Month: February 2008

An e-mail has been send around to WGA members stating that a tentative deal has been reached that, I get the impression, is going to be satisfactory to all concerned. A meeting was held today at 2 PM which I was not able to attend, since Ariel’s High School bowling team had their county-wide playoffs today. One has to have priorities (Ariel’s team came in second, by the way, and Ariel herself did excellently, shooting four games over 200.

From the tone of the letter, it appears that there will be no further picketing (which of course means the Oscars will go forward with no impediment–a big relief for Jon Stewart, I should think.) I have to think that, short of some sort of egregious problem, the strike is done.

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Hillary will win the NY primary.

Why?

Because with Edwards out of the race, I voted for Obama.

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Marv expressed dismay and, even worse, an interest in Ann Coulter because spammers forced me to shut down a WGA-related thread that he contributed to (a tactic, I suspect, of the AMPTP’s. Just remember kids: You can’t spell AMPTP’s without sPAM. Coincidence? I. Think. Not.

So here’s an entire thread dedicated to the greatness of Marv Wolfman.

Go nuts.

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The Coke ad that features the dueling balloons…not only because it was funny, but it was prophetic. Here the Giants were predicted by just about every pundit to be losers, and in the fourth quarter there’s an ad that shows perennial loser at sports, Charlie Brown, triumphing over the redoubtable competition of Underdog and Stewie.

Congrats, Coca Cola. You’re still the real thing.

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Yes, because you demanded it: Beginning at 6 PM, this website will provide ongoing commentary on the Super Bowl commercials.

Why? No clue.

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I have taken the liberty of shutting down comments on the “Had a feeling” thread, not because anyone was saying anything unacceptable–indeed, Marv’s comments were particularly welcome–but, Marv’s posting notwithstanding, it appeared to have run its course and instead was serving as a magnet for a particularly virulent spambot. So I’ve turned off comments on that thread in hopes that it will dispatch the spambot to whatever cyberhell spat it out.

Second, just as a general reminder, this board will not tolerate people endeavoring to pose as, or post as, other people…particularly well-known people. Bad enough that it takes a certain degree of cowardice to snipe from hiding; endeavoring to impersonate others, no matter how hamhandedly and obvious such attempts are, is beyond the courtesy I wish to extend to posters. Indeed, such rude behavior deserves no courtesy whatsoever. So any counterfeit idiots will have their comments deleted. In the future I would appreciate more sensible board denizens refraining from responding to such yahoos because you’ll just be perpetuating comments that I will have deleted and I’ll probably have to wind up deleting your comments too, in order to avoid confusion.

Thank you.

UPDATE: And just so you know, if you’re an idiot/one of the idiots who thinks that it’s clever to post slams under fake names. Those comments aren’t merely being deleted. They’re being junked. What that means is that they’re being kicked into a special folder which takes note of them. And if there are enough junked e-mails from one source, the program translate it as spam and blocks the origin point. Which means that such individuals will wind up effectively banning themselves.

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