Being back to work before Xmas would be awesome. I just hope that the WGA doesn't back down on any demands from misplaced guilt about out of work BTL folks.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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.
Tamara - Nov 26, 2007 8:23:58 am PST #8468 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Typo Boy - Nov 26, 2007 8:44:30 am PST #8469 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I hope you are right. Hope these Hollywood mogul have enough integrity to offer the same deal they discussed with the Agents, and are NOT doing the car lot trick. You know, where you are talking to a "third party" (in the car lot not really, in the case of the agents they really are a third party). They get you to come down thinking you are accepting an offer, but really you have changed your position, but the other side has not changed theirs. Unlike a car lot, the agents in this case would be an innocent well intentioned party.
My hope is that movement is real, because pissing off Hollywood agents would not be a smart move on the producers part. And a small cynical voice inside is saying, "for that kind of money, the moguls will live with some new enemies:.
Jesse - Nov 26, 2007 8:55:32 am PST #8470 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
brenda m - Nov 26, 2007 9:10:02 am PST #8471 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I just heard that a national poll has 63% of the US on WGA's side.
I find it a little hard to believe that 63% of the US is even aware of...well, anything, actually. Though this is about TV, so I suppose anything's possible.
Allyson - Nov 26, 2007 9:50:32 am PST #8472 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
I completely spaced on fed exing the bags to Jesse (I'm so sorry) so they're going out first thing in the morning, and I'll have the dollar amount of the donation to the crew fund soon after.
Kristen has been working on getting me the info needed for the donation, so I can get the check out and processed ASAP.
Jesse - Nov 26, 2007 9:53:04 am PST #8473 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No prob -- I was just wondering if they had tried to deliver on Wednesday when no one was here!
Kristen - Nov 26, 2007 9:59:02 am PST #8474 of 10001
Kristen has been working on getting me the info needed for the donation, so I can get the check out and processed ASAP.
I haven't heard anything yet. I'll let you know as soon as I do.
askye - Nov 26, 2007 10:39:30 am PST #8475 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I was talking to my cousin on Thanksgiving and he kinda new about the strike, but only because TDS was off the air. Once I gave a quick outline about why the writers were striking (and explained residuals) he said he understood the strike.
DawnK - Nov 26, 2007 11:03:20 am PST #8476 of 10001
giraffe mode
I overheard the people sitting at the table next to us at Disneyland last week discussing the strike and they were from Wisconsin *shrug* (FTR they all sided with the writers)
Tamara - Nov 26, 2007 11:20:34 am PST #8477 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
The strike dominated the conversation at Thanksgiving dinner in Central Washington.