Comments on: Trumpet, blowing of one’s own, #2

By: Ayrdale

Ayrdale — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:14:57 +0000

…I consider myself ticked off Bryan…

By: Bryan Walker

Bryan Walker — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:07:29 +0000

Ayrdale, sly personal innuendo is not a difficult mode. Try something more demanding intellectually which bears on the content of this website.

By: Ayrdale

Ayrdale — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:23:29 +0000

Yes, fine. just looks a little sort of anxious/insecure.

Make’s the headline to the article very apt though…

By: Bryan Walker

Bryan Walker — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:05:09 +0000

Ayrdale, not only did I not contribute to Hot Topic until over a year after the review was written, I did not know when I wrote the review who Gareth was (other than from the publisher’s information sheet) or what his website was about. I have been a Waikato Times reviewer for many years, and in recent years the balance of my reviewing has moved from literary titles to climate change and other environmental titles – at my request, because of my concern at what I had read about climate science. I liked Gareth’s book, though I think if you read the review you will see that it was mainly concerned with the book’s content. I don’t consider that I use congratulatory blah, or any other kind of blah for that matter.

It looks from your second comment that you have resiled from your earlier comment. In which case I’ll leave it there.

By: Ayrdale

Ayrdale — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:03:47 +0000

Well you can’t say fairer than that then…

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:50:58 +0000

Well to be fair, Bryan didn’t contribute/moderate until well after he wrote that comment when the book was initially published.

By: Ayrdale

Ayrdale — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:47:10 +0000

I wish Gareth well around D’Urville Island, and a sturdy set of sea legs.

Bryan, don’t you think your endorsement of Gareth’s book alongside the masthead is a little bit twee/awkward/boom boom well done old boy/self congratulatory blah, if you get my drift ?

Makes the blog appear a little bit shallow I think…although the commendation from Rev Bob Scott is very grand…