I'd like to be down in LA hauling around a picket sign, showing my solidarity with the industry. It sounds like there is a real camaraderie in action. Geography kind of rules out my attendance with Perth, Australia being almost directly opposite on the globe from California. If I should start to dig straight down from here I would surely not end up in China. If writing doesn't work out, then perhaps digging might be a profitable enterprise?

So anyway, can't be there in the flesh to meet and greet all the writers that I'd like to chat to. Closest I can get is vicariously through these great blogs: John August, Jane Espenson, Ken Levine and Joel Haber. Ken's need to write is particularly evident with his last post on the strike effectively being the script for half a Simpson's episode.

I'm reading these blogs and I'm particularly enjoying the famous writer name dropping. You get fed up with the actor name dropping and slightly less with the producer / writer name dropping so this is a breath of fresh air. It's about time that the writers got some airtime / column inches.

I'm just thinking now that an example TV guide for mid 2008 - assuming an ongoing strike - would be hilarious. I might mock one up later on if I can make time.

And now to finish off a completely scatterbrained blog entry I'll just mention that listening to local radio yesterday (Australian local) I heard the suggestion that a good chant for the strikers would be:

    "Studios are wrong, we are Right...ers".

Blindingly awful, but at the end of the day it might be hugely amusing.

Cheers, tagline.

NB: By the way, everyone should be signing the petition at: WGA Strike Petition.