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bundabergdevil
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Giving Tuesday. Give to you’re favorite non-profit if you’re so inclined!
ClemmonsDevil
Member
Serenity now. Serenity now. Serenity now. Anybody got a Festivus Pole? There are some people really pissing me off.
DukieInKansas
Well-known member
I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to do upset you.
ClemmonsDevil
Member
Hahaha! You are an absolute delight.
PackMan97
Member
I hope it's not me! I don't mind upsetting people, but I prefer to do it on purpose and I wish you nothing but a cup of cheer.
ClemmonsDevil
Member
No. Someone on the sports side just said Scheyer's biggest issue was he was too much like K. An insane take.
every time there's a loss I have to stay away from those threads for about a week or two, people just saying crazy stuff, the kind of people who kick the cat after a loss
PackMan97
Member
LOL! I can see that being a valid comment for NC State and Tarheel fans...I definitely don't want Duke's new coach to be anything like a coach who 15 ACC Championships, went to 13 final fours and won 5 NCAATs.
OldPhiKap
Super Moderator
It's still football season. Can't I work up a good worry about people stealing our football coach before I start worrying about people not wanting to retain our basketball coach?
I don't multi-task as well as I did back in the day. Slow it down for this old man, please.
I don't multi-task as well as I did back in the day. Slow it down for this old man, please.
ClemmonsDevil
Member
Ugh. Yes. Bagwell and Biggio were terrifying! Can't believe they never won a WS.
That thread is the EK equivalent of the POTUS thread.
Bostondevil
Well-known member
I've got something that has me very annoyed but it has nothing to do with Duke basketball.
Last summer during rehearsal for Richard III, one of the actors approached me about getting a wig to go with their costume. Good wigs are expensive and I told her, no, there was not enough in the costume budget to get her a wig. She then asked if she found a cheap one, would it be OK. I told her to check with the costumer and that if the costumer gave her the OK, she could spend $25 on a wig. Somehow the "check with the costumer" part was ignored. She went out and spent $25 on grey hairspray (for her already grey hair). There was not room in the costume budget for this nonsense and although the hairspray did make her hair look more grey, it was a subtle difference. After all the donations were totaled, I found that I could give every actor $25 more in stipend than I had previously announced. Hooray! I had to wait to get some security deposit money back to pay everyone, but I finally got all the checks mailed out right before I left for the UK. This actor emailed me last week that I had forgotten to reimburse her for the hairspray and asked when she could expect reimbursement. Uhm, never? At the end of the day, it's not worth getting into an argument over $25 (for hairspray!?! WTF?) so I am sending her another check. I'm super annoyed though, the kind of annoyed that gets you temporarily blackballed from my productions. I do eventually forgive most people, but she won't be in next summer's show.
How do you get permanently blackballed from one of my productions? There are 3 theater people that will never work on shows that I produce again. The first is a director that showed up high to dress rehearsal for a short play festival that I produced several years ago. That's not what got them banned though. I communicated to them everything that they needed to do for opening night. They forgot everything I told them then yelled at me on opening night that I had never told them what I had told them. The other two were actors in the summer show a couple of years ago. They showed up 30 minutes late for call on one of the show days because they decided to have a picnic before the show. I won't prevent them from auditioning, but they really shouldn't bother. I pay the actors in the shows I produce - not much - but still, I treat the actors that work with my company like professionals and expect the same courtesy in return. That kind of behavior will get you fired from a professional show in the middle of a run. I let them finish the run but they aren't working with me again.
Last summer during rehearsal for Richard III, one of the actors approached me about getting a wig to go with their costume. Good wigs are expensive and I told her, no, there was not enough in the costume budget to get her a wig. She then asked if she found a cheap one, would it be OK. I told her to check with the costumer and that if the costumer gave her the OK, she could spend $25 on a wig. Somehow the "check with the costumer" part was ignored. She went out and spent $25 on grey hairspray (for her already grey hair). There was not room in the costume budget for this nonsense and although the hairspray did make her hair look more grey, it was a subtle difference. After all the donations were totaled, I found that I could give every actor $25 more in stipend than I had previously announced. Hooray! I had to wait to get some security deposit money back to pay everyone, but I finally got all the checks mailed out right before I left for the UK. This actor emailed me last week that I had forgotten to reimburse her for the hairspray and asked when she could expect reimbursement. Uhm, never? At the end of the day, it's not worth getting into an argument over $25 (for hairspray!?! WTF?) so I am sending her another check. I'm super annoyed though, the kind of annoyed that gets you temporarily blackballed from my productions. I do eventually forgive most people, but she won't be in next summer's show.
How do you get permanently blackballed from one of my productions? There are 3 theater people that will never work on shows that I produce again. The first is a director that showed up high to dress rehearsal for a short play festival that I produced several years ago. That's not what got them banned though. I communicated to them everything that they needed to do for opening night. They forgot everything I told them then yelled at me on opening night that I had never told them what I had told them. The other two were actors in the summer show a couple of years ago. They showed up 30 minutes late for call on one of the show days because they decided to have a picnic before the show. I won't prevent them from auditioning, but they really shouldn't bother. I pay the actors in the shows I produce - not much - but still, I treat the actors that work with my company like professionals and expect the same courtesy in return. That kind of behavior will get you fired from a professional show in the middle of a run. I let them finish the run but they aren't working with me again.
fidel
Member
Great. Another couple uncomfortable items. No, wait, that's just one more...
for some on this board there is not enough natural unhappiness in the world on which to thrive, so they think up some more.
bundabergdevil
Member
I dunno, K was middling, historically speaking.
PackMan97
Member
I wouldn't mind his first three years
OldPhiKap
Super Moderator
He couldn’t coach the bigs.
YmoBeThere
Member
Is that why they never got enough minutes?