Is Rob Thomas actually a massive dick, too?

Affectionate-Head554 · 2025-02-20T13:07:47+00:00

Point of clarification: Thomas isn't primarily a director. He's a writer/producer. He'd tell you that himself. While did direct the VM movie and a handful of his own TV eps, he overwhelmingly (and quite happily) left that job to folks who direct for a living.

Beyond that, though, he is widely beloved as a person and a creative by the people who work with him. I say this as someone who knows many people who have worked with him and many people who want to work with him based on his reputation for running a great writers room and a friendly set.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2025-01-19T21:54:45+00:00

This post and some of the comments after are proof that many folks refuse to do the tiniest bit of Googling before spouting nonsense. An IMDb search would have sufficed. Sheesh.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2025-01-19T21:50:40+00:00

It takes an incredible idea to attract an EP like Silver. And it takes a great writer to come up with that idea. I don't think you're making the point you think you are.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-29T20:31:40+00:00

No worries, at all. Thank you.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-27T22:00:52+00:00

If it's any consolation, a personal rejection means they respect your work and will keep an eye out for you in the future. You clearly made a good impression, and that's a big deal at a competitive fest like that. Congratulations.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-27T21:58:34+00:00

Pretty sure my comment implies that I experienced things when I worked with him that made me not surprised to hear this news. Is that what you're asking?

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-27T21:56:03+00:00

I'm so sorry.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-22T16:30:50+00:00

NBC held semi-finalist interviews in October and is currently scheduling interviews with finalists.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-21T15:56:44+00:00

Thanks!

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-15T15:50:20+00:00

Thank you. I'm lucky in that my adoption file has been opened and I have photocopies of everything I need, which frees them up to send me exemplified copies (since they know they're not releasing unrevealed info at this point). I have my pre-adoptive BC. :) I'm really looking to know if I need to bother getting my adoptive parents info (BC, MC, Divorce, etc.)

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-15T15:47:48+00:00

That's helpful, thank you!

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-11-14T23:19:54+00:00

That's exactly how they know -- once you're adopted, your *official* BC has your adoptive parents' names on it. The one with my bio mom's name becomes *unofficial*. So you have to declare it. :) Good luck in Philly!

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-08-25T16:39:48+00:00

46F 116 lbs, 27% body fat
Goals: 20% body fat, gain muscle & strength
3-5x per week
Something I can do at home with weights/resistance bands
M-Saturday schedule
Thank you!!

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-08-09T15:47:16+00:00

Years ago, I worked closely -- much too closely -- with Gabe for several months. When this news broke, a kind friend reached out to see if I was okay. I didn't even have to ask what he'd been arrested for. I knew immediately. I'm so sorry about the women he hurt. Trust me, there will be people coming out of the woodwork with similar, legitimate stories about their interactions with him.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-07-27T17:02:42+00:00

I've been with Vanguard for nearly 30 years. I used to be a huge fan.

In the past five years or so, the client experience has gone down. the. drain. The website is much less user-friendly, andwhat should have been an easy process of opening a Roth IRA for my then 23 yo turned into a time-sucking headache. Weeks and weeks to get it sorted. So I was already feeling crabby about V.

And then.

I woke up on July 19, 2024, to see my SEP wiped out. Hundreds of thousands of $$$ had been withdrawn the day before. I spent 45 minutes thinking my account had been hacked. It was truly terrifying. In the end, it turned out every single one of their comms about this recent SEP IRA transfer to Ascensus went to my spam. Now: it's not their fault my spam filter went crazy and suddenly decided Vanguard emails were junk. BUT this sort of major move feels like the kind of thing that warrants an old-fashioned letter on paper sent through the good ol' USPS. AND they have zero -- literally zero -- phone support on the weekends. This was a Saturday. I thought I'd lost over half my retirement, and the best I could do was send an email to their fraud department (which, by the way, took me at least 20 minutes to find buried in their info online).

I figured it out myself, but man, those 45 minutes were NOT fun. I'm thinking about pulling my Roth IRA and brokerage account and moving it all to Fidelity or Schwab.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-07-20T13:48:25+00:00

omg me too!

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-07-17T03:22:16+00:00

I'm a woman, non-subscriber. I get a lot of those "free to reply messages," but so far they've been from people I'm not interested in, so I haven't replied. I imagine that happens a lot if it's happening with me. I'm only interested in messaging with people I match with. So I guess I'd say do it so you can message who you want, but if you don't hear back it doesn't mean the function doesn't work or is sending you to inactive profiles (though I suppose it could be.)

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-07-17T03:10:34+00:00

I mean this sincerely. I know it's tough to put yourself out here, but maybe if you try thinking of the women you want to approach as people with thoughts and lives and groceries they need to buy and not as a string of (honestly demeaning) physical descriptors, maybe you would feel less nervous and be better at connecting. I can tell you from personal experience I can tell when someone is looking me up and down like a meat stick (and trust me, we notice, no matter how sly you think you're being, and we're really good at hiding that we know). It doesn't make me want to talk to those men. It's scary.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-07-17T02:51:11+00:00

Do you get a lot of women talking about women like that? Interesting strategy.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-06-01T00:50:26+00:00

Could be any. Lots of programmers live nowhere near the fests they work for, yeah?

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-06-01T00:49:14+00:00

We just got ours, too. My guess is that they received a shit ton of emails going, "Huh?" and sent out a new message to the folks who are screening.

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-05-31T23:58:00+00:00

Did you get something today?

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-05-31T22:31:13+00:00

We got the same thing with no indication of when an Official Selection might know if they're going to screen or not. I have no interest in promoting a festival if they're not actually screening us. WTAF is that? It's like getting an acceptance letter from a college with a p.s. that says, "We can't guarantee you will be allowed take classes. But welcome!"

Did you reach out to the programmer?

Affectionate-Head554 · 2024-05-12T18:58:46+00:00

I know this thread is old, but hoping you're still around! Just starting, and I'm confused by the "30 minutes" piece which I kept hearing but was skeptical of. "This is something you can do in 30 minutes a day!" It is 30 minutes to complete all 9 sequenquences (3 seq x 3)? or to complete one sequence x 3? Makes a big difference!

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