Saturday, 5 July 2025
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Sorry for the rudimentary moderation last night. I was at an Elvis Costello concert and was limited to occasional taps on the tiny screen of my Treo. I know I missed a few things–a couple of birthdays and thread requests. Remind me, please.
Thanks,
Robert
Ruffled Grouse’s idea, more or less.
*Not Veggie Tales, though. We’ve already had a thread about them.
Irish poet, 1865-1939.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More about Yeats at http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
Date: June 13, 2006
Categories: Birthdays, Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction, Things We like
Cedar requests that this spinoff from his original Muse movie thread be used to post script ideas.
Thanks to Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas and Jadestone for suggesting this thread.
Ideas and suggestions for new threads and such. As Jadestone pointed out, it’s about time.
Continued from Suggestion Box, v. 2006.2.
Continued from Part 4, which was getting too long.
* Pie shells, of course.
Love him or loathe him, he’s a huge landmark on our imaginative landscape. So break out the tantalus and gas up the gasogene. The game is afoot!
Coming up this month:
06-06 Ninja for Christ’s birthday (19?? – color=?)
06-11 yesterdays_kinked_moose’s birthday (1992)
06-13 King george the stroodle’s birthday (1992)
06-20 Kricket’s birthday (1993)
06-29 Brave Sir Robin’s birthday (1993)
As you see, some basic raw data and colors are still missing.
Originally published in Muse, volume 1, number 2, March 1997.
That’s the code name for Musers’ secret plan for world domination. It’s so super-ultra-hyper-secret that it doesn’t have to be secret. As you can see from the previous “Mostly Harmless” thread, it is also, like everything else on the blog, more than a bit muddled.
The title of this month’s random thread comes from a famous but unfashionably florid poem by the 19th-century American poet James Russell Lowell. It starts like this:
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within it that reaches and towers,
And, groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers…
Step right up to receive your welcome pie and ask the old hands what’s going on around here. First, though, please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog).
Robert looking considerably less frolicsome than usual because he had to get up at 3 a.m. Washington time to catch his plane and now has been on the go for 20 hours straight. Don’t be fooled, though: he’s really enjoying himself immensely.
A sequel to “Keep These Threads Alive.” Alert MBers to buried treasures in the blog.
An invisibility cloak isn’t necessarily just the stuff of Harry Potter stories. In last week’s Science magazine (where Robert works), theoretical physicists explain how to make invisible cloaks and whatnot — theoretically, at least. You can learn more about invisibility on Professor Ulf Leonhardt’s home page or his page on invisibility.
So, what would you do if you were invisible?
In which MuseBloggers describe where they’ve lived in the past, present or future. (Because Darth Yoda asked.) Remember, though, no names of cities or towns you currently live in. We want MuseBloggers’ identities to remain mysterious. Gigantic cities like Chicago and New York are OK too. If it’s got more than a quarter million people living there, you can give the name.
Reports from Towel Day celebrants throughout the galaxy — at Ebeth’s request.
While people finish the required reading for the World Religions thread, here’s a place where MuseBloggers can warm up by talking about their own religions or other religions they’ve experienced.