tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6737251277840580753..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: BBC Buzz uncoveredUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-65260434911838952982010-08-31T10:51:40.234+01:002010-08-31T10:51:40.234+01:00http://mediatingconflict.blogspot.com/2010/08/bbc-...http://mediatingconflict.blogspot.com/2010/08/bbc-buzz-to-track-conversations-about.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-21094722804100467522010-08-24T04:38:43.023+01:002010-08-24T04:38:43.023+01:00Norman knows something about serving up crisps, or...Norman knows something about serving up crisps, or juicy morsels, but your blog serves up a rich and complex bouillabaisse with every post. Switching metaphors, I have become entangled in the brambles of your overgrown path time and again, feeling guilty as the hours are frittered away as I'm seduced to jump from link to link, eventually arising on some hilltop feeling winded and exhilarated, imbued with some new knowledge or perspective, or acquiring some CD I would never have considered (and sometimes regretted I did). And your writing is so sharp (I was about to say crisp)and conversational and dense with music and recording history; rich with evocative observations of a locale in France or England or elsewhere; and of tombstones, of course --- this is hardly a 'crisp', but rather some of the richest and educational stuff in the blogosphere. I apologize for my effusiveness, but I have been intending to write you a note of appreciation for some time, but it took that quote of Norman's to light the fire. (He does have that effect sometimes, doesn't he?)<br /><br />Even as a Canadian reader your commentaries about the BBC greatly interest me, as a similar pathological process of dumbing-down has been occurring on CBC Radio2 with a commensurate loss of audience, as you are probably aware and about which the omniscient Norman himself has noted. [sorry I'm not as proficient as you in providing the links.]<br /><br />Many thanks for your beautifully written and informative essays, and for those unexpectedly long vacations in the blogosphere.<br /><br />Thomas in TorontoUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04891844290002686747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-59842950652093316462010-08-23T22:17:04.615+01:002010-08-23T22:17:04.615+01:00Patrick, thanks for that.
I was actually unsure i...Patrick, thanks for that.<br /><br />I was actually unsure if 'crisps' has the same meaning in English and American. For some reason I thought you called them 'chips', which for us is what you call 'fries'.<br /><br />Writing a blog from England which has many more readers in the UK than US means looking out for the many words which have different meanings either side of the Atlantic.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-54527303002939815382010-08-23T20:18:43.120+01:002010-08-23T20:18:43.120+01:00I like a good bag of crisps myself.And congrats on...I like a good bag of crisps myself.And congrats on 7 years, always adding to my unfolding education.<br />PatrickThe Wound Dresserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06329621123316492765noreply@blogger.com