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Post by the light works on Nov 5, 2023 16:12:50 GMT
so, basically using the dream as the framework for a story? I do that, on occasion, but there is usually only enough for a short story. If nothing else, I add it to the world-building as a recent sitcom that was as popular as it was occasionally controversial, with the bit in the finale where the female lead is *literally* nude for that scene being one final attempt to push the boundaries (even if, realistically, the camera angles and such would have concealed it). Once a show hits 100 episodes, it's almost immediately shunted off into syndication these days, making it plausible that a local TV station where my characters are is airing it in a late-night slot as filler. That being said, if we use me myself as a model for the main character, then their being in the military is unlikely. It's possible that the character was involved in academia and brought on board for a program that wasn't long for the world, or is an employee of a company where it's expected that you have to be willing to take a job transfer from time to time in order to rise through the ranks. It's even possible that the move was originally meant to be semi-permanent but because of a family situation "back home" the character has to leave, which would explain why it was so sudden the female lead wouldn't even stop to put clothes on before running out of the shower and down the public hallway. And it's not that far-fetched to think that the female lead was so ultimately unhappy with how things were going in her life that her relationship with the lead was somehow a go / no-go in that she'd rather abandon everything, possibly burning bridges in the process, to go with him than stay where she is. Maybe have it that she was a "defrosting ice queen" type who was angry at the world because she was angry at herself over something and the male lead was the one who helped her work through it. I kind of have an image in my head of it being the final episode of a sitcom, where all the writers decided to subvert all the tropes, having the receptionist that was really only there for the typical patter-in-passing scenes being the one who demands to go away with the lead.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 6, 2023 22:11:27 GMT
OK. In real life, because I spent time as a finance clerk for a congregation I was in, once I had my MBA a recruiter for a smaller college in San Antonio hinted that they'd like for me to send in my application. But this was right before the bizarreness at work that led to my getting my columns, and so it's a "what might have been".
Using *that* as a base...
The main character worked their tailbone off to get their MBA, not just in college but also at a day job and at volunteer work. This got them an attractive offer to work as a 101-level professor at a college in the big city, with much of the first season being based on this guy from a more rural area (by their standards), his neighbors, and his co-workers all having to get along with each other. Subsequent seasons would go into the day-to-day of big city life, academia, and the inter-personal relationships between everyone as the male lead tries to teach while also getting his doctorate in his area of specialty.
The final season kicks off with the dean of the school retiring, setting in motion a chain of promotions that sees someone get Peter Principle'd to a position where they can do some damage. This person does indeed intend to make radical changes, the kind of changes that the male lead knows will indeed do damage to the college's academic reputation and so pushes back against the ostensible "reforms". Since the main character's contract was only a short-term contract the higher-up thinks they can use this to their advantage to cow the male lead into submission. What they don't know is that the guy in charge of the MBA program at the male lead's alma mater is himself looking to retire, and male lead is on the short list to replace him since he has a doctorate of his own *and* experience at another institution. So when the higher-up tries to go nuclear, the male lead plays his Uno Reverse card by saying he's got a better offer anyway and his alma mater is *already* aware of what's going on so won't hold his being dismissed against him; either the higher-up backs off, or the male lead starts getting quotes from moving companies.
The final few episodes play out as in the dream. The last shot of the last episode is the male and female lead, inside the male lead's bright orange SUV, driving off with an attached U-Haul trailer, a reverse of the scene from the first episode where he and his trailer are pulling in for the first time.
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Post by the light works on Nov 7, 2023 2:04:03 GMT
OK. In real life, because I spent time as a finance clerk for a congregation I was in, once I had my MBA a recruiter for a smaller college in San Antonio hinted that they'd like for me to send in my application. But this was right before the bizarreness at work that led to my getting my columns, and so it's a "what might have been". Using *that* as a base... The main character worked their tailbone off to get their MBA, not just in college but also at a day job and at volunteer work. This got them an attractive offer to work as a 101-level professor at a college in the big city, with much of the first season being based on this guy from a more rural area (by their standards), his neighbors, and his co-workers all having to get along with each other. Subsequent seasons would go into the day-to-day of big city life, academia, and the inter-personal relationships between everyone as the male lead tries to teach while also getting his doctorate in his area of specialty. The final season kicks off with the dean of the school retiring, setting in motion a chain of promotions that sees someone get Peter Principle'd to a position where they can do some damage. This person does indeed intend to make radical changes, the kind of changes that the male lead knows will indeed do damage to the college's academic reputation and so pushes back against the ostensible "reforms". Since the main character's contract was only a short-term contract the higher-up thinks they can use this to their advantage to cow the male lead into submission. What they don't know is that the guy in charge of the MBA program at the male lead's alma mater is himself looking to retire, and male lead is on the short list to replace him since he has a doctorate of his own *and* experience at another institution. So when the higher-up tries to go nuclear, the male lead plays his Uno Reverse card by saying he's got a better offer anyway and his alma mater is *already* aware of what's going on so won't hold his being dismissed against him; either the higher-up backs off, or the male lead starts getting quotes from moving companies. The final few episodes play out as in the dream. The last shot of the last episode is the male and female lead, inside the male lead's bright orange SUV, driving off with an attached U-Haul trailer, a reverse of the scene from the first episode where he and his trailer are pulling in for the first time. you really seem to like the "gotcha" tropes. my thought during the day was you have a sitcom about a guy working in an office. usual sorts of sitcom tropes go on, and then there is an offer to do a spinoff in a different location. the principal character and the character actress playing the receptionist decide to jump to the spinoff, and the rest of the cast decide to end the original before it becomes a death march. so for the final episode, the writers come up with an emergency happening at the other office, and the principal has to hurry and move there to take over. and then just as a lark, they have everybody they can get hold of coming over to say goodbye to the principal, and, of course, getting in the way of him desperately packing up to move. and, of course, the receptionist who'd never even looked like a romantic interest in the whole series doing the dramatic reveal, and ending up driving away with him. probably with her car towed behind his car, and a moving truck taking a wrong turn behind them.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 9, 2023 19:37:53 GMT
Another odd one.
I'm reading a flyer produced on behalf of WNFH, a college radio station from a college in Fort Worth, Texas (I didn't see the name of the college). The flyer is listing the station's programming, and as part of it I note that they're carrying real-life syndicated program "The House of Hair With Dee Snider" on weekends (a weekly 2 - 3 hour program devoted to rock and metal of the 70s - 90s) and the "House of Hair Daily Hair Cut" on weekdays (a supplemental bit in which Dee Snider gives a bit of trivia or entertainment news and then plays a related song).
The original K / W dividing line was the boundary between Texas and New Mexico, so there are a few W stations operating in Texas IRL (such as WOAI-TV San Antonio, WACO-FM Waco, and WFAA-TV Dallas). So it's plausible an older college could have brought a radio station online back in the "W" days as part of a broadcasting degree program. And according to the official website for the House of Hair, nobody is airing the show in the DFW Metroplex despite it being host to several rock stations; the physically nearest stations are in Abilene and Waco (although, the site is often out of date...).
But I've found no real-life station with those call letters thus far, and I question what college is going to spring for a major syndicated radio show like that. I couldn't recognize the names of any of the other hosts or shows listed, so it's possible that someone got this as a splurge and the cost is balanced out by having students produce the rest of the content.
Perhaps if I can figure out what WNFH stands for I can see if there's any meaning or if this is something my brain just slapped together.
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Post by the light works on Nov 9, 2023 20:41:15 GMT
Another odd one. I'm reading a flyer produced on behalf of WNFH, a college radio station from a college in Fort Worth, Texas (I didn't see the name of the college). The flyer is listing the station's programming, and as part of it I note that they're carrying real-life syndicated program "The House of Hair With Dee Snider" on weekends (a weekly 2 - 3 hour program devoted to rock and metal of the 70s - 90s) and the "House of Hair Daily Hair Cut" on weekdays (a supplemental bit in which Dee Snider gives a bit of trivia or entertainment news and then plays a related song). The original K / W dividing line was the boundary between Texas and New Mexico, so there are a few W stations operating in Texas IRL (such as WOAI-TV San Antonio, WACO-FM Waco, and WFAA-TV Dallas). So it's plausible an older college could have brought a radio station online back in the "W" days as part of a broadcasting degree program. And according to the official website for the House of Hair, nobody is airing the show in the DFW Metroplex despite it being host to several rock stations; the physically nearest stations are in Abilene and Waco (although, the site is often out of date...). But I've found no real-life station with those call letters thus far, and I question what college is going to spring for a major syndicated radio show like that. I couldn't recognize the names of any of the other hosts or shows listed, so it's possible that someone got this as a splurge and the cost is balanced out by having students produce the rest of the content. Perhaps if I can figure out what WNFH stands for I can see if there's any meaning or if this is something my brain just slapped together. I looked it up, and it looks like something the Dee is doing for personal enjoyment, and so I wouldn't be surprised if the college is getting a deep discount. edit: is this part of a dream?
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Post by ironhold on Nov 9, 2023 21:07:26 GMT
Another odd one. I'm reading a flyer produced on behalf of WNFH, a college radio station from a college in Fort Worth, Texas (I didn't see the name of the college). The flyer is listing the station's programming, and as part of it I note that they're carrying real-life syndicated program "The House of Hair With Dee Snider" on weekends (a weekly 2 - 3 hour program devoted to rock and metal of the 70s - 90s) and the "House of Hair Daily Hair Cut" on weekdays (a supplemental bit in which Dee Snider gives a bit of trivia or entertainment news and then plays a related song). The original K / W dividing line was the boundary between Texas and New Mexico, so there are a few W stations operating in Texas IRL (such as WOAI-TV San Antonio, WACO-FM Waco, and WFAA-TV Dallas). So it's plausible an older college could have brought a radio station online back in the "W" days as part of a broadcasting degree program. And according to the official website for the House of Hair, nobody is airing the show in the DFW Metroplex despite it being host to several rock stations; the physically nearest stations are in Abilene and Waco (although, the site is often out of date...). But I've found no real-life station with those call letters thus far, and I question what college is going to spring for a major syndicated radio show like that. I couldn't recognize the names of any of the other hosts or shows listed, so it's possible that someone got this as a splurge and the cost is balanced out by having students produce the rest of the content. Perhaps if I can figure out what WNFH stands for I can see if there's any meaning or if this is something my brain just slapped together. I looked it up, and it looks like something the Dee is doing for personal enjoyment, and so I wouldn't be surprised if the college is getting a deep discount. edit: is this part of a dream? In real life, I listen to the show on a weekly basis. In fact, I actually catch it a few times each weekend because it's rare for me to hear all three hours without interruption. In the dream, I find that the show is being aired on a college radio station, which is unusual as it almost always airs on a dedicated modern rock or classic rock station. Not only that, since it's a nationally syndicated series, one must wonder what the syndicate is charging and how a college radio station would be able to afford it. Not only that, I clearly remember the call letters and the fact that it's from Fort Worth, details that shouldn't be so specific for a dream. Hence why I'm wondering if those call letters - WNFH - have any significance. edit - When the show first started in the late 1990s, it was only 2 hours a week. Given the show's success, the syndicate decided to expand it to 3 hours a week. But many stations that carried it either could not or would not give it that extra hour, and some stations that were looking to begin carrying the show were in a similar situation. So as a compromise, they decided that the third hour would be in the middle of the show. The first hour would still be called "The First Hour", and the last hour would still be called "The Final Hour", with the 2-hour version of the show having no mention of "The Bonus Hour" in the middle despite the play list for each episode appearing on the official website with all three hours' worth of songs listed. As far as the bonus hour goes, it starts with a trivia game where he plays three songs that have something in common, gives a hint, and then leaves the audience with a commercial break to figure it out. Then at around the 45 minute mark, he does a retrospective on a group that was influential to the progress of rock as a genre.
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Post by the light works on Nov 9, 2023 21:27:20 GMT
dreams can have oddly specific details, so I'm guessing that may be the case here. a quick look at quora, so it may be wildly inaccurate, says syndicated shows may or may not have a syndication fee, and may or may not get all or part of the ad revenue during the show. so while it is likely your sleep brain just assigned a fictitious radio station to the show you already knew; it is entirely possible a poorer college radio station might get a syndicated show for a portion of ad revenue, because it doesn't cost the syndicator anything, and builds goodwill.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 11, 2023 1:26:17 GMT
dreams can have oddly specific details, so I'm guessing that may be the case here. a quick look at quora, so it may be wildly inaccurate, says syndicated shows may or may not have a syndication fee, and may or may not get all or part of the ad revenue during the show. so while it is likely your sleep brain just assigned a fictitious radio station to the show you already knew; it is entirely possible a poorer college radio station might get a syndicated show for a portion of ad revenue, because it doesn't cost the syndicator anything, and builds goodwill. I'm listening to this week's show, and right at the start of the :30 minute commercial break it was a pre-recorded bit with him shilling a book he'd just written. Now that I think about it, he usually takes at least 2 - 3 commercial breaks per show to shill something he's doing, like Cameo or a solo release. So I wonder how it affects things that he's using the show that way. In contrast, Sammy Hagar has openly admitted that he's using his radio show, "Sammy Hagar's Top Rock Countdown", to shill his rum distillery and that he's usually killed a bottle of it by the time he's done recording each week's episode.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 15, 2023 18:18:28 GMT
I used the dream I had about being an actor in a sitcom as a lead to discussing how the human brain can cause us to recognize the people in our favorite shows as our "friends" because we see them so often.
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Post by the light works on Nov 16, 2023 1:21:55 GMT
I used the dream I had about being an actor in a sitcom as a lead to discussing how the human brain can cause us to recognize the people in our favorite shows as our "friends" because we see them so often. it's a valid observation.
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