Comments on: More reasons why local matters

By: Mario (Brewed For Thought)

Mario (Brewed For Thought) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:22:21 +0000

Well, obviously Sonoma is superior, but Napa is trying their best, Don Barkley’s set up shop there.

By: Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:52:45 +0000

Mario – One more reason to prefer Sonoma to Napa.

By: Mario (Brewed For Thought)

Mario (Brewed For Thought) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:19:51 +0000

Locally, there’sa “Buy Local” campaign. Sure, it’s Sonoma County specific, but the idea applies everywhere.

http://www.golocal.coop.

By: Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:57:58 +0000

Todd – You are confusing “yellow journalism” with small and medium town newspapers.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:12:38 +0000

I really loved my 19th century american novel class at KSU. It taught me how lies and balderdash became the truths of our world, yet we called them novels. They fit our lives so much so that we accepted them as truth and then they changed our entire world social fabric accordingly.

Print it enough, say it enough, repeat it enough, it becomes truth.
Newspapers never allowed for timely reader feadback. Gotta love email, lies, balderdash, newspapers, and novels- the fabric of our lives?

Papers from the circa 1900 era did alot to glorify death and the paths that led there- if you got in print. Boring.

Mary Worth, Mary Worth, spin, spin, truth.

I hear that streaking is to come back in fashion this spring and it may be happening at a LOCAL pub near you- call for details.

Keep grinnin’!!!

By: Stan Hieronymus

Stan Hieronymus — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:00:48 +0000

Todd –

The question is what we call what were once newspapers when they are no longer printed on paper.

But there is no denying that newspapers once were. Spend several months reading small town Midwestern papers from circa 1900. Then get back to me.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:33:21 +0000

Local chile in NM is how the railroad, the Chile Line, got it’s name due to Espanola chile crops. It expanded later to Santa Fe. It took red chile from Espanola and Chimayo to the world, as well as other products.
The Chile Line has been gone some time, but not the fame of the local chile. I’m sure glad we get to eat local chile and burn every newspaper we’ve already read. Newspapers have little to do with local agricultural crops or the value added products the locals create with those crops, because we eat them. The paper is imported and burnable.
The chile is still exported, have you tasted some? Talk now won’t build a railroad, we have roads.

Do you really think that newspapers have anything to do with local sustainable truth? People talk. Email or paper, word gets around.

Newspapers are salesmanship and food fits in your mouth….quite a difference.

You can talk about it all day long but you can’t grow what I grow. Local truth. You can taste the difference, you don’t have to read about it.

CSA’s and unique crops are proof. Organic sells first.

If it’s printable, it’s old news.

I never read the book, “Death of A Salesman”. It sure sounds appropriate for the end of unretractable spewing on paper, but you can’t unsend an email messages either.

Local truth sticks like glue, paper rots as it should.

By: Swordboarder

Swordboarder — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:04 +0000

The Seattle P-I went under this week as a paper newspaper, hoping to operate as an online news source.

By: dranktank

dranktank — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:09:11 +0000

Yesterday, an NPR station here in North Carolina did a special on “drinking local”. Interviews with local coffee roasters, wine producers, and brewers.
Worth a listen: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0318ab09.mp3/view