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Old 11-09-2007, 09:28 AM
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1st off - SUPPORT THE WRITERS!

Second - a few humorous anecdotes from the picket lines:

"Let's lead with this lovely report from Peter Leftcourt:
"This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for 'Mr. Ed.' He said, 'It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.'"
-Peter Leftcourt

PARAMOUNT 1: SAG Solidarity Leads to "Lost" Joke
"William Mapother, aka "Ethan Rom" from "Lost," walked the picket line Wednesday... BUT HE WASN'T ON THE MANIFEST!!!"

PARAMOUNT 2: This Guy Gets It, Why Can't the AMPTP?



On Wednesday this man was holding his own, rather loud, protest. Then, he stopped shouting and asked what we picketers were protesting about. After hearing about the strike, he started a new chant: "Moses was a writer! Moses was a writer!"
-both of the above from Mike Colton

CHELSEA PIERS, NYC: All Jacked Up
"One guy from our group got hassled by some stockbroker-looking dude who was screaming 'Get back to work! I don't want 24 to be cancelled!' He was serious."
-Dyna Moe

DISNEY: Of Mice and Morale Boosts
A woman exiting the lot "revealed she had just punched out and quit her job in support of us. Tim told me today that striking is fun. And a security guard told a group of us to keep strong, we're fighting for a lot of people.
We are."
-Rodney Vance

UNIVERSAL: Well, in a Nutshell...
"Every day after picketing, I come home and work on my long, elegant essay articulating why we're on strike. It's meant for the general public and attempts to summarize the issues. But today, I overheard something that took care of my essay in one fell swoop.

Guy (into cell phone): The writers are on strike out here.

[PAUSE]

Guy (into cell phone): Because the corporations are dicks.

I don't need to finish my essay. Instead, I can rest up for picketing tomorrow.
-Irving Belateche

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I support the writers 100% on the issues they're trying to fight for.

But, if this gets to the point that Heroes goes into reruns, I am driving down there with an AK-47 and making them go back to work. >_>
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Old 11-09-2007, 07:23 PM
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wait - wrong move - drive down there w/ an ak-47 and shoot executives one by one until they give into the demands!
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wait - wrong move - drive down there w/ an ak-47 and shoot executives one by one until they give into the demands!
Ah, a much better idea has come forth.

Lets brain storm this matter further.

AK-47's need to be in it, though. Those things can be used in almost any situation.
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AK-47's need to be in it, though. Those things can be used in almost any situation.
yeah i also resort to that when somebody steals my sandwich in the fridge.

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I got a newsletter in my inbox the other day that had an article about this.

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You gotta strike for your writes

The nation and indeed the entire world were recently saddened after the announcement that the Writer's Guild of America had gone on strike. It is imperative to our existence that the writer's strike is resolved quickly, because unlike other workers, we actually NEED writers. If farmers went on strike, we could just grow our own Twinkies and Hot Pockets. And if doctors went on strike, I'm sure my Uncle Larry could do his own chemo. But now that writers have decided to strike, who among us can write our own episode of Ugly Betty?

Writers are important because the masses demand that our entertainment be creative and thought-provoking. Since writers have stopped writing, surely we won't resort to watching a group of skanks whore themselves out in an effort to hook up with a celebrity who peaked in the mid-80's. And there's no way we'll stoop so low as to watch a group of materialistic 20-somethings have petty arguments with each other in a house. That's why we need writers. Because we won't watch literally ANYTHING on TV.

Heaven forbid that we might have to subject ourselves to watching any of the thousands of old movies and TV shows that are readily available on DVD. I haven't watched anything made before the 90's and I intend to keep it that way. Let's be honest, all entertainment made before then was just filling time until modern Hollywood perfected it. People in the past were really stupid. Thankfully we're in the age of Norbit and Desperate Housewives. If I'd been raised on Sergio Leone movies and The Twilight Zone, I wouldn't be able to make thinking the way smart poeple do.

Not only is it important to us, the common idiot, that writers keep writing, but to the writers themselves. I shudder to think of a world in which writers would have to do actual work. Rehashed ideas and lame jokes are the only things they have to share with the world. They'd contribute something worthwhile if they could, but they don't know how. Imagine a scenario where Michael Bay had to construct a building. He'd just repeatedly blow it up or make it say something stupid. That's why it's our job to buy and watch their crap, to make them feel like they mean something. Consider it charity on your part.

If the situation were reversed, they would totally support you. If you were striking for better benefits at your turkey-milking jobs (or whatever the hell non-writers do), you can bet your ass that Paul Haggis and the writing staff from Two and a Half Men would stand alongside you in the picket line. That's why they must continue to receive huge sums of money and wonderful perks to do what every tech-savvy teen in the country does for free on MySpace and YouTube.

Of course, the bigger issue here is not writing, but the concept of the strike itself. People should strike for any and all things whenever they see fit. It doesn't matter if they get everything they were told they would get when they signed on. If the threat of a work stoppage can get you more stuff, you should do it. Don't like wearing clothes to work? Strike for a nudity option. Insulted by the fact that your boss has green eyes? Strike and force him to wear contacts.

Treat the corporation generous enough to employ you the way you treat everything else in life. Don't adjust to fit into the environment which you are in. Make the environment adjust to you. That has worked out great for the planet's ecosystem, and it will work great at your job. So get to striking. You haven't earned it, and you don't deserve it, but you can damn sure get it.

(And, yes, I get the irony here. And, yes, go fuck yourself.)
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LOL! Thanks for that, Dex. The tone of that entire piece was hilarious. I stopped watching TV somewhere around 2002 and have been hoping that the strike will put an end to people's obsession with TV, but sadly that will never be the case. "Reality" TV and reruns it is for America, and they will choke it down with a smile.
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TV wasn't at its best in '02 - but there are actually really good shows on now. shows with good stories and characters and that's just something I enjoy.

and dex, that was pretty funny but I dunno if the author knows what the writers are striking for.

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the problem is, the environment of the work is changing and the studios are taking advantage of it.

sci-fi tried to get the makers of BSG to write and produce an internet series for free.

because the internet in its current form came about AFTER the last wga contract there are no stipulations for internet work. i personally did some internet work for ABC for a LOST ARG that I didn't get paid for. (My personal situation is different because i wasn't forced, I knew going in - but the point is, they can do that right now)

What happens when cable television evolves into it's inevitable new form of IP TV where you stream the shows you want from the internet directly to your television? According to the current contracts, the writers of internet shows don't have to be paid and if it's all coming over the internet....

Anyway, sorry to get all serious - it's a business I want to be in some day and know people in and the studios are being assholes lmao.
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TV wasn't at its best in '02 - but there are actually really good shows on now. shows with good stories and characters and that's just something I enjoy.
It's not like I'm boycotting TV all together, I just don't get why some people run their lives by it. "omg omg HAVE to get home to see "X" by 5." etc. Catch it on a rerun, youtube, or wait for box set. : P

Yes there are some good shows out there that I enjoy watching, but I'm not going to base my schedule around it or sit for hours vegging out to the TV.
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that's what TiVO is for!

there are only two shows I want to watch live and that's just cuz as soon as they end i'm discussing it with friends. the rest - TiVOED!










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