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Who am I?
I'm just Me. No one in particular. Just someone who feels like yelling into a box every now and then to see if the echo is loud enough. Does it work? We'll see.
My tough-guy elusive asshole artist answer would be 'Whatever I feel like,' but alas, it isn't. I just work and go to school and pet my cat and watch 'Lost' just like you do. We're probably pretty much alike. Same shit, different pants.
Yes, it sucks that TV as we know it may be shut down indefinitely. Yes, it sucks that Lost might not start airing its fourth season until Spring of 2009. I'm not even going to post a link to where I heard that, mainly because it's just too damn depressing. You know what else sucks, though? Writers getting the shaft when they honestly don't deserve it.
Here's what the WGA strike is all about -
Speaking of Lost, (2009, guys? Really?) here's Damon Lindelof and Marc Cherry from 'Desperate Housewives' telling us how much this strike means to their mothers. Gimme your hat, Damon!
And here's some footage from the picket lines with some people from 'The Office'. No Jenna Fischer, though. Damn. I'll bet she looks cute in red. She looks cute in everything.
Last but not least, here's Diablo Cody on the lines, just about ready to whack your ass with a sign that is BEGGING to be Photoshopped. Nice boots, D!
You want your TV back? Support these people. THEY do all the work on it, not some fatcat exec who only visits a set when he's passing through to get to valet parking. This strike doesn't only affect writers, either - it affects the entire crews of these shows, too. It affects their health insurance, dental plans, and income from residuals that they might actually need. We're not talking about fuckin' Renee Zellwegger here, either. I understand that it's hard to empathize for the wellbeing of rich movie stars, but to be honest, they're not who this strike is about at all. It could be, being that the actors in these shows are already talking about going on strike, too, but that's another blog post entirely.
Like Damon told you up there, the entire face of the television industry is changing, and when it does, a lot of people who created those shows are going to be getting the shaft if the archaic royalty system attached to it isn't revamped. A writer writes a book and gets paid for every single copy sold. A band produces an album and gets paid for every CD sold. Why aren't writers getting paid every single time their show is shown? It's a clusterfuck, and it needs to stop. Now.
Wear something red today and show your support. I'll bet you look cute in red, too.