By reading this post, you are crossing a picket line

Many regular readers have noticed that the quality and the quantity of the writing here has fallen off significantly over the last month or two.  There's a reason.

You're probably under the impression that Lance Mannion Productions is a one-man operation.  Au contraire, mes amines.  I'm the creator-producer, sort of the David Simon/David Milch/David Chase of this blog.  (And have you noticed that you have to be named David to become the creator producer of a groundbreaking HBO TV drama series?  Comedies can be produced by any old Tom, Dick, or Harry, but for the real gritty, rises-to-the-level of Shakespearean tragedy stuff, you need to be a David.  I don't know what to make of the fact of Larry David.)   And like those guys I have a staff of writers.

Had.

Had a staff of writers.

In solidarity with the WGA, my writers have walked out.

I'm trying to negotiate a separate deal, the way Letterman did, but some of their demands are outrageous!

Ice cream twice a day?  Out of the question.  And bedtime will not be moved past 9 o'clock on school nights, no way, no how!

Meanwhile....know any reliable scabs with snappy prose styles willing to work for peanuts and one bowl of cookies and cream ice cream a day?

Comments

[Elsa]

Oh God, this was funny. Thanks for the SNORT and the snickering. :-)

[velvet goldmine]

That's true about not-Davids and comedies. Tom, Dick, Harry....or Edwin! As in comedy maven Edwin "Ed." Weinberg. Just a passing observation, apropos of nothing.

[Ken Houghton]

I'm envious that you can get the kids writers to bed by 9:00 on a school night.

[Ken Houghton]

All right, so strikeouts don't work; the above should read: k/i/d/s writers.

I note for the record that discs for the SAG Awards are still being mailed out. They're supposed to happen in 11 days. But I guess we can just expect that the strike will be settled by then.

[KC45s]

Eh. I've worked for less.

[OutOfContext]

How's the strike beard coming? Personally, I can't say 'hello' to my wife in the morning without a script. Yesterday, I mumbled "bless you" instead as I overpoured my coffee.

[Batocchio]

I heard some negotiating expert point out that kids are great negotiators because they presume "No" is your initial position only.