t Intro Jack Webb

This is the city: Los Angeles.

t /Jack Webb

Where I live, "The City" means Constantinople. (You non-Greek Orthodox types will think it's called "Istanbul" but that's just Johnny-Turk-come-lately crazy talk.) It's the center of the Orthodox world, and is referred to in newspaper articles, etc., as just i poli, The City.

Curiously, we never called DC "The City." It was just DC. Maybe because it's fewer syllables that way.

Huh. That's right - it is just DC. Interesting.

Also, [insert obligatory TMBG "...been a long time gone, Contantinople..." here]

Oh, Firefly thread. That reminds me. I wonder if the lj quiz has answers posted yet. It was a super fun quiz. Off I go to check...

ETA: At which I rocked. Wow, I'm actually a little scared now. I watch those DVDs a lot. Hmmm. I did tank on the really obscure trivia, though. I don't know what it takes to know that kind of detail off the top of one's head, but my obsession stops short of it.

Also, [insert obligatory TMBG "...been a long time gone, Contantinople..." here]

I was gonna do this, but then decided against it. I'm so glad you did!

I swear I just couldn't not do it ... even though I could practically hear the groans as I hit post. Hee.

My Latin students now know all the names of Byzantium, thanks to that song. Yay.

I go shopping a lot in Rochester with costume designers from NYC.

This tends to confuse the clerks as the designers, when making conversation are saying things like" I just came from the city to do this design."

It doesn't go over so well when they come to Chicago and say things like that. Oddly, I've only heard it from costume designers.

In Rochester, anyway, the reaction to someone "buying something for a show" from retail clerks (who wonder, for example, what a tall goodlooking young man and a short pudgy woman are going buying a 32A bra and 45 thermal undershirts with a tax exempt card) tends to be "How nice, what high school do you teach at?" or "What jigh school do your kids go to?" or "What nice volunteer work!" or something else sort of condescending. I was just talking to a potential landlady who seemed extremely surprised that a theatre would pay me to sew. She was all like "But of course they don't PAY you at this second job?"

I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"

Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago

I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"

They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.

Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago

We may be named for a smelly onion, but c'mon... backwater?

They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.

That's very differnet, your right. Mine are mostly just snooty with clerk. Of course, I was a clerk, and wouldn't have wanted to have someone be snooty with me...