From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #191 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, October 7 2009 Volume 08 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Sylvan [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [JRT456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:31:13 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Sylvan I'm thinking of taking a job with Sylvan Learning Centers, working as a tutor at one of their local outlets. Anyone have an horror stories I should know about, either working there, or with your kids? Thanks, - --Mark, whose record store didn't get the new Hope Sandoval record, but did get a promotional flat of her looking rather tense standing in front of a branchy tree ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:23:21 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > I'm thinking of taking a job with Sylvan Learning Centers, working as a > tutor at one of their local outlets. Anyone have an horror stories I should > know about, either working there, or with your kids? A web search turns up these discontents, at least: http://sylvan-learning-center.pissedconsumer.com/ http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/sylvan-learning-center-c257255.html http://www.consumeraffairs.com/education/sylvan.html http://www.ripoffreport.com/Tutoring/Sylvan-Learning-Cent/sylvan-learning-center-educat-qc78c.htm Could have sworn Mark already had two jobs... Andy Dear Mr Crawley, I rarely read reviews, but as yours was sitting on my kitchen table, and after three sold-out shows in the Gaiety Theatre, I thought I should have a look at it; after all, receiving a favourable review in The Irish Times is about as likely as . . . well, receiving a favourable review in The Irish Times!! I was not disappointed. How the fond memories came flooding back, more than 30 years of them; you must have a Lexicon of Handy Insults, because you managed to use many of the same ones that have been used so many times before, and still they make me smile at their continued lack of imagination. Small man . . . shudder . . . warbly tenor . . . mawkish balladeer . . . cringe factor . . . squeaky clean . . . snigger . . . cheesy etc  yes, they were all there, as used by many of your colleagues before, such as Joe Breen (who, I note, has been put out to pasture in the wine section, and I am assured by friends in the wine trade that he knows as much about wine as he did about music  precious little. I wonder what they have in mind for you in your dotage? Searing critiques of primary school Christmas plays perhaps, or judging knife-sharpening competitions in Sligo?). - --Chris de Burgh, from a letter responding to Peter Crawley's review of his performance at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre; from http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0911/1224254268225.html?via=mr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:03:04 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan Totally off subject, but that Chris de Burgh letter is classic and almost makes me forgive him for his mawkish, sun in a warbly tenor, cringe inducing, cheesy 'Lady in Red.' On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > > I'm thinking of taking a job with Sylvan Learning Centers, working as a > > tutor at one of their local outlets. Anyone have an horror stories I > should > > know about, either working there, or with your kids? > > A web search turns up these discontents, at least: > > http://sylvan-learning-center.pissedconsumer.com/ > > > http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/sylvan-learning-center-c257255.html > > http://www.consumeraffairs.com/education/sylvan.html > > > http://www.ripoffreport.com/Tutoring/Sylvan-Learning-Cent/sylvan-learning-center-educat-qc78c.htm > > Could have sworn Mark already had two jobs... > > Andy > > > Dear Mr Crawley, > > I rarely read reviews, but as yours was sitting on my kitchen table, > and after three sold-out shows in the Gaiety Theatre, I thought I > should have a look at it; after all, receiving a favourable review in > The Irish Times is about as likely as . . . well, receiving a > favourable review in The Irish Times!! > > I was not disappointed. How the fond memories came flooding back, more > than 30 years of them; you must have a Lexicon of Handy Insults, > because you managed to use many of the same ones that have been used > so many times before, and still they make me smile at their continued > lack of imagination. Small man . . . shudder . . . warbly tenor . . . > mawkish balladeer . . . cringe factor . . . squeaky clean . . . > snigger . . . cheesy etc yes, they were all there, as used by many > of your colleagues before, such as Joe Breen (who, I note, has been > put out to pasture in the wine section, and I am assured by friends in > the wine trade that he knows as much about wine as he did about music > precious little. I wonder what they have in mind for you in your > dotage? Searing critiques of primary school Christmas plays perhaps, > or judging knife-sharpening competitions in Sligo?). > > --Chris de Burgh, from a letter responding to Peter Crawley's review > of his performance at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre; from > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0911/1224254268225.html?via=mr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:07:52 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan I resigned from my aide job at the elementary school (with references intact). Thanks to governor (and sex machine) Mark Sanford's severe budget cuts, our classroom became a chaotic nightmare this year. I still do Homebound tutoring for the district and the inevitable food schlepping on the weekend. I'll probably be 70 and still delivering food, which will either be really charming, or the reason I lock myself in the garage with the car running. M In a message dated 10/6/2009 7:26:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, andrew.hamlin@gmail.com writes: Could have sworn Mark already had two jobs... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:07:32 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan In a message dated 10/6/09 8:16:30 PM, r.kevin.doyle@gmail.com writes: > Totally off subject, but that Chris de Burgh letter is classic and almost > makes me forgive him for his mawkish, sun in a warbly tenor, cringe > inducing, cheesy 'Lady in Red.' > He does make the most sensible point that any rock musician can make about rock critics. Too many of them have to suffer bad reviews from hacks who are far more cliched than any lousy rock musician. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:00:13 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:03 PM, R. Kevin Doyle wrote: > Totally off subject, but that Chris de Burgh letter is classic and almost > makes me forgive him for his mawkish, sun in a warbly tenor, cringe > inducing, cheesy 'Lady in Red.' After Mr. de Burgh's THE GETAWAY left me in well-nigh physical pain on partial listen, I quickly banished him from mind and soul as much as was possible. The letter's hilarious, I admit. Although somebody should have told him not to sleep with the teenage nanny while his wife was laid up with a broken neck... "Sun in a warbly tenor" makes for a sensuous image (unless it's unremarkable warbly, though?), Andy "All it takes to be a star is luck and a commercial sound, which explains why there are so many mediocre hit-makers. To be a true artist, however, you need enormous talent, fierce ambition, an original vision and an unyielding toughness." - --Robert Hilburn, from http://www.roberthilburnonline.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:40:03 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 10/6/09 8:16:30 PM, r.kevin.doyle@gmail.com writes: > > > > Totally off subject, but that Chris de Burgh letter is classic and almost > > makes me forgive him for his mawkish, sun in a warbly tenor, cringe > > inducing, cheesy 'Lady in Red.' > > > > He does make the most sensible point that any rock musician can make about > rock critics. Too many of them have to suffer bad reviews from hacks who > are > far more cliched than any lousy rock musician. > Agreed 100%. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #191 *******************************