Stop giving me squicks.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Allyson - Nov 05, 2007 4:27:18 am PST #7415 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
sumi - Nov 05, 2007 4:39:16 am PST #7416 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Ha. Clever of you to schedule your civic duty time off work with your social justice time off work.
That's multi-tasking.
Allyson - Nov 05, 2007 4:45:42 am PST #7417 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Whedonesque took up a collection to send pizzas to the strike line at Universal. Adorkable!
Now I wanna make cookies.
Nilly - Nov 05, 2007 4:45:59 am PST #7418 of 10001
Swouncing
I'm on strike!
In Israel, high school teachers as well as senior staff at universities are currently on strike. The first strike is going on for a month now. The second - for two weeks, and almost nobody even pays attention to it, because of the first one.
[Edit: I'm not on strike, as I'm neither a high school teacher or a university senior staff. However, I get to experience both strikes, because a science education project we're trying to build for high schools is all stuck, on the one hand, and the lecturer of the class I TA doesn't teach so I try to sort of manage to get the students the material anyway, on the other.]
The WGA strike seems to interest everybody here almost as much (or even a bit more), though, despite the whole ocean apart.
Kevin - Nov 05, 2007 5:01:01 am PST #7419 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Some of the people at Sean Harry's Serenity LA convention are off to support the strike this morn'.
lisah - Nov 05, 2007 5:25:50 am PST #7420 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Whedonesque took up a collection to send pizzas to the strike line at Universal.
that is so cool!
shrift - Nov 05, 2007 5:34:49 am PST #7421 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In Israel, high school teachers as well as senior staff at universities are currently on strike.
Why are they on strike, Nilly?
Sue - Nov 05, 2007 5:39:41 am PST #7422 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I am considered an "essential service" and don't have the right to strike. Har!
Pix - Nov 05, 2007 5:57:27 am PST #7423 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I don't have a union anymore. I miss that security, even though unions can sometimes be a mixed blessing.
Good luck to the writer-strikers!
Nilly - Nov 05, 2007 6:00:55 am PST #7424 of 10001
Swouncing
Whedonesque took up a collection to send pizzas to the strike line at Universal.
That's a lovely way to show support.
Why are they on strike, Nilly?
Money, what else? Though, as is the case with the WGA strike, the causes are totally justified.
The university lecturers want an agreement from a few years ago to be fulfilled, and have their salaries raised to match the average salaries raise which happened in other fields (they got none in several years).
The teachers' situation is even more serious, dire even, because they work in really low conditions, both in class and in terms of payments. You practically can't afford to support a family from a teacher's salary. The change in that regards is long due, and very justified.