The Wake

After two hardcore serious political blogs, I needed to decompress from pandering and caucuses. So here is a happy piece from La La land.

As I wind down from a long hard day of calling random people and making them take surveys they really don’t want any part of, I decide to watch re-runs of Family Guy on Adult Swim. Then I saw this Associated Press story about an end to the writer’s strike!!!! Oh my Flava Flav it’s finally over!

In the story, one of my favorite characters on my favorite show, Dwight from “The Office,” says that the cast will be back on the set on March 10 to shoot six more episodes!!! Hold on, I have to change my pants. In the meantime, enjoy this Dwight mixtape from season 2:

Alright, now that I’m all cleaned up, here’s some facts from the writers strike. The 10,500 writers that walked out in November have fucked up Los Angeles’ economy. A total of $3.2 billion was lost in revenue and wages. It seems sad that’s how much America thrives on entertainment. An entire major U.S. city can turn to shit if a few writers quit for a while. Although, I just had an orgasm over hearing that a show about an office is coming back to a box that flickers moving pictures.

The contract the producers offered to the writer’s guild on Saturday went to a vote Tuesday night and it was overwhelming approved, 3,492 to 283. Now the writers will get a maximum of $1,200 for programs streamed on the internet for the first two years of the new deal and then 2 percent of gross profits for the third year. They also got an increase in the percentage they get from TV show and movies downloaded from the series of interconnected tubes called the internet.

Finally, all these horrid shows like “Moment of Truth” and this show I keep seeing ads for when I watch Conan called, “My Dad Can Beat Your Dad” will be put to death! Now “The Colbert Report” can go back to doing what it does best, mocking our political process with sharp wit rather than becoming a Stephen Colbert interview show. Good thing “The Sopranos” ended before the writer’s strike. Otherwise I might have whacked James Gandolfini and David Chase personally, with all due respect.

So enjoy sitting on your ass and eating Doritos, America. You fat fuck! I know I will.

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