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What’s Left To Be Said

Nov

11

2008

I am (surprise!) really exhausted and overworked, but I wanted to say something more about Prop. 8 and the ongoing legal and PR battle over gay marriage in California. The thing that offends me the most, absolutely the most, about the reaction to legal challenges to the validity of Proposition 8, is the reaction I ...

We’ve Come A Long Way, With A Ways To Go 3

Nov

5

2008

Last night was like the end of a marathon. The elation and ecstatic reaction after Obama finally won the Presidency was surreal, like crossing the finish line first when you barely thought you had a chance. And then, watching Prop 8 pass was like having someone walk up to that same theoretical marathoner and punching ...

Technology Will Be The End Of Me 4

Jul

15

2008

Oh, Blogger. You make me crazy with your refusals to publish and your half-assed FTP impementation. But oh, WordPress, trying to switch to you is making me EVEN FUCKING CRAZIER. Why didn’t I learn something useful in school, like PHP programming? Then I could figure out what the fucking problem is. More to come, possibly ...

A Stab At Explaining This SAG Nonsense

Jul

1

2008

Trying to explain why, even though it does not appear the Screen Actors’ Guild is actually going to strike anytime soon, I am frustrated with the lack of progress in the talks, is a little hard to explain. The stalemate has brought all feature production to a grinding halt, and because of the weird timing ...

Once More, With Feeling

Jun

20

2008

It’s always fun to read a story in Variety and, before reaching the end of it, start mentally calculating how much plasma and/or heroin I’ll need to sell to make rent.

Thoughts That Cross My Mind

Jun

2

2008

After blotting calamine lotion on my ridiculous number of flea bites, leaving a pattern of dark pink spots on pasty white skin: “God, I look like a gay leopard.”

There Goes That Idea

May

24

2008

All the good ellipticals were taken at the gym this evening, so I elected to try doing some jogging on the treadmill to see if my idea to improve my gym triathalon time would work. I got about three steps and my ankle gave me a very decisive (and rather painful) verdict of “Fuck you, ...

Strike Two

May

6

2008

Depending on who you read, talks between the AMPTP and the Screen Actors’ Guild either ended without a deal or completely fucking imploded tonight. You know it’s serious when Nikki Finke breaks out the clip-art alarm bells. So now, we’re staring down the barrel of another potential strike, this time by the Actors. A smaller ...

People Are Dicks, Vol. 1

Apr

16

2008

Now begins a new feature here on Goat World, called People Are Dicks, in which I will be chronicling the ways both large and small in which people are dicks on an ongoing basis. Today: People are dicks because they blow up something in the communal microwave, then let the shrapnel from this explosion burn ...

Here We Go Again

Apr

1

2008

SAG’s next up in the Great Strike-ocolypse of 2008. The problem this time? SAG and AFTRA, two sister unions that have bargained jointly for the last 30 years, have chosen this critical moment to get in a massive pissing contest with each other. Their infighting has (as far as I can tell) delayed the start ...