Even a technologically challenged old guy like me can get it together (with a LOT of help from my cousin in Seattle, another YOUNT, who builds websites and other things I don't understand, at a studio called Clatter&Din, who is far more brilliant than I.)
Thank you singularly and collectively as a community, for allowing an old curmudgeon to express observations and opinions in this forum. My mission from the outset was to instigate thought and opinion based on those observations. The mission was and is based on the conclusion that Kaslo is seriously under reported, save and except for nice community stories and otherwise left-wing oriented news.
There is a serious misconception in the media, particularly the broadcast media, that people are stupid and can generally be lead around by the noses. Their thoughts, the mainstream electronic media and to a lesser degree the mainstream print media seem to think, can probably be manipulated by media 'experts'. Perhaps that is the case regionally and locally as well, but I sincerely hope not.
Personally, I think it's all a load of crap. A political mentor of mine once observed that an expert is “someone who is an 'ex' (former person) under pressure” as in 'spurt'. Profound and accurate, I conclude. As the mainstream media increasingly absorbs, implodes or at best perhaps tries to reproduce itself, the more the crying need for alternate voices.
My forum is completely subjective. (Pure journalism – print or broadcast – is completely objective. It hardly exists anymore.) I make no bones for my platform, and no apologies for it. What you are reading is subjective. This is just like television. Put it down or, turn it off if it rattles you.
Clearly, I have ruffled some feathers and rattled some nerves. Fluff your feathers friends, and do whatever it takes in the Koots (bud?) to get your nerves under control. More ruffles and rattling will follow. Suffice to say, my print numbers go up each week, as copies seem to fly away from TSS distribution points, which to me speaks volumes.
Criticism doesn't bother me and in fact it quite often amuses me, nearly to the point of tears.
Comment provokes thought and sometimes often as not, criticism. So far, about 350-words have probably made some nod in agreement or start to get annoyed. Think about it and have a RIGHT old time on whatever plain you happen to be and whatever trip you are taking (as one unhappy lady said to me a week ago), as you get annoyed or sagely agree.
Thank you again. Have a happy flight or trip or whatever you said we are on. Remember to smile, lady! Also, we have a two-hour limit on parking in the downtown core. Would that apply to you? Blue import cars are NOT exempt.
Email from Doug Pyper, freelance journalist and photo journalist (a good one, too) whose blog is www.dougpyper.blogspot.com. Obviously, I am space limited here, but he sent me a thoughtful series of comments resulting from the third edition of TSS, his email is titled GH 3-Ring Circus”. Doug disagrees with my ramblings about the Glacier/Howser public meeting in Kaslo, and I respect him for his thoughts. Go to his blogspot address and read his thoughts on TSS and other things.
Once again, I am in fundamental disagreement with the position he takes on IPP's, RoR's and more. But I value his comments. Go to his site.
I had an email from Tom Humphries, who offered some comments about my connecting the interface project with the tree crashing down
on their lovely home. The only point I wanted to make was and is, we need all the information we can digest. Tom writes “Georgie and I do
not see the fir tree and the interface project as being connected at all. A piece of a tree fell on the house. The tree had to come down. That's
all”.
Also and I am quite happy to point this out at Tom's request, I implied I had interviewed him, and in fact that is not the case...we simply had a
coffee shop conversation. I was side-walking. Thanks, Tom.
And in our boobs and pokes department, my apologies for misspelling the family Humphries name. Spellcheck doesn't always work.
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