Thanks much for the great comment, Ms. Schooz. So sorry you haven’t been feeling well of late. Hope you feel stronger soon.

Suddenly I’m just left with alot of swear words and I don’t feel comfortable swearing on other people’s blogs. I’ll stop.

I’ve had such a hard time getting my thougths to collate along with my feelings and writing – I just think of it as fuzzy. I’m not doing very well latley and it’s showing up bigtime.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that this topic deserves more than a “close look” as one other writer here said. What it deserves is real action.

Thank you as always for the real action you’re taking and I’m in the process of looking for other ways to take real action.

/me waves to Herman.

Peace to all.

~ RS ~

But the producers/studios are playing the old game of making the striking writers (and those supporting them) into villains and strong-arming them, whereas the strike never had to happen if the producers/studios had given the writers some of what they asked for originally – or at least showed they were willing to come to a reasonable resolution.

Went to your blog and read your last post. Didn’t know about the pencil protest. (A coordinated effort for fans to mail masses of pencils to media moguls.) Hmmm…I understand where you’re coming from on that one. Having met some of these “moguls” and knowing how things work, it’ll just be their poor lackies dealing with the pencil protest. Still…would be nice for the moguls to know how many people support the writers. And the poor dears really don’t like having their routines interrupted. A huge load of pencils plopped into their offices will certainly make the…uh…point. To quote the site from your link:

“We want the media moguls to start negotiating in good faith. We want the strike to end with a fair deal for both sides. If we get a fair deal, it helps the actors, the directors, and the below-the-line crew members. Their deals are directly tied to ours.”

Thanks much for the great comment and the cool info. Appreciate that you rabidly support the strike even if the pencil protest may not be your thing. (-; Here’s something about that from Diane Kristine, a TV blogger/critic who basically agrees with you, but still says the message may at least make some impact. Mostly, she says, it’s giving fans a way to voice their support: Pencils Down for Writers, Pencils Up for Fans.

Speaking of how connected things are…I am just listening to a report about how our burgeoning war-fueled, raise-no-taxes deficits with no end in sight will impact everyone here in one way or another. None of this is apparent on the surface, but the connections in how we value people and shape our policies to address individual as well as group needs are there – and sadly the impact will be most felt by those least able to bear the effects.

I did not wonder why you posted against it. I never understood how “creators” were a the bottom of the pile and applaud the support they receive. I also do not see how their issue is divided from what goes on in the world, the economic recession we are now in, but that has not yet been labled,the wars, the conflicts, the need for fake soda machines. None of it is divided, it begins in the root of us vs. them, otherwise, there would be no division.

Thank you for sharing.