Archive
January 2012
November/December 2011
October 2011
September 2011
July/August 2011
May/June 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
November/December 2010
Town Hall
Musers on the Go (May/June 2009)
What's the most interesting place you've traveled? This month's Muserologist is an American living abroad in France. But you don't have to go halfway around the world to find someplace meaningful. Where have you been? What have you seen and learned? Where do you dream of going?
the weirdest place ive been to is manasota key florida. I found it weird because we could pick up sharks teeth that were thousands of years old in parking lots and on the beach it was plain amazing.
(May 13, 2009 - 11:17 am)
yeah that is weird
(May 16, 2009 - 3:10 pm)
HEY! LISTEN!
I don't agree with you there, Lukas H. Nothing in Florida could ever be weird. I mean, I live there!
Weird is good, I agree. But never in Florida. Think of it like this: why are those shark teeth on paved-over parking lots? Shouldn't they be in a wild, untamed area? Amazing it may be, but not natural. I believe that there shouldn't be such a colonized place next to the wild sea!
Thank you for listening,
~AvalonGirl
(July 10, 2009 - 8:06 am)
ok so i have a random question: have any of you muse fans out there reading this ever gotton a letter published in muse???????????? just wondering
ps: i am changing my name to simmy
(May 16, 2009 - 5:02 pm)
no but i am writing a muserology
(May 24, 2009 - 10:29 am)
Yes, but I used a pseudonym, so no one I knew could tell it was me unless I told them. One of my friends also got one published. I forget which issue it was in (as well as the one mine was in), but it's the one with the late origami contest entry, I think of Kokopelli.
One thing: Every time I've written, they've answered me back. When it was snail mail, they sent back a checklisted postcard. With email, I think once I got what sounded like an automated (although very nice) response (but it was a topic I think a LOT of people wrote in about), but the rest were all definitely personal. They even answered a question I asked about a bacteria mentioned in a previous article!
[Automated email responses sound like they'd be a timesaver! But we are pretty low-tech here, and have to answer all our emails and snail mails using old-fashioned people power. --Ed.]
(May 31, 2009 - 11:41 pm)
I haven't gotten any mail published.... yet. I've sent like 5 letters, but Kokopelli replies with those postcards every time! I wish there were different Muses that replied to the letters. No offense to Koko fans, but Kokopelli is my 2nd-least-favorite of all Muses. My least favorite is Crraw. I used to think he was all right, but did you see that horrible piece of lying he did in one article?? It was the one with the glass plants. He revealed his true self- and a very self-absorbed one at that. I can't believe how long he might have taken Aeiou's inability to speak to his advantage!!
If you don't like my postcards, perhaps I can interest you in a pie in the face? --Koko
(September 25, 2009 - 12:49 pm)
The one about glass sneezes?
(May 24, 2010 - 1:52 pm)
the coolest place ever is the ocean you get the wind and waves and it feels so cool and you think, this is the best part of my life!
(May 17, 2009 - 5:49 pm)
OMG!!! I SO AGREE WITH YOU!!! I LOVE THE OCEAN. ESPECIALLY IN MEXICO. OH WHAT I WOULD DO TO BE IN MEXICO, BUT I 'AM IN THE OPPOSITE I LIVE IN ALASKA.
(May 25, 2009 - 8:34 pm)
The weirdest place i've been so far… Hm…
I've been to so many, but I don't think of them as weird. Of course, I already speak 3 languages, so I usually get what's going on, and i sort of grew up between America, Austria and the carribean, so there are few places/customs I find weird.
Where I´d like to go… Russia, Greece and into the australian outback (but only for a short time).
What I've seen and learned: there is a lot of weird food in this world, there is still a lot of poverty in some countries and if you stay in a hotel 24/7, you'll miss everything.
[Sorry, Margaret, your strikethroughs didn't work. --Ed.]
(May 20, 2009 - 11:36 am)
That is SO awesome that you've lived in Austria and the Carribean and to top it of you can speak 3 different languages. I also would like to go to Greece, but I could go to Russia basically any time I want because as Sarah Palin says," you can see Russia from here" ( not true )
(May 25, 2009 - 8:31 pm)
Cool… I have a longer way to go to Russia, and on top of it I don't speak russian… But it would be cool. I like Cyrillic- I can't read it, but I'd like to learn it. What's Alaska like? I've never been there, and don't know much about it.
(May 27, 2009 - 2:10 pm)
I have a friend that 's russian.
(June 12, 2009 - 7:18 pm)
That's amazing. I agree about the hotel syndrome; it also goes for being a 'tourist' and seeing the famous sights while closing your eyes to everything else.
I haven't been to any particularly strange countries (only Mexico, the US, France, Germany, and Switzerland) but each one has its own...I want to say personality...? I love immersing myself in different cultures as much as I can (this month so far I've made a Byzantine Icon {it took 15 hours!} and made Ethiopian wat {stew})!
What languages do you speak? I want to be a linguist and some of the languages on my "wish list" are Dutch, French, Arabic, German, Spanish, and Swahili. It would also be fun to learn Russian (love the accent!) or Hebrew (I know the alphabet, or should I say aleph-bet, at least)! :-)
(December 8, 2009 - 2:04 am)
Can you speak Hungarian? I can, a little bit, because my great grandma was born in Austria/Hungary. I would always want to go to Hungary. I live in Ohio, but I was born in Texas.
(June 22, 2010 - 9:49 am)
The strangest place I have been is Yelapa, Mexico. I mean after a while we got used to it but, It is weird to buy popsicles from a popsicle man on the beach. And it is weird to buy pie from a pie lady on the beach.
(May 25, 2009 - 8:39 pm)
I got to go to Washington D. C. last year. I toured the White House and saw the oval office. It was AMAZING!
(June 14, 2009 - 11:32 pm)
I went to D.C. a few years ago. On the last day of my trip, we (that is, my family and I) had a tour of the Capitol building scheduled. But, lo and behold, Ronald Reagan died and the tour was cancelled. So instead we were able to go to the funeral procession of the fortieth President of the United States of America. Rather more interesting than a tour, in my opinion.
(June 17, 2009 - 10:26 pm)
*laughs* I was in D.C only once, briefly, when I was 5 years old so I don't remember anything. Just a comment about having seen that white house on TV before.
(June 20, 2009 - 2:09 am)
That would be interesting.
(June 29, 2009 - 9:26 pm)
i usually go to alabama in the summertime and i have to say, i love huntsville! a bunch of museums and stuff. i love the space center. it used to be even better before they downsized it:( ah well, it's still interesting and they still have the thrill rides. any way, madison, al has an awesome bagel shop right by where we stay. alabama also has a lot of good bike trails and i go road biking with my aunt.
if i could go anywhere, i would go to iceland, italy, new zealand, or austrailia.idk which. my parents are going to a wedding in new zealand soon and it will be snowing in some places so they can ski when all of us in the opposite hemisphere are swimming and geting sunburned!
(i didn't yell this time :) no bolded capital letters!)
[Thanks! --Ed.]
(July 26, 2009 - 2:03 pm)
I'm fine where I live here in the Pacific Northwest (most southern city in Washington state); it's a nice small town on the edge of a national forest, right at the start of the Columbia River Gorge, Portland just a short drive away, except we are currently experiencing a heat wave (a.k.a. summer) and it's getting a bit too hot for me (90s to 100s). I can't wait until Winter (40 degrees and rainy)!!!
(July 9, 2010 - 8:17 pm)