I see a lot of folks talking about “what’s going to happen now” with the WGA strike. And the ugly truth is, nobody knows. We all have predictions and hopes, but we just don’t know.

But we know how it went down last time... As it happens, yours truly was writing for a screenwriting magazine back in 2007-2008. And we did a lot of strike interviews and articles. In fact, I even had an ongoing series of day-by-day timeline articles of everything that happened during the last strike.

You interested?

The City of San Diego is doing something profoundly stupid in front of my house and I don't even think I'll be able to describe it until it's done. Oh yay! They broke a water main.

Water is literally going 40 feet into the air. And washing away all this freshly-poured concrete.

I’ve seen a few folks discusing the latest slate of Netflix cancellations, and I thought “hey, this is the internet—I should share MY thoughts.”

So let me tell you what I think’s going on with streaming shows right now. But first... a little history. Back in ye olden broadcast times, creative folks in television made a lot of their money on the back end—what publishing folks now call the long tail. Sure you got paid for that episode, but you also got paid the first time the network aired it. And also...