They can still act, direct, or produce material submitted before the strike, but they can't submit written work during the strike.
Last time, allied unions also struck.

Non-union writers who work during a strike are called scabs.

I'll pledge to boycott scabs.

Yeah, that's basically uncommentable.

Stop.

And where are you now in your education?

I wanted to include a link to Martin Amis' review of the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal in my comment. If somebody can get one, that would be great. Otherwise I'd like to add my opinion that the source material greatly declined between the first two and Hannibal.

I have little use for anything else Beck has done, but "Loser" is still brilliant.

Did Max Brooks actually sell sequel rights to WWZ? If so, that's sad. Good book. Mediocre and inexplicably sexist and racist movie. Brooks hasn't written a sequel. The book didn't suggest one. WTF?

Yeah, and also it's just kind of her turn. I don't agree with Alasdair's gender thing about this. On Arrow, deeply compromised is always the new black, and Felicity's been mostly left out.

No.

Oh, for fuck's sake. You're doing postmodernism now? Let's try "what do you think that means."

I'm not saying the show's not (enjoyably) rediculous, but there's an historical precedent in Shogun Japan on the prohibition against guns. That was meant to protect the samurai caste. In Europe, the knight class was devalued even before guns by the long bow. As a measure to maintain a feudal order, it makes sense.…

If you have to have a psych test, you'll be asked if your stool looks like that. Say no.

No and yes. No on alcohol poisoning, yes on water filter. Also chemical mask filter. Also the active layer in porous chemical suits.

No.

But Israel's currently got a far-right government. Just like we recently got. I wouldn't​ blame a foreign act for refusing to play in the U.S. I wouldn't blame others for condemning those who do.

Bonfire of the Vanities. Tom Wolfe.

For me, it's because I never was interested in her work, and she used put out as much as she could about herself. I can't imagine a movie I'd want to watch.

I was once a skeptic about AI. When I named myself after an AI from a science fiction novel years ago, I didn't even believe that collections of human-written algorithms​ could approximate human intelligence. I thought that there was an essential element, from millions of years of evolution through the biological, of…