Austin Improv

It'd be cool to have a forum that only registered members could read... that way pseudo-sensitive stuff said on the forums could at least not be findeable by random so-and-sos. Anyone who signed up could still read it, but they'd have to make an effort.

An all asshole thread, huh? I love it.

It would need a name like "Critical Dan's Shit-Talkin' Van" or "Diss-neyland"

Roy Janik wrote:It'd be cool to have a forum that only registered members could read... that way pseudo-sensitive stuff said on the forums could at least not be findeable by random so-and-sos. Anyone who signed up could still read it, but they'd have to make an effort.

Of course, nobody ever thinks their own stuff is offensive. The documentary fillmmaker Fred Wiseman says that he always shows the final cut to the subjects and has no problem getting them to sign the releases. It's only after other people see it and start judging their behavior that they get upset about how they were portrayed . . . and by then it's too late.

I for one have spent a lot of time justifying, explaining, recontextualizing, reediting, and redacting posts that I put up without a moment's thought. And honestly, if this is in response to the UCB thread, I can't imagine any of those posters self-identifying their posts as offensive. They just started to seem that way cumulatively after we heard that UCB might see them, but nobody said anything nasty, and no one person can control cumulative effect.

I am also deeply ambivalent about finding out what people would post in such an area.

I'm with Ratliff. Also, I think there's too much concern for sensitivity in public media. That's a job for the bastards at the FCC. Let's us have some balls, and real opinions that can be contested and lambasted and praised and attacked and embellished and mutated and believed.

ratliff wrote:I am also deeply ambivalent

I like the idea of being "deeply ambivalent".

Ambivalent means flip-floppy -- and that seems like a surface thing. I understand "deeply emotional" -- feeling REALLY REALLY strongly about something -- but how can you be "deeply flip-floppy"? Is that like feeling "deeply conflicted"? The things you feel on both sides are deeply seated into your make-up?

I also love the term, "deeply ambivalent." Paradoxical, but meaningful.

Mo Daviau wrote:It would need a name like "Critical Dan's Shit-Talkin' Van" or "Diss-neyland"

burn ward?


Diss-neyland is a hilarious and intentionally useful tool I will take with me to upset my mom and sister on vacation. thank you, mo.


Also, if you guys want, you can just join my and justin's private thread.

I personally would rather we just say what we say, and if anything comes up, handle it with the grace and professionalism the AIC has proven itself capable of.

In my life I've stepped over saying things I wanted to say because I was worried about pissing someone off or of looking bad or rocking the boat. I'm done with that; it's disinegenuous. I'd rather be honest than innocuous.

Isn't Valerie's last name Ward?

HerrHerr wrote:Isn't Valerie's last name Ward?

yes, but this is more of a call a slambulance, take to to the burn ward kind of ward.

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

HerrHerr wrote:Isn't Valerie's last name Ward?

yes, but this is more of a call a slambulance, take to to the burn ward kind of ward.

Cool. Hey, do we wear members only jackets or is that too on-the-nose?