patbaer:

benjaminapple:

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.

1. digsyfinallyhasa reblogged this from benzado and added:

   all this stuff on...IRC now. Not a fan of clogging

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   I agree that straw men are a vile and frustrating part of far too many conversations and I’m sorry if I added any button...

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   We also got called out...had known before...saw him...

5. benzado reblogged this from digsyfinallyhasa and added:

   communicate a very specific idea: if you want people...you, start by doing something worth...

6. khealywu reblogged this from digsyfinallyhasa and added:

   I spoke to Dreadnought and people who were at the show tonight, that clip is from about halfway through their show....

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   This clip is from the middle of the show. And it is fucking insane to suggest that there was anything about this show...

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   I believe management hired them. There’s nothing presumptuous about performing where you were asked to perform....

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