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Writers Unite
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Last Login:
November 30, 2007
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And the strike continueth...
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Posted on
11/30/2007 3:38:54 PM
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My carpal tunnel gets worse every day and picketing really takes a
toll on those muscles of the palm. If I were JJ Arms, maybe all would
be OK, but I`m not metal arms, so I`m stuck with a human grip
extending a WGA sign two feet above my head, and the carpal tunnel
comes back and acts up like a motherfucker. Today, it`s raining, and
my bronchitis is back, the lungs submerged in mucous. Sounds like
shit you say, but my heart`s in it and the cause is more supreme than
the stale pie from pizza hut i used to make last for a week when I was
a struggling unsigned writer. I`ve a lit agent these days, but oh
wait, I`m still struggling. But I love the writing, and the picketing
isn`t so far off. My palms get sweaty, the fingers lock up, and my
heart`s pounding with excitement, except I`m a bit more pissed now
than I was back a few weeks ago when my fingers were doing the QWERTY dance.
Marjorie David, the sweetest woman and Paul Haggis put it best when
they brought up international conglomerates in their interview with
David Poland. We don`t want to fuck our agents, the producers, the
showrunners; they`re folks like us. It`s the assholes at GE, News
corp, Viacom, etc. who don`t give a shit, and have things like washing
machines that they can mark-up to continue maintaining their revenue.
Hmmm. Unjust and inhumane. Give us the pennies. please.
I leave you with this:
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious,
makes you so sick at heart, that you can`t take part; you can`t even
passively take part, and you`ve got to put your bodies upon the gears
and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and
you`ve got to make it stop. And you`ve got to indicate to the people
who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you`re free, the
machine will be prevented from working at all!" -Mario Savio
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