My Creative Mojo

Radford 8-12. Ran into my new friend Lana from Alabama. She introduced me to Doug Eboch, a screenwriter. Had a great long chat with him. He got his start at Disney in Feature Animation and knows a lot of the people that my wife, Melissa knows from her time there. A little excitement today. It was insanely windy and at times hard to hold up the picket signs. Occasionally humorous when the wind would blow a sign, catching one of us off guard and hitting our strike partners in the head. Not once, but twice a gust of wind ripped a sign off one of the sticks and blew it onto the lot. The writer, not wanting to litter on the studio, ran onto the lot to grab the sign and got heckled by all the remaining picketers, “Scab! Scab! Scab…” The guards didn’t seem too concerned — good to know that you don’t get tackled for running onto the lot. Either that or our “Scab!” shouting distracted all the guards. I claimed that it was our version of a small boat in Iranian waters, testing out the studio’s reaction to figure out how they operate.

Grabbed lunch, then hit Warner Brothers 12:30-3. A small crew at gate 4 today, and a few of them had the nerve to abandon the gate early on. Laird and I held the gate down single handedly… er, double… quadruple handedly. I felt a little bad when the guard came out to do the hourly head count — the studios track the number of picketers at each gate. But we continued to march back and forth every time the light changed and maintained the picket line until Seamus came by at 3 pm to shut down our gate.

On to NBC 3-5:30. Caught up with Pierce Gardner and met Muffet (yes, her real legal name) an assistant that is out of work because of the strike.

Hours logged today: Radford 8 to 12 = 4 hrs, WB 12:30 to 3 = 2.5 hrs, NBC 3 to 5:30 = 2.5 hrs. Daily Total: 9 hrs.

Weekly total: 27 hrs.