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judym
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posted 04 November 2001 09:25 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wanted babblers to be some of the first to know:

Arsenal Pulp Press
& rabble.ca Present
grey
STORIES FOR GROWN-UPS

A celebration of the new book
by Judy MacDonald
Arsenal author and
rabble's editor in chief

Wednesday, November 21
6- 9 p.m.

The Mockingbird
580 King Street West

free admission


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audra trower williams
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posted 04 November 2001 10:07 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wish I could be there

Congrats, judym!


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clockwork
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posted 04 November 2001 10:59 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
STORIES FOR GROWN-UPS

Does that mean I can't come?

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judym
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posted 04 November 2001 11:18 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As long as you have I.D. that lets you in a bar, I promise not to tell the real story clockwork. I'd love to see you there.

Edited to add - thanks Audra. Your spirit's strong enough that I'm sure you'll be there in some form.

[ November 04, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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posted 04 November 2001 11:21 PM      Profile for Zatamon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
judym, does a gray beard qualify me for admission?

[ November 04, 2001: Message edited by: Zatamon ]


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clockwork
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posted 04 November 2001 11:23 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Unfortunately my freedoms for that day will be curtailed by my capitalist overlords.

Otherwise I'd bring me and my ID.


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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 12:27 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Zatamon, as the collection's title indicates, grey of pretty much any kind is welcome ... although I'm not sure whose beard you are referring to, so I don't want to make any blanket promises. Is this one attached to you?

Clockwork - curse those overlords! They're always spoiling the fun. Perhaps we could figure out a special Brampton launch when you are free. Do you think a reading would go over well at a rave? Heh. But seriously, if you can think of a fun place to do a reading out your way, I'd be game to try figuring something out.

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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Michelle
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posted 05 November 2001 12:33 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Woo hoo! I have a light sprinkling of grey hair at the temples! I qualify! Yee haw!

Oh. It's in Toronto.

(well, I ASSUME it's in Toronto, because Judy, like all those Torontocentric people, just put the street address and ASSUMED we'd know where it is)


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Zatamon
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posted 05 November 2001 12:35 AM      Profile for Zatamon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes judym, the above mentioned gray beard is attached to me and I am very attached to it. Either we go together, or not at all.

Michelle, everyone knows where King Street is in Toronto. Just find Queen Street and you are close!

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: Zatamon ]


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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 12:43 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Zatamon, please come, beard and all. Michelle, ma belle, excuse moi! I have stated so often that rabble central is indeed in Toronto that I am bored with myself. I didn't add it this go around, just so I could imagine that I haven't been stuck in this city since 1983. I was imagining for a moment that the launch could be in Kingston ... or Vancouver ... or Halifax, or Huttonville, or St Pascal.
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'lance
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posted 05 November 2001 12:46 AM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Congrats, judym! I truly wish I could be there. But I'll do what I can to steer my Toronto friends that way.
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posted 05 November 2001 02:23 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Speaking of grey, I love complacently looking at my scalp in the mirror and knowing that the relative blondness of my hair will hide the greying for some years after I hit 45.
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Michelle
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posted 05 November 2001 03:11 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Doc, you can kiss my grits! Oops, did I say that out loud?
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clockwork
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posted 05 November 2001 06:11 AM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Clockwork - curse those overlords! They're always spoiling the fun. Perhaps we could figure out a special Brampton launch when you are free. Do you think a reading would go over well at a rave? Heh. But seriously, if you can think of a fun place to do a reading out your way, I'd be game to try figuring something out.

At a rave??? Hahaha… You must mistake Peel cops for Toronto cops. That, sadly, is not something you want to do. People have mixed them up before and have got bitten in the derrière ‘cause of that.
And believe me… I’ve slaved under my current overlords for almost four years now, and I can’t even begin to tell you how they have discombobulated my hum-drum existence.
Hey, I’ve never promoted a thing here. We have two public libraries and we have an Indigo and a Chapters (oddly enough, about two blocks away from each other… How is that for competition… oh wait… .
Would this book be the same one you excerpted from a while back, with the little blurb about Brampton? If it is, we should talk (even if it isn’t, maybe we should talk too). If you can guarantee a couple people showing up down here in the sticks, I might be able to help you out.
At the very least, I can flyer a few bars down here and can always take out an ad in the Guardian, our local paper. There might be a few places receptive to something like this.
Brampton is an underdeveloped market ("under", hahahaha... non-developed is the word). If your game, I’m game…

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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 11:28 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A Brampton event would be a hoot.

'lance, I'll probably be in Vancouver in January or February. Hope to see you then.

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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'lance
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posted 05 November 2001 12:43 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm there, dude. I'm so there.

(Good Lord. Did I actually say that? That mid-life crisis thingie must be coming on a little early. Some guys get red sports cars...)


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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 02:39 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... look on the positive side - maybe you were just influenced by the Simpson's Hallowe'en Special reruns, and you're taking on the part of Duke's hair seeking revenge against Bart.

You're, like, so dead.

(Duke's dying word: D-u-u-u-u-de.)

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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'lance
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posted 05 November 2001 03:09 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Didn't watch the Simpsons last week. On the other hand, Much More Music ran Rocky Horror. Twenty years to the day since I first saw it. Kewl.
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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 04:07 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The Duke episode is an oldie. It was replayed in my neighbourhood a few weeks ago, along with other Hallowe'en Simpson's.

Woooo, scary!

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 04:51 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... I should add that there will be someone on the door who might ask for ID. Folks have to be 19 and over. Blame it on Toronto's smoking law.

[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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Ian the second
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posted 05 November 2001 10:13 PM      Profile for Ian the second   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Awww. I thought the "grey invite" was for the first AGM of the newly formed Grey Party.


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judym
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posted 05 November 2001 10:18 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sorry, Ian.
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posted 07 November 2001 12:24 AM      Profile for saskzen     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Darn! I thought a Grey invite might be something about football. Lets get matters straight. Football matters more than Afghanistan.
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meades
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posted 07 November 2001 03:33 AM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
UGH!
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judym
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posted 07 November 2001 12:45 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Football is not in my book. The bombing of Afghanistan is. The one sport in my book is a game of Super Soaker tag.
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posted 07 November 2001 03:41 PM      Profile for statica   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
great!!..can i expect the muzzle of one of those to be sticking out from your cubicle...wow, she REALLY means she doesn't want to be disturbed this time!!!

[ November 07, 2001: Message edited by: statica ]


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judym
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posted 07 November 2001 03:44 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Don't ... push ... me ... 'cause I'm ... close ... to ... the ... edge ...
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posted 07 November 2001 03:46 PM      Profile for statica   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
oh oh..time to use this old copy of Imagine Democracy as a shield
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 07 November 2001 03:46 PM      Profile for Victor Von Mediaboy   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I could go for a little Australian Rules Football. I love watching that game. Real men don't wear pads. Grunt grunt grunt grunt.
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judym
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posted 07 November 2001 03:56 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh, Kneel, you of all people shouldn't be posting in the wrong thread! The piggies are elsewhere.
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posted 08 November 2001 09:16 AM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You know what, I think I'm a twit... I read the wrong date. I thought it was yesterday.

[ November 08, 2001: Message edited by: clockwork ]


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judym
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posted 13 November 2001 08:07 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Does this mean there's more of a chance that you'll make it to Trana, Clockwork?

The latest: as long as the producer gets a copy of my book (which I'd like to have, too, and so would the publisher), Book TV will be covering the launch.

auntie.com will be our host. In hat!
And Pages book store will be at the table for grey.

[ November 13, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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clockwork
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posted 13 November 2001 09:39 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Possibly. Instead of working all night (on the day I thought) I’ll be working all day, which means I could possibly cut of work a bit early. I must ponder.

Pages? I go out of my way each month just to buy stuff there. I support public transit and an independent book store at the same time… as well as the odd pub around there, hehe.


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judym
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posted 16 November 2001 04:46 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yay! Grey is in! Just received the advance copies of my collection of stories, and the book looks beautiful. This also means there will be copies at the launch. Very handy.

I'll try to get back to the job, now (even though this is technically a day off for me, your ever-so-workoholicy editor).

[ November 16, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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posted 17 November 2001 02:00 AM      Profile for JCL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
judym - The guy that was in the electric chair in that Simpsons halloween episode, his name is Snake. Not Duke. Funniest line in that skit was Barney yelling out "Dibs on the liver!" Ah the Simpsons.

KBMB - Aussie Rules Football is pretty good. I seriously doubt they wear athletic supporters. Then they crossed the line from crazy to insane.


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posted 17 November 2001 04:40 AM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
judym...for those of us who unfortunately cannot attend your book launch..may we please have a little snippet/summary of what the book is about?..is it an anthology?
Thanks

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judym
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posted 17 November 2001 01:57 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for asking.

Grey is a collection of stories. This is the bumpf I wrote for the back cover:

Grey is a baby
Grey is a bad date.
Grey battles a tornado, flies past giant monkeys and pauses to watch an old woman with her lists.

These stories toy with fact and fiction, autobiography and invention, memory and make believe.

Grey proves that a misunderstood colour can be far from dull.

Read about a girl falling in love with a giraffe. Learn about one young boy's favourite breastfeeding scenarios. Observe several kinds of relationships. Join the author for an afterlife visit with Stanley Kubrick.

---

And, LotusGrrrl, don't forget that you get to go to the rabble fundraiser tonight in Vancouver.

I'll be heading out with this little book Vancouver way in January or February, so I'm told.


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judym
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posted 20 November 2001 11:38 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tomorrow's the big day. I really hope I get to meet some local babblers!
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judym, I'm looking forward to attending your event. I'll even try to battle through the throngs to shake your hand. Congratulations in advance, in the event that the crowds prove too much for me.
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judym
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posted 20 November 2001 12:12 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks, Andrean. Much appreciated.
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posted 20 November 2001 05:00 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I have fought my capitalist overlords and I will go on strike at three o’clock in the evening! I will carry my sign, yelling “Who’s life! My life!” Spread the word! Join me in solidarity, everyone!
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judym
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posted 20 November 2001 05:15 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Whoo hoo, score one for the working class!
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posted 21 November 2001 01:00 AM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey there, Judy M. Hope to see ya tomorrow.
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posted 21 November 2001 01:03 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
... that would be "today." Glad to hear it, Dawna. This will be fun.
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Oh my god is it today already? I've gotta go to bed.
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posted 21 November 2001 01:55 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just a reminder that the new smoking laws mean you've gotta be 19 and up, and you might be asked for ID.
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Hell, I didn't get ID'd when I was fifteen, I wouldn't expect them to start now!
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quote:
Just a reminder that the new smoking laws mean you've gotta be 19 and up, and you might be asked for ID.

Damn smokers. Damn laws. Damn cigarette companies. Damn nicotine. Damn tar. Damn benzo(a)pyrene. Damn...

Can you tell it's Day One of my new effort to give up Sin? Damn, damn, bloody damn...


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posted 22 November 2001 12:35 AM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good luck, 'lance. If you had been to judym's book launch, you would've started again. Judy was great, and wrote a great little note for me in the front. The smoking would've started when clockwork and andrean and I went to the 360 to chat. I have a nic-headache.
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Damn. Would have been worth breaking my resolution for that event and get-together.

(Well done, judym!)

Damn Canada, and its damn size. Damn BC for joining Confederation, though so far from Toronto. Damn job. Damn Air Canada prices. Damn, damn...


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An exciting nicotine-addled time by all. Except andrean, of course… and all those other pretentious non-smokers. Come to the wheezy side!
I feel special: how many people can claim they have danced with Judy Rebi… oh, sorry, autie.com, with that elegant hat and those exquisite shoes! Haha… well, I didn’t actually dance with her but I was in the same circle… Oh, ‘lance, you would have fit right in!
Quote of the day the makes me proud:
quote:
Oh my gawd, you’re clockwork!?

Oh well… I have to go read a book… and get some sleep… my capitalist overlords aren’t too happy about my strike…
Argh, I wish I didn't post like clockwork, judym... I'd be sleeping right now otherwise.


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posted 22 November 2001 10:07 AM      Profile for andrean     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It was a really fun time and it was a pleasure to hear judym read. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the stories in the near future.

And as for "pretentious non-smokers", clockwork, apparently I've never shown you my black-and-gold cigarette holder. I'm just as pretentious a smoker as a non-smoker, I'll have you know. Sniff!


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posted 22 November 2001 11:53 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for coming, you three. There's something so strange about seeing folks I've posted with for months. I guessed Dawna, because of her fabulous photos on babble. andrean and clockwork, so good to meet you face to face, too.

What a great night. What great people. And thank you, babblers, for keeping me company while I wrote this book.


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posted 22 November 2001 12:01 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I was with you in spirit! I was just telling 'lance yesterday that I miss living in Toronto sometimes when I hear about fun events like that one.
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posted 22 November 2001 01:20 PM      Profile for Judes   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey how come non of the babblers introduced themselves to auntie?
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posted 22 November 2001 01:29 PM      Profile for andrean     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Humbled in the presence of greatness? Hat intimidation? Shiny slipper envy?

At least we were able to dance with you!


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posted 22 November 2001 03:20 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well Judes, I was the girl in the red sweater doing Cyndi Lauper imitations.
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posted 22 November 2001 04:05 PM      Profile for archy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
way to go judym
and when i have my launch
you re all invited
but you ll have to take off
your shoes at the door
and watch where you step

[ November 22, 2001: Message edited by: archy ]


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Judes
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posted 22 November 2001 05:13 PM      Profile for Judes   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well Dawna, Auntie wishes she had known it was you. She was thinking what a delightful group of young people having such a great time. Imagine how thrilled she would have been to know the most attractive people at the whole booklaunch (with the possible exception of herself and judy M of course) were babblers.
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posted 22 November 2001 11:10 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, you know how to shake it, baby!
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posted 22 November 2001 11:31 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Dear auntie.com,
I have a problem. I am a little bit shy and really have nothing to say. What would I do to introduce myself to a person I am more used to seeing on TV or reading in the paper?

- Flummoxed from Brampton, dancing beside Dawna Matrix to Cyndi Lauper.


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posted 22 November 2001 11:40 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Clockwork was the cute long-hair.
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judym
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posted 23 November 2001 12:11 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh clockwork, if I was free to tell you tales I know about our auntie, you would no longer be intimidated.

I remember telling her (in her other guise) that a certain individual found her intimidating. She looked at me and said, "Intimidating?! If it was about you, I'd understand. I'm intimidated by you. But ME???"

... and archy: Guess what? A cockroach plays a starring role in my book! It's not you, so don't be jealous. But it is one of your kind. That counts, doesn't it?

[ November 23, 2001: Message edited by: judym ]


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posted 24 November 2001 11:47 AM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Judy, I can hardly put GREY down! It's fantastic!
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posted 25 November 2001 11:33 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, DM, so glad you like it.
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posted 25 November 2001 11:02 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Finished GREY this morning. EVERYONE should be reading it. Judy, you write from the soul, and it is beautiful to see - you are an incredible inspiration. So many of your scenes and characters brought creative triggers into my mind - I wanted to stop reading so I could go write, but I couldn't put it down! When's the next one comin' out?
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posted 25 November 2001 11:07 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow.. I should stop babbling... I still have three quarters of the book to go!
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posted 25 November 2001 11:09 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Remember when clockwork and andrean asked Dawna Matrix what she did for fun and she looked all nervous and said 'I read.'? Well, I was being honest. I spent most of my weekend sitting on the steamer trunk in the milk room submerged in GREY. I also read half of a self-hypnosis book and some of Alistair Mcleod's stuff.
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posted 25 November 2001 11:16 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ah, your so lucky...

I need a milk room.


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posted 25 November 2001 11:55 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I need plastic bags. Maybe we can work something out.
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posted 26 November 2001 11:46 AM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Dawna, I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed Grey, and that it got you thinking about your own writing. I'm honoured.
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posted 26 November 2001 06:25 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Le sigh...
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posted 26 November 2001 07:36 PM      Profile for sherpafish   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Judym - be sure to keep us Wet Left Coasters posted on your arrival! (I know you will)
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judym
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posted 18 December 2001 03:36 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sherpafish, you are right. For those who could not make it:



Judy MacDonald and Kundra Fotheringham
at the launch of Grey
November 21, 2001, the Mockingbird

photo > Jane Will (Web mistress of rabble.ca)


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posted 18 December 2001 04:10 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hehe... who was the video camera for?

And I have a quibble about one of your stories, JudyM. The one where the girl goes to Brampton.

I find it highly improbable that the man in the story would be carrying a hot pizza slice at that time in the night. There are no close pizza joints near the bus terminal that stay open late. Unless the aforementioned man walked down from, like, Main and Vodden, but then I don’t think you could characterize the pizza slice as hot in that case. Warm, possibly. Then, of course, why would the man walk all that way with the pizza slice to begin with?


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posted 18 December 2001 04:24 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, clockie. That story is first person, and that girl would be me. True, I can't really say whether the slices were piping hot (as I did not eat a sampling), but it really did happen as described, more or less.
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posted 18 December 2001 04:32 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sorry, I couldn't remember if that story was first person. I suppose I could have looked...

And, believe me, I don't doubt the veracity of the story.

I've had odd experienes here too.

[ December 18, 2001: Message edited by: clockwork ]


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posted 18 December 2001 04:36 PM      Profile for judym   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Mr. Clock, do not back down! You have caught me in a quibble! But here I am a lucky gal. One of the themes of Grey is how memory does not necessarily meet the standards of ojective truth, but means something, anyway.

Oh, and the video: Book TV. (I think the digital cable channel, so, like, anyone's going to see it?)


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posted 18 December 2001 04:43 PM      Profile for clockwork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hehe... wasn't I alluding to that in my post? I wrote it that way on purpose. hehe
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