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Richard Kimball

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  1. Tis but a pale reflection of the reality. Sensitivity training video now.
  2. You can safely ignore this post. It's me rambling, trying to stay awake during a three hour session. At least the Minnow had Ginger and Mary Anne. Oh God. VP coming around rapping on tables, trying to drum up enthusiasm. Only about half as many people here for second three hours, so, harder to hide, but easier to get a chair where no one can get behind me and see I'm surfing. Have a throw down word processing file I can pull up if necessary. "We're going to have an important conversation." translation: "Shut up and listen." OMG, this is worse than the part about laws. Core values, rules of the road, people, inclusiveness, communication, excellence and integrity. Leadership team hasn't done good job of communicating, so they're going to annoy the shit out of us by having more meetings. HEY! We've got a poster! Here's a poster with generic clip art of laughing people having more fun than you ever have and buzz words. We're all in this together. Buzzword bingo. We can't do this by ourselves. It's a team effort. Courageous conversations. Just hit diverse on the buzzword bingo. That should be a free space. Sensitivity training video coming up. VP is wearing a bow tie. Personal note: only wear a bow tie with a tuxedo. We'll be open and courageous in our communication. Pretty sure they don't want to know what I really think. Does this post count as paying attention? Is cynicism a core value? If I'm making fun of the presentation while it's going on, I'm still paying attention. Jeez: We're going to walk the talk. I think he meant walk the walk. This bubbled up from us. We can all pat ourselves on the back. We need to celebrate the good stuff we do. Weird, I have a great attitude towards my job until they drag me to one of these fake "let's celebrate ourselves" meetings. We're doing great things, and we're going to do more great things. We're getting everyone on a level playing field. Oooooohhhh, powerpoint with charts. Trying to put a positive spin on bad numbers. OK, confession, they finally have some decent info. Relevant to our jobs. ten minutes of good info in four hours is above their average. 45 minutes in: Presenters keep asking if there are questions. NO! We want out! Settled into a low buzz of tedium and glazed eyes now. Dammit. I was stretching when presenter asked for questions. Hopeful look at me, I shake my head no. No one turns around to see what fool thought about asking a question. These meetings wouldn't bug me as much if I didn't know how they worked. "Listening sessions" aren't about finding out what they should do. If you go to a listening session, they've already decided what to do. They're determining who will fall in line and who they'll have to kill off.Search for "Mao let a hundred flowers blossom." Pro tip: don't invite a guy who used to be in charge of doing these things come to one as an attendee. Breaking now. Another hour and a half to glory.
  3. Don't know if it's trivial, but I'm on lunch break and have SIX HOURS of mandatory job training going on now. I've worked here for twenty years, and have seen all these presentations dozens of times. I am SO SICK of these meetings, particularly when I know they're lying about how they actually handle things.
  4. Yeah, I like Leach and I really like bacon, but there's a thing on the internet to either deify or demonize things. It's like people have all this emotion and are looking for something to be emotional about.
  5. My bad. You're right. Shoulda known a guy who knows who Icky Twerp was would have the old TV trivia down.
  6. I was thinking the caption was, "Don't worry, Bea. Opie ain't gonna kill any more birds with a slingshot.
  7. Check out "A Face in the Crowd." It was after No Time for Sergeants and before the Andy Griffith Show. He plays a degenerate guitar picker named Lonesome Rhodes, who puts on a folksy front but is a dark con man. He's the lead character, and it was an important film for getting him the acting reputation for later roles.
  8. How do you do, Missus Wi-ley?
  9. Agreed, Bale held serve, and that's no small accomplishment when the other actors were Ledger, Caine, Freeman and Oldman. Part of it is that the Batman movies became "Batman Presents the Villian" and good or bad, the villains dominate the movies, with Batman being almost a passive character. Even in the terrible ones, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Uma Thurman, and Arnold were the main characters. They need an unknown who's got some size, acting ability, and is in the right age range. There aren't that many action actors under fifty, now, that aren't tied to a super hero already.
  10. No, he wasn't.
  11. Man in a Hurry is great. What was the one with the two old ladies that are bootleggers and they keep turning in other bootleggers to get rid of the competition?
  12. The Rock. He's already in everything, anyway.
  13. Smith could get some serious negative blowback from this. It was a defining role for Williams, and since he died, he's become almost like a patron saint of Hollywood. Smith also burned a lot of bridges with fans when he tried to turn his no talent or charisma son into a star. There's also the fact that there's been some built up negativity towards Disney for screwing up Star Wars, and recycling old movies into live action/CGI rather than coming up with anything new. Jim Carrey is way too crazy now for anyone to invest big bucks into a movie that depends upon him not shitting the bed. There's still the problem that Aladdin is unique, in that Robin Williams was a famous actor who basically played himself as an animated character. In all the other cartoon to CGI movies, nobody knew who did the voice animations for Belle or the Beast, so replacing the voice actors didn't bother anyone. This one's going to be more like having a different actor play Wolverine or Iron Man. Even if Smith does a great job, Williams is still the standard.
  14. No, although Gannon wore an apron in that episode. It was one where Friday took a night class and when the rest of the class found out he was a cop, they voted to kick him out.
  15. A lot of my generation of firefighters got into it because they watched Emergency! growing up. Dragnet trivia: Jack Webb and Harry Morgan always wore the same clothes (Webb the gray jacket and black slacks and Morgan the gray suit) cause they reused transition scenes all the time, like getting up and walking from the desk, walking to the car, and walking into buildings. There was only one episode where Webb wore something different, a red sweater.
  16. Seat over there. She was thirteen when they started filming the movie, so either thirteen or fourteen.
  17. Malcolm was more of a guest star. Gomer was in early seasons, but got spun off into a series, and replaced by Goober. Jack Dodson was actually pretty good in an early episode as a different character. He played an insurance salesman that got disappointed when he found out Andy was making a claim instead of buying a new policy. They started with strong supporting characters, but every character they replaced was replaced with a weaker character, sometimes terribad. Warren trying to replace Barney was the most obvious. Still can't believe Andy had the hots for Helen Crump over Ellie. Personally, though, I would have gone for Floyd's manicurist (Barbara Eden.)
  18. First five years. Every original character was classic. After that, it was something else.
  19. And my dad said, "Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln."
  20. Good stuff. I'm pretty sure a psychiatrist wouldn't have helped me. A lot of it is just the dynamic of the meeting, where the shrink takes on the role of "messiah" where whether he tries to or not, he presents as the all knowing person who's there to solve my problems. It's easier to open up and be honest at an AA meeting. Psychiatrist meeting: "Yeah, I got drunk and pissed on a police car." Psychiatrist: "You what?" AA meeting: "Yeah, I got drunk and pissed on a police car." Someone else: "Been there. Were you inside or outside the car when you did it?"
  21. Best explanation I ever heard was from a guy at the Bouldin group, hell, had to be 35 years ago. He said early in his drinking career, he had that one drunk where everything seemed perfect. He felt great. He felt alive. And he spent the rest of his drinking career trying to recapture that feeling. I don't really buy the childhood trauma thing. I drank because I liked getting drunk. I liked the feeling of euphoria. Never understood how someone could leave half a beer. It was never a problem for me to go a week or a month without a drink. When I started drinking, though, I didn't stop until I was stinking drunk. For a while I tried to convince myself I could have a few and stop when I got the right level of buzz, but nah. It's not a problem for me not to drink, so I'm more fortunate than many. If I ever say, "oh, I'll have one glass of wine," though, yeah, empty bottle and I wake up a half hour late for work.
  22. Caine Mutiny was great, except for the Willie Keith romance part. Problem was that Robert Francis and May Winn weren't talented enough to be on the screen with Bogart, Van Johnson, E. G. Marshall, and Fred MacMurray. Bogart playing a Captain descending into madness, and MacMurray playing a weasel who could come off as reasonable while spreading poison were great. Trivia note: Van Johnson got the scar on his forehead in a car accident. He covered it with makeup for most movies, but thought Steve Maryk should have a scar. if you haven't read the book...
  23. The Harry Potter series is loved by all ages, ten through pedophile. She was at her most popular when she had the teen jailbait thing going on. There are also a lot of kids who grew up watching her, and she was their first cinema crush. I can understand the kids growing up who thought she was super hot. The older guys, not so much. When I was about ten I had mad love for Sandra Dee. I would have gotten her, too, if it wasn't for that bastard, Moondoggie.
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