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[skywaterblue]

Aaron Sorkin feels guilty about Studio 60.

Also met with the head of HBO programming, calls the internet a "bronchial infection on the First Amendment" (really, Sorkin, really?) and tells a hilarious story about trying a dinner where he and a bunch of other famous screenwriters tried to pressure an end to the Writer's Strike. The money quote: I know it sounds like a bunch of revolutionaries getting together to do the right thing, but you should know the dinner was catered.

The cut scene from Iron Man with Ghostface Killa. Kinda glad they left this out, even if I like his 'I have a giant glowing pill counter in my chest' performance anxiety.

Scottish penguin knighted by the King of Norway.

Hee.

Swedish wrestler stripped of bronze medal.

Good. What a poor sport.

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

I have a 7-year-old daughter. I don’t think I’ve screwed her up all that much.

Why do I doubt that, Aaron?

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

:( That's a bit low in a way I don't approve of, but then again, we are the bronchial infection on the First Amendment. Ooh, ooh, can I be the pneumonia that killed Bernie Mac?

Only he would ever describe some elites who don't want a strike as 'revolutionaries'.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

My bad and my apologies for the first part.

As for the strike, I would love to hear Mindy Kaling's take (or writers from The Daily Show, or Tina Fey, or Joss Whedon, or....) on the whole "We drove there in our German cars, lighting our Cuban cigars with hundred dollar bills and throwing our original Vermeer paintings into the trash for they no longer pleased us whilst talking about how we and we alone truly represented what this writer's strike was about." 'cause dude, not everybody makes your salary.

Plus it's doubly delicious that this 'tude is coming from the guy who didn't understand why the "series of tubes" explanation wasn't correct. I don't trust Dubya to tell me about environmental issues and I don't trust Benjamin to understand the significance of how the internet will affect the ability for writers (and others) to make money off of their craft in the future.

It makes you wonder how he would've reacted to TV, back in the days of radio.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Basically, this. The irony of the last line is that he wrote a play all about it...

[soaked-in-stars.livejournal.com]

What an excellent smattering of links! Especially the penguinnnn.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

The PENGUIN doing a little march under the bayonets is so my favorite.

[sarken.livejournal.com]

The penguin thing is awesome, and I'm not just saying that because penguins might be my favorite animal. More awesome than the mere existence of the penguin thing? Rachel Maddow showing video of it on Friday's Countdown.

One of the comments on the Sorkin article says he should do a show about what it's like behind the scenes of a cable news channel. I (a) swear I did not write that, (b) am already writing that fic, thank you, and (c) would still die of excitement if that happened.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I think it's too similar to Sports Night, but would be AMAZING. (I mean, once you've already based one character off of Olbermann, you might as well go for broke.)

[timenchanter.livejournal.com]

On the wrestler, I dunno. On the one hand, yeah it seems that he's being more than a bit of a bad sport. On the mid ground, two disputed calls in two separate Olympic games, both which potentially cost him the gold seems a bit fishy. ON the other hand, as someone who's spent his entire life trying to be good enough to earn his way to the Gold, it seems a little slack might be given. There could be some other sanction than stripping him from the ranks, regardless of whether he wanted the honor.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I suppose you're right; I mean, I wouldn't kick him out of the sport or anything. (Which the IOC has done before for stupid shit, like the two guys who did Black Power salutes in Mexico.)