Day: November 11, 2007

Cleaning out links. It’s an on-going, never-ending process. Anyway:

“As Aimee Mann could tell you, it’s rare that you ever know what to expect from a guy made of corpses with bolts in his neck.” – Nathan Rabin (on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

“It sounds like a formula for bad science. And yet the formula for bad science turns out to be the formula for good writing.” – Paul Elle (on Musicophilia)

“Knowing the sources of Schulz’s inspiration does not explain the imaginative power of the work.” – Bill Watterson (on Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography)

“By way of contrasting example, an iPhone is a blank, shiny, flat box that fits in your palm; and the longer you talk about its capacity for complicated work or time-wasting, the more alien and intimidating it becomes.” – Cherie Priest (on steampunk)

More, I’m sure, to follow. Where do other people find the time to read the links they save? Or do they simply not save links?

Damon Lindelof in today’s New York Times:

Change always provokes fear, but I’d once believed that the death of our beloved television would unify all those affected, talent and studios, creators and suits. We’re all afraid and we’d all be afraid together. Instead we find ourselves so deeply divided.

Read the whole thing. Then head over to Mark Evanier’s website (where I found this) for more on the WGA strike.

It really is incredible how little the writers are asking for, and how unwilling the studios are to offer even that much. Lindelof may very well “be dragged through the streets and burned in effigy” if the strike delays the next season of Lost, but I can tell you this: it won’t be by me. I’m really looking forward to the next season — the third started a little shakily, but damn, what a finish — but this is a fight that needs to be fought and, more importantly, needs to be won by the writers.