mark monday's Reviews > The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

So you don't buy her story that both killings were accidental? I'm afraid I fell for it...

Awesome.

Manny wrote: "So you don't buy her story that both killings were accidental? I'm afraid I fell for it..."

yeah i bought it too, because i'm a sucker. i just thought she was a misunderstood misfit from the wrong side of tracks. little did i know that she was a natural born thrill-killer on the lam, looking for like-minded psychos.

Dorothy & Friends: Portrait of a Serial Killer Crew

In Cold Oz

Kansas Psycho

Through a Tornado Darkly

The Road to Hell Is Paved with Yellow Bricks

Behind the Curtain: A Wizard's Tale of Terror & Survival

The Red Shoe Diaries: A Red Dawn in Oz

Ha! I was at some dumb bar over the weekend and overheard a guy quoting this verbatim, trying to look cool by passing it off as his own! I should have exposed his charade.

Last year I helped the locals with a production of this psycho "cereal killer " story and believe me there were plenty of budding crazies to go around!

Looks like someone had a menial job with little over-sight from superiors. If only I had the guts to do things like that.

Izzy wrote: "Ha! I was at some dumb bar over the weekend and overheard a guy quoting this verbatim, trying to look cool by passing it off as his own! I should have exposed his charade."

a missed opportunity! what a douche. UGH.

i'm reminded of a fracas earlier this year in tumblr with some of my college friends. one friend posted these old modeling photos of his from his 20s, several which featured him nude. now he's a family man with wife and (too many) kids and he only had a handful of tumblr friends so he naively thought he was 'safe' and just creating amusement for those friends. which is definitely what happened!

but a couple weeks later, i noticed something from a sleazy tumblr account that i followed (i used to follow quite a large number of fairly sleazy tumblr accounts and i am not ashamed!). this guy had taken and posted the images again, as well as several of the casual, at-home photos to make it look real (but did not 're-post' them, so they did not link back to my friend's account)... and had written these comments underneath about how my friend was his boyfriend of this many years and his name was this and they liked to have sex this way and they had an open relationship, etc. it was all so specific and so creepy and also... sad. a fantasy boyfriend who's straight! my God, get a real boyfriend.

in the end i linked up the poseur's tagged images with my own friends, and an ugly flame war ensued. ultimately, tumblr deactivated all the accounts involved in the conflict (mine too). tumblr really has a scorched earth policy when it comes to these kinds of things!

countdown starts now until i delete this post. i don't think any of my college friends are GR friends (just post and pre-college, oddly enough) but if i recall that one is, this post is going the way of so many of my other I Have No Filter type posts.

Leave it! It's FUNNY (my God, get a real boyfriend. HAHA) and it doesn't make your friend look bad, just the crazy person.

my god, the internet has gotten me in trouble so many times. RIP livejournal.

if i recall that one is, this post is going the way of so many of my other I Have No Filter type posts.

Aw, but we love your lack of filter, mark!

Or at least I do. It makes me nostalgic for my San Francisco, where people shamelessly Tell All in a manner I didn't realize was unusual until I moved to the Midwest and inadvertently shocked many fellow students.

Anthony, I knew a girl once that worked for Cosmo. The night before a publication, she hacked into...whatever you hack into for a magazine, and a few of the articles ended up with a huge, prominent and in caps, anti-"beauty establishment" message (complete with lots of swearing). She left New York the next day and now loves in Portugal where she is pretty much my hero.

Izzy wrote: "Anthony, I knew a girl once that worked for Cosmo. The night before a publication, she hacked into...whatever you hack into for a magazine, and a few of the articles ended up with a huge, prominent..."

That is the kind of sabotage I can get on board with!

Izzy wrote: "Anthony, I knew a girl once that worked for Cosmo. The night before a publication, she hacked into...whatever you hack into for a magazine, and a few of the articles ended up with a huge, prominent..."

that is a beautiful story! your friend has now been added to my list of heroes.

Miriam wrote: "Aw, but we love your lack of filter, mark!

Or at least I do. It makes me nostalgic for my ..."

ok, just for you & Izzy, i will try my best to control my trigger finger on the deleting.

Miriam, where in the midwest? oh wait - South Bend? i'm getting a distinct feeling we've talked about this and that i actually know the answer to my question.

mark wrote: "Anthony wrote: "Oh, I meant the synopsis of Wizard of Oz in your review. ANd yeah that dream sequence sounds like gold...."

ah! i thought it was responding to my post above it. honestly i was a li..."

Haha, yeah I had to fix that misunderstanding. Otherwise it would have just sounded like I was being an ass.

oh wait - South Bend? i'm getting a distinct feeling we've talked about this and that i actually know the answer to my question.

Yep. I think it was one of our first conversations, in fact.

Nest review of 'Twitlight' oops "twilight"
"180 year old pedophile finds perfect mate, 17 year old girl with the mind of a 5 year old!"

Sorry but my tag name is eyehavenofilter! DOH!

Miriam wrote: "Yep. I think it was one of our first conversations, in fact."

that's right! i think we met in Michael's Extra Cool group? i remember getting a small flurry of requests after making comments in there. some of you Silver Agers are really quite friendly! and thank you Michael for bringing Mark & Miriam together!

huh now that makes me wonder why i haven't seen any updates from him in a really long time. let's just check....

oops, no longer a friend. i must have deleted him during one of my psychotic mass purges. sigh. sorry Michael, wherever you are! it wasn't personal! i'm just a crazy person! i still think you are Extra Cool!

I don't remember if that's where the conversation took place. It could well have been.

You're not friends with Michael? But didn't you read the V.D. Burns books?

Haha, he used to be friends with Michael and then he went on a friend-deleting spree!

ugh, i'm terrible. that itchy trigger finger, always wanting to delete people. i don't know why having too many friends puts me in a bad mood. maybe it's the anonymity.

Miriam wrote: "I don't remember if that's where the conversation took place. It could well have been.

You're not friends with Michael? But didn't you read the V.D. Burns books?"

i did! well at least i "reviewed" the first one.

but with my regular purges (and i swear i'm getting better at it - i begrudgingly upped my comfort zone to @ 200 friends from 101 after a convo with Meredith & Jason this past summer), all i'm doing with my deleting is eliminating people who i don't recognize. which means people who don't write reviews and/or don't ever make a comment to me... i.e. people whose name or avatar i don't recognize in the 1.5 seconds where i give it the slightest bit of thought before pressing delete. i don't recall deleting Michael but i have no doubt that happened. i do like that guy - what i remember of him - but i don't recall many reviews from him and even less interactions between the two of us.

Just checking in, to remind you of me! Don't delete me! Again!

never again Eh! never, i promise!

Well, let's not go overboard. Never is a long time and absolutes tend to make liars of us all. How about, if I should happen to be silent long enough to fall from your memory, you'll accept me back into the fold when I poke you?

okay i'm fine with that. Contract Accepted! from my nice friend Eh! who i will never delete.

Haha! And I will always poke you! Though, not the same way as others may do so. :)

Angsty Virgos....obsessing over too many not-immediately-in-a-split-second-recognised friends....what next? Early onset old-timer's disease?

oh i was born with that, Scribble!

mark wrote: "oh i was born with that, Scribble!"

HA!

Delete decisions are too demanding for me; I prefer to alter my settings so that only the people I care about show up in my feed.

Miriam wrote: "Delete decisions are too demanding for me; I prefer to alter my settings so that only the people I care about show up in my feed."

This is what I've been doing lately. But for a while, it has bothered me that people I don't know and have never spoken to before ever were requesting friendship. I didn't like the idea of not knowing people in my friends' list.

I used to deny a bunch of people and then go through and try to delete the ones that never talk to me, but that got exhausting. I'm here to meet and interact with people, you know? I'm not here to build a ridiculous friends' list.

bothered me that people I don't know and have never spoken to before ever were requesting friendship.

I find that weird, too. Sometimes if they are new to goodreads I'll wait to see if we interact, but mostly I feel like the sort of people who would friend random strangers are not going to be to my taste.

I especially hate when people whose friend requests I've ignored send more requests. Either they're pushy, or they're sending so many they don't care who I am. I don't get wanting to have a huge list of people you never talk to.

my thing is i don't want my GR experience to turn into my FB experience, which i resent and sorta hate. ideally, i want to actually recognize each and every one of my friends. FB is an almost anonymous experience for me, filled with people from all sectors of my current life and my past life too. many of whom i actively dislike. there is a randomness to it that rubs me the wrong way. i just don't want that on GR.

Lately I mostly use facebook to talk to my goodreads friends. And play Scrabble.

Yeah, for me FB is more insular. Just my friends and family, really, and a few fantastic Goodreaders. On here, though, it's all open space. Everything is public and anyone can comment on whatever, so to me GR seems more anonymous. Also more fun.

you both have FB pleasant lifestyles that make me jealous. my FB world inspires both lethargy and horror. so GR is my FB. most of my FB people barely even read.

I am not even an FB embryo, let alone virgin. Avoids any kind of embarrassing purges. Particularly of people I'm happy to forget. *nudge, nudge*

oh i love the embarrassing purges if i love the person. case in point: my favorite reviewer Mariel and her incredibly distinctive reviews. LOVE!

but i hate the purges from people whose opinions irritate me. or people who feel the need to report on their daily activities. i don't need to know and i don't care.

somehow i got in a cycle of accepting everyone. high school friends from Orange County, many of whom are insane fiscal conservatives (but social liberals, um, yay?). 3 groups of college friends (frat, gay, and the real ones). most but not all of my friends since then (many of whom happily refuse to be on FB, yay). relatives who are bible-thumpers and think Obama was born on Planet Evil. workmates. and nowadays i actually have to accept all friend requests because i am in a public policy position and various political types who i have to work with use FB as a platform for their politicking. even though i agree with their politics (this is san francisco after all), it still bugs. and if i didn't accept their friend requests, at least from the political types, it could have social ramifications that lead to folks not looking favorably on me or the policies that i draft or help draft or support. so... UGH. I HATE FACEBOOK.

Why don't these various political types have their own blog platform for their politicking? Then you can like their blog, subscribe to their update feed, and promptly send it all the the digital bin.

Facebook is just so...in your face.

That's annoying, mark. But remember, you're doing good work!

well thank you Miriam!

Yep, that pretty much sums up the entire story.

Best one sentence summary.

hahaa

Call it as it is. LoL
Oh yeah..that's keeping it real all right loooool!!!

you guys are so wierd!

Dorothy Gale = The Bad Seed.

really good book !!!!!

I love the whole series!