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In case you care, this whole episode has left me feeling awful. Like, physically.
"How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn’t like?"
And also, the use of the phrase “fucking manned up” makes it sound like you don’t like your friends. And I know that’s not the case, but I just sometimes wonder if you understand the severity of your internet voice. Because you come across as a much bigger stick in the mud than I know you to be in real life. It’s whack.
I tried to communicate a very specific idea: if you want people to pay attention to you, start by doing something worth paying attention to, don’t demand attention before you’ve done anything.
I can’t say for sure if it applies to the sushi show, because I wasn’t there, and nobody who could clear it up has bothered to weigh in.
I said it is presumptuous to demand attention if you haven’t done anything yet. Nicole responded to say it isn’t presumptuous to perform if you’ve been invited to. I didn’t say they shouldn’t perform. She also said they weren’t interrupting anybody’s dinner, unless they were, in which case it wasn’t their fault, because they were invited. Whose fault is what has nothing to do with anything.
Katey sarcastically accused me of not being familiar with improv or Dreadnought. I don’t even understand what she was insinuating, so I resorted to using “pay TV language” to reiterate my point.
While composing this I see that Will and Katey have followed up.
Will says the clip was from the middle of the show, Dreadnought wasn’t timid, and the audience was into it. Great! So what I’m saying doesn’t even apply to them! I was never sure that it did.
Katey says it is ridiculous to say what a team should or shouldn’t do in a show setting. But I’m not talking about how to do improv. I’m talking about basic doing-anything-in-front-of-an-audience, whatever you want to call it. Stuff like, you don’t humiliate an audience member who didn’t provoke you. Is it ridiculous to suggest something like that?
I’m trying to defend an idea on its own merit, but people are taking it as a personal criticism of what our friends did in a sushi restaurant. It’s me versus them versus a straw man that is on fire.
So yeah, I’m frustrated, because everybody is upset with this straw man. Should I apologize for the things you think I said? I didn’t say them! But if I don’t you’ll go home thinking about what an asshole I am. It’s not me, it’s a straw man!
Ironically, I never would have even listened to the clip in the first place, except I read Pat’s post and thought I’d back him up on what I thought might be an unpopular opinion.
tl;dr, right?
For all my brothers and sisters gettin' notes on their shows.
What is game? Who got game?
Where’s the game
in life
behind the game behind the game?
I got game.
She got game.
We got game.
They got game.
He got game.
It might feel good,
It might sound a lil’ somethin’,
but fuck the game
if it ain’t sayin nothin’.
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Oprah To Go Off Air In 2011
In a press release received early Thursday evening, Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo, Inc., Oprah’s production company, has announced the show will go off the air.“Tomorrow [Friday], Oprah will announce live on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history. The sun will set on the “Oprah” show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011.”Tune in at 4 p.m. this Friday on Channel 9 for Oprah’s live announcement.
Even though I never watched it, it’s hard to imagine a world without Oprah.
Nooo!
Just in time to put a 2012 Presidential campaign together. What? You thought she’d go into hiding?](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktdqwucf1r1qzoaqio1_500.jpg)
Oprah To Go Off Air In 2011
In a press release received early Thursday evening, Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo, Inc., Oprah’s production company, has announced the show will go off the air.
“Tomorrow [Friday], Oprah will announce live on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history. The sun will set on the “Oprah” show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011.”
Tune in at 4 p.m. this Friday on Channel 9 for Oprah’s live announcement.Even though I never watched it, it’s hard to imagine a world without Oprah.
Nooo!
Just in time to put a 2012 Presidential campaign together. What? You thought she’d go into hiding?
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Likewise, if you’re doing a show like this, it is presumptuous to demand that anybody pay attention to you before you’ve done anything to prove you’re worth their time. Especially because, unlike a high school classroom, you’re not even supposed to be there.
I believe management hired them. There’s nothing presumptuous about performing where you were asked to perform.
Additionally, they’re not interupting anybody’s dinner. They were invited by the owner of the restaurant to accompany the dinner performance. If the owner didn’t properly advertise that to patrons, it’s on him.
Look, I’m not saying they shouldn’t have done the show. I know for a fact that they were invited by the manager. But once you enter a room it and it’s clear the audience isn’t there to see you, you adjust your behavior accordingly. I’m saying that instead of shouting “excuse me?” for two minutes, they should have just started the show.
“Adjust their behavior”? “Should have”? Are you familiar with improv, or Dreadnought?
Let me rephrase, since people don’t seem to understand what I’m saying: they should have fucking manned up and dived straight into performing, instead of begging like a bunch of pansies for people to look at them.
If that’s antithetical to Dreadnought or improv, I guess I know nothing about either.
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Likewise, if you’re doing a show like this, it is presumptuous to demand that anybody pay attention to you before you’ve done anything to prove you’re worth their time. Especially because, unlike a high school classroom, you’re not even supposed to be there.
I believe management hired them. There’s nothing presumptuous about performing where you were asked to perform.
Additionally, they’re not interupting anybody’s dinner. They were invited by the owner of the restaurant to accompany the dinner performance. If the owner didn’t properly advertise that to patrons, it’s on him.
Look, I’m not saying they shouldn’t have done the show. I know for a fact that they were invited by the manager. But once you enter a room it and it’s clear the audience isn’t there to see you, you adjust your behavior accordingly. I’m saying that instead of shouting “excuse me?” for two minutes, they should have just started the show.
Donald Glover knows his twitter is "Dong lover"
video doesn’t seem to embed to well on tumblr. I mean, of course he had to know, but it didn’t stop me from wondering if he did. Mystery solved.
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If you missed Dreadnought’s “Improv With Elvis” show at Daioh Sushi last night, this two-minute clip will give you a pretty good idea of how it went down.
This event would have pissed me off. If I had been a customer at Daioh Sushi, my waiter/waitress wouldn’t have gotten a tip. And I wouldn’t be a customer again.
Because I would have gone to that place to have dinner with friends… or a date (!)… oh man, I would be so mad. Even if I went alone, I would have hated the distraction. That’s what that improv set would have been to me: a huge distraction to my meal and the conversation I was attempting to have.
I’ll back up Pat on this one. If you’re saying that’s how it went down, then it doesn’t sound like people were there to watch you, which is why you had to spend two minutes demanding their attention.
Which, by the way, is the wrong way to do it. One of the first thing I learned about Classroom Management is that if you always wait for the class to quiet down before you begin, you are ceding control to them, and you’ll waste a lot of time standing around and asking people to be quiet. It’s much better to simply clear your throat and start talking, to let them know what you’re doing is more important than your conversation. (The students who were already paying attention will appreciate it, too.)
Likewise, if you’re doing a show like this, it is presumptuous to demand that anybody pay attention to you before you’ve done anything to prove you’re worth their time. Especially because, unlike a high school classroom, you’re not even supposed to be there.
