MORE TO COME

I GOT ASKED to got to a movie junket for alvin and the chipmunks through the website i occassionally write for, fandango. so i am now at the four seasons hotel (v. posh) in santa barbara (more specifically montecito, home of OPRAH!!!)

this is the freebie they gave for the press. i invited remi to join me as shes' unemployed and who wouldn't want a free nighta the 4 seasons. we went to lunch at the restaurant and had "oprahs pomagranate martinis" and got totally buzzed and had to walk into town to walk it off!

i'm off to the press screeening of the film and tomorow is the junket, stayed tuned for the junket interview on fandango as I'll be on camera!!!!

today was a rainy day and even though i had my regular morning of walking in the park and dunkin donuts coffee, I still found myself without a car for the better half of the afternoon. thankfully alyson rescued me from parental house arrest after she was done with school. we headed to the park and threw the ball for her totally fucking fat thyroid conditioned dog Peety. We then headed to coffee labs for some tea and decaf for alyson, becuase alyson thinks it's "crazy" to drink caffeine after 3 pm "sarah I can't do that I'll be up all night, what are you crazy?" my dad says the same exact thing. AARP-Alyson and I chatted and she told me that I'm no longer depressed and in a funk. She then said "remember when I told you you were in a funk, you got mad"
my reply: no, alsyon I did not get mad because you told me I was in a funk, I got mad becuase you said "you're in a funk and you're not fun anymore and I no longer want to hang out with you." we continued to gossip more about people we love!

we then headed to pay/half where I got the most darling outfit!!!! and soooo cheap. I got this cute jacket tha looks like it coudl be sold at anthropologie and then these brown cords which i've been dying for a pair, but J. Crew sells them for a million dollars and I'm lazy.

all and all a successful day.

oh and I've come up with a new way to describe my constant problem with my stomach: Accelerated intestinal transit... i think u all know what i'm talking about.

Hey everyone. I am back. Well not in LA, yet, I'll get there tues at some point, I'm still in NY. It's been a fun 10 days, how come it goes by so fast when you're having a great ol' time, but when life is shit, it drags on?

I have so much to cover, and no energy to do so. To give you a funny anecdote to my trip, last night Alyson and I drove up to Emma's new house on 3 acres in pound ridge, it's fucking awesome. we had dinner, drinks and played a few rounds of the game Taboo. If I told you this version of Taboo we played that we came up with ourselves has never been played before or will be played since, you will have to believe me. I have never laughed so hard during this game and the reason I'm not elaborating is b/c it was wildly innapropriate.

anyway, alyson and I get on the road at like 1:30am and head back to I-town and i arrive at my parents house at like 215 or something. and my parents get all pissed at me that I showed up at 215 without calling. I'm like, uh i didn't call becaues I"m a grown up and I'm allowed to stay out past 2am if i so please. but they were all worried, i have no idea why, but the next day my mom made up a story that a bunch of people had been recently killed by drunk drivers on the coincidentally the exact road we were driving on. (now mind you she didn't tell me this before my journey up there which is why I know it's not a true story, she likes t omake stuff up.)

anyway, thankfully i wasn't drunk and could have a conversation basically letting them knwo that i'm an adult and that's the end of story.

will fill you on on more stories and pics. I had a great t'giving!!!! my neice and newphew are the fucking cutest!!!

Picket Party

yesterday a group of us had a picket party at CBS radford, like 15 of us planned to picket for the same shift. It's fun when yo'ure walking in a circle with people you know and need to catch up with. It was the hottest day of the picketing, i was sweating my ass off and i even got a tan on my arm (and i was wearing 45 SPF)

I ran into this woman who i used to write with on that 80s show. And she is CRAZY!! I guess I never realized it, but I havent seen her in prob. 4+ years and this is how the conversation went:

me: how's your husband?
her: he's good, why does everyone ask about my husband, everyoen always asks about him, why does everyone do that?

then me a little later.

Me: how are your cats?
her: my cats?
me: yeah remember when I house sat and took care of them?
her: not my cats, my dogs. Don't call them cats, they're not cats. THey're dogs.

UMM IT WAS 5 FUCKING YEARS AGO!! I'M MAKING CONVERSATION
and everything out of her mouth.... she was like captain defensivo!

I'm so bummed I missed my tv boyfriend dr. house picketing at fox the one fucking day i took off from picketing.

I'm off to the showers and my ride is taking me to the airport in like 20 mins. I'm flying to NYC baby! then going to cape cod tomorrow until sunday and then in the Irv. for over a week, so no more picketing (although I might do it in NYC with the WGA east)

you prob. won't get this joke

but...

last week a picture of an agent was taken at the picket line. he's talking to a client. The woman who runs the BIGGEST hollywood strike update blog in town ran a caption contest... GUESS WHO WON!

you prob. wont get it if you've never had your agent tell you you cant be a drama writer now b/c youve only ever b een a sitcom writer... but it's the worsT

I didn't take credit b/c this agent just so happens to be on from my agency and is one of my agents.

check it out here.

WHY WE'RE STIRKING

In case you guys are confused by why exaclty the WGA is striking here's a great piece written by doris egan who writes house about why we're striking. WHY WE STRIKE AND WHY NONE OF THIS BENEFITS US BUT WILL BENEFIT FUTURE WRITERS

One pic of my rally posse, one pic of the CAA assistant handing out churros, two pics of the rally on friday at FOX that had 4000 people and wasn't on the cover of the la times. oh media conglmoerates are so fun when they're promoting the view of the studios and not the little writers. oh and one with people laying down in the middle of pico and shutting it down.

This week I'm going out there in my gorilla suit. oh yeah, i'm getting on the news!!!

This week on strike

since the iraq war started, there is this show on CNN called this week in war.

this is my equivalent for being on strike!

what i've learned this week

1. never date writers. while on strike you have to picket with other writers. Other writers you will inevitably see on the picket line. some you haven't returned their calls, others you pretend to not see during a 4 hour circle you're making and passing them over and over and over... you get the drill. also what works is going to opposite direction by shouting "hey it's rob" every time you walk by him to avoid the fact you rejected him. so to avoid these and even more awkward situations, I have decided not to date writers.

2. striking is hard. seriously, marching in a circle for 4 hours a day is why i didn't join the army. that and the misogynistic environment and lack of food selections, i'm guessing they dont serve sushi in iraq.

3. strikers get treats. all the talent agents sent out their gophers with hot cocoa, churros (i have a picture of that one yum), cookies, burritos, pizzas etc. we get to put back on all the calories we just burned off. Yum! even local catering companies came out with boxes of different treats they can do with their stickers/business cards.

Heres the link to my story about strike and date yesterday on the picket lines!!!!!

Here's a pic of the cute boy i asked out in my story. Our first picture!! AWww. I'm going to frame and send it to him when the strike is over. That wont scare him too much.

also how cute is this little kid. The slogan for the strike is "pencils down." check out his sign!

And the picture of the tall guy in the brown shirt is my friend trae who is not a writer but works at fox and came out to visit!!

ON STRIKE SHUT 'EM DOWN HOLLYWOOD'S A UNION TOWN

IS IT ME OR DO MY BOOBS LOOK GINORMOUS IN THIS SHOT?

The Osmonds Family

Little known fact: I am related to the Osmonds. They Hail from Ogden, Utah as does my family. my dad and his entire family were born and raised in Ogden. A great uncle of mine married one of the Osmonds Aunts.

So I want to keep in mind the prayers as Mr. Osmond died this week.

WRITERS GUILD STRIKE DAY 3

Well, today is day 3 on the picket lines. I've lost a pound i think hitting the pavement, everyone I talk to also is exahusted, writers are not built to walk 4 hours a day, we're built to sit in front of computers for 12 hours a day and eat candy.

Tomorrow I'm def going to fox to picket and here's why:

Single Writer Picketing seeks Single Writer Picketing: I'm told it took one very funny and ridiculously tall writer to come up with the idea, and one sympathetic married writer to name the place. So... "Single Strikers Picketing". Date: Thursday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm. Place: Intersection of Galaxy and Avenue of the Stars. (Unfortunately, by the time this strike gets settled, writers could meet, marry and have a baby with weeks to spare.)

my camera is in the car, but i prom tonight to load pics up of me on the strike line. And i'll take a ton of pics of the date and picket tomorrow! you can vote on my eligible bachelors. what am i going to wear?!

STRIKE!

I'm totally on strike people! it's on. I was on the front line yesterday at universal studios walking the picket line, i got pics on my camera to come!

At universal we chanted 4 more cents! which is all we want from each dvd sale. the producers wont give it to us as it cuts into their $26.00/dvd profit! yeah, it's that ridiculous.

today at paramount i picketed with my friend Dybner and my new friend bob who is stacey's old friend bob. We have now run into each other 3 times in the past week after meeting at a halloween party. We had heard so much about each other.

Also on the picket line today at paramount were a few celebs: Jeff Garlin from Curb Your Enthusiam who is also a member of the WGA and Valerie Harper from Mary Tyler moore show and Valerie. She was there as a member of SAG in support of our plight (they get the same deal as us when their contract is up in June '08)

I think i'm heading to FOX tomorrow so stay tuned, they got a lot of celebs on that line. I'm also looking for single hot men.


Oh and back to bob for a second, he told me he can see why stacey and i are good friends except I'm a little more amped up energy wise, i think he called her a little more low key. when I took offense to that (i've been described as wild since my elementary school days when in kindergarten kids would come up to me and tell me they wanted to have me at their birthday party but their paretns won't let them invite me as i'm too "wild" so you can see why i'm hyper sensitive 27 years later. FINE 28 YEARS! I LIE ABOUT MY AGE ALL THE TIME!!

So currently I am without internet at home. For the past 4 months I’ve been stealing it from my neighbor. Then on Friday morning I woke up and BAM, no more interent. I thought to myself, surely this will be rectified soon, but alas, it’s now Sunday and my airport hasn’t seen it since. Personally I think they’re kinda selfish moving or turning it off seeing I needed it.

This is going to complicate my life. I also use the internet at the WGA but it doesn’t open it’s doors until 10:30 am and I get up much earlier than that. So this weekend since I don’t have the internet to waste hours and hours of my life on, I have finished my fandango article that was due Friday, I’ve also mopped all the floors in my apartment, dusted the entire apartment, vacuumed the entire apartment, cleaned up everything that’s been lying around my apartment, really really obsessively cleaning the place.

Now tomorrow I strike! You’re supposed to strike where you work, seeing as I work at the WGA, it would be weird to strike there since they’re my union. I guess I could strike at my apartment, just walk up and down my street with my picket. But I don’t think this will be very effective. I think I’m going to head to CBS with my picket and red t-shirt.

Friday night I went to my fave restaurant, dominicks and had dinner with bernsie and Kyle. Then we went to a bday party for Paula in santa monica. Sat.: Monique, natalya, bernsie and I went to janae baby shower in fullerton AKA really far away from LA and boy did we talk about that the entire way down . So far in fact that they have Chik-fil-a down there, they only have that in like Georgia, if that’s any indication how far away this party was from LA.

I’m about to head to dinner again at dominicks with Christie and her BF and his friends. Yum.