Comments on: Nostalgia is a used condom

By: Will Knott

Will Knott — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:56:00 +0000

Are the new ways better than the old ways. Maybe certain aspects were better, but not the whole.

While the internet offer entire libraries of stories, a book is easier to read (on the train especially).

Blake’s 7 had an excellent script, but the wobbly sets were a thing of parody. (But I’m interested in the proposed remake)

And a well made bread and butter pudding is a thing of beauty. And waistline expansion.

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:13:53 +0000

Only that it seemed tad over the top to critique people for nostalgia posts that you believe are just looking for comfort comments and traffic when it would seem many people blogging have posts that would fall under the same heading even though they wouldn’t be nostalgic. Anyway, I think part of the work of a useful nostalgia post is to reveal something of the personal, for every post about Blake’s 7, there is one about punk in the 70s, or the ’78 World cup. Not everyone’s nostalgia is the same, people may have lived through the same time period but not in the same way. To each their own.

By: Alexia

Alexia — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:51:32 +0000

@roosta

By: roosta

roosta — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:45:24 +0000

I like Joycean streams of nonsense!

By: Alexia

Alexia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:39:40 +0000

@Dan Do you have a point here? I’m a little confused.

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:47:11 +0000

You’re not suggesting people are posting some content simply to attract traffic? God that’s appalling, what can be done about such an outrage…

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:03:50 +0000

Hehe. Wonder if we’re thinking of the same person! Great post.