From Kristin's awesome link I found and am now in love with A 5-Year-Old Explains The Writers' Strike.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
JZ - Nov 17, 2007 11:30:42 am PST #8267 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Pix - Nov 17, 2007 11:33:38 am PST #8268 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
JZ, that is now my favorite WGA video ever. Especially the ending!
ETA: I really am way too excited about this knitting thing. Check out this really cool knitting shop! It's less than a mile from my house!
Nicklas - Nov 17, 2007 11:50:08 am PST #8269 of 10001
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
When the strike is over, give the kid a typewriter.
Polgara - Nov 17, 2007 12:32:38 pm PST #8270 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Geez. I lost 29 pounds. And apparently every single one of them was out of camera range.
Woot! That's awesome! You were so bundled up yesterday, I wasn't sure. Go team you!
Theodosia - Nov 17, 2007 12:51:08 pm PST #8271 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yay for knitting shops in easy reach!
Pix - Nov 17, 2007 1:35:22 pm PST #8272 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I bought a pair of straight needles and some yarn; starting with a scarf seemed to be a good idea.
Don't ask me how I'm going to knit around the kitten. I haven't figured that part out yet.
WindSparrow - Nov 17, 2007 2:12:27 pm PST #8273 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Crocheting around cats isn't as hard as I thought it would be, so long as the ball of yarn doesn't get out of control. Once it goes, the fur starts flying.
sumi - Nov 17, 2007 2:29:48 pm PST #8274 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Kristin - I'm knitting a scarf now too! It's pink - and I was afraid I wouldnt' remember which row I should knit and which I should purl but it's really clear from the scarf itself.
Kevin - Nov 17, 2007 2:41:07 pm PST #8275 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I need to say it somewhere: I think the pencil push going through United Hollywood is a PR misstep.
Why? I think it's the best shot they have of making it have an impact.
Monique - Nov 17, 2007 3:00:31 pm PST #8276 of 10001
Why? I think it's the best shot they have of making it have an impact.OK. Network cancels new show with a large online fan following. Fans get pissed, band together and with a rather impressive single-minded focus, inundate said network with an ass-ton of nuts to make a point.
Six months later, another group of fans hear about their favorite writers picketing and throw around the idea of delivering pizzas to said writers. It's so successful than it spins off into a Web site devoted to feeding the writers throughout the strike. Said Web site then generates a moderate amount of press coverage due to the "wow, look, the fans are following this and give a crap" aspect.
Compare that with multimillionaire showrunners publicly ruminating on how to focus their fans' support into something that, in the end, will benefit their pocketbooks. Said showrunners then come up with the idea to basically do a replay of the nuts campaign, only substitute pencils (yes, I know, they're environmentally friendly, yay!). So, six weeks before Christmas, for those fans who celebrate the holiday, they ask their fans to open up their pocketbooks to send a bunch of pencils to the studios, all to make some big dramatic point that will, once again, in the end benefit them financially.
I support the writers, and I know that not all of them are sitting in the lap of multimillion-dollar luxury. However, I think writers pulling the strings of what should be a show of support from the fans is a misstep that lacks the spontaneity of previous, solely fan-generated campaigns. At the very least, I think Fans4Writers should have been the conduit for this, rather than United Hollywood.
And also, as an aside, I think the "let's send some symbol of our rabid fan-ness" card is overplayed and cliche, at this point.