There are 10,000 writers marching in front of my building right now, making their way west on Hollywood Blvd.
It's times like this that I wish I had listened to Josh when he said, "you should really go with a digital camera that uses AA batteries, rather than a rechargeable. You know that when that crucial photo-op comes you're camera is going to unexpectedly die." He was right. I got about 4 crappy pictures before I was instructed to change my battery pack.
I was first disrupted by multiple long, deep train-like horns. I thought myself, "hmm, that's odd. There are no trains on Hollywood and Cahuenga." So I went out to investigate. The horns I heard were actually coming from 4 or 5 eighteen wheelers which were ever-so slowly paving the way for 10,000 picketing would-be writers dressed in red and chanting, "when I say 'union' you say 'power' 'union'... 'POWER', 'union'... 'POWER'!!" There were people on stilts, in costumes, helicopters in the sky and more camera crews than I could care to begin counting.
But alas... my attempt at amateur journalism is halted by the fact that my camera is out of batteries. That's not a good sign.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Writers Strike Provides Distraction
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6 comments:
I'm so crazy with my camera that I keep a spare battery at home, and if I even think my battery's wearing down, I keep it in my purse.
But, I am crazy.
seriously your job sounds so cool. i am jealous!
Kels: unfortunately this has nothing to do with my job. The protest just happened to be outside my building and I took a self-relegated break for some on-the-scene observance. Luckily my office IS in a busy part of town, i.e. Hollywood.
Marissa: No wonder you're always on point with the pictures. I was so disappointed that I couldn't capture the moment!
oops sorry i commented on the wrong post...seriously i am total dork sometimes, i was reading one of the ones below this one.
holy could i say the word one any more?
Just one more of these 'ones' on any one of these posts makes for one awfully plural sounding 'one'.
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