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Now that they're on strike, it seems like screenwriters are busier and more productive than ever. But left to their own devices, it turns out that they are a distinctly unfunny bunch. Put a bunch of 'em in a room and eventually they'll write Six Feet Under, but in the end they're just monkeys—monkeys writing for the LA Times and New York mag and making their own blogs and getting all up on the HuffPo. Here's our Striking Screenwriter Roundup—clearly the work of simians. All they can think about is food!
Late Show With David Letterman writers strike blog: "...I have to say, it was arguably the finest sandwich I've ever enjoyed as a participant in a temporary work stoppage."
Writers Strike Guide: "What do we want?/More Twizzlers!/When do we want them?/Now!"
WGA member Neal Pollack speaks truth to power in Slate: "People kept bringing us boxes of doughnuts. A husband-and-wife team went on a Subway run. A car full of UTA assistants came by to offer us cookies." God, did you know that Alternadad got optioned? Well, it did!
"'And, if you look to your left, you'll see the TV writers' strike,' the [tour bus] guide said in the same adorable tone one would use to point out a petting zoo. People leaned over to take pictures. I thought they might start throwing feed pellets." [New York Post]
"Today, another little girl and her mom brought us these awesome cupcakes." [NY Mag]
In the words of a Daily Show writer: "Lacking any other site to express myself (for money), I am forced to record my thoughts in my diary: the 'New York Times' Sunday Styles section."
Honey, don't worry, that's pretty much what it is for the rest of the world too.
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They all want (cup)cake(s).
But which of these food items did Elijah Pollack sniff? And on a scale of 1 to 10 how adorably quirky was it?
My diary is also the NYT Sunday Styles section. Unfortunately I never learned to read or write so my diary is comprised entirely of angry/ confused faces drawn in red crayon.
why didn't they mention the gumbo that i brought?
@concerned citizen: Amusingly enough, so was the first draft of the Patriot Act.
Someone ought to napalm the strikers, give 'em some real pain to deepen their ouevre and improve TV
Weird, I saw a bunch of striking screenwriters outside of the Fox building the other day. And more power to them, but I was surprised.
I thought all of the content on Fox News Channel was made by gathering up a bunch of people with Tourettes, putting them on the air and just letting them go.
Eating someone's homemade ginger snaps in the cold is enough to make one forget worker solidarity.
"Me want fooooood!"
@vandusen: I'm assuming that's a sexual euphemism.
Did Ms. Seinfeld bring down any spinach brownies?
am i the only one a bit weirded out that it costs $2,500 +current projects to join WGA, but is free (w/ unmentioned future fees) to join the freelancer union?
@IndianSlipper:
no, she busy researching her next invention: square cheese slices wrapped individually in plastic.
Alternadad got fucking OPTIONED?
fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. FUCK!
They should wrap this up any day now(unless it's a two-parter) and hopefully we'll all learn a valuable lesson in the end.
I just saw a stagehand holding a sign saying, "Will work for a slice of Sbarro."
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