Oh . . . ageism, you rear your ugly head.
It must be so nice around the holiday season, sitting in your counting house, NICK, counting your vast amount of wealth from your multi-tool sales . . . keeping warm, why us stage managers around the world sit with little more then a single lump of coal.
Stage Managers, here this . . . if Nick would have his way, yes, you would be able, to save a trip to a tool box, and fix an item. YAY MULTI-TOOL - that's what it fofers. But then he would have you, sit, perhaps by candlelight, with a dull pencil, and write out in LONG HAND, 20 or 30 times, copies of the rehearsal report to hand out. When would you sleep? When would you rest? Think of the aches and pains in your hand, think of the heart break and sorrow. Yes, yes, but we did save a trip to a tool box. BRAVO MULTI-TOOL. Thank you for that . . . excuse me for not clapping, I think my hand just feel off due to all the long handed copying I am doing . . .
Wake up! WAKE UP!!!!
Don't let the 1%, embedded in the wealth and comfort of their corporate wealth/war chests - you know in your heart of hearts - you don't want to return to the dark ages of hand writing line changes, or, if you so happen to have an off-set printer handy . . .
Can we imagine doing new plays without a photo copier?
Seriously, but again, Nick would have us save a quick trip to a tool box.
Listen, yes, I am older, and further down the career path then some of you here - but without the photo-copier, we would have to go back to the horrors, and terrors, and chemical poisoning of the mimeograph machine - old stage managers know the horrors and the brain cells killed. THAT'S THE WORLD NICK WANTS US TO LIVE IT. Damp, purple, blurry copies - are we cave men? Are we peasants? Have you tried writing in pencil on freshly mimeographed paper? GOOD LUCK MY FRIENDS, GOOD LUCK!!! It's world I don't want for me, my children or my children's children.
I like Nick, I respect Nick - I think Nick is good guy. Great wife. Beautiful kid. Heck, I would love to take him out to dinner, buy him a drink.
But it doesn't not, in any way, mean his opinion is right. We all know the multi-tool is a good replacement in a pinch, but let's call it what is is - cheaper, smaller versions of tools you should already have access to. Shades, pale imitations. Why not get the right tool for the job?
And what if that job is copying a lot of paper - my friends - I give you the photo copier.
Mr. Tochelli, in his last post, wants you to believe I am old, out of touch with the younger stage manager and their needs - lost touch with the pulse of the younger stage managers. But, Mr. Tochelli, let's not just throw out almost 40 years of experience in this business, and over 25 years stage managing - let me offer advice, my sage wisdom - there is no contest - the photo copier by a landslide, the photo copier is the true friend of stage managers everywhere.
Post Merge: Dec 17, 2012, 06:59 pm
Oh this just in, Nate Silver calls the race for the photo copier . . . calls it - pols are NOT EVEN CLOSED IN IOWA - and he predicts the photocopier will win by a bigger land slide then Obama won.
Just saying . . . be on the right side of history.