The Bat Segundo Show: Rachel Shukert
Correspondent: Not anymore. I mean, you can be safe with Jason Priestly and Fred Savage, but…
Shukert: I don’t have crushes on them anymore. I mean, when I say “a little older,” I mean ten. Shukert is the author of Have You No Shame? Incidentally, she’ll be appearing at the July 17th installment of the In the Flesh reading series.
Condition of the Show: Contending with tenuous widows and the mysterious circumstances of Mr. Before joining American, Comeaux worked for Conway & Company Public Relations in Washington, D.C., and as press secretary for U.S. I had a picture of Fred Savage in my locker that I cut out from the newspaper. I remember that he was holding a candy box. New York, the notion of stretching out time, writing truthfully about scatological topics, placing a parental advisory warning, expanding the limitations of personal experience, on being perceived by others, limits on confessional writing, room for the persona to grow within annotation, elevated prose, abandoned sets of footnotes left out of the book, David Foster Wallace’s “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko,” David Macaulay’s Motel of the Mysteries, Will Self’s The Book of Dave, Newt Gingrich, writing letters vs. online, grouping people into taxonomies, Fred Savage and Jason Priestley, first crushes, being published as a paperback original, The Anorexic’s Cookbook vs. Shukert is still on the Viacom blacklist, the soul-crushing aspects of temping, working odd jobs in Amsterdam, Anne Frank as a constant in life, the holy similarities between Northw__t and G_d, plane crashes vs. The Anarchist’s Cookbook, and performing pieces in front of a crowd.
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Shukert: Jason Priestly and Fred Savage were the two guys on TV who I had big crushes on as a child. And then when I got a little older, I thought Jason Priestly was the handsomest man I had ever seen. (laughs)
Correspondent: Wow. In this role, he has helped Sabre through rapid workforce globalization and major large acquisitions, including the purchase of Sabre by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG.
In Comeaux’s previous role as vice president of public relations at Travelocity, he directed all public relations activity for the online travel agency. And he’s not referenced in the book.
Shukert: No. In that role, he repositioned Travelocity’s public relations from technology-based messaging to travel-related messaging, including building an extensive program to merchandise the brand’s travel expertise.
Prior to Travelocity, Comeaux worked for American Airlines, where his various positions included leading the airline’s public relations initiatives in Europe and managing its labor public relations activity. I’ll mourn like a widow.
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FIR Interview: Al Comeaux, SVP Corporate Communications, Sabre Holdings
When it began its life as an independent company, employees of Sabre Holdings - the company that (among other things) provides flight information to consumers and travel agents - mostly worked in the same physical location, making it easy to connect and share information.
Today, with 9,000-plus employees, 55% of whom work outside the United States, it has grown much more difficult for employees to connect with one another and transfer knowledge and information from those who have it to those who need it.
To address the problem Sabre, under an initiative launched by the Corporate Communications function, introduced a proprietary social network called SabreTown, designed to address the issues unique to an organization with a geographically dispersed workforce. And I would pretend that he was holding it for me. The dead people are the ones to really lust after the best.
Shukert: Yeah, I think that that’s true.
Correspondent: Because there’s no way that you can possibly consummate it.
Shukert: I also loved Paul Newman as a child.
Correspondent: What are you going to do when he dies?
Shukert: I’ll be sad. The platform has proven so successful that Sabre Holdings has decided to make it available as a software product for other companies under the name Cubeless.
In this interview, FIR co-host Shel Holtz talks with Sabre’s Corporate Communications Senior Vice President Al Comeaux about the evolution of SabreTown, the impact it has had on the organization, and its efforts to sell the software to other companies seeking to obtain similar results and address similar issues.
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Al Comeaux is Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sabre Holdings, where he directs media relations, employee communications, and corporate social responsibility.
Rachel Shukert appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #217. email, using all caps in print vs. Rep. car crashes, airlines and gods, the legal system and divine repercussions, lawyers in Nebraska, talk show hosts who come from Nebraska, Montgomery Clift, the relationship between Jewish identity and location, Omaha vs. Are you slightly ashamed of these crushes?
Shukert: No, I’m not ashamed. Like a Valentine’s heart box. Well, I’m curious. Information: www.ragan.com.
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Subjects Discussed: Whether Ms. How much does a crush linger over the course of one’s life like this? F.I. You can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments, if you wish (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). But there’s a difference between being ashamed of something and just having something close to your heart. It’s public now. But I had a big poster of him in my room too.
Correspondent: Who was the first crush you had?
Shukert: Gene Kelly.
Correspondent: Really?
Correspondent: But you still have a crush on Gene Kelly.
Shukert: Yes, but he’s dead.
Correspondent: He’s dead. That’s private. Sunia.
Comeaux has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Manship School of Journalism at Louisiana State University.
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