continued from Riddles.

Always among our favorite things.

Continued from Books and Reading, Part 3, of course.

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

Prarilius Canix has been quietly laboring on a story thread that began almost a year ago. The current story began in April, inspired by Robert’s Muse/Harry Potter Fanfic (which can be found here and here). PC describes his tale as “the Muses wreaking havoc in the world of Eragon.”

Alice has also started a story “of how the Muses made a time machine, went back in time, and found the lost tenth Muse of literature.”

Please note: these are not RRRs but solo projects which share the same thread. Start your own or just stop by and visit. Writing doesn’t have to be a lonely business, at least not on MuseBlog.

Shadowkat’s original description:

a thread where everyone posts under a different (new) name, and pretends to be their alter-ego. We could even take it a step further, and have everyone try to guess who each alter-ego-name actually is. Once somebody figured out who you were, if they ever did, you would post under your original other-thread name, and just keep talking and trying to guess who other people really are if that makes any sense.

NOTE: Check your posts before sending them. The Administrators will not rescue you if you accidentally submit one under your “real” blogname.

Oh, why not?

The history of this thread is a bit tangled, as is the numbering of previous MM threads. To see what has already been posted, go to

www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=171 [Never mind.]
www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=205
www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=383
www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=450
www.musefanpage.com/blog/?p=545

By extremely popular request.

By popular request. We had two of these last year (search for “alter”). The idea came from Shadowkat, who described it as

a thread where everyone posts under a different (new) name, and pretends to be their alter-ego. We could even take it a step further, and have everyone try to guess who each alter-ego-name actually is. Once somebody figured out who you were, if they ever did, you would post under your original other-thread name, and just keep talking and trying to guess who other people really are if that makes any sense.

NOTE: Check your posts before sending them. The Administrators will not rescue you if you accidentally submit one under your “real” blogname.

RRR = Round-Robin ‘Riting, as every MuseBlogger must know by now.

Continued from Part 1.