Maureen’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2009)

Maureen’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Michael wrote:
Definitely need a link to Dewey up top somewhere. Like the new commune Mo. Always like a place before the..."

that's done and in the section that is called "About Us".

as far as i can tell, ben's done nothing with his power except change his title. he *is* a grapefruit. i'm glad you're settling in nicely michael. it's nice to feel engaged again. :)

i haven't read or heard anything about this fellow patrick. i know you gave us a link but can you tell us a little more? what's the writing like? is it meta, magically real, modernist, mickey mouse? :)

Michael wrote: "That and we need the guidelines to post somewh..."

HOLD THE PRESSES. This group is now located in CANADA??!! Nobody told me about that part of the deal, eh. ;)

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i was wondering if anybody would notice that. i hope you understand that as a rule i'm not much for nationalism, and yet, when it came to setting up the test group, i couldn't say anything but canada. one of the other moderators can probably change it, i'm sure. i have this thing about manifest destiny. :)

p.s. i just changed your status to moderator. you can undo it if you'd rather not... for some reason even though we seem to be allowed to have as many moderators as we want only five pictures show up on the sidebar. if people click on the members link they can see who has moderator status. :)

hey everybody:

michael pointed out a link to dewey would be useful so that we have quick reference to our old posts and topics.

please find it here: www.myspace.com/fictionfilesindex

i'm mo, i'm trained as an editor, and i'm from canada. i really like genre fiction, and the classics. i'm not much for contemporary fiction but with the help of the wonderful writers in this group, i'm starting to see the appeal. favourite writers include: philip k. dick, shirley jackson, jorge luis borges, m.r. james, patricia highsmith, dashiell hammett, ross macdonald, cornell woolrich and james m. cain.

i also spend a lot of time thinking about space, and comics, and how to retain my sanity. only 4 things can take me out of my head: baking, reading, sex, and yoga. thanks to this group for helping fulfill my needs for the first two. :)

hi everybody:

since we're in the process of looking for more people to talk to about books, it probably makes sense for us to do another introduction thread where people who don't already know us will find out what floats our boats, book-wise, and then can let us know too. :)

i'll start since i'm already here..

i love this whole thread except where michael felt badly. he may have felt dimished but i hope not. we loves you michael. speaking of loves you, i stole that from porgie and bess because it makes me happy to think of that song.

i was thinking earlier about the phrase "purple prose" without looking it up -- anybody have any idea as to how the term might have come into being?

michael and brian, it's clear to me that the sweetest plum of all is the LOVE JOURNAL. oh i will write sad tales of my misspent youth. all those tawdry times.

and i hope it's bacon chocolate. :P

i want us to be on the ship of lost souls aka the dorkapalooza. i will dress up as miss haversham. :)

and yes ben, please give me the prescription for love (this sentence is in no way related to the previous sentence -- i look forward to living out the rest of my life as a spinster with a cobwebby old black dress with red sparkles and a plunging neckline. :P

i agree! one hundred percent. in fact i even thought about inviting scott here. we could have a poll -- that's not to say he'd come back anyway but i loved opposing him. :)

i even loved that crazy ewwwa. :P

and adrian, i love you and you make me laugh. :)

and i know that brian already welcomed you, michael but guess what? i can't have you going away without any exclamation marks so

welcome and thank you for coming over, dear michael!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am mad, alan. crazy, even! :)

okay, so a lot of people showed up when i wasn't looking! exclamation marks for all of the following:

bonita!!!!!!!!!!!
kris/liehtzu!!!!!!!!!!
swanny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
martyn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pavel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jesika!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

actually, jesika, i'm not sure if we've met before. feel free to tell me what your pseudonym is from the ff if we have. :)

once again, you guys, i really appreciate you coming over and checking it out. if we can recapture some of the old passion, it would be a tremendous thrill. i notice a bunch of you populating your goodreads profile, which i think means you see the possibilities. :)

that does make sense patty. what do you suggest? closing/re-naming some of these threads? or just deleting them?

Alan wrote: "I'm voting for the bacon set out so lovely, Mo. Although, the grease from the real bacon will be infecting the veggie bacon making even veggie bacon a cruel act toward piglets."

alan!!!! my sweet lady!!!

i thought about that later, that i should make it clear that there were separate and not-touching trays of bacon arrays. trays of arrays! say it with me now. :)

Matt wrote: "Hi guys Im still lurking around the dark edges of the group - just not much for posting these days for various reasons - carry on, Im with you in spirit"

it's nice to have you in dark edges! i'm glad to see you here e-monk, and hopefully we'll be able to lure you back with interesting or inane remarks. and now without further ado:

hurray!!!!!! e-monk/Matt is here!!!!!!! whooooo!
(the more of these welcomes i seem to do, the more exclamation points seem to be involved.)

Connie wrote: "Hello, Hello, Hello! I have found you. As I stated over in 'that' space, I have lost the bubble on personnel time, but as Ms Egret (Hi!!!) declared "I plan on being back with a vengeance..." Once..."

everybody with the cool nickname is a moderator. i can add you to the list if you like.

and i appreciate that life can get in the way of things like book discussion but i am really hoping that you get some more of that personal time back, and come share it with us. :)

Shelby wrote: "I don't wanna jump the polling on group reads but I will look into whether or not there are some conventions we might use (breaking up into certain sections, etc.) that would be handy in a discussi..."

hey, i think if people just want to read a book together, they should. not everything has to be a group read. surely if they see a topic there, they can just say, hey! me too. that said, i'm not sure these people saying they have a copy of 100 years of solitude are actually saying they want to read it too. maybe you do a poll that is "do you really want to read 100 years of solitude? and when?" :)

Patty wrote: "my coworkers came up with a word the other day that i thought was brilliant. "dimish" "

dimish? what does does dimish mean? and i am tempted to change the spelling of it to dimmish. :)

lately brian's been teasing me about my predilection for pomp and circumstance in my prose, or in other words, for my ten-dollar word collection. i like the idea of 'le mot juste'(damn me and the french again): the perfect choice for the perfect connotation. then again, sometimes i just get into vogue with words. lately, it's been apt. for a while it was apropos, and my favourite latin word is appropinquat. so here's a thread for favourite words, or words you just think suit a sentence so perfectly, and why you like em, because then it isn't just a list thread. i remember everybody used to grumble about those. :)

hello ms micha!!!!

(my welcoming skills involve a lot of exclamation marks)

please have a look around and check out brian's poll. one of the possible answers is about bacon. :)