The problem with turning it into a reality show is that producers will twist and corrupt his ideas. Suddenly you're spraying celebrities with piss that are getting paid for it. A rotating stable of Viacom reality TV stars getting contractually soaked in urine for the public's amusement. Somehow Flavor Flav and The Situation get their own spinoff where they travel from city to city trying to find out what region has the warmest, most comfortable piss to soak in.
My closest picketline is Universal Studios, so that's where I'll be pounding pavement later today.
Because the world is a small and funny place, I used to work at the Universal Studios Sheraton hotel. I was a graveyard shift valet for years, and those long unsupervised nights were where I did the lion's share of my TV analysis, where I researched and wrote the scripts that would get me my initial success. I'll be able to see my old valet booth from where I'll be picketing.
It feels irritatingly, cinematically full-circle - years of quiet solitude, pursuing an impossible dream. Coming back years later, living said dream, in solidarity with other people who got as lucky as me, fighting for some other graveyard shift valet somewhere to have an easier road than I did.
Sorry for being corny, but union action makes me genuinely wistful. Every union fight is a good fuckin' fight.
This gets to one of the fundamental beauties of a union, and unionism more generally. We all live lives of perpetual isolation. We all have to sacrifice little bits of our own dignity, our agency, our belief in what’s right to these corporate entities. It’s a sickness that pervades, and it is very easy to get to the point where you simply just bob along down the river, by yourself. A union allows you to claw back some of that agency, that humanity and say, “no, fuck you, I am a human being. I have dignity, I have decency, I have rights and you will listen to me and my mates”.
Someone put it to me the other day that a union is about the actions you take with your comrades. A union is not a service rendered unto you. I think that’s a really neat way of thinking about things
My closest picketline is Universal Studios, so that's where I'll be pounding pavement later today.
Because the world is a small and funny place, I used to work at the Universal Studios Sheraton hotel. I was a graveyard shift valet for years, and those long unsupervised nights were where I did the lion's share of my TV analysis, where I researched and wrote the scripts that would get me my initial success. I'll be able to see my old valet booth from where I'll be picketing.
It feels irritatingly, cinematically full-circle - years of quiet solitude, pursuing an impossible dream. Coming back years later, living said dream, in solidarity with other people who got as lucky as me, fighting for some other graveyard shift valet somewhere to have an easier road than I did.
Sorry for being corny, but union action makes me genuinely wistful. Every union fight is a good fuckin' fight.
That is the most writer thing
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Think I’ll watch some Union movies in honor of the Writers
Norma Rae
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The Killing Floor
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edited May 2
this is a terrible thing to say, but I saw his performances in, well, in a lot of movies, Ferris Bueller, Wargames and such, but specifically Glory and The Road to Wellville when I was a kid and was immediately a big fan of that boyish old man.
so much so that when I found out that he killed somebody, I was like "well... well, maybe everybody gets one."
edit: also when he's that government lackey in 30 Rock
edit 2: also the guy he plays in Glory, Robert Shaw, I think when he was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him with his black soldiers because they saw it as a sick burn, and Shaw's family was like "he's buried with the men he trained and commanded, this is a good thing, he'd love it."
that was Robert Shaw I think, there can't have been that many officers out Glorying it up back in the day
this is a terrible thing to say, but I saw his performances in, well, in a lot of movies, Ferris Bueller, Wargames and such, but specifically Glory and The Road to Wellville when I was a kid and was immediately a big fan of that boyish old man.
so much so that when I found out that he killed somebody, I was like "well... well, maybe everybody gets one."
edit: also when he's that government lackey in 30 Rock
edit 2: also the guy he plays in Glory, Robert Shaw, I think when he was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him with his black soldiers because they saw it as a sick burn, and Shaw's family was like "he's buried with the men he trained and commanded, this is a good thing, he'd love it."
that was Robert Shaw I think, there can't have been that many officers out Glorying it up back in the day
this is a terrible thing to say, but I saw his performances in, well, in a lot of movies, Ferris Bueller, Wargames and such, but specifically Glory and The Road to Wellville when I was a kid and was immediately a big fan of that boyish old man.
so much so that when I found out that he killed somebody, I was like "well... well, maybe everybody gets one."
edit: also when he's that government lackey in 30 Rock
edit 2: also the guy he plays in Glory, Robert Shaw, I think when he was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him with his black soldiers because they saw it as a sick burn, and Shaw's family was like "he's buried with the men he trained and commanded, this is a good thing, he'd love it."
that was Robert Shaw I think, there can't have been that many officers out Glorying it up back in the day
Wait, what?
yeah he was driving and "somehow" ended up in the opposing lane and hit a car and killed a lady and her mom
I think also the person that he was driving with needed surgery, as well.
he was all "geez I dunno what happened I just woke up in the hospital don't know nothin'."
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this is a terrible thing to say, but I saw his performances in, well, in a lot of movies, Ferris Bueller, Wargames and such, but specifically Glory and The Road to Wellville when I was a kid and was immediately a big fan of that boyish old man.
so much so that when I found out that he killed somebody, I was like "well... well, maybe everybody gets one."
edit: also when he's that government lackey in 30 Rock
edit 2: also the guy he plays in Glory, Robert Shaw, I think when he was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him with his black soldiers because they saw it as a sick burn, and Shaw's family was like "he's buried with the men he trained and commanded, this is a good thing, he'd love it."
that was Robert Shaw I think, there can't have been that many officers out Glorying it up back in the day
Wait, what?
On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW 316 on the Tempo Road outside Tempo, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo. The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly.[32
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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TL;DR: Tweeter theorizes that the strike (and implicitly, the non-Netflix companies wanting to cave) is in part because executives are also absurdly frustrated at being beholden to tech C-suite management in awful structures canceling shows randomly and generally having no way to justify doing things right.
TL;DR: Tweeter theorizes that the strike (and implicitly, the non-Netflix companies wanting to cave) is in part because executives are also absurdly frustrated at being beholden to tech C-suite management in awful structures canceling shows randomly and generally having no way to justify doing things right.
The "a tech person shows up to be a terrible network runner" has been a feature of a few meta comedies over the last couple years so I would not be surprised if it was a thing.
Unions sound nice. Wonder if I'll get to be in one some day
I wish I could, but unfortunately I’m an engineer and engineers think they’re hot shit independent supergeniuses who can take it to management solo (they are not)
Picket lines are busy and cheerful. We're all very bad at sustaining chants, almost like it's a whole industry of indoor kids or something.
Nobody seems to have any expectations of our allies, it's a weird fight where the internal pressures are a lot stronger than the public ones. I've heard some folks saying, "If you were looking for an excuse to cancel Netflix anyway, might as well do it now and say this is the reason," but that's the strongest appeal to direction action I've heard.
Seems kinda unlikely it'll resolve before the directors and the actors put their money where their mouths are, so we're all trading tips for comfortable shoes and good sunscreens and settling in for the long haul.
Poorochondriac on
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
oh, who has "a media dry spell aggravates civil unrest and results in the Network Wars" on their bingo card?
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My closest picketline is Universal Studios, so that's where I'll be pounding pavement later today.
Because the world is a small and funny place, I used to work at the Universal Studios Sheraton hotel. I was a graveyard shift valet for years, and those long unsupervised nights were where I did the lion's share of my TV analysis, where I researched and wrote the scripts that would get me my initial success. I'll be able to see my old valet booth from where I'll be picketing.
It feels irritatingly, cinematically full-circle - years of quiet solitude, pursuing an impossible dream. Coming back years later, living said dream, in solidarity with other people who got as lucky as me, fighting for some other graveyard shift valet somewhere to have an easier road than I did.
Sorry for being corny, but union action makes me genuinely wistful. Every union fight is a good fuckin' fight.
Honestly I’m just respectful of your Union to willing to go on strike, our teachers Union came by to tell us our pissant deal (less than inflation, like three percent after years of like 1% rises) and I was like that’s bullshit and their response well, do you want to strike? Do you want to get days without pay, and I’m like yeah, that’s the idea and you could just see them feel uncomfortable because they didn’t want us to strike.
The deal got passed with like seventy percent approval.
My closest picketline is Universal Studios, so that's where I'll be pounding pavement later today.
Because the world is a small and funny place, I used to work at the Universal Studios Sheraton hotel. I was a graveyard shift valet for years, and those long unsupervised nights were where I did the lion's share of my TV analysis, where I researched and wrote the scripts that would get me my initial success. I'll be able to see my old valet booth from where I'll be picketing.
It feels irritatingly, cinematically full-circle - years of quiet solitude, pursuing an impossible dream. Coming back years later, living said dream, in solidarity with other people who got as lucky as me, fighting for some other graveyard shift valet somewhere to have an easier road than I did.
Sorry for being corny, but union action makes me genuinely wistful. Every union fight is a good fuckin' fight.
Honestly I’m just respectful of your Union to willing to go on strike, our teachers Union came by to tell us our pissant deal (less than inflation, like three percent after years of like 1% rises) and I was like that’s bullshit and their response well, do you want to strike? Do you want to get days without pay, and I’m like yeah, that’s the idea and you could just see them feel uncomfortable because they didn’t want us to strike.
The deal got passed with like seventy percent approval.
Thinking about how militant public services labour organisers in Australia either got killed, jailed, or barred from holding office in a union.
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edited May 3
Teamsters actually have picket line protections built into almost all of their major contracts. For example: drivers for UPS can't be penalized by the company for refusing to cross them in the course of doing their daily routes. Source: close friend of mine is a UPS driver and small/medium-profile Teamster union officer. The dude has stories, and he's the same age as me.
The only Teamster who crosses a picket line is a coward and a scab and should be expelled from the union on the spot.
What a a weird, singular little thing. Kinda resists my ability to critically evaluate it, which I certainly admire.
Feels almost like Southland Tales or something, in that every second of it screams "Somebody usually stops projects like this before they get this far," where it's so miraculous it exists that I almost don't care whether or not it's "good" in the strictest definition of the word.
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Tonight I'm going to try out the pilot to the Fatal Attraction television adaptation.
What a a weird, singular little thing. Kinda resists my ability to critically evaluate it, which I certainly admire.
Feels almost like Southland Tales or something, in that every second of it screams "Somebody usually stops projects like this before they get this far," where it's so miraculous it exists that I almost don't care whether or not it's "good" in the strictest definition of the word.
I'm on episode three, and it seems at least in part Lindelof was like "No one can be upset about the answers or lack thereof in a central mystery if the world I create is completely absurd".
What a a weird, singular little thing. Kinda resists my ability to critically evaluate it, which I certainly admire.
Feels almost like Southland Tales or something, in that every second of it screams "Somebody usually stops projects like this before they get this far," where it's so miraculous it exists that I almost don't care whether or not it's "good" in the strictest definition of the word.
I'm on episode three, and it seems at least in part Lindelof was like "No one can be upset about the answers or lack thereof in a central mystery if the world I create is completely absurd".
He's hit me with about 4 amazing twists in the first few episodes. All I ask is that the last episode has the best twist yet.
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What a a weird, singular little thing. Kinda resists my ability to critically evaluate it, which I certainly admire.
Feels almost like Southland Tales or something, in that every second of it screams "Somebody usually stops projects like this before they get this far," where it's so miraculous it exists that I almost don't care whether or not it's "good" in the strictest definition of the word.
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it's fine, just yell "It's a prank, bro!" out the window, post-soaking
It's about to get wet bro, cuz you're on Pisstakers!! (Starbucks patrons and staff produce super soakers and proceed to spray Zach Braff with piss)
This gets to one of the fundamental beauties of a union, and unionism more generally. We all live lives of perpetual isolation. We all have to sacrifice little bits of our own dignity, our agency, our belief in what’s right to these corporate entities. It’s a sickness that pervades, and it is very easy to get to the point where you simply just bob along down the river, by yourself. A union allows you to claw back some of that agency, that humanity and say, “no, fuck you, I am a human being. I have dignity, I have decency, I have rights and you will listen to me and my mates”.
Someone put it to me the other day that a union is about the actions you take with your comrades. A union is not a service rendered unto you. I think that’s a really neat way of thinking about things
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That is the most writer thing
Norma Rae
Harlan County USA
F.I.S.T.
The Killing Floor
Devil and Mrs. Jones
Other movies I’m not thinking of right now
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Gettysburg
Edit or wait is it Glory? Anyway the one with Matthew Broderick about the Civil War, you see where I'm going with this
How Green was My Valley
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How Green Was My Valley
The Molly Maguires
Made in Dagenham
That’s Glory. Excellent movie
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so much so that when I found out that he killed somebody, I was like "well... well, maybe everybody gets one."
edit: also when he's that government lackey in 30 Rock
edit 2: also the guy he plays in Glory, Robert Shaw, I think when he was killed in battle, the Confederates buried him with his black soldiers because they saw it as a sick burn, and Shaw's family was like "he's buried with the men he trained and commanded, this is a good thing, he'd love it."
that was Robert Shaw I think, there can't have been that many officers out Glorying it up back in the day
Wait, what?
this scene, in particular, rules
yeah he was driving and "somehow" ended up in the opposing lane and hit a car and killed a lady and her mom
I think also the person that he was driving with needed surgery, as well.
he was all "geez I dunno what happened I just woke up in the hospital don't know nothin'."
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
TL;DR: Tweeter theorizes that the strike (and implicitly, the non-Netflix companies wanting to cave) is in part because executives are also absurdly frustrated at being beholden to tech C-suite management in awful structures canceling shows randomly and generally having no way to justify doing things right.
The "a tech person shows up to be a terrible network runner" has been a feature of a few meta comedies over the last couple years so I would not be surprised if it was a thing.
I wish I could, but unfortunately I’m an engineer and engineers think they’re hot shit independent supergeniuses who can take it to management solo (they are not)
Nobody seems to have any expectations of our allies, it's a weird fight where the internal pressures are a lot stronger than the public ones. I've heard some folks saying, "If you were looking for an excuse to cancel Netflix anyway, might as well do it now and say this is the reason," but that's the strongest appeal to direction action I've heard.
Seems kinda unlikely it'll resolve before the directors and the actors put their money where their mouths are, so we're all trading tips for comfortable shoes and good sunscreens and settling in for the long haul.
Honestly I’m just respectful of your Union to willing to go on strike, our teachers Union came by to tell us our pissant deal (less than inflation, like three percent after years of like 1% rises) and I was like that’s bullshit and their response well, do you want to strike? Do you want to get days without pay, and I’m like yeah, that’s the idea and you could just see them feel uncomfortable because they didn’t want us to strike.
The deal got passed with like seventy percent approval.
Satans..... hints.....
Well, it certainly serves into it near the end of its runtime, but Legend of the Drunken Master sure does qualify:
Thinking about how militant public services labour organisers in Australia either got killed, jailed, or barred from holding office in a union.
Anyway, I’m sure this is all unrelated
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The only Teamster who crosses a picket line is a coward and a scab and should be expelled from the union on the spot.
What a a weird, singular little thing. Kinda resists my ability to critically evaluate it, which I certainly admire.
Feels almost like Southland Tales or something, in that every second of it screams "Somebody usually stops projects like this before they get this far," where it's so miraculous it exists that I almost don't care whether or not it's "good" in the strictest definition of the word.
I'm very excited/hopeful!
I'm on episode three, and it seems at least in part Lindelof was like "No one can be upset about the answers or lack thereof in a central mystery if the world I create is completely absurd".
He's hit me with about 4 amazing twists in the first few episodes. All I ask is that the last episode has the best twist yet.
It's just gonna get weirder.
Wait for the end of episode 4.
do not fuck with the teamsters
one of the very few strong union organizations left in the states, and boy are they