Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
The only thing I've seen suggested is Quotes Will Return When Writers Are Back To Work. Totally different vibe.
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amych - Nov 12, 2007 9:20:31 am PST #8177 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Steph L. - Nov 12, 2007 9:20:36 am PST #8178 of 10289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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sumi, I'm a moron. I read your "We need them" as somehow meaning that the board doesn't function without them. Like, in a technical sense.
Sorry -- that was a total negative IQ moment.
(I like them, too.)
Ailleann - Nov 12, 2007 9:21:20 am PST #8179 of 10289
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Okay, we are going to do away with them permanently?
I thought it was meant that it would be temporary, just for the strike?
Connie Neil - Nov 12, 2007 9:23:34 am PST #8180 of 10289
brillig
"give the writers their money or the quotes get it."
Which is, strictly speaking, true.
Laga - Nov 12, 2007 9:26:44 am PST #8181 of 10289
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I hate the feeling of the writers getting this outpouring of support while so many of the other folks being hit by this situation are either a last paragraph mention or not mentioned at all.
FWIW, ND. When I emailed my Mom and told her of my intentions to bring fruit to striking writers, she wrote back, "you know it's the below-the-line employees who are really being hurt by this strike." So she must have heard that somewhere.
Jon B. - Nov 12, 2007 9:37:57 am PST #8182 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That really kind of sucks.
I just like them.
So do I. But I like the symbolism that the board is giving up something that the writers created as a show of our support.
brenda m - Nov 12, 2007 9:45:50 am PST #8183 of 10289
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 know that there are a lot of people swept up in this, I don't mean to ignore that.
But what we are considering officially supporting is not really "the writers" - it's "the strike". It's implicit, but I don't think it should be forgotten or elided. We're not voting over whether writers are deserving of respect or adulation or whatnot - we're voting over whether to cast our support behind a specific labor action. That's why I think we need to vote on it. To me, that's also why the focus is and should be on that group, and not everyone getting a raw deal in Hollywood.
Edited to avoid totally derailing the converstation.
brenda m - Nov 12, 2007 9:46:18 am PST #8184 of 10289
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
So do I. But I like the symbolism that the board is giving up something that the writers created as a show of our support.
Yeah, me too.
Kevin - Nov 12, 2007 9:47:54 am PST #8185 of 10289
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Connie Neil - Nov 12, 2007 9:54:25 am PST #8186 of 10289
brillig
making as statement support of labor and collective action
I appreciate what unions do. But declaring our support for labor and collective action as principles moves us closer to the "we take official political stands." That's my problem.