Comments on: Come home and make this place poor again http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steave Thomason http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-164308 Steave Thomason Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:42:37 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-164308 It is very interesting for me to read the post. Thanx for it. I like such topics and everything that is connected to them. I would like to read a bit more on that blog soon. Best regards It is very interesting for me to read the post. Thanx for it. I like such topics and everything that is connected to them. I would like to read a bit more on that blog soon.

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]]> By: blog.thoughtwax.com » Slow Blogging http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-55352 blog.thoughtwax.com » Slow Blogging Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:47:15 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-55352 [...] Previously on thoughtwax: Come home and make this place poor again. See also: Ze Frank on the merits of constantly producing stuff, scads of Slow Movement links on Metafilter, I Can Write 600 Words About Anything. [...] [...] Previously on thoughtwax: Come home and make this place poor again. See also: Ze Frank on the merits of constantly producing stuff, scads of Slow Movement links on Metafilter, I Can Write 600 Words About Anything. [...]

]]> By: City of scurriers « iRank http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-45046 City of scurriers « iRank Fri, 04 May 2007 16:27:07 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-45046 [...] Come home and make this place poor again: Here we are, crashing headlong into a bright new era where we’ve got all this choice and freedom and opportunity (and don’t get me wrong, this is certainly A Good Thing). But when we all become busy, successful city-dwellers, we miss out on the interactions that slow-paced country life affords us. [...] [...] Come home and make this place poor again: Here we are, crashing headlong into a bright new era where we’ve got all this choice and freedom and opportunity (and don’t get me wrong, this is certainly A Good Thing). But when we all become busy, successful city-dwellers, we miss out on the interactions that slow-paced country life affords us. [...]

]]> By: blog.thoughtwax.com » Emulating the past. Or, nostaligia isn’t what it used to be http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-22362 blog.thoughtwax.com » Emulating the past. Or, nostaligia isn’t what it used to be Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:32:37 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-22362 [...] In a way, it shows a certain sense of maturity in videogames, an ability to move beyond the bigger, faster, stronger approach. I’m not sure what progress is, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t linear. These very same things happen at different stages in fashion and in literature, and in film and software and music and art and architecture and living and pretty much any other form of culture I can think of. I think it means that the medium is breathing. [...] [...] In a way, it shows a certain sense of maturity in videogames, an ability to move beyond the bigger, faster, stronger approach. I’m not sure what progress is, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t linear. These very same things happen at different stages in fashion and in literature, and in film and software and music and art and architecture and living and pretty much any other form of culture I can think of. I think it means that the medium is breathing. [...]

]]> By: blog.thoughtwax.com » The Prophet http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-322 blog.thoughtwax.com » The Prophet Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:36:12 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-322 [...] I was reminded of the book again recently when I read the similarly-structured Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and decided to re-read it. So, I’m going to read a chapter during each of the twenty-eight days of February, and while I’m at it, publish each chapter to a blog each day (the book is in the public domain). Follow along by subscribing to the RSS feed and taking a few minutes out each day to slow down and reflect. [...] [...] I was reminded of the book again recently when I read the similarly-structured Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and decided to re-read it. So, I’m going to read a chapter during each of the twenty-eight days of February, and while I’m at it, publish each chapter to a blog each day (the book is in the public domain). Follow along by subscribing to the RSS feed and taking a few minutes out each day to slow down and reflect. [...]

]]> By: Sinead http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-319 Sinead Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:12:42 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-319 i like this piece Emmet. i think its all the more relevant as our country becomes more multicultural.This, too, is making us question our own national identity more. I think or rather hope, the memories of the older, poorer Ireland are still clear enough for everyone to take the good from that age and carry on these traditions. i like this piece Emmet. i think its all the more relevant as our country becomes more multicultural.This, too, is making us question our own national identity more.
I think or rather hope, the memories of the older, poorer Ireland are still clear enough for everyone to take the good from that age and carry on these traditions.

]]> By: Nick http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-318 Nick Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:24:57 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-318 It's an important discussion...Too many times such a statement is dismissed as sentimentality (as I did, when first hearing it). I sat with my head in my hands recently boggling at how fast my life was moving in comparison with 2 years ago...It is a human urge to be able to work well, but work slowly. It’s an important discussion…Too many times such a statement is dismissed as sentimentality (as I did, when first hearing it).

I sat with my head in my hands recently boggling at how fast my life was moving in comparison with 2 years ago…It is a human urge to be able to work well, but work slowly.

]]> By: kevin james dunne http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/01/come-home-and-make-this-place-poor-again/comment-page-1#comment-316 kevin james dunne Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:20:16 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=174#comment-316 that's fantastic writing emmet. well written content provokes clear mental images and you've hit that nail right on the head. that’s fantastic writing emmet. well written content provokes clear mental images and you’ve hit that nail right on the head.

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