Comments on: The trouble with women! http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Fri, 24 May 2013 19:23:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-864533 Indyanna Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:14:30 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-864533 Having unwittingly inserted a reference to an earthquake here yesterday, and being bored blind with syllabizing, will I hope be a sufficient warrant for thinking it's not too much of a thread-jack to say we had a pretty interesting temblor here on the East Coast yesterday afternoon. Although our Pacific Rim friends are having a jolly time mocking the evacuations, the airport shut-downs, cell phone failures, and other such panicky. But to go back on-thread: I was wondering about this film--what did it take to get this particular project and script green-lighted at the company to which McGraw-Hill outsourced its training films; how many script re-writes they went through getting just the right "tone"; what the various actors said about their roles when they washed up for the day and went to hang with friends; what kind of sales calls their reps had when they tried to "place" this baby in various companies' H-R program; what it was about the Aluminum Company of America that got them involved with it; and generally that kind of mid-20th Century history stuff? I'd like to "adapt" this script around General Braddock's disastrous business trip to Pittsburgh in 1755, when some hapless captain had to transfer somebody from the washing and baking division to the tree-felling and road building squad. Or maybe just back to that syllabus for HI-614? Having unwittingly inserted a reference to an earthquake here yesterday, and being bored blind with syllabizing, will I hope be a sufficient warrant for thinking it’s not too much of a thread-jack to say we had a pretty interesting temblor here on the East Coast yesterday afternoon. Although our Pacific Rim friends are having a jolly time mocking the evacuations, the airport shut-downs, cell phone failures, and other such panicky.

But to go back on-thread: I was wondering about this film–what did it take to get this particular project and script green-lighted at the company to which McGraw-Hill outsourced its training films; how many script re-writes they went through getting just the right “tone”; what the various actors said about their roles when they washed up for the day and went to hang with friends; what kind of sales calls their reps had when they tried to “place” this baby in various companies’ H-R program; what it was about the Aluminum Company of America that got them involved with it; and generally that kind of mid-20th Century history stuff? I’d like to “adapt” this script around General Braddock’s disastrous business trip to Pittsburgh in 1755, when some hapless captain had to transfer somebody from the washing and baking division to the tree-felling and road building squad. Or maybe just back to that syllabus for HI-614?

]]> By: Matt_L http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-864089 Matt_L Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:34:57 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-864089 The semester started for us on Monday. My only regret is a thwarted baking agenda. I never got that crate of peaches from the Wholesale Fruit market, so I did not have a chance to make a fruit pie this summer or to test out the Cooks Illustrated vodka pie dough recipe. On Sunday made a chocolate hazelnut tart with a pasta frola crust. It uses egg yolks, so it kind of turns out like a cookie. Cheers and have a fantastic semester everyone! The semester started for us on Monday. My only regret is a thwarted baking agenda. I never got that crate of peaches from the Wholesale Fruit market, so I did not have a chance to make a fruit pie this summer or to test out the Cooks Illustrated vodka pie dough recipe.

On Sunday made a chocolate hazelnut tart with a pasta frola crust. It uses egg yolks, so it kind of turns out like a cookie.

Cheers and have a fantastic semester everyone!

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-864007 Indyanna Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:08:29 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-864007 Heard about that Big 'Quake down south of you overnight. Did that rattle its way upstate? (Does every state even *have* an "upstate" and a "downstate?") Anyway, hope everything's going well and have a great skool year! Heard about that Big ‘Quake down south of you overnight. Did that rattle its way upstate? (Does every state even *have* an “upstate” and a “downstate?”) Anyway, hope everything’s going well and have a great skool year!

]]> By: Historiann http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-863930 Historiann Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:40:01 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-863930 No new shoes bought specifically for the purpose. A new outfit I bought in Quebec last spring, though! It's going to be 98 degrees here today--I'm thinking that "sundresses" are the appropriate choice for teaching for the next few weeks, anyway. Mmmmmmmm. . . fresh crayons! No new shoes bought specifically for the purpose. A new outfit I bought in Quebec last spring, though!

It’s going to be 98 degrees here today–I’m thinking that “sundresses” are the appropriate choice for teaching for the next few weeks, anyway.

Mmmmmmmm. . . fresh crayons!

]]> By: Susan http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-863773 Susan Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:01:31 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-863773 Our classes start Thursday... Have a good first day of class. Do you have new shoes, along with the crayons? Our classes start Thursday… Have a good first day of class. Do you have new shoes, along with the crayons?

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2011/08/22/the-trouble-with-women/comment-page-1/#comment-863511 Indyanna Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:32:54 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=16298#comment-863511 Brad looked like he was about to become hysterical. That's an actual 1950s training film?!? I bet it wasn't Bettye or Myrtle who came up with the idea of changing an educational publishing firm's name from an actual NAME-name to something like "Cengage," a phony-neme so irksome to the ear that I probably wouldn't even adopt my own book if it was acquired for that platform. Brad looked like he was about to become hysterical. That’s an actual 1950s training film?!? I bet it wasn’t Bettye or Myrtle who came up with the idea of changing an educational publishing firm’s name from an actual NAME-name to something like “Cengage,” a phony-neme so irksome to the ear that I probably wouldn’t even adopt my own book if it was acquired for that platform.

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