SuperGenius author and entertainer Michael Crichton died this week. He was 66. Cancer killed him. Unfortunately
— Michael kept his illness a secret from the public — and we take
issue with that selfish hiding as we argued earlier this week on RelationShaping:
Continue reading → Michael Crichton Cheated Us Out of Goodbye
My friend, Gordon Davidescu, sent me this interesting link from O’Reilly publishing where you buy a book that is bound in a school-like binder and then you can either download updated chapters and cut them up and place them in the binder or you can order pre-cut pages from the publisher to add to your book binder.
The role of the writer in society is one of a questioning dissent.
It is not enough for the writer to merely go along with the status quo or to live in the mainstream meme.
The Writer’s Guild strike is over after a measly 100 days.
What was gained? If you strike, you don’t strike to win parity or a cast off breadcrumb. You strike to win big. You strike to take the ball back. Did the WGA win big? No.
Some believe the strike cost $2 billion dollars to the Hollywood economy in lost production, catering closures, florists dying, valets being laid-off, hotels churning empty rooms, restaurant workers waiting on nobodies and costume-houses going dark.
The WGA gobbled up a breadcrumb concession on payments from online entertainment. That’s it.
On December 7, 2007, the Guild was rightfully demanding the unionization of Animation writers and Reality show writers as well as the right to Sympathy Strike. On February 11, 2008 — when the strike ended — they won none of those demands.
The Writers Guild was whupped by the producers, and in the bloodletting, thousands of people lost their jobs, a few lost their homes, and everyone lost their respect for a Writers Guild strike that turned out, in the end, to be spineless and pointless.
There is a Writers Guild strike that is currently and deliciously finally meting out justice to producers who do not value the written word despite their phony, opposite, claims, and I fully support the strike and the effort for writers — the instigators of original inspiration and creation — to get their fair share of future DVD and online entertainment profits.
Fight to the death. Let the producers find their bloody end.
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