I fought fiercely against creating Natter. Then I shrugged and created it. It's now our highest-volume thread. Elisabeth/Lyra Jane was right.

I am SO tempted to bookmark this message so that whenever I feel down or disrespected, I can look at it and say, "See, Betsy said I was right!"

Anyhow.

I just had a conversation with my 9-year-old son that was too apropos.

"I'm not friends with Jonathan any more. Because we kept giving him second chances, and he kept blowing them. He kept doing the same thing we asked him not to do."

Mouths of babes and such.

I want a music thread.

I love Hayden and love talking music with him.

However, the music threads over in PF have closed into a circle of people from TT who have known each other forever and have already run through their circle of interests.

Moreover, I don't want to bounce to other threads anymore. This isn't a Buffy thread for me, but my home base and I'd like to be able to discuss music here the way people discuss what they're reading. I'm starting to get jealous every time I go to the literary thread. There's no logical reason that we would have a literary thread and not a music one.

Further, with the influx of new posters we now have a large enough and varied enough community to allow more subsets within that group. It used to be possible to discuss (in a very surface way) music within Natter. But now the stream of Natter is too heavy to allow that.

Similarly, I would like a general movie board. I don't think having those boards would keep movie or music discussion out of Natter, but Natter really has its own character now and is not the right place to have a substantive discussion on those subjects.

Me, I don't like bouncing to literary either. Not that I'm jealous, I just don't like running over there to talk books, or wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.

wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.

Bothers me, too. That's why I steadfastly resisted the Literary thread in WX days.

I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb in a title called Literary. I feel I'm bringing down the tone.

Me, I don't like bouncing to literary either. Not that I'm jealous, I just don't like running over there to talk books, or wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.

ita is me.

I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb

I feel the same way about discussing her and Nickolas Sparks.

Can we have a "Trashy Romance - No Literature Here" thread?

Don't kill me, totally kidding.

Oh, I'm agreeing with Hec, on needing both the music and movie threads. I can't ever keep up in Natter, it moves so fast. And even John's Diet doesn't help, because I have no sense of where the convo's been, and I know I'm missing stuff.

I'm usually restricting myself to show threads, Literary, SS, and the admin threads, which I can feel at least conversant in. Adding music and movies threads would put some of the Natter I've missed within my reach. As it were.

Upon reflection, I think I'd vote for a Music Thread and a Movies Thread - simply because there is no way I can keep up with Natter.