(9 am – promoted by ek hornbeck)
No, it’s not strike news, but Terry Pratchett has Alzheimers. Here’s from his statement, titled AN EMBUGGERANCE:
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but … it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s phantom “stroke”.
We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. … Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there’s time for at least a few more books yet :o)
PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should
be interpreted as ‘I am not dead’. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as
will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think – it’s too soon to tell.
I know it’s a very human thing to say “Is there anything I can do”, but in this case I
would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
Sigh.
Today’s strike summary (& action links) below the fold.
| Consumers Support WGA listed Time-Warner Cable and Comcast corporation last night (there may be some more addresses up by now). When writing your letters, just pretend that you’re a satisfied customer except for this strike thing. Remember, you don’t need to be a customer right this moment to write to them.
Firedoglake has an easy email letter tool, sending stuff to show producers (I presume TDS/TCR aren’t on their pulldown list because the producers are already pro-WGA), and you can still buy pencils and visit StrikeSwag.com — profits donated to the WGA’s Solidarity Fund to help non-WGA members affected by the strike. Some sites to check out for info: |
No real news as I write, but Nikki Finke has this:
She continues to post the press releases, with commentary. Related headlines from Variety’s strike blog: And in other more-or-less serious stuff, another discussion of the Reality and Animation writers issue; Variety summarizes; the LATimes talks about ratings and ad dollars and offers studios “A dose of reality during the strike”. |
| And in other news:
Striking Writers Disrupt Carson Daly Taping, Ruining His Talk Show Christmas — sounds entertaining. Pictures from the pencils2moguls first delivery — the studios didn’t want them. I suppose they’ve got those paperless offices we were going to have by now. From a piece titled “Harry Potter And The Media Moguls:”
That’s Potterwatch, with action links. A couple more mentions of that Viacom freelancer’s walkout, including “best protest signs ever.” New York’s WGA picket tomorrow is at Viacom — I’m planning on going, unless the weather and/or my health veto. Pretty good chance of that, but we’ll see. I liked this: These guys brought us AMPTP.com (which the AMPTP described as a ‘hijacked’ site. They really don’t understand this internet stuff.) And NoFactZone’s MsInterpreted made it to An evening with the writers and friends of ‘The Daily Show’, which she describes in detail. My favorite part:
She’s got several page-downs of John Oliver’s set alone. |
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which means that I’ve missed at least two updates over at DHD. Oh well.
Jodie Foster came out as being a lesbian.
Response from the lesbian community: Well, duh!
🙁