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

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.

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I'm going to be in SD next week and I'm thinking of driving down to LA to check out some of the picket lines. (As a matter of support and good honest fascination. ;)) So there's different ones by the different studios/sets? Is the public allowed near them? Cops/traffic/etc?

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).

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!

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.

Steve Carell is apparently suffering from "enlarged balls".

I saw that, too! Even if he didn't say it, I can picture him saying it, and it makes me happyyyy :)

I support the strike too, though I still need to save me an icon. Please let us know how the Fox showing is.

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.

You doing letters or postcards?

I joined that sucker!! I support the WGA!!

I love that interview with Michael and Jen. It amazes me how hilarious that can be in light of what's happening!

BUT HEY YOU SAW DUNDLER MIFFLIN!!!!

Hey, take me with you to the strikes! ;P

Same here! I thought he did say it at first and it made me smile. Check out that community for icons!

Yep, next week I'll be sending a few out.

Good for you! And same about the interview, it cheered me up a lot.

I KNOW!! It was so surreal. They even have car signs!

Come with me! Seriously, let me know and we can totally picket together. It was lots of fun today :)

Yay! I wish I had known about DUNDER MIFFLIN before, though. ;P I dunno about which places are best and stuff.. And also, I don't really know how to get there. Heh.

I FAIL at having a life, you know?

Well tomorrow is the big strike at Fox (news on the United Hollywood/WGA websites) and a writer told me The Office writers were at Universal at Barsam St (not tomorrow but next week). As for getting there, use the metro trip planner or drive/have someone drive you.

Hopefully when the strike ends, you can still see DM! Who needs a life when there's TV? ;)

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