Post #360941 by Son-of-Kelbo on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 11:48 AM

WICHTOREE...!

Yeah, we're all glad the Strike is history. Rough on everybody, but things wrapped up pretty quickly once the AMPTP came back to the table.

True, the so-called "Reality" shows may be a larger presence now, and perhaps into the future, but I'm pretty confident that good storytelling will always be in demand. A lot of favorite shows will be back in the pipeline this month, and the Oscars will go forward as a celebration rather than a dismal press conference, and that's as good an excuse to fire up the Weber as any!

I fear this is gonna cut into my goof off time at TC though (not to mention my "Hawaii 5.0" re-run watching...), as I'll now have to resume the carrot-n-stick tactics with my agent, and hit the phones to track down those masochistic pitch meetings (yak-yak-yak, and I'm the only one in the room not on the clock). Still, it's been a good opportunity to discover the (lurking) Guild members here at TC, and make some new friends.

It's been one heckuva fight, but this time we won't get skinned so badly when nascent technology becomes the mainstream, and video stores all go the way of Tower Records (and that's coming soon enough...) Even so, I'm saving my picket sign, just in case, until our SAG brothers and sisters win the same considerations this Summer, as we all cross the threshold together into a Brave New Media World...

Mahalo nui to everyone who wished this struggle well, and the itch-of-a-thousand-fleas to that guy who gave me the finger and nearly ran me down at Warner Bros. :)

Cheers out

"Don't let it be forgot,
That once there was a Spot,
Where Blowfish all wore sunglasses,
and Tiki-times were hot..."
SOK

[ Edited by: Son-of-Kelbo 2008-02-13 14:11 ]