tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post9030950333513660436..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: Whatcha Gonna Do Today, Napoleon?SippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-6343438337464805522006-11-19T22:38:00.000-05:002006-11-19T22:38:00.000-05:00Hi, Sippicanman.
I travel via Ambivablog- she has...Hi, Sippicanman.<br /><br />I travel via Ambivablog- she has the best friends(and family).<br /><br />I'm, like- below bluecollar, but above welfare- in terms of the $$$$ladder, not any kind of elitist. We're dairy farmers, now organic. The only economics i deal w/are Quickbooks. I hate them, they're anal. Have to know where every penny goes... ~sigh~.<br /><br />I come by now and then, sit on the steps of your porch and admire your words and pictures. It occured to me that i could purchase your furniture and just signed up for a catologue- i'm psyched to view the finished product and try to pretend i could have the insight to see the grain in the rough (i can't see it, but i can feel it). We burn wood for heat up here (NEK = Northeast Kingdom = VT) We cut down cherry last year and i thanked God for it's warmth as i just about cried every time i added a piece to the fire.<br /><br />I appreciate the time you take to put together a beautiful blog- and although not as educated or refined as i'd like, reading what you write and the comments that follow- is a valuable enough education of it's own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-38530113023206959562006-11-14T19:22:00.000-05:002006-11-14T19:22:00.000-05:00Paul,
I'm not so lucky. Watching that performance ...Paul,<br />I'm not so lucky. Watching that performance was like rubbernecking at a scene of a gruesome car accident.<br /><br />Pogo-I don't find your comments shrill at all and appreciate reading them where ever I may find them.<br /><br />Deb in MadisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-3986461143086131732006-11-14T12:41:00.000-05:002006-11-14T12:41:00.000-05:00Paul- I apologize again for that one. I'll mail yo...Paul- I apologize again for that one. I'll mail you eye bleach and knitting needles to poke out your eardrums next time. <br /><br />editor theorist- Whitman = MEGO<br /><br />Pogo- I'm no less opinionated than you. I'm just lazier.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-20311903896985909832006-11-14T11:19:00.000-05:002006-11-14T11:19:00.000-05:00Smart and funny; reasons enough to read SC.
I mus...Smart and funny; reasons enough to read SC.<br /><br />I must admit to being among the more shrill of posters around. Compensating for a general sense of inefficacy, unwarranted certitude, and juvenile combativeness, among other things. (I blame grandma, who used to yell at the teevee.)<br /><br />But you don't, leastways, hardly ever. Plus, you remind me there are still sane people around, even if I ain't one of them.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-44160383717907601122006-11-14T11:12:00.000-05:002006-11-14T11:12:00.000-05:00A word for Walt Whitman - don't dismiss him withou...A word for Walt Whitman - don't dismiss him without reading Specimen Days, his loose diary of prose sketches including the time as a Civil War visitor (but I like better his peace time ramblings). <br /><br />Taken just a few at a time, I find these a sheer, life-enhancing delight. <br /><br />But I must admit that his poetry leaves me unmoved, in most moods.Editor Theoristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05523719768353591396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-26033570310709533662006-11-14T08:56:00.000-05:002006-11-14T08:56:00.000-05:00xwl- China could save Africa. Europe don't care, a...xwl- China could save Africa. Europe don't care, and America has food subsidy tariffs. <br /><br />China could save Africa by hiring it to make things they can't be bothered to make any more.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-9866361293799767512006-11-14T02:36:00.000-05:002006-11-14T02:36:00.000-05:00Just bought some stuff from Old Navy and the label...Just bought some stuff from Old Navy and the labels read, Lesotho, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indonesia.<br /><br />When it comes to cotton wear, China isn't China enough, anymore.<br /><br />And I agree about Whitman, just cause I thought of him, doesn't mean I like him (same goes for Borat).<br /><br />Plus with Whitman there's the whole Monica-Bill baggage that has accrued.<br /><br />And just to be clear, China not being China enough is a good thing (probably).<br /><br />It's far better to be today's China than to be completely out of the loop. Today's Chinas are tomorrow's Singapores.<br /><br />Think how better off Cuba would be if they hadn't been kept out of the global economy for so long, as just one example.XWLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646729965929680256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-33562745680703853312006-11-13T23:36:00.000-05:002006-11-13T23:36:00.000-05:00Walt Whitman was a weirdo. And not a good one. I l...Walt Whitman was a weirdo. And not a good one. I like Emerson. He was a weirdo too, now that I think about it. Branding is everything, I guess.<br /><br />I forget the streetwalkers in Terkel's book, if they're there. I remember the fellow in the samsonite factory. Back then fibreglas suitcases were the newfangled rage. The fellow would open up some sort of apparatus and take out a mat of hot glas and lay it over his shoulder, and bring it to a mold and press it in, and then bring down the other half of the mold on top. <br /><br />Sounded pretty grim if you were the seventies version of Marx reading Dickens and worrying about "the masses." Sounded like a walk in the park compared to my own grandmother's job making sneaker soles in a factory in Cambridge, Mass in the twenties. The only problem we ever acknowledged was no job. <br /><br />We were England's China and then North Carolina was New England's China and then Japan was N. C.'s China - and then China was China's China. <br /><br />Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-90253116932027336952006-11-13T23:14:00.000-05:002006-11-13T23:14:00.000-05:00Sip: Didn't Studs devote a chapter to the ladies ...Sip: Didn't Studs devote a chapter to the ladies of the evening, too? They were the working class dames. [I might be mistaken]. Bet Mrs. Cottage would frown on that research.<br /><br />I read Sippican Cottage because it celebrates the Philosopher-King who also makes great furniture.Ruth Anne Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01936054116421006847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-41125192728135199862006-11-13T22:36:00.000-05:002006-11-13T22:36:00.000-05:00So is that last bit your anti-Whitman?
Do I contr...So is that last bit your <a href="http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/1900.html">anti-Whitman</a>?<br /><br /><i>Do I contradict myself?<br />Very well then I contradict myself,<br />(I am large, I contain multitudes.) </i><br /><br />You're still Large, but you emphatically contain multitudes, . . . . . . . . <i><b>NOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!</i></b><br /><br />(sorry, gratuitous Borat reference)<br /><br />(and I loathe Borat, but like the Not joke bit in the commercials)XWLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646729965929680256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-75433486045467890092006-11-13T18:40:00.000-05:002006-11-13T18:40:00.000-05:00Deb- Thanks.
Everything I know about Madison Wisc...Deb- Thanks. <br />Everything I know about Madison Wisconsin, I learned from the hostess and the commenters at Althouse. <br /><br />It seems like a lovely place to be. <br /><br />editor- Studs Terkel wrote a book called "Working" about thirty or forty years ago. He went to blue collar jobs and described what he saw and talked to the people that performed those jobs. <br /><br />He was trying to show the horrors of factory work. I read it and thought: <i>Man, I'd kill for a cushy job like that. </i><br /><br />The concept need resurrection. Somebody front me five figures and I'll have it for you in six months.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-33613417487433350072006-11-13T16:21:00.000-05:002006-11-13T16:21:00.000-05:00Why do I read this blog? I first stopped by becaus...Why do I read this blog? I first stopped by because your comments on Althouse were always civil, steady, and the antidote to the increasing shrillness from the other commenters over there.<br /><br />Why do I come back? Because I have always been surrounded by men like you who make wonderful things with their hands but unlike you, they keep matters mostly to themselves. I think of them often as I read your blog.<br /><br />Your longer posts always surprise me. You start out with the rough form of an idea, chip away, sand it down, and come to the essence of who you are. I like that.<br /><br />Deb in Madison<br /><br />P.S. And the music videos are always good!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-25139811520715966332006-11-13T12:10:00.000-05:002006-11-13T12:10:00.000-05:00Thanks for the nice words.
On a daily basis I re...Thanks for the nice words. <br /><br />On a daily basis I read mostly Economics Blogs (eg. Greg Mankiw, EconLog, Marginal Revolution), plus Instapundit and Ann Althouse (which is where I came across Sippican Cottage). During the Israel Lebanon conflict I was reading a lot of stuff on that (to correct the anti-Israel BBC bias). <br /><br />But why do _I_ read Sippican Cottage? Mainly because it is extremely well written, quite amazingly so. But in terms of topics, I am fascinated by other people's lives, especially their 'working lives' the fine grain (no pun intended) of their daily doings. <br /><br />I am interested by SC's current work, and his past experiences, because they are so different from my own (medicine, science and academia). I like the unusualness of his general stance - which combines many of the values of a traditional craftsman with an optimistic attitude towards technology and social modernization generally (usually these are found in opposition in my experience: craftsmen are conservative pessimists, and techno-nerds are indifferent to crafts). <br /><br />If I ever got to influence the mass media I would run an endless series of detailed interviews with ordinary (non-celebrity) people who are serious about their work, telling us about their work. It would open-up into their general philosophy of life - but remain rooted in everyday practicalities. That's my kind of show!Editor Theoristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05523719768353591396noreply@blogger.com