SB: Re: Straw Bale in SF Chronicle

["Robert W. Tom" <archilogic@yahoo.ca>]

12/29/01 11:12:32 PM, "John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com> wrote:
>
>   Straw bale was featured in an article on the front page of the Home
>   section of the San Francisco Chronicle today (Saturday, Dec 29):
>   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/12/29/HO110081.DTL

Tray beeyen mays ammeez  Murrican. Eh ?

Mr. Reminick's piece is the best newspaper article on SB that I've seen.

He especially deserves kudos for not mentioning the midget porcine 
triplets "incident" that the media so loves to cite.

The only weaknesses that one could point to are 
             (a) the bit about $1 bales and 
             (b) the omission of "The Straw Bale House" and 
                    the CASBA Building Officials' Guide as resources and
             (c)  not a word about the Casas que Cantan initiative, one of 
                     *the* most important aspects of SB that I can think of.

However, I think that we may all safely assume that it was the Skillful Meany
who was responsible for those shortcomings .  
                    
I would heartily recommend that Mr. Reminick be permitted the privilege
of writing a series of articles about SB which would be run by all
of the newspaper mega-chains .


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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
<ChaffArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>
(winnow the "chaff" spamguard from my edress in your reply)

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