Still working on comments...but I thought you'd all enjoy this
Sometimes running a blog is SO MUCH FUN!
As you all know, comments are down. We’re working on it. When the changes are done, you’ll have to register with a handle of your choosing (so Anonymous or Anonymous 2 or anthing you want is fine…you just can’t pretend to be someone else, etc.).
Meanwhile, until we fix all this, if you try and comment right now you’re going to get an error message about comment approval, etc.
Here’s a lovely note I received today.
Craig,
It’s your site. Which means it isn’t censorship.
But you set up a forum that encouraged debate and comment.
And now you have to approve those comments?
Tacky.
Go fuck yourself.
And shove that piece of shit script for Scary Movie 3 up your ass, if it’ll fit with your head in there.
Love,
[redacted]
Aw, what a lovely human being!
Thanks!
Glad you’re enjoying the site!
For the rest of you, just to be clear, the new system will NOT involve me or anyone else approving comments prior to publication. Nothing will be different except the handle registration (which isn’t through my site, but through Movable Type’s site), so that fake Priyas and fifteen different people with the name “Anonymous” aren’t confusing the discussions.
Once we fix it, everyone will be able to tell me to shove my scripts up my ass again. Hooray!
i happen to know all of craigs scripts, as well as his head, fits up his ass. but does this mean htat david koeps momma really DOESNT post here? im confused!
testing…
I guess this thing is working…
Here’s the little bit I’m doing to help. The McShow I’m on will shut down on Wedsnesday. I have called every catalog mailorder thing I can and I first ask if they watch McShow. They all gush, “It’s my favorite!” I then explain that I CAN’T order anything for $trikemas, and they are all sympathetic. I then direct them to get 3-5 friends and email the ABC site, and complain. They are all upset that the McShow will be in reruns after Thanksgiving. They say they will email. Just think if 50% say they will. Could help.
No good deed goes unpunished.
testing…
Productive striking:
15 warm able bodies (prodigal offspring of writers non-eligible; those cherubic babes wired on soda and pizza today made for good C-story lines only) show up and replace the 15 (or 27, or whatever the agreed upon number is for that week) WGA negotiating team members on the picket lines. Then those negotiators plant their steadfast behinds at the negotiating table and demand that their respective counterparts show up and enagage in a dialogue.
Everyday from this day forward.
Nothing says “We’re trying to negotiate” quite like showing up and sitting down at the negotiating table day in and day out. Even if the opposition refuses to join them. Rather - especially if the oppostion refuse to join.
The negative press the Studios will receive from not showing up will grow exponentially with each passing day.
The negotiators can even pull four hour shifts as not to make the task (and empty room) too trying. I think the picket lines could spare these individuals for such a measure. Granted the loss at Universal’s ‘Parade of Stars’ would be humbling, but not insurmountable - certainly given the possibility of attaining some ever-so-fleeting headway.
Perhaps this might expedite this untenable stand off.
Yeah, I’m with Eric. If it will get the collective asses of the negotiators back at the tables sometime before all TV has FUBARed itself into ruin, I’ll pay the $350 for a plane ticket to LA, pick up a sign and some suitable vessle of caffeine and walk the pickets with you guys.
I’ve been needing a few days off anyway. Maybe my uncle will let me crash on his couch in Culver City…hmmm…
Productive much?
The American Screenwriter’s Association supports the WGA.
Ok, got it on the first try!
This thread is shorter, hence the choice as test site.
Invariably the number of comments will decline in number and improve in quality.