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.