bostonman

https://rentmen.eu/flymetoseeyou I'm hesitant to hire him, yet I'd love to know if anyone has met him and if he's legit. Or if we think this is trouble.

Damn! I need a guy who kisses just like that. Meaning just like the gif - doing it over and over and over...

So...this is a young transguy advertising in Boston. I've been interested in finding someone like this, but this ad is fairly slight on info. I'm usually wary of ads that don't say much, don't include a face pic, etc - but wondering if it's at least worth messaging him to find out more. Just always concerned that ads like this might not be legit. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts? https://rentmen.eu/dieseldanny

I haven't paid much attention to SNL for a long time - but this season I watched every episode. Some great stuff, some ok stuff, some all-too-typical WTF sketches that really didn't work...but yeah, this musical performance took me by surprise. I kept wondering how many TV's were being switched off across America lol. But it was fun!!

One of my favorite moments when I met him -- it was on a business trip to NYC and this was the first time I had tried to hire in that kind of situation. We met in my hotel lobby and then we went back to my room. I was so nervous that I was fumbling with my key card to get it in the door...he simply put a reassuring arm around me. That was all I needed to know this was going to be just fine...

They are all awful. The emu thing has just gotten tedious. The latest batch of "Flo" ads I've never even seen all the way through (I just mute them and turn away from the TV). The worst ones may be the "Car Shield" ads with Ice-T, which don't even try to be funny, they're just bad. The only ones that I did actually find funny for a while were the Progressive "sign spinner" ads (the guy playing the sign spinner is kinda cute lol) - but even those have overstayed their welcome. The really weird thing is how it feels to me that the car insurance ads in particular (and the ads for cars themselves) seem to have picked up a lot in the last year. So - during the worst of the pandemic, people were staying home more, travelling less, and yet this was the time to sell cars and car insurance???

I've only "talked my way out" twice - once because of an appointment later in the week for important dental surgery (the judge didn't even think twice about that one lol), and once because I did think I'd be biased given the nature of the case. neither time did I feel I needed to be "unflattering" toward myself lol, nor was I anything less than honest. I'd like to think that they can often tell when you're just trying to make excuses.

I was on a jury once - it turned out to be a great experience, actually. The trial lasted 2 days, the case was interesting, and I feel like we made the right decision. (We ruled in favor of the plaintiff, but not for the total amount of damages he sued for, as we felt he overreached.) However, the next time I was called for jury duty was just an awful day. I was called for a trial in the morning, but as they told us the trial would probably last through the week and I had valid conflicts, they let me go. I went back to the jury pool, assuming that might be it for the day, but then was called for a 2nd case. We weren't given a lunch break, and this voir dire dragged on...and the courtroom was FREEZING. (This was the end of July.) Then, they found their jury before I had been called up, so in essence I sat there all that time for nothing. I know...it happens. But that didn't make things any better, lol. That said, if I did have another chance to actually be on a jury, I'd do it.

I hired him a few years ago - he was terrific, a really nice guy, and hot. I do hope he's doing ok.

@RadioRob - adding my thanks and congrats as well. This looks great! Thank you for your amazing work!!

Thank you, Rob. I like it.

Interesting that William brought up Annie Get Your Gun. because to me, both that and the Music Man have age issues with the female lead. Annie's siblings (always played by kids) really do have to feel like her siblings, not her children. Likewise, Marian needs to seem young enough that we do see 10-year old Winthrop as her brother, not her son - and likewise, Mrs. Paroo should be seen as young enough that Winthrop is credibly her son, not her grandson.

I wrestle with this one - because though it's wrong, I also think a lot of people use it in a facetious way, so that it's actually correct in their own context. But there are also surely people who don't realize it's not quite right. Similar to "begs the question," which really doesn't mean what a lot of people think it does, but then again, I think that "wrong" usage of it has come to be acceptable anyway.

I wrestle with this one - because though it's wrong, I also think a lot of people use it in a facetious way, so that it's actually correct in their own context. But there are also surely people who don't realize it's not quite right. Similar to "begs the question," which really doesn't mean what a lot of people think it does, but then again, I think that "wrong" usage of it has come to be acceptable anyway.

It's when people get idioms wrong that I really find it interesting. Things we say as a matter of course that clearly don't always get translated well into writing. I've often seen things in personal ads or escort descriptions, like someone claiming their thicker body shape was "stalky," or someone saying that a certain attribute they liked in a guy was "not set in a stone." There are misheard phrases like "for all intensive purposes" or "forcive habit"- and I once had a student write a theatre analysis paper claiming that one character "reeked havoc" with another. Or when Kramer on Seinfeld refused to believe that the phrase wasn't "statue of limitations."

It's when people get idioms wrong that I really find it interesting. Things we say as a matter of course that clearly don't always get translated well into writing. I've often seen things in personal ads or escort descriptions, like someone claiming their thicker body shape was "stalky," or someone saying that a certain attribute they liked in a guy was "not set in a stone." There are misheard phrases like "for all intensive purposes" or "forcive habit"- and I once had a student write a theatre analysis paper claiming that one character "reeked havoc" with another. Or when Kramer on Seinfeld refused to believe that the phrase wasn't "statue of limitations."

Happy birthday!!

Thank you! (I'm sure we can have a heated discussion about fat shaming in the current opera world later on... )

I would wonder if the "Lincoln Center (Opera)" category should just be "Opera" - so that it's not just Met-centric and doesn't potentially include the theatre portion of LC? And perhaps Opera could be its own category instead of a sub-topic under Music? Otherwise, thank you for all of this.

That can go both ways, though. If there's a sense that there are hidden forums, that can also invite paranoia.

It does make me think we live on a dust speck, though…:-)

Yes - but it’s going to take a while for any of the big Broadway shows to get ready to open - I wouldn’t expect any openings for a few months yet at the very least. Nothing is magically opening in May.

That's one too, lol. ;-)

I may have been too cryptic lol. I was referring to "gen" as in "generous" - which of course is one of those quasi-code words used in the industry. (Or at least by guys dabbling in the industry.)

Which leads me to say that I would definitely welcome the redesign of the "Media And Entertainment" section - the way it is now is really very messy.