Astrojanitor

god damn the Pats are frustrating

SPILLER! Anyone miss Trent at this point?

I'm beginning to think the Bills may pull off a win. I don't like or want that feeling

NICE!

it's getting to be like watching an actual professional football team. No 3 and outs, no checkdowns, actual forward momentum. They're still probably going to lose, but at least I'm enjoying the game.

As someone who worked/taught in the English department of Oklahoma State for a few years I can assure you the whole leftist brainwashing conspiracy is absolute nonsense.

I have nothing to really add to your analysis, just want to thank you for doing the work. these are really interesting figures man, good job

Based on this week alone I'd say Oakland and SF may give Buffalo a run for their suck money.

Lions? Cassel is almost looking like the way he was expected to look like. Did you know you can throw the ball forward? Weird.

I love the Chiefs playing well again. For whatever reason it bothers me when they are a pushover team. Maybe because they were always so consistently good when I was a kid. Granted they seem to be all kick returns here, but still, enjoying watching them play this well.

Kelsay's performance today was straight up pathetic. He was missing tackles and jumping out of place all day. Just really shockingly awful. One of the 3 or 4 worst players on the field today and that really says something.

Ha! you are so right it's ridiculous.

actually Vick was banned for something like 3 games for committing a violent felony, while Ben is banned for 4 games for being accused of a crime. Vick was barely suspended, he couldn't play because he was in jail. The fact is Vick was treated with kid gloves and that's the part that doesn't add up.

If I wanted to live longer I wouldn't drink like this. Stupid yahoo

Vick. Someone needs to knock that pig out

I do love this.

I see, a troll. Nope, no thanks. not going to play along.

3 bands on a bill minus the cut for the house. Figure $10 a head, that's 100 people a night. That's actually a really good following. Honestly i can not tell you the last time I was at a show with more than 100 people. wait, yes i can. Dinosaur Jr about 7 months ago. I'd say I see about 50-75 shows a year and maybe 3-4 crack an audience of 100. Numbers add up, they should just spend less on shirts and drop the manager. Also maybe not be a christian metal band. That can't sound good at all.

Everyone who has ever thought about being in a band should read/memorize this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html I agree with pretty much everything you say here. Everyone wants to be Fugazi, but when push comes to shove the lure of some label taking on the finances is pretty intense. But it can suck on the label end as well. My buddy and I put out a cd by a band--spent about $2500 on it all told. band broke up 2 shows later. Think we ended up losing about $2000 on the deal. Problem is is it is next to impossible to get people to pay for music or come to shows anymore. My roommate put on a show with a really great guitar pop band from Seattle called Visqueen. I'd say about 10 people came to the show. Gig ended at 11. DJs spinning indie rock started at 1130. 100 people walked in the door for that. People will pay $6 to hear someone play a Smiths cd, but not $6 to see that music actually get made. Saw Severe Severe play the best set of music I've seen in months on saturday...15 people there. $3 show and no one comes out. getting real exhausting.

my bands went out from 1998-2001. but I also was out helping bands up to 2006. I still help out a little around town now, but I'm not getting back in the van. We were also part of the hardcore scene which runs a bit differently. it's more community based--a lot more organized. You can book a 2-3 week tour pretty easily and know you will have a place to crash and people will come out to the shows. Local bands also donate the bulk of the door to the touring band. Lots of unwritten rules and unethical hardcore bands get ruined by word of mouth. If I was in a country band or something I'm sure the experience would have been radically different. But I still was never once involved with a place that took a bite out of merch. Even today, the four or so places everyone plays in Rochester don't get a piece of merch. And I don't know any place in Pittsburgh, Buffalo or Ithaca that does either (that's kind of the circuit we played). No managers or booking agents...we did it all ourselves. I think I know a couple guys that have booking agents now, but a manager is a waste of money. I did forget about tolls though.

research and writing stays about the same, you just get better at knowing how to place your research. In 3 years prep time stayed about the same--I had no interest in teaching the exact same course over and over. It would be boring to me and unfair to the kids teaching without enthusiasm. You aren't going to cut down on the hours it takes to correct papers either. Reading and commenting on 60 15 page papers always takes an obscene amount of time. I also taught film which involves the creation of a lot of supplemental materials which are wildly time consuming. 70 hours of work a week for $9,000? That sounds pretty rough to me.

I don't know: I taught 3 classes, so that's 15 hours including office hours. Add about 10-15 hours of prep and correcting papers. Add to that about 30-40 hours a week of research and writing. It's not working in a coal mine, but I'd hardly call it cushy. I'd say my time in academia was the most exhausting $3000/semester I'd ever made.

Oh, they'll all admit it. Great thing about teaching college is no standardized tests and no real requirement to pass the kids. They don't want to do the work? Fail. When teaching high school and younger you have to drag the kids into passing. Something I actually think hurts the kids. You don't want to work you fail, life is like that don't know why school isn't. Anyway...College profs have to constantly produce publishable research, that's what's difficult. In order to get a tenure track position you need a book ready and a great deal of conference experience and article placement. Limits the amount of courses you can teach when starting out. Also limited by how many courses the University offers per semester. But even if you teach 5-6 courses a semester, which is a very heavy workload, adjunct is still making less than $20K a year.

forgot one thing, if you work full year add about $10K to the mix. Ok salary for arguably the most important job out there. But no one is getting rich at it

That breakdown is a little off. Maybe the churches, or wherever, take a bite out of merch. But none of the tiny clubs or bars I played ever did. Second off, if the fancy shirts cost to much to make, make cheaper shirts. Our shirts cost like $2 each. CD duplication usually runs about $2 per disc as well. Recording is pricey--that's where the expense is. What you do is hit the internet, find bands in different towns you like, and trade shows. You stay at their place after the show, they do the leg work to set up the gig and all in exchange for you doing the same for them. You hit the road you will probably make about $150-200 a night. Gas is about $40-$50 a day. A band can eat for less than $10 and the bars will give you a couple free drinks. So figure about $100-$125 a day profit. Hopefully the van holds up and you should pull in a grand over a span of a short tour. Now split that 4-5 ways...depending on how big the band is. So it's rough. If you want to be rich I don't suggest being in a band. But if you want to be rich your band probably sucks anyway. side note: as for teachers, not all make money. I was an adjunct at oklahoma state for 3 years. Made $950/mo for my troubles. starting salary for a public school teacher here in Rochester is about $35-40K a year and you can tap out at about $65-70K over the course of a career.