SB: Re: Straw Bale in SF Chronicle

["John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>]

i agree, evan did a fine job, and of course any ommisions are indeed
probably the result of this skillful meany failing to think quite fast
enough on his feet to provide a complete reference list to the author.   the
references provided will point folks in a good direction, though....and
we'll update our site according to the canadian's suggestions, including a
link to the moosehuggers listserve which i understand is run out of rob
tom's garage.

john

----- Original Message -----
From: <archilogic@yahoo.ca>
To: "John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>; <strawbale@crest.org>
Cc: "Evan Reminick" <home@sfchronicle.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Straw Bale in SF Chronicle


> 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 .
>
>
> --- * ---
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> <ChaffArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>
> (winnow the "chaff" spamguard from my edress in your reply)
>
> Please visit http://www.theHungerSite.com daily
>
>
>
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