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Topic: The Omnilith |
Twig the
Wonder Kid
Operative
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 posted February 12, 2000 01:24 PM  
Loath as I am to make suggestions here I think it may be a good idea
to redefine the Omnilith a little.
It does seem to be struggling sometimes so why not expand it to
include discussion of other comics in general, not just GM's stuff.
There seems to be some confusion over where to post comic stuff as
it is. Could the Library be reserved just for discussion of the
written word?
S'just an idea...
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Loz
Operative
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posted February 12, 2000 01:46 PM
I think we need to have some discussion about the post-April's Nexus
in general. What rooms do we keep, what do we chuck? Is Tom willing
to keep paying for it or does he want to chuck it and get some money
back? ;-)
Maybe this is a discussion we should start here and then,
depending on what comes out of it, transfer to The Core...
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Broad Arrow
Jack
Myrmidon |
posted February 12, 2000 05:31 PM
I'm all for broadening the Omnilith to include all comics, not just
Morrison.
They're different from books.
And post-April, just move the Omnilith up into the main section,
inbetween The Library and The Movie House, drop the Big Issue, The
Invisible College, and the Letters Page, and I see no reason why the
Nexus can't continue on...
[This message has been edited by Broad Arrow Jack (edited
February 12, 2000).]
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Jackie
Susann
Myrmidon
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posted February 12, 2000 10:55 PM
I don't think we'll need to drop the Invisible College immediately,
surely there'll still be plot threads to discuss, unresolved issues,
etc.
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Twig the
Wonder Kid
Operative
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posted February 13, 2000 04:59 PM
Agreed. The Big Issue and The Letters Page could go but I think the
College should definitely be kept.
And while we're talking about reorganising, do you think it's
feasible for the Head Shop to incorporate The Tower. They often seem
to cover similar ground.
It'd be like when 'Whizzer' met 'Chips', and the world woke up to
'Whizzer & Chips'.
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Broad Arrow
Jack
Myrmidon |
posted February 13, 2000 05:11 PM
Whizzer and Chips. Heehheeehhh....
Yeah, I didn't mean to scrap them immediately, leaving everyone
all scared and lost and crying about where to go to talk about King
Mob. I just meant drop them once conversation starts to dry up.
As if that could ever happen.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon
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posted February 13, 2000 05:31 PM
I was always a Whizz-kid rather than a Chip-ite...
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Tom
Archon |
posted February 14, 2000 06:33 PM
I'm with most of you so far - I think the Omnilith could easily be
moved up into the main section and extended to a discussion for all
comics - and I have to say that I think it should be something done
sooner rather than later. Big Issue and Letters Page I am happy to
lose at that point - the letters page seems redundant without Grant
actually coming and writing anything anyway. Also on for keeping The
Invisible College as a token forum for those who really are just
interetsed in The Invisibles.
Not keen on incorporating the head shop and the tower though - I
personally am not of a magical bent, and don't really want the two
conflated, even though i can see there would be some crossover. I
don't want to lose the sense of the head shop as somewhere almost
proto-academic as opposed to the unorthodoxy of the Tower. I am open
to being persuaded, but that's how I feel at the moment...
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sleazenation
Operative
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posted February 14, 2000 06:44 PM
I'm with tom on this one-- keep the tower and the head shop
seperate
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Gentleman
Assassin
Operative
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posted February 15, 2000 07:17 PM
I don't know. I find that 'The Head Shop', 'The Exploratory' and
'The Tower' often have quite nebulous distinctions, and perhaps
people aren't quite sure where to put threads. Sometimes this
happens with the core too, which has become kind of a 'attention
required' board meets miscellaneous.
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Zephir
Myrmidon
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posted February 16, 2000 05:37 AM
Sheeze, I'm sorry for being so novocal on the subjects. You don't
think my lack of responding and moderating type stuff over the month
of January while I was abroad (read: Fanny) had anything to do with
its general decline in posts? No no, that's too much pressure for
one man, dammit.
I admit to being frequently confused by some of the differences
between the tower and the head shop sometimes, but as far as the
omnilith is concerned, I think it could easily become the general
comic book forum as well, seeing as those sorts of topics never
really jive too well in the library.
It's these politics parts I like best, Papa Zaraguin.
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grant
Operative
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posted February 17, 2000 06:48 PM
It strikes me that some of you Myrmidon types oughtta move the
comics threads out of the Library and into the Omnilith now.
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Jack
Fear
Myrmidon |
posted February 17, 2000 11:34 PM
That would be me. Sorry--crazy day yest'y, couldn't get online...
I'll go do that right now, shall I?
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grant
Operative
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posted February 18, 2000 01:28 AM
There, there Mr. Fear! Chin up! Nothing a bit of the elbow can't
polish up!
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Nick
Myrmidon
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posted February 18, 2000 12:55 PM
Let me suggest that we encourage people to think of the Tower as
somewhere to discuss actual operations - be they magical or
self-hypnotic or whatever. The Head Shop seems pretty clearly a
theoretical mosh-pit. The Tower ought to be somewhere to consider
ways of messing with your head and those of others, as well as
'magick'.
Does that help?
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grant
Operative
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posted February 18, 2000 04:37 PM
That's pretty cool, yeh. Although shifting frames and critical
interpretation still kinda overlap.
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Sandfarmer
Operative
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posted February 21, 2000 09:08 PM
I think that in the very least, the Invisivles College should be
maintained because I for one seem to keep reading the series over
and over again and keep wanting to talk about it more and more. Just
re-read Entropy in the UK last night. I can't beleive it's been six
years since this wild ride started.
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Sandfarmer
Operative
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posted February 21, 2000 09:09 PM
Oops. Double post. I blame it on the man.
[This message has been edited by Sandfarmer (edited February 21,
2000).]
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guvnor
Operative
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posted February 29, 2000 09:34 AM
I think Tom should probably removove the Neurolinguistic programming
bit from The Tower and bump it over to The Head Shop.
Not that anyone really writes anything about NLP anyways, but if
they did, it'd probably find a bigger audience over there.
I'm also for moving The Omnilith in next door to The Library,
though I'll be a bit sad when the Letters Page goes, simply because
it was such a great place to dish about Grant Morrison himself.
Can't we just rename it the Fiction Suit, and devote it to
news and gossip about everyone's favorite writer?
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Tom
Archon |
posted February 29, 2000 11:21 PM
I know it sounds weird, but I think it depends on what one thinks
NLP and Chaos Magick actually are. To me it seems entirely logical
that they are in the same place, but I take an almost totally
unmystical view of Chaos Magick. I don't know if the same grouping
makes sense to other people...
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