Some Examples of Touchstones
Posted: 07 September 2005 10:58 AM   [ Ignore ]
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I want to ask all the old timers who have posted Touchstones in the past, to repost them.  I have everyone of them archived but it would be so helpful if you would rerun them for me and the forum.

For those of you who are new, here are a simple touchstones.

Ordell, Louis and Melanie are characters from The Switch and Rum Punch.

“Stick” is a sequel to “Swag”

Virgil Webster, father of Carl Webster in The Hot Kid, first appeared in “Cuba Libre”

Give details, have at it.  I hope a few of the old posters will show newbies how it’s done.

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Posted: 18 October 2005 09:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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I’d love to see the archive, Gregg, since it doesn’t seem like any “old timers” are still around.

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Posted: 13 October 2006 10:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Gregg, will you be reorganizing the forum into topic categories like the last one?  Probably a stupid question.  The answer, I’m guessing, is ‘of course’. 

Back when I couldn’t post you had forum topic lists categorized and it was looking like an actual message board.  Looks like the new version is still in its infancy stage.  All in good time, eh?

Let me just say that I applaud your efforts.  I only just recently noticed the elmoreleonard.com invite in one of his books and decided to check it out.  The blog seems to be doing just fine.  Lots of updated material there.  Now with the forum getting back on its feet, and all the EL projects in work, I’m confident you’re nearing a tipping point on generating a Dutch cyber-buzz.

If the ‘Old Timers’ don’t make it back, we’ll just have to grow back the stepping stones, er…touchstones topic ourselves.

Cheers, and Bravo!

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Posted: 17 October 2006 04:20 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Scrum - 14 October 2006 02:21 AM

Gregg, will you be reorganizing the forum into topic categories like the last one?  Probably a stupid question.  The answer, I’m guessing, is ‘of course’. 

No, the answer is this is the reorganization for now.  Technical problems aside, I don’t get enough traffic on the forum to warrant spreading out the precious few posts, so I combined them all into one forum.  People can start threads and reply to old ones.  I think that’s BBS 101.  I will also figure out how to incorporate the old deactivated Discus board posts (thedutchforum.com) and the site comments into the forum.  Every visitor comment is appeciated.  Except for flamers, and we’ve had a few over the years.

Back when I couldn’t post you had forum topic lists categorized and it was looking like an actual message board.  Looks like the new version is still in its infancy stage.  All in good time, eh?

It may have looked like a robust board (like the old Dutch Forum) but there has never been serious traffic for an EL Board even when everything is or was working correctly.  I have theories why, and it’s not just about Elmore. I have looked at many other author boards.  I hope to get everything running smoothly soon and if there are five or ten people out there talking to each other and me, that would be cool.  But it is difficult.

Let me just say that I applaud your efforts.  I only just recently noticed the elmoreleonard.com invite in one of his books and decided to check it out.  The blog seems to be doing just fine.  Lots of updated material there.  Now with the forum getting back on its feet, and all the EL projects in work, I’m confident you’re nearing a tipping point on generating a Dutch cyber-buzz.

The blog is doing fine.  I update it as often as possible. I collect comments but am moving away from that because I’m being spammed to death and despite filters and such , the spammers always find new ways.  It’s just me doing this whole site and things take time.  I have not yet carried out a fraction of my plans.  It would give me joy to see good conversations going.  As far as a buzz, it’s out there.  Most people however, by their nature, would rather read, then talk about reading.  I’m hoping there’s a few who can get a conversation going.

If the ‘Old Timers’ don’t make it back, we’ll just have to grow back the stepping stones, er…touchstones topic ourselves.

I will be folding in the old Touchstones posts to the new board.  It’s fun to do.  I think when I get a chance, I’ll aggregate the Touchstone posts and make them a blog item.

Thanks for the support.

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Posted: 17 October 2006 07:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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why not call them “DutchStones”?

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Posted: 18 October 2006 05:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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why not call them “DutchStones”?

Because it’s too cute.  I’ve been calling them Touchstones for over four years.  Joel Lyczak thought it up.

Posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 04:30 pm:   
An idea for an addition to the web-site.
Call it: TOUCHSTONES;

A person, event, or something that links one Leonard novel with another.

Check Touchstones out in the old inactive Dutch Forum.  I will be folding them into the new board soon.  This is some of the best content the site has ever had.

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Posted: 18 October 2006 05:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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I will definitely revisit the old forum for the Touchstones content, because Gregg’s first post on this thread are the only touchstones I can recall at the momement.  ;-D

I’d love to uncover a newly discovered touchstone, and I might even migrate the old ones over via cut and paste if I get the chance.  (If you’d prefer I leave that to you, Gregg, just say so.)

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Posted: 18 October 2006 05:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Leave the old stuff.  I have a certain way I’m going to do it.  I may break this out into a separate forum like, “Discussion Board.”  Don’t worry about finding new ones, they’re everywhere.  Just make a connection from book to book etc.

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Posted: 18 October 2006 09:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Will do, Gregg.

Carney
(Scrum’s alter ego)  ;-D

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