Everybody wishes there were ten times as many Musers–and with the magazine turning 10 years old next January, now is a good time to think about ways to make it happen. What can readers, editors, GAPAs, and the publishers do? Ideas, please!
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MORE SHIRTS! PWT PWNS!! YAAAY!
Ok really, we should have more shirts, hoodies, etc so we can wear them and people go “what’s that?” and we go “amazingly froody mag” and they go “oh cool” and then get muse. Something like that anyway…
And a muse convention where we can drag our non-muser friends and they can see how totally hoopy everybody is and be like whee muse.
Shucks, second post.
I think you should charge two dollars more money for each muse for a year, after explaing it is for the common good of the world, and then with the million dollars that you earned, have a T.V. commercial.
Awesome! A Boosting Muse thread. I think we should do an ad somewhere other than Muse for the book, then have a website devoted entirely to the book and the possible movie.
no my mom would probably stop buying me the mag i would buy it with my own money and be destitute ( destitute means dirt poor FYI) and i agree with ebeth
if you have been getting muse for a long time you should recieve a free tshirt see above as to why i dont buy my own
i havnt read the book yet see above as to why i havnt bought see above the library doesnt have it I tHiNk
Offer to send people some virtual choklit if they get muse and go on the blog.
But if they sent out free T-shirts then they’d be dirt-poor!
virtual choklits not good enuff
be like me and blab about muse whenever possible it was this blabbing which drove my mother to tell me to blog here
Be sure to use lots of muse lingo that no non-muser will understand like hpbs and cat/dog wars the person your forcing to listen toyou will be driven by curiosity to read & buy muse! thus *flourishes*
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soooooo…. um, well…. we could…. ADVERTISE ON OTHER WEBSITES!!!! YAY!!!!
or, everybody could buy 2 friends muse issues using those things in the march one. its only wot.. $5? just pick two people and send them muse!!!!!!! maybe they’ll like it enough to renew it!!!! maybe they’ll come on this site and talk to you!!! maybe tehy’ll read watership down!!! YAY!!!!!
Ebeth is right, shirts for all nine, muses, also tell your teachers ’bout the educational articals and they’ll tell your class and then 9 more subscribers
0.o My friend drew stuff on her window. we both drew funny koko things. that might help.
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Whenever there’s an article about something related to something we’re doing in class, I bring in the issue and let the teacher read it, and then when i take it back they tell me that it was great and that they read the whole mag and loved it.
sorry, i meant smithsonian.
hmm. we should make a huge banner. or two. or three. or a hundred. and we could hang ’em up. and it would be cool. 0.o
Two words: word of mouth
tell all about the greatest magazine ever!
i brought in the exploding trosers issue
People said some nice things about Muse over on “Chasing the Sunset” not long ago. The Web is great for word of mouth. I will NOT become a spammer, however.
i had a random flash of you as a father figure, shaking your finger and saying “Children, we will NOT become spammers!”
what the deus i leave for half an hour + theres already a new thread w/ 18 comments? k anyways yeah! mrahr!
shirts, shirts, shirts. yes. what else?
oh yeah. ppl should tell more skools about muse. see, a lot of articles in the magazine could be used for sci projects, stuff in a history or mythology class, psychology, etc. oh, + if say a skool library got a copy of each of the “special” issues, they would make an excellent addition to the resource section.
There. My poster…is done. Voila.
oh, i shall make a bunch of t-shirts. and i know three other musers in my grade. I’ll make ’em some weird color. and me and one of the others have plans to paint koko on the papier-mached (sp?) balloon we made.
Cool! Im gonna ask Miss Nelis (my tech/art club/art teacher) if we can design a t-shirt at the end of tech club and draw Kokopelli on it! Yeah!
make ’em weird colors. 0.o like lime green. or orange. or highliter yellow. that would be sweet. or just yellow.
Have chad invent a telepathic Machine, and then we can telepathicly FORCE the entire world to buy teh mag, though i’m sure they wouldn’t need forcing. Just pop one issue into there brains and it’ll be like dogs and dog food.
DARTH YODA WORD OF MOUTH IS BLABBING AND IT IS 3 WORDS NOT 2
a) what’s froody?
muse has magnetic pwrs or smthng cause whenever i brng it to school everybuggy’s all like dude, what’s that, and then they read it cover to cover.
Musers: But we really want to spam!
GAPA: NO! I refuse to allow our exalted blog to become a load of spamming ninnies! It is beneath our dignity! We should not sink so low! We shall be pure! We shall be strong! We shall eat more lasagna-
Musers: *pie gapa*
GAPA: And when the ROUSs attack, we shall raise our swords and shout-
Musers: HERE’S A LLAMA, THERE’S A LLAMA-
GAPA: “Ye do not frighten us, thee mangy rodents!”
Musers: *turn gapa into a hpb*
GAPA: Eep! I’m a Hot pink bunnie!
Em: MWa Ha hA HA haHA ha hA HA-
um, sorry about that…
I told my librarian to subscribe to Muse, and she liked it a lot but she was like “only you and maybe two other people would be interested in it”. But half the time we start a new subject in school I already have read about it in Muse. So maybe I’ll talk to a different teacher about putting Muse in my school. Goodness knows they could use something interesting.
33- if you want to understand froody, and a lot of other things people say on here, read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. Or if you already have, read it again. They’re fantasic books.
Ha everyone on here is so funny, its really refreshing.
here’s an idea- instead of putting on the normal cover on the mag, put one on that has a big picture of Muse Blog on it!!! also we should have a muse convention… then we all could meet each other and drag our friends along too!!!
Word of mouth is two words-who thaut you to count?
And its people telling there friends ’bout products they like.
Im taking economics
instead of the cover, write letters
did you notice that the massive flow of newbies was timed pretty closly with montgomerygurl’s letter that metioned museblog?
ayiyay, who taught YOU to count. Word. Of. Mouth. THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!
you just dont want to admit youre wrong
oh. i was wrong they’re 11
using binary now are we?
anyways, I keep lending Muse to responsible teachers (one of them lost a Muse of mine!! Grr!) I have lent many issues to one of my teachers and he is considering getting it for his kids when they are older. Maybe you should let newspapers know. They might do an article.
My school gets it. And because of my interest, a lot of people like it now. I go to the library a lot now to read the back issues that I never got.
I think you should make T-shirts that say Kokopelli For President or Vote for Kokopelli. Then you should make shirts for all of the other Muses. And you should also make them in a womens’ cut because a lot of the girls I know would only wear it if it was. But they would. They’re not Musers, but they’re sheep, and they follow a crowd.
Hmmm…I always thought the Flood Of Clueless Newcomers was tied to the contest. But Monty is probably responsible for some of the crowd.
I will suggest it to people at camp. I’m not quite sure word of mouth is the best idea. Billboards? Maybe if we arranged the night sky so it spells out “GO GET MUSE! 42!” or borrowed a few jets or planes or something to spell out a message? Maybe if we released a musical on Broadway-I just shot myself in the foot there, didn’t I? Curses! Ow! *hops around on foot* It’s like that gag Flanders had about his nephew knocking himself out with a pop-up toaster. I think we get have more victims to pla-I mean, readers-if we made Muse pens, pencils, coffee grinders, stamps, towels, etc. and spread them throughout the known universe. Wouldn’t it be froody?
Ya! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuunn…
Yeah. They should make all kinds of stuff. Can you GAPA’s post a good muse-related pic or logo so I can make some stickers and give them to people? I did the same thing with the hpb’s.
Muse towels? OMG queen j, i bow to your superior genius. Muse towels would be AMAZING! We could carry them around on international towel day and promote muse and h2g2 at the same time! Huzzah for spontaneous advertising! Welcome to america!
i think the gift idea is a good one-get it for somebody for a year or something and they’ll keep it up. Or what somebody said somewhere up there i think…i can’t see it now, but i know i read it before…buy an issue and they’ll be in desperate need of it.
#24-GAPA, you’re missing half the fun in life. Ah well, there are spammers, and there are spam-haters. I say spam spam spam spam.
lol jk. I don’t spam people unless they’re being idiots. And then i say educational things like “CHOKLIT COVERED SPAMABIX!!!”
Oh, Spamabix is another story.
A Broadway musical would be fun. We could call it “Musalot.” (Something wrong, Queen J.?)
Musalot? What would it be about?
Do you GAPA’s ever make smileys?
I don’t use smileys much. Rosanne, a bit more. See comment 4 on Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories.
MUSE TOWELS!!!!
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oh well.
ITD is going to be sooo cool this year, now that I have all you people to share it with. I don’t have to be the Lone Hitchhiker anymore! Skiddy dense! I might wear my towel as a chador this year, or sling it over my shoulder, or around my waist as a sarong (jeans underneath, don’t panic) or as a scarf. The jury’s out. Or I might change it around. This is going to be unbelievably froody!
ooh, kitschy stuff. hmm…
shoe laces!
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heck, converses decked out w/ musish stuff!
pocket protectors! (jk)
choklit! (why not?)
nutella!
sox!!! (novel socks make me
toothpaste! (ha.)
…ppls, we should decide on a day to all wear our muse shirts to skool. just an idea
Here. Try this.
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Ohhh….So close.
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Dang.
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Close enough.
muse paper towels, if we’re going to have regular towels?
I know! hot pink bunny hats! thatd make a statement
Muse toilet paper? no thats too disgusting and dishonorable for the muses we cant have them being used to wipe posteriors.
I SAY THAT WITH ALL RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
see?
hpb auto-junkmail eaters!!
MUSE TOWELS!!!!
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*sigh*
i would relly like a t shirt w/ a hpb on it…
hehe theres a shirt w/ a wombat on it @ that thinkgeek place
Clueless newbies? Surely you jest. Editors should work with other carus publishing people. Have a special deal for a second magazine from caruspub if you’re already getting one, and then advertise it in every magazine, w/ cool explanations of what each one is like. have the muses appear in Cricket country, mebbe.
Now, that’s a great idea, Yoda. Not that i have any need for one. Might keep Fluffy away from the circus. How’s that going, GAPA?
THROW A MUSE BLOCKPARTY!
I’ve already talked about this twice on the ‘Muse Movie?’ thread.
Here’s the party plan:
1. Order a large supply of back issues.
2. Tell all your freinds at school that your throwing a huge party in honer of the world’s greatest magazine, which will include pie throwing after dessert.
PS: Ask them to invite their freinds.
3. There can be an outdoor barbacue, and everyone can bring something.
4. There could be mind boggling games and activities (very Muse-ish).
5. Finally, after dessert, take out the pies, and start hurling.
PPS: Be sure to by a ton of plastic pie tins, and a whopper of whipped cream for making pies.
Finally:
In the center of the lawn, set up a table where people can pick out old Muses. Free or low cost, whatever ye like best.
BE SURE TO TELL THEM ALL HOW TO GET TO THE FANPAGE!
#66 I said that in #17
I definitely agree with kricket we should have a muse convention where we could meet each other!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!
that would be pretty cool.
unfortunently, it’s just as likley as a muse movie.is the muse movie likely or unlikely? and if you do have a muser convention PLEASE have it where i live ( of course i cant tell you where that is ) i”ll bring pies with pi on them. and i’ll wear my hpb hat im thinking of making.
#70 – that would be cool, but I agree with #71
i have lost 3 of my muses to 3 different teachers!
i think they take it hame and steal it and read it
there are no musers in my skool. i have never known a muser.(besides here) this would be very helpful. it think will tell all my friends about it. Also in the smithsonian catalouge for magazines, it one,gives mse the same space s all of the ther magazines. two , treats the muses as not the gods they are, and three, does not understan the value of muse!ok… ideas…fireworks that say muse!!!!! when they blow up! errrrgoogle bombing.errrrrrrword of mouth repeated only because it i so important.)errr no more ideas. I SUPPORT THE MUSE TOWELS!
# 73 you see the muse convention thread yet? a muse movie will soon be in the works!!!!!
we could definitely set up an entire store, w/ all these ideas! hey, + in the store could be a bakery. muse pies + donuts! mrahr!
Let’s put up a big satellite and paint “MUSE MAGAZINE IS THE ZARKLESEIZURE” somewhere where everybody can see it. Mayhap we should just engineer Betelgeuse so the supernova patterns spell it out. Or we could start making flash animation cartoons featuring MUSE on Albino Blacksheep or some other such thing. Let’s not stop at a store. We need an entire mall!
something with hpbs. maybe 1 of those weird coats for pets with hpbs on them? then all cats and dogs will be censored
100 words: That would be AWESOME (i love doing that
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Yeah. But I think we need to focus on things we can really do. Like, is it possible for anyone to make their own Muse things? I made my own stickers. (But a good pic of something Muse-related would be great, GAPA’s) Can anyone make a shirt for themself?
i can sew a bit. hey! tshirts with appliques of the muses or hpbs! im taking a sewing class that shouldnt be 2 hard to do
ill need appliques for the muses though
I made a Muse notebook. And a Muse desktop. I’m working on the screensaver.
Sometimes I think the guy who said in 1975 that in ten years the average person won’t recognize a screwdriver was right.
*looks up screwdriver*
Orange juice and vodka! I knew that!
………….sewing?
last time i tried that my thumb was in a bandage for a week.
Maybe we should buy them pre-made
its EASY!
This is Mutt’s friend. The one who’s lurked for ages, and didn’t figure out how to use the blog until now. (yes, Mutt’s typing this. Mwahaha. 0.0)
ok now this is the wierdo who’s finally gained control of her compu
hehehehehehehehehehehehe
hehehehehehehehe
lets all run around in circles!
Maybe the GAPA’s can make little iron-on appliques and mail them to us…. but speaking of, I gave the hpb stickers to all my friends and they loved ’em, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT IF SOMEONE COULD POST ANOTHER PIC OF A HPB, AND PREFERABLY A BIGGER ONE. Thank you.
hehe i just opened a cupboard in the kitchen + the hpb sticker i put on the other side of the door last fall is still there…
where did you get hpb stickers?!
Muse readers got a chance to mail in a self-addressed envelope to Muse and the editors would send them hpb stickers. I missed out, so I made my own.
I SAY THAT MUSE MAGAZINE CREATES TEN NEW ISSUES AND MAKE SOME OF THE TOPICS ON ANIMALS (WELL, MAYBE TWO ANIMALS COULD GET ONE MAGAZINE BECAUSE SOME ANIMALS DON’T HAVE MUCH INFO ON THEM). IF THIS ISN’T A VERY GOOD IDEA, I WILL PROBABLY THINK OF MORE.
I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE CAN BE A MUSE PIE THROWING CONTEST(HOSTED BY KOKOPELLI)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
URAINA, AEIOU AND OTHER MUSES CAN HOST THEIR OWN OTHER CONTESTS.
I hate issues about animals. Ugh. It makes me go all clammy and disinterested. They’re just so-boring. It’s like analyzing the brain processes of John Selwyn Gummer-there’s nothing there. (Why does he keep cropping up? This is horrible!) It makes me want to throw the thing in a trash can and go retire to live at Point D. Or maybe do a Colonial Brit move and run off to Malaysia. You know?No animal issues, they’re sophomoric and mealymouthed. Do an issue on great writers, or the public school system, or technology or something. Will you? Thank you. A weight has been lifted off my conscience.
hey!
heres an idea: maybe we readers could be allowed to collaborate (@ a certain convention perhaps?) + make an issue of muse ourselves! ive seen several other mags that have done this, + it seemed to work out ok.
But the GAPA’s would still do the Q&A, right?
These ideas are all good, and many of them are brilliant!
Now… How do you do the 100th-post dance?
Muse towel. Best idea yet. It could say Muse and Mostly Harmless on it and musers could carry it around wherever they go. Which they should be doing with their present towels anyway. Do you have any idea what could happen to you if you don’t know where your towel is?! Then passers by would see them and say, “Now there’s a frood who knows where his/her towel is.” Then they’d get one too, so as not to be unprepared. It could even have wheat germ and antidepressants in it. Okay, scratch the antidepressants. People would become addicted to their towels and walk around looking like Linus all day. Wait a minute, maybe I’m onto something… Animal issues?? How exactly would that help spread the word? I don’t like whole issues on any particular topic, but indivual animal articles are great. Like the bonobos? Or the orangatans? Fascinating. I love the stuff. I know what we can do. You know that slip of paper for comments in the back library books, right? Well, write something about muse in there. I write all kinds of things on those. For The Plot that Thickened I wrote: “Thick as gravy when rue is added, and every bit as enjoyable, if you’re fond of gravy.” And then sometimes I’ll write something completelly unrelated to the book like “Smashing toast, Gromit.” Then I’ll feel bad about taking up comment space. Then I’ll feel good again because I know that someone will open it up be udderly dumbfounded as to why it is there. I derive pleasure from writing annonymous silly things where people will see them. I know: I’m weird. But give it a try. It’s fun!
Bring it to school and show your teacher.
If it hasn’t given them some ideas by week’s end, then they are out of their clever (well maybe) minds.
Muse bumper stickers! Then you couldn’t help but advertise. Wait a minute, is it advertize or advertise? Or neither? I’m confused. How about leaving muse messages in bathroom stalls? Okay, that would be downright vandalism. Did anyone see that cartoon on albino black sheep about the problems with public bathrooms? *snortylaughter* The automatic flushers are the worst.
jeans w/ muse printed across the butt… jk
i have found out evidence that Pwt is a ‘he’
Advertise. With an ‘s’. I think we should have the jeans with muse on the butt. They would be geek-sexy. Maybe someone should approach ThinkGeek about us. Cautiously? Hmm?
98- excellent idea!
we can paint our own clothes!
it’s REALLY easy. just get a plain shirt or plain pants….and fabric paint. you know….the stuff in the pretty little squeeze bottles in your local craft store. as long as you can squeeze and write/draw at the same time, it’ll look great. unless you have horrible handwriting……but put a piece of cardboard inbetween the layers of the clothing (like between the front and back of a shirt…) so the paint doesn’t seep through and cause the garment’s sides to stick together…
Okay….. Does that work well with jeans?
I think I’ll write Muse and Mostly Harmless on a towel of mine when I carry it around on Towel Day. Then I’ll be advertising and being froody at the same time! Let me go see if we have any fabric paint….. well, if not I can always use a permanent marker.
I’d rather die than wear jeans with anything on the butt. It’s just weird. Why would I want people staring at my butt all day? I usually don’t like clothes considered sexy. I think I’m progressing into a higher level of geekdom. Like I care. I was too far gone a long time ago. But yeah, if we could getThinkGeek to do a shirt it would be great. Then people would come on, see it, google it, subscribe, and advertise. By the way, thanks Queen J. I think more Muse garb in general is in order. But we need something more short and to the point. Don’t get me wrong, the muses shirts are great. Best thing since Muse itself. But they’re sort of advirtising indirectly. The problem with long-messaged shirts is that people will either not be able to read it all and miss the message or follow you around, staring at your torso, and possibly run into a tree. Also relatives (espesially aged) will stretch it all out trying to free it of wrinkles to they can read and then never get it in the end. Could you tell if Muse sales went up at all when the Smart Pies book came out? I would think they would.
What’s ThinkGeek? Is it a clothing company?
I didn’t want to write anything on my butt. I was thinking the bottom of the legs. Or down the side.
108-yeah. i’ve done it before! (you can tell i have waaay too much spare time on my hands)
not only clothing….all sorts of geeky stuff.
i can’t paste a link, so just try google-ing it
I think we definitely need a line of PWT PWNS sweatshirts. I’d buy one, just to be the froodiest kid in the class. OH! And black T-shirts with a big hot pink bunny on ’em… It can say “Beware the hot pink bunny, my son, the jaws that bite and claws that catch… beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch.” That would be the coolest thing since the invention of packaged tofu.
At the camp I go to, people spend their spare time writing stuff on jeans… So bring a pair of old jeans to camp and draw MUSE on ’em in marker. MOSTLY HARMLESS towels are cool. How about MUSE bandannas?
I still have to find a towel that’s not in use….. do you think just a hand towel would work instead of a full-sized one?
Can’t paste a link?!? Don’t you mean post?
What does PWNS mean?
I think the words on the hpb sweatshirt are a little confuzzling to non-Musers. Maybe just the pic.
117-pwns is a derivitive of owns…..basically people cant type and the p is right next to the o on the keyboard
116- oh, yes. thank you
I have a good idea! Give me a free subscription!
I also think that there should be more T-Shirts & sweatshirts. It would be really cool if all the muses could have their own T-Shirt.
and buttons! stickers! magnets! so we can pin/stick them everywhere!
On the qwerty keyboard, that is. On Dvorak it’s only a zillion keys away. I still have my Muse/Kokopelli/hot pink bunny stickers from the fanpage, but maybe more stickers would go over well.
Violetfire, I, as the unchallenged supreme Douglas Adams obsessive on the Museblog, say that the hand towel will do very nicely. I have a largish bath towel from Marks and Spencer in a tote bag along with some old scripts, a Sub-Etha thumb, and some ballpoints, but you don’t have to be as completely obsessive and meticulous as I am. ThinkGeek (google the name) is an online company that specializes in geek wear. From them I purchased my chixor shirt, my “sweet heart” shirt featuring the molecular structure of sugar and an anatomically-correct heart, my plush Monty Python killer rabbit, some pocketknives, my binary “Welcome” doormat, and other such things. They’re very nice-they respond to your letters sometimes, and they’re very geeky. They also have a line of PVP and Slashdot clothing. Also, they have a line of babydoll shirts that aren’t as baggy as the other things you’ll find (MUSE MANUFACTURERS?! ARE YOU LISTENING?!?!) on the Net. Not tight or tube tops (Good idea. V. good idea. Over.) or anything, but you don’t misplace vital bits of your anatomy either.
What was the “Good idea, V, good idea” for? Was it because I requested womens’ cut shirts?
I was thinking of writing Muse or Mostly Harmless on my towel so I could advertise Muse as well. Do you think that’s tacky? After all, this is the Boosting Muse thread.
Violetfire baby, I only meant to express that I thought the tube top idea was burn-worthy. Oh no. I think I’m going to release total cathassus with all the girls saying “How can you wear tube tops, you utter strumpet! That’s awful!” but there you have it, I am what I am and I’ll wear whatever I want to. Pah. And I think you should keep Muse on one side of your towel and Mostly Harmless on the other, but don’t feel that this has to influence you in any way, shape, or form.
How do tube tops relate to muse? does Kokopelli wear one?
126- everything relates to muse. EVERYTHING. hmmm…maybe he does….
#128
p.s. Koko RAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aw, plz no tube tops
125/129- no tube tops on really fat people. or too-tight ones on people of any size. my apologies to the obese population of the world, but really, no one wants to see that. really.
i think i shall rant about clothing sizes and various other problems our youth has today. it might offend you, sorry. oh, and feel free to skip this section, as it should be quite long:
actually, methinks ill post it in the forward march part four thread…i don’t think it really belongs here…
I read it. Good job.
Maybe we should have a thread for rants……
do a supper mag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
half shold be Muse mail, then (so the editors will still have to do work) write about the muses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
: idea : lots ‘o’ comics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and make it 100 pages long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
#18 yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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132- yes!!! SUPER MAG!!! *totally supports idea*
How is a ‘SUPER MAG’ going to alert non-‘scribers of the awsome froodiness of Muse? A hundred page one wouldn’t be unwelcome, but half mail? I don’t know. I come here to read the random thoughts of blind (possibly) teenage cavethings, not the mag. Don’t get me wrong, the letters pages are great, but after fifty pages of it, I think my brain would explode from randomness. As previously stated, that’s what the MB is for. I’m sure babydoll cuts would sell like hot cakes, so if it’s for the good of Muse, I’m all for it. But I wouldn’t buy one. They fit weird and the sleeves are too short. They’re almost as annoying as those half-sleeve jobs that always look like they’re made for someone half your size and aren’t appropriate for any wheather. (Too hot when it’s warm, to chilly when it’s cold.) How about having a booth at one o’ them whatever-con geekfest thingodingers? Sure it would cost about a gazillion bucks, but it would be worth it. Maybe.
or we could just crash comic-con! much cheaper, and great publicity!!
I’m trying to spread the word by passing out “Kokopelli 4 Prez”, “Muse: Mostly Harmless” and HPB stickers to people, showing them some of the issues, and handing out subscription cards. I’m not sure if it’s worked yet, though.
Why havent I gotten any Stickers yet?
Where do you get HPB stickers?
D. Yoda: There was a send-in thing a while ago in which you had to send in a translation (correct or otherwise) of that one really weird and difficult sentence in the back story of the HPBs (great article, pb&j!) and you would automatically get stickers of HPBs. I did it. They’re froody.
Send letters to your govener, telling them how freakishly good Muse is. The more commited of you could even order some back issues, and send them in a pakage to the govener.
I don’t know if there’s such a thing as ‘State children’s magazine,’ but if there is, this would be the perfect way to go about raising interest.
Goveners across the nation will attend a confrence some day in the not to distant future, and they’ll all start saying
“They sent you a copy of that magazine? I got one as well.”
The nation’s top children’s magazine.
Just imagine that.
Besides, it’s fun to play pranks on politicians.
Hey, maybe if we all pitch in, someday on CNN, or NBC, or something, the announcer will say something like
“Recently, Goveners across the nation, have started recieving packages, containing a popular children’s educational magazine by the name of ‘Muse,’ and letters promoting that magazine. The kids, are apparently trying to raise interest, in what they think should be the nation’s number one children’s mag. You can join the hundreds of dedicated Musers, at http://www.Musefanpage.com. There you will find the Muse blog section, where kids can get together, to have a fantastic, and educational time.”
I’m just pulling that out of thin air.
Good luck.
142- brilliant!
143- Thank you.
I missed the send-in thing, so I found some pics of hpbs and printed them out and made them into stickers. But not very big stickers. I wish a GAPA would post a really good big pic of one so I could make better stickers.
How big? Either a cheek-to-cheek or an ear-to-chin measurement would help here.
Hmm… as big as possible would be good, but Cheek-Cheek- 3-4 cm, Ear-Chin- 6 or 7 cm. Thanks.
I’ll see what I can find on my hard drive. Meanwhile, this is the original HPB button at its original size:
Hm… These bunnies don’t look so good when you blow them up.
Thanks!
YES! FINALLY!! You know, before, I was trying to post a comment, and itgave me that message about slowing down cowboy, but I hadn’t posted in like 20 minutes. I tried a mililion times!
I’m also making stickers for each Muse, like the thing you find on the Meet The Muses page. I’ll give them out as well.
And I should think they don’t look good when you blow them up! They’ll look like a pile of hot pink bunny pieces!
Some people might consider that an improvement.
I don’t. And I just made some that say Kokopelli 4 Prezzy or Muse: Mostly Harmless.
I am considering making Hot Pink Bunny Doc Martens 1460s, but I might make it a removable patch instead of permanent, as I would cry to change my beloved Docs, which have saved me from being crushed in lockers, beaten in fights, and wet feet thousands of times. Plus, Docs have serious punk credibility from being THE footwear of such illustrious groups as the Dogs, Fishbone, the Specials, and the Selecter. Sales rap over.
And PWT PWNS.
Violetfire, how can I get some of the stickers you are making? I guess I can just steal your ideas and make my own. But don’t worry. When people ask me “Skipper, where did you get that incredibly froody sticker?” I will be sure to say “Oh I made it but Violetfire came up with the idea.”
And they’ll have no idea what Im talking about.
Bo should have her own t-shirt. And it should by green.
Violetfire, how can I get some of the stickers you are making? I guess I can just steal your ideas and make my own. But don’t worry. When people ask me “Skipper, where did you get that incredibly froody sticker?” I will be sure to say “Oh I made it but Violetfire came up with the idea.”
And they’ll have no idea what Im talking about.
Bo should have her own t-shirt. And it should be green.
oops sorry. Lemon Curry is biting me for being a bad girl and double posting.
somebody likes my idea!!!! (#135) 200 pages!!!!!!!
(132)
I can see it now
MUSE: Double Digest edtion.
Has anyone sent copies of the mag to their favorite politician?
I recently sent letters to Ellen Degeneres and Oprah Winfrey, inviting them onto the ‘Muse Movie?’ thread.
Imagine if one of them promoted Muse on their talkshow.
We’d better make a billion dollar donation to the Muse crew, so they can buy a hundred extra printing presses.
Just kidding.
36- YES! A MUSE CONVENTION! POLEEEEEEEEEEEESE!?????
Let’s Bookcross some Muses! Then everyone could share the wonderfulness! Go to !!!
Go to bookcrossing.com!!!!
[This site looks Mostly Harmless. I’ll allow it. –Robert]
I think that we musers should organize a boycot in the towns that we live in against other teen magazines that tell every one how ugly you are unless you do this, or how uncool you are if you do that, and brainwash readers. We could make the boycot so huge that it would be on national TV and media and stuff. THen we could tell everyone how great MUSE is and how it makes you smartter, and all the other wonderful stuff. And then MUSE would be world famous.
i dont read them anyways so it wouldnt make a huge impact.
A Muse convention would ROCK to no end!! I vote Muse convention, Hot Pink Bunnies galore, Muse garb and the boycott of smelly teen magazines.
I brought Muse into Science (woah!! TWO years ago!!) and my teacher simply adored it. I also brought into TAG and Social Studies two years ago. Getting your school or library a subscription is a SPECTACULAR idea, in my opinion. My friend LOVES Muse, so I gave her an issue that I recieved twice after re-newing my subscription and she loved it to pieces (not literally, or else I’d have to regretfully do something EVIL to her Freddie CDs). Other than her, I’m the only one I know of in my school who reads Muse. Advertise around school and where you live.
The Muse movie is also a wonderfull idea. Can we get on that and premeir it in celebration of Muse’s birthday sometime??
But I’m mostly in favour of a vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big Muse convention!! We MUSTMUSTMUST do that SOOOOOON!! Not cosmically soon, just SOON, like in a few years (IF WE CAN WAIT THAT LONG) or just ASAP. We shall drag our Muse-deprived buddies, who are unjustly unexposed to the great divinity that Muse is (apart from out adoring rants for the mag). And then we will SCREAM from the roof-tops how SPLENDID and FABULOUS Muse is at midnight when we’re all on a big sugar-rush from the HUMUNGOUS Muse-shaped pie Koko will make and throw at us all to catch in our mouths. PINK BUNNY BALLOONS AND CONFETTI!! We can BLAST the Muse theme-song (if we have one yet – if we don’t, what are we doing?? Get writing!!) and watch the Muse movie and read Attack of the Smart Pies aloud and scream random lines to random people on the street and dearly care for the hot-pink bunnies we’ll have created for the occasion and reminice and read our favourite articles. Oooh, and we should all dress up as a Muse!! OKAY, I’M REEEEEEALY getting into this!! GOOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
WHAT A FABULICIOUS IDEA ECILA!
I don’t read any teen mags, but if I did, I would boycott right away.
Maybe if enough Musers pitch in, you’ll be invited on some talk show for your efforts.
Imagine a whole crowd of Musers on Oprah.
Iknowiknowiknow! Muse stuffed animals! I would luff a Bo stuffed animal to add to my cow collection…:]