Kokonventions

Kokonvention (noun; the verb is to Kokonvene) is the name given to arranged, off-the-blog meetings between two or more MuseBloggers, occasionally including the GAPAs.

Official Policies
~the GAPAs (Kokonvention motto: We're paranoid so you don't have to be)
 * MuseBlog’s administrators do not encourage you to do it.
 * We won’t help you plan to do it.
 * If you insist on holding a real-world meeting, your parents must plan it and supervise it.
 * To assure us that they are involved, your parents should e-mail us at thegapas@gmail.com. We will help them exchange e-mail addresses, and they can take it from there.
 * Any details about meetings (exact time and place, what you’ll be wearing, etc.) must stay off the blog. Please don’t try to post them. We won’t let you.
 * After a Kokonvention, we will post photographs of Kokonvening MBers with parental permission.
 * That’s all we will do.

Kokonventions Past and Future
There have been several successful Kokonventions in the past, at Washington DC, Boston, Amherst etc. No MBer has turned out to be a creepy stalker as of yet, so this may help prove to several doubtful parents that Kokonventions really are safe. All Kokonventions thus far have been held in the US of A, as that is where most MBers are situated, though this may change later on. Pictures have been taken at all Kokons to be posted on MB for all MBers who did not have the chance to go to see what they got up to. Hot Pink Bunnies seems to be a common theme at all Kokons.

Unofficial Kokonvention Theme Song
Written by GAPA Robert Coontz:

Headin’ to the big KokonVENtion,

Musers from all over the place.

The man with the pie

Said*, “I won’t ask you why

You’ve got Pantone 219** on your face.”

Cake, you know it ain’t easy.

You know how wild it can be.

The way things are goin’

They’re gonna bunnify me.

No one looks the way I imagined.

Everybody’s friendly but shy.

They’re funny and nice

But we can’t break the ice

Until someone calls out,

“Let’s have some pie!”

Cake, …

<p style="text-align:justify">Can’t believe we’re all here together,

<p style="text-align:justify">All those kids I met on the threads.

<p style="text-align:justify">The man with the pie

<p style="text-align:justify">Said, “You’re throwing too high.

<p style="text-align:justify">See, the crust is going over their heads.”

<p style="text-align:justify">Cake, …

<p style="text-align:justify">Musers always make an impression.

<p style="text-align:justify">People all pretend not to see.

<p style="text-align:justify">The folks in the crowd

<p style="text-align:justify">Said, “They’re laughing too loud,

<p style="text-align:justify">And they don’t look ‘mostly harmless’ to me!”

<p style="text-align:justify">Cake, you know it ain’t easy.

<p style="text-align:justify">You know how wild it can be.

<p style="text-align:justify">The way things are goin’

<p style="text-align:justify">They’re gonna bunnify me.