Fairy tales may end in horror: Sci-Tech: News: News24
This is an old story
I just felt is should be somewhere I'll remember it
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Monday, November 12, 2007
My parents read me Greek Myths instead
Fairy tales may end in horror: Sci-Tech: News: News24
This is an old story
I just felt is should be somewhere I'll remember it
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Because NewsCorp is evil...
... This is what I can't use anymore: NEWS CORPORATION
Which includes HarperCollins, which means I have to even check at the book store. God dammit why did I look this up?
Except I will totally keep watching a couple programs on Fox, like House and Bones (oh wait, thats it). I'm still trying to figure out how House gets replayed on USA, which is owned by NBC Universal.
Which includes HarperCollins, which means I have to even check at the book store. God dammit why did I look this up?
Except I will totally keep watching a couple programs on Fox, like House and Bones (oh wait, thats it). I'm still trying to figure out how House gets replayed on USA, which is owned by NBC Universal.
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Writer's Strike: What I Will and What I Won't
I am currently engaged in a year off from college. Its weird and strange. And full of TV. My parents just got the Verizon FIOS package thingy, so there are even more channels. When I am/was at college, streaming video from the major networks is the best (only) way to get my fix of Grey's, B&S, Battlestar, etc.
Now I feel guilty because people weren't getting paid. I didn't realize I was sitting through the fifth recitation of the value of Florida Orange Juice (as a FL girl, I feel compelled to mention it is wonderful) or through the same damn "soothe a crying baby" commercial FOR A PROMOTIONAL BIT.
One of the bloggers asked how America is viewing narrative. It's a great question to ask here. Another blogger/striker mentioned that the lack of support for the writers tended to do with how Americans view work, as something to hate rather than to enjoy, and how they view intellectuals/creatives. I'm acreative. I bake instead of cook. I craft instead of draw. I want to serve my country through working for the government. BUT I value those in the creative world. I know that Brothers & Sisters and Battlestar Galactica have affected how I view the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and war in general. The Office has convinced me never to sell paper... or sell anything. I read books regularly, thank you. I read magazines and the newspaper and despair over print media's decline.
But I also watch television. And read about television at TWoP. And enjoy the arcs and continued narrative. Its like Dickens's and the like's serial structure in newspapers a century and a half ago. Long and winding and full of plot and comment. You can't tell me you haven't watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy and wanted to know what exactly was next, like the people on the docks waiting to discover what happened to Little Nell. (Would that be called spoilers 1.0?)
I like television more than I like movies a lot of the time. I like to get invested. Rory Gilmore was exactly the same age as me and her grandfather was, by general consensus of the folks I've asked, entirely too like my father for words. The Petrelli family is so implosive that it makes me thank sweet Jesus that I am an only child, and then turn around and watch Micah be an only child. I like the extended nature of three episodes of a series dedicated to the President's daughter being kidnapped and the Constitutional crisis it might create, when a couple years before I watched a single episode all about the power of the filibuster and a grandpa's love.
So here is what I will and won't do to support writers, who create a lot of the reason I keep watching TV, who deserve health care and pensions and a future at their jobs as much as anyone:
I WILL stop watching TV shows on the network sites. No more ABC.com player, CBS.com player, or NBC.com player.
I WILL watch only live TV, DVR'd shows and whatever I can steal online or have saved from recording off my TiVo.
I WILL send my friends in NYC cookies to offer to striking writers. I WON'T promise my friends won't eat the cookies themselves.
I WILL remember this strike past the first week. And the second week. And the third week. Because if the writers are in it for the long haul, so should their consumers.
I WON'T stop watching America's Next Top Model. Because I am rooting for the ditzy and stupidly named Chantal like it is no one's business.
I WON'T watch any "reality" shows that I do not already watch. Which means I WILL watch ANTM, AFV, The Hills, Run's House and Mythbusters (is that a reality show? because I also won't stop watching the History Channel) and nothing else "unscripted". I just also realized that a good new year's resolution would be to stop watching so much reality TV.
I WON'T watch Ellen, at least not for a while. She is afraid of being in breach of contract. Tell that to the hyphenates.
My daddy taught me that you honk for unions. My conscience taught me that decent people don't cross picket lines. I know that these writers are like most other union members out there: consistently screwed by people about fifty rungs above them on the ladder. It's sad that the production crews in every facet are about to suffer, but if SAG and the Director's Guild just get on board quickly, there might be enough to end this post haste. Because I care about Meredith and Christina & Kitty and Nora & Betty and Henry & Starbuck and Apollo & Nick and Tripp & Pam and Jim & Liz and Jack & even the ladies on Wisteria Lane. And I care about the people who made them.
Now I feel guilty because people weren't getting paid. I didn't realize I was sitting through the fifth recitation of the value of Florida Orange Juice (as a FL girl, I feel compelled to mention it is wonderful) or through the same damn "soothe a crying baby" commercial FOR A PROMOTIONAL BIT.
One of the bloggers asked how America is viewing narrative. It's a great question to ask here. Another blogger/striker mentioned that the lack of support for the writers tended to do with how Americans view work, as something to hate rather than to enjoy, and how they view intellectuals/creatives. I'm acreative. I bake instead of cook. I craft instead of draw. I want to serve my country through working for the government. BUT I value those in the creative world. I know that Brothers & Sisters and Battlestar Galactica have affected how I view the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and war in general. The Office has convinced me never to sell paper... or sell anything. I read books regularly, thank you. I read magazines and the newspaper and despair over print media's decline.
But I also watch television. And read about television at TWoP. And enjoy the arcs and continued narrative. Its like Dickens's and the like's serial structure in newspapers a century and a half ago. Long and winding and full of plot and comment. You can't tell me you haven't watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy and wanted to know what exactly was next, like the people on the docks waiting to discover what happened to Little Nell. (Would that be called spoilers 1.0?)
I like television more than I like movies a lot of the time. I like to get invested. Rory Gilmore was exactly the same age as me and her grandfather was, by general consensus of the folks I've asked, entirely too like my father for words. The Petrelli family is so implosive that it makes me thank sweet Jesus that I am an only child, and then turn around and watch Micah be an only child. I like the extended nature of three episodes of a series dedicated to the President's daughter being kidnapped and the Constitutional crisis it might create, when a couple years before I watched a single episode all about the power of the filibuster and a grandpa's love.
So here is what I will and won't do to support writers, who create a lot of the reason I keep watching TV, who deserve health care and pensions and a future at their jobs as much as anyone:
I WILL stop watching TV shows on the network sites. No more ABC.com player, CBS.com player, or NBC.com player.
I WILL watch only live TV, DVR'd shows and whatever I can steal online or have saved from recording off my TiVo.
I WILL send my friends in NYC cookies to offer to striking writers. I WON'T promise my friends won't eat the cookies themselves.
I WILL remember this strike past the first week. And the second week. And the third week. Because if the writers are in it for the long haul, so should their consumers.
I WON'T stop watching America's Next Top Model. Because I am rooting for the ditzy and stupidly named Chantal like it is no one's business.
I WON'T watch any "reality" shows that I do not already watch. Which means I WILL watch ANTM, AFV, The Hills, Run's House and Mythbusters (is that a reality show? because I also won't stop watching the History Channel) and nothing else "unscripted". I just also realized that a good new year's resolution would be to stop watching so much reality TV.
I WON'T watch Ellen, at least not for a while. She is afraid of being in breach of contract. Tell that to the hyphenates.
My daddy taught me that you honk for unions. My conscience taught me that decent people don't cross picket lines. I know that these writers are like most other union members out there: consistently screwed by people about fifty rungs above them on the ladder. It's sad that the production crews in every facet are about to suffer, but if SAG and the Director's Guild just get on board quickly, there might be enough to end this post haste. Because I care about Meredith and Christina & Kitty and Nora & Betty and Henry & Starbuck and Apollo & Nick and Tripp & Pam and Jim & Liz and Jack & even the ladies on Wisteria Lane. And I care about the people who made them.
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