We will post more sights and sounds from the DC Kokonventions in the coming days. To give you a taste of what to expect, here is the first installment of video highlights sent to us by Purple Panda.
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w00t! I’m going to look at it right now! Thaks for posting it, GAPAs! *pies*
That was great! So this is the first take?
I don’t believe a single male got into this one, but they were there at the kokonvention, peoples!
The Have a Pie HAWK
2- Hmm. What about those bits with Robert? He doesn’t count?
Great work, you two. Looking forward to the full version, and hoping that I don’t sound/look like too much of an idiot…
hehe, “this is an actual writer”.. nice…
I like. The Kokonvention sounds fun!
3-Well, I meant we weren’t in there, but yes, I guess I should have said boys. But wouldn’t that include Robert too?
That’s flamablamabulous! You MBers look a lot like I expected, from the little I saw. Robert, you sound way different, though. Far more polite (No offense. I always imagined you as having a frank, somewhat sarcastic voice.). Roseanne, beautiful singing. How long is your hair now? My mom keeps nagging me to get mine cut, and it’s not terribly long at all.
Have a pie….
6-I think that I might have counteracted that with new music. I hope that I did…
5- There were only two of us…
Wow….
I WANT TO HAVE BEEN THERE SO MUCH THAT I AM CRYING!!!! but i’ve probably met 1/4 of all the people there, so whatev. I’ve met THF/PP, Shadowkat, erm…. that’s it. lol.
Gwendolyn (6): That’s Rebecca with the long blond hair singing in the video – not me! I was singing too but was safely off camera, sharing my songsheet with Glassboro’s mom.
That was cool!!!
Yay! Awesome job, guys! Can’t wait to see the rest!
this is an actual writer…haha, nice
you guys are good singers!
That was great!!
What was happening at the part about the license plate? I couldn’t really hear what was said.
I just got home!!! And I figured out I CAN HAVE MY PICTURE ON THE INTERNET. As long as nothing that could connect me to being identified is shown, like my name!
I can’t believe we did it! I have pictures of that pieing! Fantastic job! Thanks for letting us come Robert, Rosanne, and Rebbecca! You all rock very hard and as do the other musers I met!
I won’t tell you about it, seeing as everyone has piled stories until you could breathe no more!
The pizzza was goooooddd…
3- We do that for you.
Whoa, 26 e-mail messages already. Good grief!
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Anyone who does not like lots of mail-don’t worry about not being on the e-mail list!
Wow, we finally see the mysterious Rebecca :). That was cool… I emailed it to myself XD. I wish I could have been there…
9- Whoops! My bad!
I wish I had been there! Neh. Looked awesome.
16-Wait, what e-mail list?
I want to go to one now. ;_;
Then again, I already did.
In the part when it says “Insanity” you can see my dad! He’s on the righthand side waaayyyyy over with a yellow-ish shirt and black hair!
hat was SO FUNNY!!!!!!!! It was really great.
In the “have a pie”, Glassboro, THF and I were all sitting in the corner laughing our heads off. It was reahlly hard to sing while laughing that hard….
You can see the back of my head in the INSANITY, and A licence plate on THF’s shirt? Ha, ha, braids.
Yeah, what was that with the emails? I don’t even know who half the people are!
Heehee, love the singing. And “this is an actual writer.”
I wish I could go / could have gone. Maybe if there’s another. Well, not this Wednesday, but another, you know? I could drive myself there next summer…
Who got pied by the GAPA? I couldn’t tell with the coat and the icing and all…
23- Well, you’d most likely be hanging out with a bunch of kids mucho younger than you…
23-It was Robert and Rosanne pie-ing each other!
What I meant by the e-mails was that anyone who does not like getting tons of e-mails from other Musers (if there is such a person), don’t be sad that you are not on the e-mail list!
(jk)
I’m Olivia, in case you’re wondering. On the email thingy.
24- *shrugs* Not that much of an issue.
25- Oooh. Okay.
The rewrite of “Let it Be” should totally be the next big hit…
Have a Pie. Hehehehe.
That was really
da pwnagecool!!!! I can’t wait for the next version to come out.“This is an actual writer.” *bursts out laughing*
Who was the person in the hood? I couldn’t tell. Anyway, I wish I could have been there. You guys have really nice voices… mine already broke so I have no hope of singing that.
I sing horribly anyway…
The hooded person was Rosanne. She was wearing one of my rain ponchos, which was much too big for her, and was being extra-careful to keep custard pie filling out of her long, curly hair. (It didn’t work, for either of us. My hair was plastered onto my forehead with chocolate custard all day.)
It was really great. “okay, now I’m totally weirded out. How many of you have wlked into a room and seen your licence plate on the back of someones shirt?!” *keels over laughing*
That was so halarious!!!
the Pie-ing, everybody was just sitting there, watching, and waiting to see what would happen. Was it true that you didn’t tell the AAAS you were going to do that?!
It’s true: they didn’t know, and I’m sort of glad the other AAAS people weren’t there — not that that would have stopped us.
PP and THF~ I just listened to your musecast #1. Great, very funny. Thanks!
I so remember that.
Can you just upload (or send to me) any and all footage?
And I echo everything everyone else said, mostly.
Do any of the Kokonventioners have anything specific they want put in the video? I can’t include everything, and I don’t have footage of everything, but if people have requests, I’d be glad to add them.
And, for the misspelling of “license” – I really do know how to spell the word…I just accidentally used 2 “s”es, and then when I went back to fix it I must not have deleted the s. As you can probably tell, I just threw it together really fast.
30~ Wow, will they ever know?
I really can’t say enough how much fun I had, it was amazing.
I was quite releived, actually, when we skipped the pie. I had been feeling slightly threatened since Robert was sitting right across the table from me!!!!
It was great, no words can describe it.
14- Yeah, that pizza was great…
22- Yes, we were. I still think that we should have tried again, though.
I have to agree with post 34, it was the best day of my life (I think). Looking forward to the next one, and still hoping for it to be in Princeton.
8- You’re not alone. I was a bit snappish on the tenth, and I think I can guess why…
It looked like so much fun! Send more!
Oh, I wish I could have gone… It looks amazingly fun! We do need a NY kokonvention, I think.
29- Never seen a license plate on the back of someone’s shirt, but my friend has one on the back of her basement stairs. Which led to all of my friends sitting on the stairs and “driving the stairs.” (we were making all the swervy and vroom noises ourselves. You should try driving the stairs sometimes. It’s fun.)
My friend: AH IT’S A DEER!!! *swerve*
Me: AH IT’S A BUSH!!! *swerve*
My friend: LOOK IT’S *insert name of person we don’t like*!!! FLOOR IT!!! *vroooooooommm!*
Haha, good times. I’m so weird.
37- Yeah, we either need a PA or NY one. ’cause I’m all lonely down here… *is sad*
where in PA?? I might be able to come, if it’s in a part of the state close to where I live…..
Rebecca looks like she’s having so much fun singing “Have a Pie”! That was so great.
37, 38, 39- Ooh, NY would be good. Like, at the Museum of Natural History or the Met! Or in PA, maybe a big city like Pittsburgh or Philly. Or in Allentown, so we could sing Billy Joel. Or, better yet, Muse. But is there anything there?
Oooh, yes, one in PA would be awesome since that is where I am. *hopeful*
40- There is apparently nothing in Muse, sorry. There’s lotsa stuff in Princeton, though…
Whadaya mean therz nothan in Muse?
It’s a totally awesome magazine! 
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heheh!
(42) Having been through Muse, Pennsylvania, I wouldn’t say that there’s nothing there. There’s a lodge hall, an elementary school, and a general store. I’m sure we could find a room to meet in if we tried, and maybe even a piano. And the general store must have ice cream. What more do we need?
Oh. I thought that you said that it wouldn’t be a very good place for a kokonvention, but I guess that I misunderstood.
Well, we could stop there if we do the Pumpkin Drop, though I’m not sure how close it is. It’s about 14 miles from my Pittsburgh, which will only take about 20-30 minutes.
44- why do you say they must have ice cream. what more do we need? it sould be pie!
you all looked american…..
44~ I’m vegan, and therefore don’t eat dairy ice cream.
Pie would defenately be better!!!
49- if you don’t eat dairy products then you must oppose milking cows, and that is definately cruel to cows, I would know as I have 15 of my own cows and wouldn’t ever let them suffer.
I live really close to St. Louis, and we are already paying to go to New York in November, we should have it down here!!!
I apologize, I just had to protest for some reason.
50- Once I was taking a walk and I came upon a cow that needed milking. Poor thing! She looked so uncomfortable. We took her back to her home, because she was wandering the roads.
Sorry for the second post, but I would like to point out that St. Louis has the extremely positively awesomely awesome city museum!!!! We have the art museum, the science center, the zoo(of course), everything in Forest Park etc. etc!!!!
Back to Friday’s Kokonvention. In the excitement, I forgot to mention that the publication 125 Questions: What Don’t We Know? (in the “goody bags” the AAAS people handed out) was reprinted from a special section that I edited for Science magazine. It’s my own handiwork, so you know it’s got to be good!
I’ll have copies for the August 15 Kokonventioneers, too.
HAVE A PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
54 – Cool! I read about half of it so far.
My brother also LOVES “Kinetic City” – he’s 7, so it fits his age group. He’s now obsessed
49- …Same here, now. No more dairy here… I’d second the movement for non-dairy pies or something…
Hmm, would a Kokonvention during winter break work? Hmm, could be snowed out, though…
We could have a snowpie fight.
Have a snow-Muse building contest.
if ya do one in the winter, come on to MA! lotsa snow in the winter! please? me wants to go to kokonvention!!!!! do it on the plymouth waterfront! thats fun!
There’s a thought. We could go to the Plantation and speak Elizabethan.
Curses… I got here too late. I think… There’s still a chance.
57- I was thinking of that… We could have it in Princeton. There’s not too much snow, and when there is it’s fine. And we could go to the library or somewhere to use the computer.
It would be fun to do it during the winter, but not in November!!!!
50~ My uncle is a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. I’m vegan because my parents are. This probably isn’t the best place to start discussing cows, though.
54~ Oh, cool, I haven’t read it much yet, but I’ll have to check it out. I wore the shirt last night! Thanks so much for the AAAS people for doing that, it was really nice.
58~ SNOWPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I like that idea, very much! However, that shape would be harder to throw and have it stay intact than I sphere……hmm…… *thinks*
Did the GAPAs pie each other today?
OK, so here’s a brief decription of what happened:
1. We were lost and couldn’t find a parking garage, found one right across the street from bookstore, and went in. Found ReB and others, except I think kt wasn’t there yet…
2. We waited, Robert came in, and we went to the bus stop.
3. We all got on the bus, but Robert had to go back to work (
) and went over to NPR.
4. Took tour of NPR-very cool!
5. Went back to pick Robert up, went to Press Club for lunch again.
6. Walked with Ivars Peterson (w/out Robert) to the Mathmatical Association of America, took tour, in two cool old houses, and went to recently renovated carriage house to learn about and make mobius strips.
It was all great, and I’m sure we will all be filtering in details soon!
And kt looks a lot like I thought she did! But the others, not so much…I don’t know why some people turn out how you think and others not..
Also, we saw what I believe were the same two noisy fire trucks, just as noisy.
‘Twaz very fun, but now they are both over, and I’m a bit sad!
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33- Um… What was that one thing?… Any footage of the pies, or the pizza place, or anything!
50- Milking them doesn’t hurt them!
Sounds fun. Well, I wore my Kokopelli for President button all day, and left a poster I drew at the lake cabin, for others to ponder. I also convinced my cousin, who will be able to vote next year, to vote Koko…. And I also sang Have A pie, and Mamas don’t let your Babies grow up to be Muses. I was thinking of you all.
58- Oh, heck yes ^_^
62- That would also be way amazingly cool!!!
You know those weird skiing hats that have dreadlocks or whatever hanging off of them? How flamablamablous would Kokopelli hats in that style be?
Here’s a glimpse of the crew from DC Kokonvention Section II, including MuseBloggers, 2 GAPAs, and a few brave parents.
More documentation from both days to follow once I get back to NC.
I wish I was on that side of the Mississippi. Arghhh. Anyone in the midwest?
Sweet! Who’s who? I can pick out Robert and Rebecca, obviously, and I could guess at the others, but I’m not sure. Can’t read the name-tags from here
Will you post a picture of the 1st Kokonvention? I have one if you need one.
Ebeth is the one pie-ing Robert. Rt-H is on the right.
Ahh, I was looking at someone else taking a picture. Anyhow, that’s me…
(71) Red-tailed HAWK made the name tags for everybody, by the way.
Wow, that is so awesome!!!!!!!! Wish I was there… but for some reason, my parents wouldn’t drive twelve hours to DC.
70: I am!
Fun. I only recognized Robert, Rebecca and R-t H, obviously.
73~ It’s a good picture, actually. I’m sure I’ll look like a total idiot when the Friday pictures come in…. *shudder* Not to mention any recordings of my playing music.
So, did the GAPAs get pied with anything other than felt pies?
&0~ Where in the Midwest? I’ll be in Wisconsin for about a week.
That was supposed to be 70, by the way!
Sorry for the triple post…
you know Rt-H looks like an evil gunis and sounds like on (see musecast 5). we will get the world!
Stuff about veganism – A lot of vegans will drink/eat “organic” dairy products – the stuff from real happy farms instead of those awful lightless stalls that the cows aren’t allowed out of and stuff. Same with eggs. Some vegans believe that the animals should have their own life, cows use their milk for calves, not for humans, things like that. I respect that, but do not share those views.
80~ Not really, some vegitarians will eat dairy products. Vegan is not just the kind of dairy, it’s NO dairy. There are various types of vegan and vegitarian, like “freegans”- vegans who will sometimes eat dairy if it would otherwise go to waste. But other than that, vegan means no dairy. We should probab;y move this to the vegie thread, sorry GAPAs!
Cool! None of you look even remotely like I imagined. Mirabelle looks older (she’s often said that), HAWK just looks different, kt looked older than I thought, and Ebeth looks a lot shorter. And she has darker hair. HAWK’s hair looks much curlier than I’d imagined, I guess.
ok- please explain to the dumb newcomer-what exactly is the kokovention? where is it? when is it? what’s the point of it? thank you
Harhah! I found a moment to come on…
82-My hair looks a lot curlier than I imagined. My hair gets really weird in the humidity. In that picture, my hair isn’t all that bad, compared to what it can be…
79-Shouldn’t I look like what I am?
76-They were going to, but to (probably) Rebecca’s delight we never found a good spot, plus Robert was never seen again after lunch.
People did seem to like the name tags, but I was happy to make them!
I’ll be back in my full evilness soon!
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Red-tailed HAWK
who’s pie-ing Ebeth?
(85) That’s Ebeth’s brother, who never fails to remind you that he is her little brother. He’s taller, though, and has longer arms — useful in a pie fight.
(83) Does anyone remember what the point was? I’m not sure we ever got around to deciding. World domination, I suppose, like everything else we do around here.
To find out more, go to the main page and type “Kokonvention” in the yellow search box. That should make you good and confused.
80- But “organic” does in no way mean that the cows are any happier…
I can’t wait to see some more stuff from the first kokonvention!
76- However bad you are, I’m worse. Just remember that, and you’ll be fine.
84- The evil part fits…
Oh, snap! The video’s pretty much amazing…HAVE A PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RtH looks like someone I know but I can’t for the life of me remember who and it’s bugging me..
86-world domination starts at home. staking out the nation’s capital was a good place to start, i think. we now have inside information that could enable us to take over NPR and the MAA. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I am ebeth’s brother, pieing ebeth., in the red polo shirt with the glasses, with the evil smile, on the stairs, in the building, in DC, in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, blah blah blah, heck, I could just keep on talking, couldn’t I?
Yes, probably. How old are you?
75&77-I’m in the southish part of the midwest. Oklahoma, not Wisconsin. Ah well
93-he’s 13, despite his maturity level (which, as you can tell, is shockingly low)
92- Just keep talking in one-long-incredibly-unbroken sentence, moving from topic-to-topic so that no-one-can in-ter-rupt you; it’s in-cred-i-bly hyp-not-ic.
Please tell me someone got that reference…
84~ Yes, thanks again for the nametags!! They were really nice.
88~ Stop saying that, you did really well, expecially sight-reading “Tom Bowcock’s Treat.”
(96) It sounds like Tik-Tok in the Oz books. But I’m probably the only Ozophile on the blog.
97- But it’s true!
98-oz is my childhood
Mine, too. I read all of them.
I loved the Oz books, but alas, I only found four before I got too old for them.
How limiting! I never let myself get too old for anything.
103- Actually, I try not to, but if word got out that I read something that was intended for younger kids, I’d never hear the end of it. I look forward to becoming an adult so that I can read them shamelessly.
98- The Picard Song, sadly. A mashup of Picard quotes from various episodes and outtakes. I read one Oz book. It was quite good, from what I remember. Mayhaps I’ll look in the library after work next week; I could walk there…
(104) It does seem to work that way.
73- you look older than i imagined. you’re almost 13 right? wow. you look different than you sound, taller too.
69- *gasp* That’s flamablamabulous! *saves to comp*
104- Ah. See, I don’t care. I read EVERYTHING, even if it’s for kids younger than I. I didn’t read a whole lot of Oz books, though.
Heck, if I only read books for my age level (not to mention my reading level, that would put me somewhere in the adult section) (not to brag, or anything), then I would have to give up E. Nesbit entirely. and then I would die.
I didn’t read the Oz books (as you probably know from my hideous mistake a while ago), but I pretty much read everything else.
109 – I love E. Nesbit, too! Did you see they made a movie of 5 Children and It? I think it’s been out for awhile, but I haven’t seen it. I don’t think I’m going to, though…it will probably be terrible
billions of years ago (meaning like two) when i spent a summer shelving books at the library, i’d get done with my carts so fast that i’d have time to read an average length small children’s picture book. so i did. some of them were pretty good.
i’ve read all the oz books too. we found the entire set at a garage sale or something i think. or mebbe they’re from my mom’s bookstore days when the ripped the covers off unsold books and then gave them away to the workers (*gasp* yes we have unsold books. but the alternative would be to burn them)
111: Okay, I never got that. What’s the deal with ripping the covers off? There’s always that warning in the front of books, saying that books without covers were stolen. Huh? I used to think that meant that book thieves would sneak into factories and steal books before the covers were attached, then re-sell them.
69: Which one is kt and which is Green Qween?
110- The movie of 5 Children and It was AWFUL!
111- Um…I read picture books every now and then too. Weslandia was a very good one.
112- Green Qween has red hair.
I’m back! The video is AMAZING. My hair seems to make several cameo appearences…
112-they rip the covers off (i think) when they give them away because if at some point the book is worth somthing you can’t get money.
112: i am the one in the darker blue t-shirt!
the kokonvention was so much fun! the only bummer was that we couldn’t tour science magazine and Robert had to leave us most of the time
thanks for organizing it! it was so much fun!!!!!
oh by the way we saw some people with little black toothbrushes cleaning the sidewalk!
it was pretty funny!
(116) I’m sorry you didn’t get to see Science. When we were planning the Kokonvention, several people thought they would be coming on both days, so we scheduled different activities for each. It’s also too bad I had an emergency at work on Wednesday and couldn’t spend as much time with the group as I had planned, but I’m glad you had a good time.
I want to see a picture of the first one too!
Patience, Grasshopper. We’re working on it.
120- Okay, sorry.
I would just like to say that Muse, the Museblog and the Kokonvention give me hope for the world. I haven’t been on here for ages but just watching that video cheered me up so much.
I CAN have my pic on the internet, in case that de-complicates things.
(123) Could you please have a parent email us to that effect?
The main complication has been Rebecca’s getting back to NC and catching up on work and sleep. I’ll start posting some photos before the day is out, I promise!
122: Welcome back! I don’t think you know me, but I see you on a lot of the older threads when I read them.
i wonder if anyone will make a movie or a slideshow from the august 15th konvention
(126) We don’t have any movies, but we do have some pictures. I’ll be posting photos from both Kokonventions over the next couple of days.
Oh! I’m so sorry that I missed the Kokonvention. My parents did not give in to my shameless pleading, even when I played the “it’s my birthday soon and I won’t ask for any other presents” card. Do let’s have another convention in Boston or Philly next summer.
why is this therd still open?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Weeeeeeeee just had a mini kokonvention!
This thread is still open? No wonder nobody answered my comment!
130~ Yes, wasn’t it fun? I had such a good time, and hope you did as well. I hope I didn’t terrorize you too much….
Who was there? I didn’t recognize anyone (because I’ve never met a fellow MuseBlogger)
133 (LoA) – There have been several D.C. Kokonvention threads. Just search it in the search bar and you’ll find threads with name lists, etc.
Oh, and the mini-Kokonvention R-t H and I were talking about was just us.
135-Where were you?
At an event not too far away form where we live. An hour or so from me, very close for him. At the D.C. Kokon we learned that, wonder of wonders, there were Musers close by. Life hasn’t been the same since. Now I have to always wonder, “are they a muser?” if I see a kid around my age.
137-Which state? Like do you guys live near DC? *hopes are up* Dangit, now my hopes are up. *hopes get higher*
138~ You probably know by now, but yes, we live near DC. I’m about an hour away from there, and make trips into DC every now and then to see the musieums or performances at the Folger Shakespeare library.