Haines His Way

And one for Murray.

Is there anything wrong with wanting and choosing to be primarily judged/chosen based on your talent alone?

Well, no,...but...

If we add to "talent" the ability to engage a multitude of avid fans we get a better picture of the nature of these contests.

Record producers are not concerned with who can make the "best" records, rather who can sell the most records.

A Broadway Star must have a certain "wow" that sells tickets.

In most of the "talent" categories, posters seem to rank Austin over Max. If I were buying an Album, it would probably be one by Austin; if I were buying tickets to Grease, I'd much prefer to see Max than Austin - Austin is just
 "so perfect", but Max has that engaging
"bad boy" persona that personifies Danny.

Something the TV judges get that the viewers do not is a sense of how a performer projects "live".

I suspect all the attention the Grease show has garnered will translate into initial ticket sales.

der Brucer

Meaning four people or wo, Miss Karen?  Are you speaking from some experiences you never want Boo-key to hear of?

Moi?  I don't know nothin' bout nothin'....

always a helping hand to anyone in distress!

You are a hand man...

Thanks, JRand.

And I think I'm going to embrace my inner dinahshore today.

There you go with the damn Eggcorns again!

der Brucer

Cradle Will Rock
Reds
The Internationale
The Official Story
Daniel
City of God

...with baited breath...

Lordy, it's contagious - another Eggcorn!

It's "bated breath" (as in held, abated...)

der Brucer

Lordy, it's contagious - another Eggcorn!

It's "bated breath" (as in held, abated...)

der Brucer

No, it's "baited breath" cause he was talking about something fishy going on...

I suspect all the attention the Grease show has garnered will translate into initial ticket sales.

der Brucer

"All the attention"  This thing has died in the ratings, and the only attention it's gotten is on chat boards, most of said attention being negative.  I suspect if they actually do the show, that it will die a painful death - whether that death is slow or fast is wholly dependent on how much money the network is willing to sink into it.  Ultimately, it will lose money.

"Z"

Obviously CDs will not be arriving today.  I now suspect tomorrow in the late afternoon.  The bitch will PAY.

I just don't get this pixel stuff.

A pixel is like a Georges Seurat brush stroke; it's the smallest discrete part of a digitized image - the more pixels per inch, the finer the picture's resolution. The more pictures in an image, the larger the file size. Computer screens have fixed pixel sizes - so a pixel becomes a unit of measure for the screen. Your HHW post area is about 620 pixels wide - posting pictures wider than that is what drives the board into Cinerama mode. (Actually, the available post size varies from poster to poster because the board creates variable "poster identity panes" on the left side. Folks like you or Jane (short screen names) have smaller identity screens, hence more room for pics. DearReaderLaura and I have longer screen names and we have wider identity panels and have a smaller posting area.

Now you really have a reason to be confused!

der Brucer

PS Digital cameras usually save a picture in a mega-pixel size, and the file is very large (usually much too large to post) so you need to use photosoftware to reduce the picture file size (i.e the number of pixels) so it can be better ahndles. Large file size take up more computer space and take longer to load. The quality of a picture on the screen, however, is not a function of the number of pixels, but rather the pixels per inch (that is why a 400KByte file reduced to a 20Kbyte file looks just as good on the screen).

...if I were buying tickets to Grease, I'd much prefer to see Max than Austin - Austin is just  "so perfect", but Max has that engaging "bad boy" persona that personifies Danny.

Hmmm.  Max doesn't do any of that for me.  I still remember him with the bad hair...and the continual struggle to try to "look" the part.

He will always be "Slacker" Danny....and the term wasn't applied to him because he looked like a bad boy.  I think he tries too hard, actually.  He seems far more phony to me than folks seem to think Austin is.

I don't know if Austin can be a "bad boy", but he could be a "nasty boy."  Max seems lacking for me, although his fan base has "willed" him to succeeed thus far.

Lunch - 4oz of chicken breast, 2/3 cup of rice and veggies - very yummy.  Drinking water like it's going out of style, and it's coming out that way, too (TMI, sorry)  The hardest thing is getting over the sugar  crash that's slowly happening.  Luckilly, caffeine is allowed!

I knew someday it would happen...and today was the day....I accidently used my hair product on my face thinking it was moisturizing cream.

It took me a little over a half hour to figure out why my face felt so strange and stiff.

I remember youthful experiments with hair products that got similar non-hair related results

der Brucer