go wpa.

do you have a list of email addresses of studio execs who we can contact with our opinion of the strike and how the outcome will influence our future viewership?

american rights at work has phone numbers as well as emails for a bakers dozen of execs.

and skippy has eva longoria and nicolette sheridan demostrating what happens to tv shows when writers go on strike (as well as the link to the late night w/david letterman writers on-strike blog).

behindthefall @ 80

Had to step away from the thread to clean litter boxes for the cats — did not mean to ignore you.

Puzzling my way through the 17th and early 18th dynasties of Egypt, correlating events with the movements of the trade caravans, building up a picture of what’s happening in several cultures at the same time, and wondering how to express it all in a linear narrative that someone will find interesting. And they call this ‘fiction’!

I believe Barbara Kingsolver (THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, PRODIGAL SUMMER) solved that problem by writing parallel narratives written from the perspective of different people. In the Poisonwood Bible, the chapter titles are the names of the principal character through whose eyes the events are narrated. There is enough overlap between the chapters so that you get multiple perspectives, Rashomon fashion, on some of the same events. Makes for an interesting read.

Bob in HI

Then there was Lawrence Durrell’s “Alexandria Quartet”. I’m wondering about staging a series of conversations between Ebenezer, the Patriarch and owner of the Hebronite caravan, and Ahmose, first king of the 18th dynasty and brother-in-law of Ebenezer. They could meet at Joseph’s widow’s house in Thebes over the years before and then during Ahmose’s reign and compare notes. Their last conversation would be interrupted by the coup which kills Ahmose, his wife, Nefertari, Nefertari’s mother, Miriam, the families … all but Ahmose’s son and Ebenezer, who is confined to house arrest where all of his relatives have died, while the survivors of the caravan are condemned to slavery. And that’s only the first part of the chapter. See what I mean about it getting into ticklish territory?

LS @ 96

As commenters all over the web are saying….Bush finally gets to be Preznit for a few hours…

I would so love to watch some WH correspondant ask W if he enjoyed being prez for a few hours while Cheney had his heart procedure.

One of the side benefits might be that the Annapolis Conference might actually get to proceed for a few hours *without* Cheney’s meddling.

I can hope, can’t I?

Bob in HI

As commenters all over the web are saying….Bush finally gets to be Preznit for a few hours…

*spew*

the studios totally underestimated the power of the internet as a means for the writers to get their message out, and for the public to get their messages in. while negotiations have re-started, the writers are out on the picket lines keeping the pressure on, and they’ll keep applying the pressure in new and creative ways until a fair deal is reached.

Kinda ironic, considering the studios’ rhetoric about what the writers’ contribution to Internet distribution is worth. *g*

In the wake of Trent Lott’s announcement that he’s resigning from the Senate, several news accounts have reported that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, will immediately appoint a replacement — and Barbour further announced today that a special election will be held to fill the seat on election day in November of 2008.

This would be a big boon to Republican efforts to hold Lott’s seat. That’s because it would allow whoever the appointee is the next 11 months to build up a record, raise money, and amass the advantages of incumbency in advance of the special contest.

But what does election law really hold?

National Dems who are scrutinizing the relevant statute say that they think that in fact it stipulates that the election is to be held within 90 days of the date of Lott’s resignation, which he hasn’t announced yet.

snip

Because of all this, the statute also creates an interesting dilemma for Lott. Dems note that the statute holds that there is a way around the 90-day problem: If Lott were to set his resignation date for some time next year, that would nullify the 90-day provision. That’s because the statute says that if the resignation happens in a year when a Congressional election is already set to happen, the contest to fill the vacancy happens on that year’s election day. That would help the GOP, because the special appointee would hold the seat for much longer before the contest.

But if Lott resigns next year, rather than in 2007, that will create a problem for him. That’s because next year a new lobbying law will take effect requiring him to wait two years before entering the lobbying biz.

So, in effect, Lott has to choose between resigning this year, which would help his short term lobbying career, and resigning next year, which would help the GOP hold his seat.

All this wrongheadedness and suddenness makes me more likely to believe the rent boy rumors, which have hit the web.

Making a fortune doing pepper ads I understand.