tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post6144473664535897248..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Golden DaysGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-81002674163896763562011-01-31T00:35:48.007+13:002011-01-31T00:35:48.007+13:00the outside... is made transparent to reveal past ...<i><br />the outside... is made transparent to reveal past lives within.<br /></i><br /><br />Past lives within. <br /><br />I have to admit I've never spent much time in Foxton. I spent an evening by the coast once, driving my van from Auckland to Wellington, and have stopped there a few times and walked around a little. Now I mostly fly, missing the town entirely.<br /><br />Compared to George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90770428262479524432011-01-27T11:48:49.225+13:002011-01-27T11:48:49.225+13:00We still sell a lot of unprocessed agricultural an...We still sell a lot of unprocessed agricultural and forestry products, though, no? In fact the loss of the flax industry marks the disappearance of an important value-added industry - which in and around Foxton takes the place both of empty buildings that aspire to be transformed and cease to be grim reminders of the jobs lost and never replaced, and of enclosed museal spaces and open-air Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-26589051317097688912011-01-26T21:44:27.023+13:002011-01-26T21:44:27.023+13:00To expand a little further:
We could say that the...To expand a little further:<br /><br />We could say that the capitalist mode of production has shifted from post-agricultural (or should that be post-farm-post?) and post-industrial; to a further mode based on offshore imports that form the basis of the retail sector and speculative "value-added" marketed agricultural 'products'. <br /><br />But I don't think this explains George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-85318178103449334022011-01-26T17:59:51.925+13:002011-01-26T17:59:51.925+13:00Pure NZ indeed.Pure NZ indeed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-29518252138614697962011-01-26T17:49:53.868+13:002011-01-26T17:49:53.868+13:00Yes, I'm not sure what part of "Not spam&...Yes, I'm not sure what part of "Not spam" blogger doesn't understand. Thank you for it, by the way, much to ponder there.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-78482592466636041252011-01-26T17:41:47.092+13:002011-01-26T17:41:47.092+13:00Just lost a comment on here. Hopefully it went to ...Just lost a comment on here. Hopefully it went to spam?George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-75507184455423594072011-01-26T17:05:27.018+13:002011-01-26T17:05:27.018+13:00I wonder how much the cultural transition that see...I wonder how much the cultural transition that seems to have occured in the last decade and a half has had to do with it. There was a very strong sense of difference from the world in the late 1990s in my mind (this, I have no 'evidence' for). Pride, open and espressed, that things were done in an independent manner.<br />It's now a tide that has since retreated somewhat in favour of George Dhttp://twitter.com/georgedarrochnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-77143092538747707602011-01-25T20:33:20.660+13:002011-01-25T20:33:20.660+13:00Digits are noise. What was, is not.
I'm such ...<i>Digits are noise. What was, is not.</i><br /><br />I'm such a fanboy.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-17851157115327929192011-01-25T13:44:48.699+13:002011-01-25T13:44:48.699+13:00So many insights here, so many.So many insights here, so many.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-4560805271243672202011-01-25T12:21:47.379+13:002011-01-25T12:21:47.379+13:00Nice insight that the Golden Days had turned into ...Nice insight that the Golden Days had turned into museum curiosity itself.Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-7020009169799608592011-01-25T05:18:17.946+13:002011-01-25T05:18:17.946+13:00Transient Discomfort
(with apologies to Mrs. Parke...<b>Transient Discomfort</b><br /><i>(with apologies to Mrs. Parker)</i><br /><br />Cultures stifle. Museums grow staid.<br />Pundits trifle. Memories fade.<br />Computers are toys. Volumes rot.<br />Digits are noise. What was, is not.<br /><br />Word Verification: <b>nietravo</b>, a Slavonic denial of appropriate conveyancing facilities.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com