Busy seasonal stuff for Writers Guild of America, West members:
Good times, baby! Good times! (Just a few more good reasons to support the labor movement in L.A.!)
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Everybody’s Making Their Own Videos, Even the LAPD
Yeppers, boys and girls, the Los Angeles Police Department has joined the march into peer production, making its own 7+ minute video about how to keep stuff from being stolen from your car. And to make sure you watch it – zombies.
That’s right. This is a zombie movie, for reals. Well, before it deteriorates into the usual talking head PD PR dood giving us, you know, good advice.
TVWriter™ applauds the idea, but the execution leaves a little to be desired. Which is weird when you think about it, considering all the talent (including us!) that’s just hanging around in L.A.
Herbie J Pilato: My Top Ten Pop-Culture-Connected Christmas Carols
by Herbie J Pilato
1] CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE (Written by Vince Guaraldi – from A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Show me a better song representative of Christmas? Okay, maybe The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole – but nothing revs up the Holiday heart strings like this classic tune sung by the Peanuts gang on one of the best Christmas TV specials of all time.
2] THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW (FOR DREAMS TO COME TRUE) By Janet Orenstein from Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special
Peer Production: TALES OF REBELLIOUS STONE
The real beauty of peer production, AKA doing it all yourself, is that you have no excuse for not being bold. Not that KC.5 would ever need an excuse cuz this baby is BOLD BOLD BOLD!!!
Oh, and reverent. Reverent as all hell:
TVWriter™ Web Page Find of the Week
We find this place downright intriguing. Anyone have any experience with Hit Record?
