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Monday, August 23, 2004
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Repuglicans, Democants, and Groans
Repuglicans, Democants, and Groans
Went for my first day of training last Sunday, the 15th of August, and found the experience pleasant, and marginally useful. Didn't find out when and where I'd be helping at the actual convention, what days I'd be needed, etc. This is something both I myself and my employer are anxious to find out. Instead there was a motivational speaker who reminded everyone to be polite, since we'd be leaving our visitors with their first impression of the Big Apple.
Nate, a roly-polyish black middle-aged man with a carnival barker's stroll and salesman's ease with folks, took to the stage after a blistering 30 second ad by Mayor Bloomberg telling everyone in NYC to "play nice" with the elephants. There are FOUR things were were to remember out of the event with Nate, namely:
1] Greeting -- Welcome the guest by shaking hands, giving your name, and asking for their name. Oh, yeah, and "Look 'em in the eye-- don't be shy." (That's Nate, loosening up the uptight Repugnicans).
2] Discovery -- Find out a li'l bit about the stranger and get them to say a few words to you-- about themselves. Nate wisely noted that everyone like to talk about themselves. Indeed, I had just come across the identical observation in "The Sound and the Fury," where that friendly Quentin notes: "I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
3] Solution -- Once you have discovered whether the arrivistes are looking to get fed, wasted, or laid, "solve" their ignorance and alimentary dilemmas with the proper finger pointing to the portals of pleasure and ease that begem our grand ol' NYC.
4] Motivate -- Get the buggers EXCITED to have spent $4500 a head to get lectured by George Bush and his band of malaproping monkies. Shoot-- it's just a hoot to be in NYC!
The meeting concluded with another 30 spot by retired Mayor Koch-- an apostate from the Democants-- doing his home-grown best to be annoying. Congrats Mr. Ed!
As a side note, I spotted one of the security guards at the theater (in the West Side midtown area) chuckling over a sheaf of papers. When I approached her and asked why all the giggles, she showed me a handmade cartoon series depicting the various misadventures of the security staff. "He gets them characters looking like us to!" she chortled. Let's hope al Quaeda doesn't get their hands on these Read-and-Burn dossiers!
Went for my first day of training last Sunday, the 15th of August, and found the experience pleasant, and marginally useful. Didn't find out when and where I'd be helping at the actual convention, what days I'd be needed, etc. This is something both I myself and my employer are anxious to find out. Instead there was a motivational speaker who reminded everyone to be polite, since we'd be leaving our visitors with their first impression of the Big Apple.
Nate, a roly-polyish black middle-aged man with a carnival barker's stroll and salesman's ease with folks, took to the stage after a blistering 30 second ad by Mayor Bloomberg telling everyone in NYC to "play nice" with the elephants. There are FOUR things were were to remember out of the event with Nate, namely:
1] Greeting -- Welcome the guest by shaking hands, giving your name, and asking for their name. Oh, yeah, and "Look 'em in the eye-- don't be shy." (That's Nate, loosening up the uptight Repugnicans).
2] Discovery -- Find out a li'l bit about the stranger and get them to say a few words to you-- about themselves. Nate wisely noted that everyone like to talk about themselves. Indeed, I had just come across the identical observation in "The Sound and the Fury," where that friendly Quentin notes: "I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
3] Solution -- Once you have discovered whether the arrivistes are looking to get fed, wasted, or laid, "solve" their ignorance and alimentary dilemmas with the proper finger pointing to the portals of pleasure and ease that begem our grand ol' NYC.
4] Motivate -- Get the buggers EXCITED to have spent $4500 a head to get lectured by George Bush and his band of malaproping monkies. Shoot-- it's just a hoot to be in NYC!
The meeting concluded with another 30 spot by retired Mayor Koch-- an apostate from the Democants-- doing his home-grown best to be annoying. Congrats Mr. Ed!
As a side note, I spotted one of the security guards at the theater (in the West Side midtown area) chuckling over a sheaf of papers. When I approached her and asked why all the giggles, she showed me a handmade cartoon series depicting the various misadventures of the security staff. "He gets them characters looking like us to!" she chortled. Let's hope al Quaeda doesn't get their hands on these Read-and-Burn dossiers!
Blogging For Bush
Blogging For Bush
Volunteered for the Republican national Convention some weeks ago, and am going to to attempt to keep a blog of my goings-on relating to that august event.
With any luck, I'll say something worthwhile.
Volunteered for the Republican national Convention some weeks ago, and am going to to attempt to keep a blog of my goings-on relating to that august event.
With any luck, I'll say something worthwhile.
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