Sunday, February 5th, 2012
If you are a buyer and collector of funny t-shirts, like so many of us are these days, you may find that your closet has become over crowded with shirts. Gone are the days of having a few respectable button-downs and polos, because you are now a post-graduate student and you have forgotten to actually buy any of these respectable clothes during your long years of not really giving a crap what you look like. Well, now that you’re living in the real world you’re going to have to learn where it is okay to wear your favorite funny t-shirts, and where it definitely is not okay.
One of the most important places that you’re going to want to ditch the idea of wearing funny t-shirts is to the job interview. You’re a burgeoning professional now that you’re out of college, but that first step to that new personae is to actually get a job. For anywhere from four to ten years, you have worn funny t-shirts and pajama pants to class, meetings with administrators, and out to eat. You may have forgotten what a sloppy individual that’s turned you into. You will never get the job you want if you don’t wear something with a collar to the all-important interview.
You just spent several years in college doing what most college kids do, and that’s drinking and general debauchery on a weekly basis. You have a lot of sin to confess to at this point, and God has been waiting patiently for you to be a grown up and to come back to church. The only problem is that God requires that you try to look like a respectable human being when you come to his house, and your old funny t-shirts don’t really fit the bill. Plus, church is a great place to meet possible work contacts and even some nice, upstanding young women.
Women are never far from the mind of a young man in his twenties, and may even be more important to some people than a job or religion. Guess what, though? You’re never going to get past an awkward “hello” if you aren’t wearing something other than funny t-shirts to the bar. You are a post-grad now, and you have to really start acting like one if you want to get any attention in the very least bit from the female gender. Women mature something like 400x faster than men, so you have to at least pretend to be an adult with responsible tendencies if you want them to take you seriously.
That’s it, friends. I’ve laid it out pretty well, I think. You can’t have a job, religious experiences, or a girlfriend if you don’t stop wearing your funny t-shirts everywhere. Jogging pants are also unacceptable. I know that collared shirts and slacks aren’t very comfortable, but they do look nice and they rarely have as many soy sauce stains on them. If you want to be treated as a grown-up in the world of post-graduation, then you need to act like it. Save the video games and booze for after 7pm.
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
When I say that I am a long-standing veteran of Saint Patrick’s Day festivities, I really mean it. I have been going out and partying on St. Pat’s most venerable of days since I was 19 years old. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things over the years, and I’ve become a much less crazy individual as the years go by. Being older and wiser now, I believe I’ve noticed that the funny Irish t-shirts people wear are a fair indicator of their own party-time motivations.
The huge majority of people at any St. Pat’s Day throw-down are not really Irish at all. These people are your average watered-down American mutts who may be 1/16th Irish somewhere far down the line…if they have any Irish blood at all. Not knowing anything about real Irish culture, they wear funny Irish t-shirts that border on insulting. It’s not really their fault. Blame American media, not their ignorance.
There are going to be lots of people at your Saint Patrick’s Day party who are there only to find someone “special”. Of course, when I say “special” I mean anyone who will pay them any amount of attention and who is drunk enough to go home with them at the end of the night. What is really great about these people is that they always seem to be wearing funny Irish t-shirts declaring their intent. Despite this, many of them will find a hapless victim to carouse until sobriety hits.
If you’re at a party or a bar on Saint Patrick’s Day, then it goes without saying that you are there to drink some alcohol and have fun. The people who are wearing funny Irish t-shirts that talk about getting drunk seems almost redundant. The reality is that these are the people who drink two or three times a week. Saint Patrick’s Day is just as good excuse as any to go out and get smashed.
The very last, and definitely not the least, group of St. Paddy’s Day revelers are the people wearing funny Irish t-shirts that speak of real heritage and history. These shirt have genuine Celtic words on them or reference real places or historical events. These are you true sons and daughters of Ireland. If they don’t have green blood running through their veins, then they at least have enough sense to honor the Irish. That makes them my favorite people, and I’ll buy them a beer every time.
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Many an informative article has been written during the decades concerning the expenses and profits in the entertainment industry, no big secret is made of the bill for producing a major movie and as opposed to many other industries the success of a picture is publicly measured by it’s weekly takings.
It is just in present years however that we are getting a look into parallel indicators for TV shows, the cast of the hit US comedy ‘Friends’ became headlines in 2002 when they negotiated one million dollars apiece per episode showing us an insight as to the development cost of just one show and indirectly hinting at the likely profit that could be anticipated from producing short tv shows.
Are there really significant dissimilarities between US and English Comedy creation expenses?
Perhaps debatably the same if not superior in calibre the English Comedy attracts nowhere near the expenditure of it’s US peer. A standard English comedy runs in the region of two hundred thousand British Pounds (about $320k) per production in comparison to an estimate of $1.3 million for the US equivalent. Evidently the size of the market has a lot to do with this, the large budget US comedies have a great home market and in addition interest audiences through syndication to Canadian and British television while the smaller English comedy does not set well into the programming of US networks.
Viewership metrics for a comedy will closely influence the revenue created through advertising and product placement, it will likewise regulate the syndication discussions as the series enters more diverse distribution. TV comedies however, time and again book in the red during their first showing and show profit for their directors only when the Box set distributions begin, expected DVD profits are usually a central consideration when deciding if a sitcom is economically viable and should be given the go ahead to be made. This is of special consideration to smaller producers who do not benefit strongly from advertizement or product placement, as such Dvd earnings are of the upmost importance. Many English comedy series would not have been developed if the probable DVD revenue did not exist.
This is merely a brief overview of the multitude of different elements involved in establishing whether a series will be monetarily worthwhile or not, determining in advance these variables can sometimes be as much art as science, consider the revenue from the US Office (season 5) that generated $14 million in Box set money in it’s initial week of release and contrast this to the relatively meager $2.4 million delivered by the most watched sitcom in the US, Two and a Half Men (season 6), released at the same time… Comedy-nomics anyone??
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