Tag: Hustling

  • Using Your Internet Powers for Good.

    I already mentioned Samantha Who? is back on the air tomorrow night on ABC at 8:30/7:30c. But it turns out we’re up against the NCAA playoffs and the American Idol results show, so you know, we’re totally gonna win the time slot. …Which is where you come in. Remember that strike we went on, where…

  • Samantha Who? Returns: March 26th, 8:30/7:30c

    Oh, thank God, we are back on the air. But only for like, six weeks. So, tell your friends! Tell everybody. Please. Aren’t you sick of my constant twittering and my sad youtube posts yet? Save me from unemployment. Please put us all back to work with lovely, lovely ratings. I’m embedding the promo, which…

  • “…usually someone named Josh…”

    Rob Long discusses the many ways a tv writer gets paid to be a tv writer, and how (almost) all of them have one thing in common: You have to write.

  • punch-up.

    punch-up.

    punch-up: a process where we individually go through the writer’s first draft and offer up suggestions for jokes, story structure, and/or cuts. Then we get into one room and offer up all of our suggestions at the same time until the writer is convinced he or she should never write anything ever again while simultaneously…

  • Two Things

    Two Things

    For those of you who are Liz Feldman fans, want to be Liz Feldman fans, or enjoy all things The L Word, here’s Liz’s new Internet show: This Just Out, with Liz Feldman. Liz is a 4-time Emmy winner for her work as a writer/producer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Being the over-achiever that she…

  • inbox, part eight.

    It has been a very difficult week. Picketing in the rain was the least of the crappy things. So, when it gets like this I post mail from y’all, because it reminds me of how big and huge the world is, and how lucky I am. I kind of disappeared there for a month back…

  • day ten.

    day ten.

    Some mornings, when I’m holding my sign and walking in a circle, I realize this is the second time I’ve lost my job because of the Internet. And if you count the giant day of the dot com bust where my 401K was smashed to pennies, I find that while I only have so much…

  • Come See Me: Alternative Holiday Book Bazaar

    Tired of shopping for gifts that suck? Sick of getting stuck in mall parking lots with homicidal shoppers hell bent on bumming out your holiday high? F*#% that! This holiday season, try something new, something cool, something different…like the third annual ALTERNATIVE HOLIDAY BOOK BAZAAR, Saturday, December 9th, 5-9 pm at Wax Poetic Gallery in…

  • CU C-Me

    CU@USC has been the University of Southern California’s premier college talk show for the past 10 years. Our show is filmed live every weeknight from 6:30 to 7pm and airs on the USC cable network, Trojan Vision, a completely student run television station. In addition, we are broadcast nightly on Los Angeles city cable station…

  • my thanksgiving plans… and my december plans.

    “Okay, so those are our notes, and we just want you to keep them in mind while you’re off and writing. Good luck. And we’re excited to read your script!” That was ABC. After rounds of outlines with producers and more producers and the studio and now the network, it’s time for me to sit…