What about the kid?
Kelley said in a sencond post: "i think the stereotype of the money grubbing bitch fits in really well with Leigh's comments. Musta been her blonde roots? The mention of private school? Woteva!"
I never said or implied that. I said quite directly...
She has a SOCIAL DIS-EASE.
Leigh http://www.leighm.net
Done with this thread.
On Friday, July 01, 2005 8:18 AM [PDT], snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> People have been selling their bodies to sell advertising since at
> least
> the days when they hired people to carry around sandwich boards. I
> have
> here some advertising books where there's some fascinating
> advertising art
> that turns people bodies into the product package or the name of the
> product. This is art from the late 1800s. Shocking that someone gets
> a tattoo.
>
> I can remember being trained to work in a restaurant where what was
> sold
> was the _experience_. The training was about how to stand, how to
> speak,
> how to smile, how to joke, how to open a wine bottle, pour, how to
> hold
> your been, how to act demurely, how to laugh, what kind of jokes to
> tell,
> how to react to the jokes told you, how to graciously extract
> yourself from
> some pervert trying to feel you up, how to display desserts on the
> cart,
> warm brandy and put on a show for after dinner drinks, etc.
>
> We had an expression for the noobs: "See the sign over the archway
> (entrance to the dining area)? It says, "Smile, time for a different
> you."
>
> There was no sign, we were to imagine it. We were on stage once we
> passed
> through the archway. It was a show, and we were the show girls and
> boys.
> Everything we did, every move we made, every word we uttered was part
> of
> the show.
>
> So, you see, I don't get the outrage. What really annoys is the
> attitude
> that, if you do work like that, you must be twisted or it must twist
> you.
> What I've learned is that all jobs are like that, it's just that the
> people
> doing them fancy themselves abovitall in nosebleed territory. You lie
> to
> yourself that it's your choice to do these things. Whatever.
>
> At 04:33 AM 7/1/2005, Wendy Lyon wrote:
>> I can't believe she only took $15,000 for it. Surely for a stunt
>> like this she could have earned more than that.
>
>
> She thinks $10k is like a million bucks. In another article, she said
> that
> she chose this particular joint because they gave money to charity.
> (Harkening back to _Magic City_ this isn't surprising. People in this
> culture like to present what they're doing as have some choice in the
> matter. So, she talks about how she likes to be the center of
> attention.
> She talks about how she had other options, but chose this one as the
> best
> one. Whatever.
>
> I can remember telling people in grad school that I'd be thrilled to
> make
> $30k a year. Their jaws dropped as they continued to piss and moan
> about
> how poorly professors are paid. To them, the $45k our tenure track
> professors were given was considered the dregs.
>
>