A Spork in the Drawer

That's That

The strike's over.

Now get back to work and gove us the final season of Battlestar Galactica.

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ADDED: The NYT's David Carr looks at the settlement. Short version: The writer's had a qualified win.




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WGA Strike Update

Despite the news blackout imposed on the informal talks between the writers and the studios some footage of the negotiations has managed to leak out:

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Latest From The Writer's Strike

Pretty freaking funny:

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Noted In Passing

This morning I have to deal with another squirrel invasion (shoot the bastards!) and am otherwise otherwise in and out so light to no posting.

Meanwhile, see what happens when you don't negotiate in good faith?

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Quote Of The Day

As many of your probably know, yesterday The Huckster crossed the picket lines to appear on the Jay Leno program. (Huckabee said that it wasn't a problem since Leno's writers weren't on strike. Needless to say, some campaign aide had to clean up that mess.)

Meanwhile, on the line:

Strike supporters outside the NBC studios carried signs calling Huckabee a scab. One read: "Huckabee you can't deny this cross."

[Via Tim Grieve.]

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A Love Story

Oh, yeah. Yer getting sick of the vids by now. But the WGA strike is giving us some wonderful videos.

Par example, can a writer and a media conglomerate find true love?

Let's find out:

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Cute Animals On Strike

From Colbert Report writers Frank Lesser and Rob Dubbin.:

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They Walk The Line

From New York, Not the Daily Show (featuring John Oliver):

More from United Hollywood.

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Good Advice

From Jane Espenson:

By the way, I read something somewhere about how young writers should be discouraged from using the picket lines as networking opportunities. Oh, I disagree. Don't force a script into anyone's hands, but I see nothing wrong with coming out, wielding a picket sign for a few hours, and talking with working (well, you know what I mean) writers about what they do. It's not just networking, it's smart career research coupled with support of a kind that actually means something! Follow ordinary rules of courtesy, and you should do fine.

Courtesy is always recommended.

By the way, Jane also had lunch.

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Teevee

Al Gore will be appearing on 30 Rock tonight.

You might as well enjoy the show anyway; depending on how long the WGA strike lasts it might be one of the last eps.

Speaking of the strike, worth a read: The United Hollywood blog and Jane Espenson (Among other things, writer/producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and currently co-executive producer of Battlestar Galactica. She also came up with the name "Zima" for the briefly trendy drink. (Full disclosure: I've long had a mad crush on Jane.))

Atrios has posted a funny video of the folks from The Office on the picket line.

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Speaking Of The Writer's Guild Strike

Subtle.

And funny.

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