Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Mar 05, 2009)

Jonathan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Jonathan wrote: " . . . i'm reposting something matija just posted back at the old junk, along with my response. . .

MATIJA:

i feel obligated to comment even though i haven’t been on here for months... Margi..."

. . .as long as its a slutty little number that barely conceals my wedding tackle, i'm okay with it being something other than a giraffe . . .

Jonathan wrote: "Michael wrote: "Hello folks. Good to see you all together elsewhere. Reminds me very much of the great black-out of 2007, and the forced migration then.

Later,.
mm"

. . . i'm tellin' you man, ..."

. . .oh, and for the record: my old man owns forty plus acres in the desert . . . we can call it a homeland if you want . . . but he'll probably want to be moses, and to be honest, the nearest town is kind of a stinkhole . . .

Michael wrote: "Hello folks. Good to see you all together elsewhere. Reminds me very much of the great black-out of 2007, and the forced migration then.

Later,.
mm"

. . . i'm tellin' you man, that's our new motto: the jews of cyberspace . . .

. . . i'm reposting something matija just posted back at the old junk, along with my response. . .

MATIJA:

i feel obligated to comment even though i haven’t been on here for months... Margie just messaged me about the goodreads, so might check that out,
but as a general rule, tho, i think mypace is dying.
how odd...it’s like some digital village being abandoned certainly there will be many others (until perhaps we are literally in the digital world ourselves)but for the most part, will there ever be the same energy there once was? i haven’t been the longest on here, but i remember posting as early as 2006, and i couldn’t believe how thriving this group was perhaps because it was such a new sensation,
no one knew what the hell this was or etiquette or where it would go 3 years later, and some of the buzz is wearing off for most people...Me, i’d still love the opportunity to chat about books with the interesting ppl on here whenever i want, but i don’t know if it will ever be as thriving as it once was on any site it was kind of the surreal magic of being on new grounds kind of like when razor skooters first came out
and it seems now the die hards will stick around
but for the most part, the general public will just go back to whatever new trend

ME:

. . . excellent points, all . . . the key now is to take all these great minds and create something else new and exciting . . . the forum in and of itself will never be the same as it was, nor should it aim to be . . . we'll always manage to gather and regather at some new venue as the technology and social networking evolves, and that, i think, is exactly the strength of what we've created . . . no change of venue, nothing can stop us from gathering and regathering . . . i love this idea of the fictionphiles as the jews of cyberspace . . . i'm really excited about mo and others effort to re-invigorate the troops--we need to find ways to bring this community to a new level . . . we've built such an amazing social network, i almost wish we could design the next wave of social networking ourselves, on our own site, instead of being beholden to any flavor of the week . . . seems to me the next step may lay OUTSIDE of cyberspace . . . stuff like dorkapalooza and the museum of literature and the creation of a culture which exists both within and without the cyber realm . . . that's been my interest from the beginning of starting the files-- creating culture . . .

Alan wrote: "Ben wrote: "i have read a lot of delillo and in my opinion there is no reason to read him. the "opening chapter to underworld," "pafko at the bat," was actually written and published years before t..."

. . . so wait a minute, alan, do you have a crush on woogie, or something? . . . i could see myself being a woogie groupie . . .

. . .mo, thanks for all you do! . . .

Michael wrote: "Hello folks. Good to see you all together elsewhere. Reminds me very much of the great black-out of 2007, and the forced migration then.

Later,.
mm"

. . . ditto . . . thanks for leading us out of the desert, mo . . .

. . . looks like we still need to round up some of the core-group . . . i'll recruit some of my goodreads friends who aren't fiction files . . .we got catch some newbies who are yet to see the possibilities of a forum like this . . .

. . .c'mon, it had to happen . . . we gotta' have PFL love!