Cob: Re: Anti-cob marital discord, American marketeering, etc.

[Ocean]

Wow,

Brian, that comment from your wife sounds like a threat, and seems 
perhaps an expression of greater pent up frustration regarding things 
other than your "new" interest in cob.  I would suggest you and she have 
a heartfelt conversation about what you are both happy and unhappy with 
about with your marriage, and if you can't do that, some marriage 
counseling seems in order.

Beyond that, I think the best way to convince cob skeptics is to show 
them...you guessed it...The Book!  Especially the full color photo 
spread, which has some gorgeous cob buildings which rival "Better 
Homes".  Even better, visiting a FINISHED (very important) cob is worth 
far more than a 1000 words.  Why don't you jet down to Cob Cottage 
Company and show her Linda & Ianto's Heart House, the courtyard walls, 
and the beautiful Bench Rocket Stove they installed in the main house (a 
conventional structure).

That's what convinced me...I was a cob skeptic too before visiting Cob 
Co!

  ;-)
Ocean

On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:41 AM, baco at pacinfo wrote:

> Well maybe we have discovered a whole new impediment to natural 
> building. I
> was telling my wife how interested I am in building a cob studio and 
> setting
> up my kiln, wood working equipment, and music stuff in it. She said "why
> didn't you tell me about all of this before I married you?"
>
> Maybe I have been misdirected in my concerns over engineering standards-
> what cob needs is a concerted marketing campaign. How can we use Product
> Positioning to associate cob structures with Tommy Hilfigar sweatshirts?
>
> Maybe we could grind up the designer clothes to supplement straw.
>
> Any other ideas for good ol' American marketing?
>
> Brian Bray
> Eugene Oregon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-coblist at deatech.com [mailto:owner-coblist at deatech.com]On 
> Behalf
> Of W
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Re: Cob: sacrilege
>
> There is an aerosol product on the market purely intended to reproduce 
> that
> "new car smell" - I can't imagine how toxic it might be.  Just goes to 
> show
> how far our species has "evolved" ...maybe not... ;)
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> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:57:03
>  John Russell wrote:
>> Hi All,
> <snip>
>>       As an aside, I mentioned my interest in cob and natural
>> building to my wife, her reaction to living in a cob house was, "Ewww,
>> it would smell of dirt. " I guess we could always inport some petrol
>> fumes and plastic smells, perhaps a discrete dispenser in a corner of
>> the living room ;)
>
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Ocean Liff-Anderson

Steward of Ahimsa Sanctuary (check out our newly updated website!!!!!)
http://www.peacemaking.org

Owner/Manager of Intaba's Kitchen (best food and coolest cob ambiance on 
the west coast!)
http://www.intabas.com
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