Three Good Things and One Wash

The WGA Strike is officially over. And while the membership still has to vote over whether to accept the new deal, given that the vote to end the strike passed with something like 92%, it's going to get accepted.

CHUCK's season is over (boo), as is HEROES (probably best to give everyone a few months to get the taste of "Volume 2: Generations" out of their mouths.) LOST might manage an additional five episodes to add to the six that are already in the can; SUPERNATURAL is supposed to get a few more, too. Haven't heard anything about REAPER; BIONIC WOMAN is apparently dead, and I'm guessing LIFE is, too, though I haven't heard about it, either.

I heard a rumour that reality television shows' ratings in general are going down, possibly thanks to overexposure during the strike. If this isn't true, I don't want to hear it, because it makes me feel warm inside believing it is.

For myself, I can go back to having an infinitesimally microscopic chance to make some money out of H'wood, selling a spec, rather than none at all.

So that's good.

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HAVE I MENTIONED RECENTLY THAT FIONA STAPLES IS GOING TO BE A HUGE STAR?

From Rich Johnston's February 11, 2008 LYING IN THE GUTTERS column:

COMIC NEEDS EMERGENCY STAPLES

[Green Light]The first issue of Wildstorm's "Secret History of the Authority: Jack Hawksmoor" was solicited in last month's Previews; the second in this month's. Both name Koi Turnbull as the interior artist.

The actual interior artist for all six issues will be Fiona Staples (cover artist for several issues of Devil's Due's "Sheena"). Even though she got the job well after the first issue was solicited, the plan is to release the issues on the previously established schedule.

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"IT'S NOT A TUMOUR."

Which means a friend of mine gets to live a few years longer, albeit possibly with a mystery headache of some sort.

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SPEAKING OF MYSTERY HEADACHES

The CT-Scan of my sinuses showed some mucus and a cyst, but nothing to account for the 16-month-long headache I've had. So it's getting referred back to my family doctor, who'll either send me to a neurologist or a headache specialist. On the one hand, we're back to square one, and on the other, I don't need to have any surgical procedures performed in my sinus cavity.

Sure FEELS like a sinus headache...

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