Year: 2008
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The Strike Is Over.
Man, I can’t believe I finally got to write that sentence. Now the weird hurry-up-and-wait daily grind of pickets and meetings can be replaced with the more familiar hurry-up-and-wait daily grind of story pitches and… meetings. But now with more Internet flavor! It’s a big, exciting week. I’m gearing up to go back to work,…
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pencils at 81.5%…
Good news. Actual good news. We got the back-nine just days before the strike started, so there was no time for celebration. Now days before the strike ends, this. I was all alone and folding laundry when I found out, which made me panic that somehow I wasn’t supposed to find out that there’s a…
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get out the pencils, put away the thread
I’ve completely forgotten how to write and I don’t have any ideas about anything. I do, however, have a collection of crafts and a pile of new gadgets. I got teased by most of my friends, but I couldn’t help it. Pencils down, hobbies up. During the strike, I was often reminded of an Onion…
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i think i’ll find myself devouring this entire book within thirty minutes.
Steve Martin: Born Standing Up
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text exchange during today’s strike captains meeting.
MSG: I hear the strike is over?!? ME: No. MSG: That’s what I heard. ME: Because you get all your info from strike-bullshit-and-lies.com. Instead, read here.
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M Giant wrote a book!
Jeff Alexander: A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television
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i sound like sneeze.
Wha?! Hello? Whazza–hunh? Mmf. I just woke up on the couch. German subtitled movies aren’t so good on a Friday night when you’re ill, unless you want to fall asleep. I’ve figured out where this cold came from. The recipe: 1. Picket in the rain. 2. Picket in the cold. 3. Picket in the cold…
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What Do the Numbers Mean?!
Normally when I’m pondering that question, it’s because I just saw another fantastic episode of Lost. But tonight after Lost, I’ll be asking that question again, because it’s the premiere of Eli Stone! See, if they get good numbers, then their show can get picked up for another season, which means good news for the…