Daily Archives: February 9, 2009

SAG changes leadership, holds on to strike authorization

Despite a 59 percent vote in favor of new leadership for SAG that would rather negotiate with AMPTP instead of strike, SAG has not yet voted to table strike authorization. This is after a campaign that promised to keep actors working. SAG, which has been woefully out of touch with economic realities and how it …

February 9, 2009 – 3:20 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Avoiding temptation

After losing over eighty pages of a novel I was working on when my hard drive crashed, the temptation as I’ve worked to get started on the book again has been to attempt to reconstruct what I had already written. The trouble with that approach is like the trouble with caring for flowering trees; it …

February 9, 2009 – 2:37 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)