The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) discussion

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And you shall be! I haven't invited anyone to this group yet because I still don't know quite how I'm going to set everything up. But, I'm really going to do the project on goodreads, and I'm totally excited! Okay, I'm inviting you since you already discovered my secret lair.

Okay, I just discovered you already joined. Good to have you!

I got inpatient waiting for you to confirm that I was extra cool.

I am excited about your project too. What is it?

Wait. There's not free beer?

i can share beer, but I hope lager is okay I don't drink anything else.

I've changed my mind yet again about the free beer. I have a six pack waiting for everyone here in Arizona, and you can claim it next time you're in the neighborhood.

Oh, shit, Brian is gonna totally call me on this next week.

My project is going to take reviews themselves, feedback from you people, and literature about genre (as defined within rhetoric), and it's going to try and situate book reviews on goodreads within the broader world of online book reviews. As far as I can tell, almost no research has been done into websites like this one, and I lucked into finding a class for next semester where I'll get to actually carry out this project. I thought up until a couple weeks ago that I was just going to plan it and then move on, but now I get to do the fun part!

yay. I read a really cool overview of what actually constitutes literary fiction from one of karen's textbooks on amazon read inside. I am jealous of you!

Isn't karen's master's dissertation going to be about goodreads? Perhaps you two could share ideas and/or plagiarize one another in some masterful, ultra-meta commentary on Ginnie Jones and the nature of originality.

Good luck on the project, Michael.

Thanks, MFSO! I'll have to get in touch with her about what she's working on. I'd heard that, but I don't want her to think I'm jacking her ideas. I know how suspicious she can be.

that's okay pretend to be greg and she will give you all her ideas.

Perhaps you two could share ideas and/or plagiarize one another in some masterful, ultra-meta commentary

Cite each other's work. My former roommate and I used to do that back when we were in the same field.

Cite each other's work.

Good idea. We can give each other shoutouts and we'll both get famouser!

Please be sure to mention my contribution of this idea in your Acknowledgments.

i do not have time to explore this shit right now, but yes, i am doing my thesis on goodreads.com SPECIFICALLY because there isn't anything out there n it really, yet.

but i think we have different goals in this endeavor.

narrow eyes.

i think.....

if both Karen and Michael mention weiner poopie, they better cite BRMB as their source...

we will be watching...

what if it is in a different context? cuz sometimes that just comes up....

twss

smile.

I would certainly like a nod for pointing you in the direction of weiner poopies...
However, I think you'd have to give props/thanks to Jean Mansel, and of course, the lord Jesus.

spank you jebus..
muchas gracias mi amigo

karen wrote: "i do not have time to explore this shit right now, but yes, i am doing my thesis on goodreads.com SPECIFICALLY because there isn't anything out there n it really, yet.
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I would love to read it when you get around to writing it! This is definitely an idea that's worth pursuing.

Michael wrote: I have a six pack waiting for everyone here in Arizona, and you can claim it next time you're in the neighborhood.


I'm totally holding you to this, as well.

This is an ambitious project, Micheal. Is this related to your graduate studies?

Yeah..and it's not quite as broad or ambitious as it might look from the range of things being talked about here. But, I'm letting other people run with things THEY want to talk about, too, and I'm also asking SOME questions that aren't necessarily going to come up in my current, more focused, project. But, who knows, I'm fascinated by online communities, so I might tie this in with other projects later, too.

I'm totally holding you to this, as well.

I should've said one beer instead of a six pack. . . okay, I'm a man of my word.

Michael wrote: "I've changed my mind yet again about the free beer. I have a six pack waiting for everyone here in Arizona, and you can claim it next time you're in the neighborhood...."

but then i'd have to go to arizona, yikes. that state scares me. please send me a gift certificate to a corner liquor store here in nice, safe san francisco.

Dude, you too are in San Francisco?! What is it about SF and South Bend representing with the literate people?

However: if you can afford to live here you can afford to buy your own damn beer.

south bend?? wow i grew up in south bend. partially. and now here i am in sf. what a gap-bridger, i'm so proud of myself!

i suppose you have a point about beer and sf. sigh.

Anchor Steam, anyway. To be fair, one can easily spend one's entire income on rent in San Fran.

God bless rent control!

but then i'd have to go to arizona, yikes. that state scares me.

Sorry, this beer must be picked up in person. There are strict rules about this, you know...if I don't see a driver's license, or an NRA membership card for Arizona natives, since they don't have diver's licenses, I cannot disperse the beer. It's, uh, corporate policy.

I'm probably going to visit AZ soon anyway. You'll certainly be hearing from me, sir. I want my beer!

Let me know when you're in the neighborhood. It shall be yours.