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

Maureen’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

regan! based on the poll, it looks like there are at least four other people who do want to read it! just a few weeks' later! so now you can talk to yourself in public and other people and we won't know the difference. even more fun! :)

neil! the one of hemingway on the couch was in that collection of authors with their cats that kerry posted, i think...? was that it?

shel! you are a good egg to help out your chum but it sounds like you are multi-tasking even after hours, mixing boredom with pleasure! please give that good seed alan a nice lesbian deer kick for me? :)

leslie! i understand. bring back the image of hunter s. thompson lying like a discarded comma out in the sun. :)

also what up with faulkner in his bathing suits with thick socks all the time? :P

Leslie wrote: "Maureen - thank you, thank you! Just what I needed!! LOL Hunter S. Thompson does look pretty nice!

Is that really Allen Ginsberg or a bearded Tobias Funke from Arrested Development? "

hee hee! i'm glad you enjoyed them too. david cross as ginsberg is excellent casting -- i can't believe i didn't realize it before. probably because ginsberg and i aren't on the best of terms: plus i always coveted peter orlovsky. :) actually i also love the trio of auden, spender, and isherwood. :)

i miss you guys! things here are not as exciting as they are in california or vegas. :) things are pretty dire here too: i wish to donate my body to science wholesale at this point. anyway, i just got home from dinner and drinks with an old friend and now i'm back to trying to forget my life by looking at silly pictures of authors in their bathing suits! kafka in a bathing suit!! truman capote cheesecake! my favourite is george bernard shaw and his flutter board! and on that second page sexy hunter s. thompson. who knew?

http://booklips.pl/galeria/pisarze-w-...

http://mhpbooks.com/slideshow-writers...

i'm sorry not to get a chance to do a group read with you yet, regan, but i too, am skipping the big sleep this time around. when we get to the long goodbye, i'll be down for that one (and lead if needed).

dan: i think the group message would be a good idea, if not an actually poll saying, who is ready to start the big sleep? it would suck if people aren't engaged and ready... and i'm fretting that since it's been almost two weeks since you posted about the big sleep and regan's the first post, that maybe people aren't as up for it as they originally thought... if it turns out there's not a lot of interest, i can swap in for the long goodbye if regan is interested, and we two can go along and incite others with our joy. :)

still not showing up here, but it is in the group photo section. Linky link to image here: http://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/...

Hugh wrote: "Please, young man! If you're going to smoke that, do you MIND rolling down the wind?!" Yeeeesh. "

the answer my friend, is rolling down the wind, the answer is rolling down the wind. :)

oh. :P

i haven't read the skipper's book yet. i just noticed that patty called e-monk adorable, and that called like a moth to a flame, whereupon i burned in the raging against and for jennifer weiner's reviewing chops, then decided to leave a cinder for hugh. i never read reviews of a book or film just before i read/see a book/film. only afterwards, or before in early researching stages so that i've forgotten what it said previous to reading/watching. :)

hurray for action jackson over there! i am back from a party. i was drinking jager from a flask. :)

there was something i wanted to say but i have already forgotten. but these journalist parties are not the peppiest, gotta say. :P

happy drunky, everybody!

mo
xo

gin & tonics, and nachos. the beans were really hidden which vexed me. :)

patty! i love karaoke and theme parties. here are some ideas: duets! that way nobody is shy, and everybody does silly songs like island in the stream, and nobody gets all seriously into the rose. :P and grease soundtrack songs are always good for group songs. that, and piano man. :) i love the karaoke video for superstition. it has a vacuum salesman who encounters strange powers. at least at my karaoke place. also, if somebody duets reunited by peaches and herb you get to see another mental karaoke video where spider-man randomly appears; amazingly i found this on youtube: http://youtu.be/Ipkm4KTyztI?t=1m10s

karaoke generally has a lot of pop hits, with some hard rock and country. you could also try a general theme: i've used fire, or star, or time for other parties as key words for songs.

i wish i was going to your party! i would want to sing hard to handle (black crowes version not otis even though i love the otis i don't mimic him as well, and i've got chris robinson down) or bust a move, my two classic karaoke hits. i do others but those two are do really well. :)

happy friday, everybody!

mo
xo

p.s. MARTYN! YAY!

hi lovely! well, you whipped through pretty fast. i'm glad you loved it, and i am forewarned that it could get emotional by the end. i am now with hc and the silent tribe... i'm not clear if that's the group he was looking for or not, but hey!

about the circle line: i got the sense that sybilla is one of the note jobs that tries to get people into conversation. when he describes all the arguments she ends up in! i'd like to also suggest that ludo was being annoying which also got their attention. :P

should we go back and discuss sections when i'm done?

i really feel for ludo about his dad... when i think of all the outside sleeping he did!

i haven't quite finished up with the concert yet. she's just being fascinated by yamamoto. :)

the introductory chapter, what with the seminary and all that sort of reminded of the wheat springeth green, and i was worried about being stuck in the seminary, but then when the father decided to start making bets i got excited, and hoped he do some grifting, so i was kind of disappointed when we left him and moved into pre-Ludo. i am very interested in linguistics, but i'm not sure i'm enjoying the way she writes about it. once she started explaining how she taught ludo greek on the circle line i was a little more engaged. i also found it hilarious the way she got pregnant: i've obviously never been that bored before. :P

I guess we could actually talk about the first four in your breakdown?

I am trying to catch up... things are a bit insane here. I am up to the yamamoto concert. did you want to talk about the first two sections now?

i'm so glad! have an awesome time, jennie! i just borrowed a photo for my goodreads profile pic. i credited you! :)

fyi for next time patty, or anyone else. if you add your photo before you make it your profile photo you can keep others you had. it used to frustrate the hell out of me that people had galleries and couldn't seem to get it straight! :)

i wish dewey still worked!

when i watched swanny's video it reminded me of people we haven't talked to in years. :)

lara posted there quite a bit too, i remember. i hope she comes back! :)

routine? well, i think it's a good time to shake our heads a little bit, and try to find fresh ways of looking at things, and as soon as i came back, i started trying to make some changes, so i feel good about that. :)

time is strange. sometimes it moves too quickly, and other times it seems it is standing still. :)

mo
xo

i have to say, actually, that i displayed a bizarre lack of concentration this past week. i didn't seem to be able to remember details, anything solidly. i think happiness messed up my focus. :P

jennie!!! whoot! hope the music has taken its cues from earth wind & fire! is this one of your usual hangouts? is it a special night or something?