Welcome, Neophytes! (May 2012 edition)
If you’re new on the blog, please stop by this thread and say pie — er hi.
Best of the Blog
Use the comments here to swap tips about outstanding, little known, and/or underutilized parts of MuseBlog. (In four years, we’ve accumulated an amazing number of chasms, subterranean passages, sunken cities, and fossiliferous formations.) Be sure to include the URL (Web address) so others can share your finds.
Date: September 1, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Fan Page / MuseBlog business
The Hare and Hedgepig, v. V
As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons,
Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required
Continued from Vol. IV.
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Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required
Continued from Vol. IV.
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Happy Birthday, Midnight Fiddler!
Fiddler turns 20 today (Friday, May 18). How about a cadenza of musical pies on the May birthday thread?
Happy Birthday, Axa!
Axa, who has been posting on MuseBlog for six years and almost nine months*, turns 20 years old today (Wednesday, May 9). If that doesn’t call for a celebration on the May birthday thread, we don’t know many things that do.
*About 33.661875% of her life, by our calculations — but who’s counting?
Robert’s Time Capsule: The Avengers et al.
Robert recalls:
Throughout primary school, I read superhero comic books with an obsession verging on addiction. I was fiercely loyal: Marvel was my brand, first, last, and (I vowed and believed) forever.
I started buying them in second grade, in the PX of the long-since-dismantled Hunter’s Point naval shipyard in San Francisco, where my family spent a year living in a quonset hut while my father’s ship was in drydock. My first comic book was the Avengers; their colorful costumes caught my eye, and the confusion of characters inside posed a puzzle I had to solve.
Happy Birthday, Cat’s Eye!
Cat’s Eye turns 17 today (Friday, May 4. May the Fourth be with her! And may the May birthday thread be replete with congratulations.
Muse Academy May Ball, 2012
Off with your coats!
Muse Academy’s spring formal is now in progress!
Details can be found on the planning thread. Here’s how Cerulean Pyros summarizes them:
Entry hall: furniture attached sidelong to the walls and ceiling and floor, to look like the rabbit-hole turned on its side.
Ballroom: Indoor garden; large mushroom-shaped seats; chess; lion and unicorn archway to roof; tea party; holograms.
Rooftop: Tent, to turn it into an interior; croquet; clever and complicated mirror maze, as described extensively above.
Dancing will be: Lobster quadrille, and an assortment of interesting music. Food extant according to guests’ imaginations. Attire to be formal, comfortable, stylish, and individual. Interactions not relegated to fellow MBers, due to the infinite range of Mysterious Strangers who attend the ball.
The rest is up to you.
Muse Academy May Ball 2012 — Rooftop Garden
An adjunct to the May Ball, this year’s rooftop garden features a tent, to turn it into an interior; croquet; and a clever and complicated mirror maze full of optical illusions, all described extensively on the planning thread.
It is warm and well lighted inside the tent; outside, for those who need it, there are cool fresh air and moonlight.
May 2012 “Happy Birthday!” Thread
Known MBers’ birthdays and “K Days” this month.
05-01 Pentatonikk’s birthday (1992 – puce)
05-04 Cat’s Eye’s birthday (1995)
05-07 Nancy Kangas’s birthday
05-07 Thief of Light’s 5K Day
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-15 Thanks For All The Fish42′s birthday (1996 – red)
05-18 Midnight Fiddler’s birthday (1992 – blue/purple/green/brown)
05-28 MissSwann’s birthday (1996)
05-28 gradster’s 7K Day
05-29 Selcothe Sikaria’s 6K Day
05-31 Tesseract’s birthday (1994 – turquoise)
You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between August 24 and September 23, 1998.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between November 28 and December 28, 1995.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between March 3 and April 2, 1993.
You turn 8,000 days old this month if you were born between June and July 7, 1990.
*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.
Happy Birthday, Oxlin!
Oxlin, the second person to post on MuseBlog, turns 22 years old today (Monday, April 30). The April birthday thread awaits your congratulatory wishes.
Six-Word Stories, Part the Second
A perfect number for staying focused.
See the previous thread for guidance.
Happy (Estimated) 448th Birthday, William Shakespeare!
Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:
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Muse Academy May Ball 2012 — Planning Thread
Amid all the talk of IRL proms, don’t forget that the Academy’s spring formal is coming up soon and needs planning, too. It’s the high point of the academic year, so let’s make it a good one.
For inspiration, you might want to consult the proceedings of May Balls held in 2011, 2010, 2009, and
2008.
May/June 2012 Muse Roll Call and Discussion
Tell us when your magazine arrives and/or what you think about it.
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College / University / Higher Education, v. 2012
A place where people applying to college can ask questions of college attendees, and college students can ask questions about grad school.
Continued from v. 2011.
Miscellaneous Images from Musers
A few Kokons and a birthday squid — what more could a self-respecting gallery need?
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