Our Many Worthless / Wonderful Practices

Sometimes they are even the same thing.

You can’t get there from here.

Remember that Steve Wright joke?

“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”

I think you may have guessed part of my thesis on life by now. We don’t align our tactics with our principles and as a result suffer for it. We keep doing what we’ve always done long after they could any longer align with our goals. The world is full of needed operational improvements that we neglect because we — or those in power — mistakingly believe that things are good enough. We can’t even see that our path is leading to a hell or at least a common disaster.

You can imagine my delight when the NY Times chose to devote a long read to just one such practice that has always gotten my goat: F’n pennies. We don’t use them but we keep making them…. a waste of time, labor, and pennies. Couple that with Wright’s joke on how you can count of being ripped off and now you are speaking in multiple tongues. Thank you very much.

The FKATFB is overrun with bad and useless practices…

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The Trades Give Producers No Respect

Not that anyone in the industry ever really does, but it is pretty infuriating to look at one of the industry trade reviews, and not have any producers mentioned in the capsule. Maybe producers don’t matter. And true when you look up the film and find thirty producers mentioned — albeit in various capacities — you can’t help to wonder which ones did matter. It’s true, the credit now fails us. Do we abandon it for the core work, and come up with a new one?

This is from the Hollywood Reporter. Their review made me want to see the film, even with such an intense run time. But the capsule just says “Producers don’t matter to us.” Sigh…

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Is It Because I Am Not There That The View From Here Is That The Biggest Fall Festivals Are All Redundant?