Year: 2008

Why telephone solicitors hate me

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

An actual conversation I just had with an outfit that regularly calls Kathleen (during dinner time, of course) looking to have her donate money:

CALLER: Is Kathleen David there?

ME: No, she’s not.

CALLER: When would be a better time to reach her?

ME: When she’s here.

(Confused silence. Then…)

CALLER: Thank you.

ME: No problem.

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Tentative Deal reached

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

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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The Marvelous Marv Wolfman thread

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

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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And the Winner Is…

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

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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