Thank you for the invite, but I respectfully decline...

posted by bermanesque at 3:04 pm (EST) on May 10, 2008

Nearly every person you spam with your friend request is a lost reader.

posted by Ferox at 12:44 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

Sorry, I'm reserving the friend status for folks who know me in real life.

I don't think I know any suburban gypsies from southern Mass who are authors/poets.

Feel free to add me as an "interesting library."

Thanks,

me.

posted by dygituljunky at 8:45 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2008

hey Alex. Thanks for the request. =]

posted by mcgutie1 at 9:29 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2008

HI Alex, and thank you for the friend invitation. As a result, I spent the morning fearlessly exploring beyond your picture of 'Chewbaca on a rampage', and beyond your homepage at http://www.suburbanfiction.com, and beyond your Anarchy Bell poetry, to your articles on http://www.blogcritics.org, and so I discovered the real Alex - very intelligent, an idealist hopeful for humanity, and someone with whom I have a lot in common.

That was all after I took a good long look at the books in your library - (not just your tags). Somehow, (probably related to my being diagnosed with ADD/ADHD), in the process I stumbled across Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle - for which I thank you in advance (I have yet to acquire the book).

So yes, I'll be your friend, because I sometimes regret turning down an invitation to run away with a circus from a friend/circus clown; I write a little poetry, I've been a political activist, and I'm working on writing a novel. I'm also 62 years old, straight and married forty years, and can't watch horror movies because they give me nightmares. I was a sleepwalker as a kid, and can definitely say I was disturbed.

From what I've seen of you, my new friend, you are way much smarter and braver than me, but friends don't have to be the same do they? I'm going to go back to revise my profile, and be a little bit braver.

posted by Pandababy at 4:18 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008

Not friending you, but I can see why you would want to friend me: It's the kickass profile picture I have up, right? I know it is. Good luck with your book ;)

posted by HokieGeek at 2:56 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

I'm going to have to agree with all of the people that have declined your offers of "friendship". We have nothing in common. What I never understood was why some people feel need to spam everyone on a social networking site for friendship just so they could have some list of strangers as friends. Your Myspace page shows that you spammed everyone on Myspace to add them.

posted by Norikue at 6:32 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2008

We have no books in common, we don't like the same type of books, I am not gay, I am not a wrestling fan and I don't like murder stories.
I therefor have to decline to be your friend.

posted by Papiervisje at 5:10 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2008

I got your friend request. I'm reserving "friend" status for people I actually know and am friends with in person, but feel free to add me as an "interesting library" if you really find it interesting -- looking at the other comments here it looks like you're just pimping your own book, though.

posted by lorax at 12:29 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2008

Thank you for the friend request. I am curious why you decided to friend me, our libraries have not too much in common at the moment.

Kris

posted by krisvalkyrie at 12:21 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2008

think of the water
as you drown
think of the moon
a flash of memory
and then god

sory, but time eats the living flesh of the friendless

why????

newtonian determinism

posted by kandinsky at 5:23 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2008

Hello, thanks for the invite.

posted by donnabug at 12:34 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2008

thanks for the invite

posted by Beary_Bookwormish at 3:28 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2008

Sorry, I friend people, not spammers.

posted by valkylee at 8:22 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2008

uh...i accepted you as a friend but why did you send me a request?

posted by Fallen_from_Grace at 12:58 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2008

I'm not interested in being befriended just so you can promote your books. That is so tacky. Go spam somewhere else.

posted by wisewoman at 8:14 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2008

Hey Alex, I see the two books we have in common are both SF - small wonder you invited me to be your friend. By the way, I wonder if you noticed you have two books in your collection by someone with the same name as you - what a coincidence, eh?! I don't have ANY books in my collection by someone with the same name as me! Maybe you should start a new LT group called "I have books in my collection written by people with the same name as me" - I bet there'd be LOADS of people who'd want to join. After all, if you join a group like that, others would know straight-away that you weren't the ACTUAL author just trying to flog more copies of your own work in a cheap spammy way, but were instead an articulate cosmopolitan reader with a funny coincidentally-named title in your library.

Anyway, keep up the good work, whatever you do!

posted by jonners9 at 1:53 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2008

thanks for the invite. =]

How are you Alex.? =]

posted by mcgutie1 at 1:43 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2007

Hi there,
Thanks for the invite, but I'm not quite sure why you friended me, unless it's for the same reasons as others noted above. We only share one book in common. What was it about my profile that interested you? Happy Holidays.

posted by lesleyap at 3:42 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2007

If you had read my profile you would have noticed that I no longer update this account.

posted by izziewithay at 10:47 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2007

Friending people just to advertise your book IS NOT COOL. I make it a point to NOT read books by authors who do this crap. LAME!

posted by cafepithecus at 5:13 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

I have no objection to adding you as a friend, but I would like to know what about my profile or library you liked before doing so. I do like Kurt Vonnegut, if for not other reason than he is a Hoosier. I have an academic interest in GLBT literature. And we share Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche).

posted by Darrol at 4:39 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

Hey there, thanks for the friend request -- love your "About me"!

posted by riaanjhb at 3:38 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

I'm curious as to why you friended me since we share only one book.

posted by grapeofdeath at 9:44 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2007

Hi Alex,
You have an interesting profile. Thanks for adding me.
Alex

posted by AlexTheHunn at 8:54 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Thank you for the invite. I'd be interested to know what prompted it!

Benjamin

posted by Bembo at 5:12 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Thanks for your friend invite - I wasn't aware that there is such a feature on LT. All I've done here so far is list books & try to add brief comments for them. Will return soon to update my catalog and also see how this friends thing works. Best regards, okyrhoe

posted by okyrhoe at 3:19 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Hi, what in particular did you think we have in common that prompted you to friend me?

posted by Aquila at 8:58 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

Hello and thank you. One of the books we share is "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie. It was bought for my by my oldest son, Geoffrey, when he was 12. As I was going through your catalog I noticed "Founding Brothers". I found it on my shelf but it was not listed in my catalog. I am always turning up books that I did not list. I tried to be thorough and organized. Man makes plans and God laughs. Drop me a note sometime.
Bill Rucker

posted by wildbill at 8:25 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2007

Do we know each other?

posted by DoctorRobert at 3:32 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2007

Hello Alex and thank you for the add to your friends list. Happy Holidays to you!

posted by raggedtig at 12:57 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2007

(Found I have sent Poetry Fool 2: #135 and # 141. . . just sent another to your website. . . this constitutes the complete works of. . . . . . esta1923)

posted by Esta1923 at 9:50 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2007

Esta1923 here. Surprised to find your invitation/not quite sure why you thought of me/not quite sure how to respond. ~~~~Just went to your website, and was impressed. ~~~~The writing I do is idle, mostly foolishness. I've written 3 poems recently and can send if you wish. Tho they are not personal they may give a clue to who/what I am. ***I am satisfied to be on LT (and to post pictures on Flickr) but do not want to be on Facebook or any other of that type of site. Esta Wolfram

posted by Esta1923 at 9:25 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2007

Will do, when I get a chance.

-Monkey

posted by Dydo at 6:32 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Thanks for telling me about Anarchy Bell. I'll be glad to check it out.

Aberjhani
author "I Made My Boy Out of Poetry"

posted by Aberjhani at 10:27 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2007

Hi Alex,

Thanks. I'll definitely check it out.

posted by cetera_desunt at 4:59 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2007

Alex
what's my guarantee? Read piece at Poetry Fool and suspect strongly it's not "unlike anything (I've) ever read" - and if it were, how would I recognize it as poetry? Originality per se not all it's cracked up to be. But congrats on putting stuff out in the world

posted by bookstopshere at 12:14 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2007

Hi Alex,
Will take a look.

posted by Thoughtshapes at 1:29 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2007

Hi Alex,

Thanks. Sounds interesting. Do you have any poetry available to read online? (apologies if there's a blatantly obvious link on your homepage that I missed)

Cheers,
Dan

posted by dchaikin at 7:57 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2007

I'll check it out.

posted by varielle at 6:55 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2007

Alex
Thanks for the tip.
Amanda

posted by amandameale at 1:35 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2007