The Strike and Me (and short notes on my LA adventures)

[anoel]

So yesterday I saw Dunder-Mifflin! For realsies. It was awesome and surreal although it really is in the middle of nowhere (which works for Scranton). Unfortunately I came too late to see the striking there.

Please join and/or friend wga_supporters here on LJ to show support/get updates. There's also a website, Fans For Writers that is getting setup to help organize. United Hollywood also has lots of great updates.

Steve Carell is apparently suffering from "enlarged balls". He didn't actually say that (from Michael Schur/Jennifer Celotta) but him not showing up to work shows that is the case. Plus I think he'd find it funny (I know it gave me a good LOL moment). I love The Office but this strike is more important than getting new episodes. And The Office writers are amazing and brilliant and I fully support them (can't be said enough).

I am going to go out and check out some of the picket lines and support them as much as I can. I can't wait! I will definitely be at the big Fox (DAMN YOU FOX) showing tomorrow morning. The WGA has confirmed it's fine for everyone to join them so it's good to be accepted officially.

I am trying to keep up on LJ as much as possible but I'm probably going to be behind for awhile. It's so tiring being out all day and I'm still recovering from getting here. I will try to catch up tonight watching The Office and during the weekend. Seeing Hollywood/Highland, general LA downtown and Santa Monica has been awesome though. I love LA.

ETA: Just want to encourage everyone to keep writing fanfic (YAY writers!), making vids, creating fan art, writing meta, etc as that's not impacted by this. It's kind of ironic that NaNo celebrating writing is happening in the same month. The best thing to do so far is to send in letters to the studios telling them you support the site and will only watch your shows and not the new reality crap or whatever they put on.

Comments

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I saw a bunch of stikers today by bus. There's groups for each studio. The public is allowed near then, I've heard stories of them talking to people and now the WGA has confirmed everyone is welcome to join. Traffic is mainly people honking in support and cops just come if there's an issue (one person had a scare).

[peopleareshapes.livejournal.com]

Nice, thank you. I'm reading the LJ you linked to now, looks like it has info about organizing and such. I'm a little surprised more SoCal people on my FL haven't talked about going to see/join, you're the first one!

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd like to see more people there as well but I do understand that people have day jobs so its hard. But everyone will do what they can, I hope.