FishStick's Blog

Are you tired of hearing this ongoing strike by the WGA?  No one can write anything if it's not written by the guild.  What a sweet deal that is.  If you ask me, the Leno monologues are as bad as ever.  I can't tell there's a difference in quality.  And they complain that he writes his own monologues??  Didn't he and every other stand up comedian have to do it for themselves at one time?  We're not going to get another stellar (not) Golden Globes Award show?  Please......

This is just what a union does when it doesn't get its own way.  I don't think we hear enough of the news about the non-union people and how they are affected because they can't work.  We only hear about the overpaid celebrity actors and their 'solidarity' with the guild.  That's because THEY are truly nothing without the writers and if they cross the picket line they will personally feel the backlash.  When you make millions off a movie, you can wait it out at no harm, but you know there are lots of other people associated with production that are suffering and having to take other work.

Personally, let the WGA stay on strike.  These things have a way turning around and working in an unanticipated way.