22nd Dec 2007
Tips to Ruin Your Holidays
1. Be a writer on strike. You’re to blame for everything. Why can’t you just continue to churn out content without regard to how you’re paid? Honestly. Some people.
2. Have a heart attack, but ignore your symptoms. Apparently there is a death spike on Christmas and New Years because we don’t want to disrupt our holidays for an emergency room visit. Trust me—it disrupts the holiday more if you’re suddenly dead.
Let’s see here, since I rarely watch TV anyway and treat most programs, full of plots and narrative structures designed for the least common denominator possible with a sort of contempt, I guess you could say the strike doesn’t effect me much at all. If I was a writer on strike, I’d demand the ability to write thought-provoking, meaningful scripts that didn’t pander towards making the most profit possible.
My Grandmother died a week before Christmas five years back and it’s only been this year that the event hasn’t cast a pallor over the whole holiday. And her death from a cerebral blood clot was not a result of neglecting her condition. She fell and then died six hours later.
I’m sorry to hear about our grandmother.
My grandma had a heart attack just after Christmas…and, yes, it casts a pallor for years to come…..whether or not she could have been helped by a doctor….I’ll never know, but I found that death spike data really striking.
Could be worse
(Err… That was intended as a comment on the writers strike, not people’s grandmothers dying. Sorry, y’all.)
It could always be worse.
That was a funny strip. That’s about the same effect that the writers’ strike had on me too.