Vote Early, Vote Often

I'm glad to see there will be a vote tomorrow on lifting the WGA strike, I'm certain the good (everyone gets back to work) outweighs the bad (vocal minority doesn't like the 17-day clause of the deal). There's a nice article covering the human element of the big Saturday meeting here in New York from Sunday's NY Daily News. To underline the point of the article that the average person wouldn't recognize a writer on the street, I noticed CNN.com's front page article on the meeting featured, as a visual representation of writers in attendance, a shot of Michael Moore. Filmmaker, yes, and union guy, absolutely, but hardly your typical TV or film writer.

Already the industry is said to be running in post-strike mode and one can only think that the SAG agreement will be wrapped up before the old agreement expires. I do wonder, though, about the after effects of the strike, the relationships between writers and the below-the-line folk affected by the work stoppage.

Good luck, everyone, it's good to know you'll all be back to work soon.