Past Due

 I feel better writing this knowing that my fellow writers, the ones who get paid, are going to get paid. This makes me happy to think that the artists will be valued along with the art that they create. 

It also means that soon there will be comedy writeen about the past five months. 

I have felt somewhat alone in a desert of unspoken one-liners and punchlines. The absurdity of all the goings-on in our wacky world has not gone unnoticed here in this corner of Al Gore's Internet, but having satire pumped in through all the various outlets that have been quiet for all this time will be refreshing. 

Yes, there have been plenty of snarky bits thrown out on Twitter, which is now "X" and that decision has not had its proper vilification in the media because reruns and reality shows just can't bring the big hammers. Please understand that I will be interested to see what dramas erupt out of the WGA strike. I would expect to see plenty of man versus robot drama as scribes begin to hash out their issues with Artificial Intelligence through their art. 

But mostly I'm here for the laughs. Not just about how the billionaires who run machines like Netflix imagined that they could survive without any "content," fuel for their streaming device. I look forward to hearing John Oliver sum up all the events that leave us on the brink of yet another presidential election, as well as the celebration of the win of the pen and keyboard over the sword of the boardroom. 

I am encouraged to think that there will be a living wage offered to all those who seek out writing as a career, and that value for creative types will take hold in ways that were very much in danger of being snuffed out. Movies and TV can return to that part of our lives that they once were: background noise and distraction from our own struggles. 

That will be five hundred dollars, please.