You know what's funny (to me)? I'm not even looking at any of the pencil stuff, because I'm good with Allyson and Monique's opinions on it, so I don't even need to know. That's really lazy of me, but I'm so sure of their expertise in this area that I'm just going to be grateful for the saved time.

It's like free experts on tap here at the b.org sometimes. (And then sometimes, in cases that are not this one, it's like free experts on tap with completely different opinions who are also on crack but entirely sure they are right. Yeah, you know who I am you are.)

I was kidding. There's two blogs I can see which mention the pencil thing so far, with BlogCritic being negative: [link]

And thanks Steph for the new tag, iffin it's ok to snag.

But of course, my lovely Laura!

Ask a Striking Writer.

He actually heard about the TV blogs going dark! How cool!

Huh, I hadn't really thought about the effect on sites like TWoP until now.

You know the thing with How I Met Your Mother and the actors being suspended without pay, but tied to their contracts, and SAG being up in arms? Universal are apparently doing the same thing. Well, they are, as Deadline Hollywood has one of the letters to actors online.

The funny thing, though, is this:

Regarding BSG, NBC Uni's SciFi channel is being told that, since the terms of Article 61 appear to be breached, the actors can terminate their deals and attempt to find work elsewhere.

So if the BSG actors want to find work elsewhere during the strike -- admittedly, I'm not sure there's that much work going around, but still -- they have to leave the show. That's gonna please people.

How the WGA is responsible for global warming, and other stories.

It's truly hilarious...and yet, not intentionally so, apparently.

UH's pencil count is 156,000. They're never gonna need to buy pencils again!

That's a hysterical clip. I have to admit--I worry about the trees cut down for all these pencils.

The emissions thing? Feh. The writers are going to fart whether they're picketing or not.

It'd be okay if she'd just play with the yarn, but she insists upon playing the the hook. And it's difficult to crochet with a cat hanging off of your hook.

Maybe your cat wanted you to do this for her:

[link]

(which, even though I'm craftarded, I realize is knitted not crocheted)

craftarded

I want to take this coinage and hug it and call it George.