Why do I have to Suffer?

There are many days when I work all day, do errands on my lunch hour, come home to throw in some laundry, get dinner going, tidy up some of the piles, eat, check up on the homework progress (or lack of it), clean up the dinner dishes, wash the pots and I'm done. I mean I'm done. My brain is tired and my body wants to stop moving. No, it's really not a physically strenuous schedule, and yes, I do get help with some of the household chores. No, I'm not curing cancer or giving lectures or writing inspirational passages all day. Just an average , any body's work day.

Some nights (not many) I'll do some paperwork, a creative project around the house, or just sit and enjoy a good book. But honestly? Most nights I just relax on my couch and look for a couple of hours of television to entertain me until my eyes get heavy. I don't want anything depressing, just something to make me laugh or enjoy the evening's quiet time.

So is it too much to ask Hollywood to get it's act together?

Is it really so freakin' hard? Seriously?

I know I'm a fairly simple person. Naive on many fronts. But why do we have to make everything so difficult?

We have writers. We have producers. We have many shows, movies, etc., etc., and have had for a long time now. It's a pretty big industry. It's a very lucrative industry. VERY VERY lucrative.
They know how to do it and make money at it. Everyone who contributes should share in the profits. Proportionally. Fine. You want to argue and make adjustments along the way...that's fine too.

But here's the thing. Hollywood is arguing because there are more and more mediums being developed upon which they can expand their product distribution. Again, I'm a simple person. But that means MORE money, right? There is even more money going into that BIG pot that Hollywood gets to split up. And some of it is mine. Eventually, by a circuitous route, but still mine.

Now, there is already a formula in place to split all that money up. They've been doing it for years. I know this because I've been watching for years. So have millions and millions of people. Hence, all the money. So can someone please tell me why production has to stop. Can't we say, "okay, as of November 5, 2007 anything we produce is going to fall under the new agreement guidelines". And, then figure out what that is. Was it really necessary to put so many people out of work? And no I'm not talking about the million-dollar actors and directors who have some bucks to fall back on. How about the camera guy, and the props guy, and the make-up people. How do they make their mortgage payments? And then there are the commissary workers, and the people that supply fabric for the costumes, and all the vendors that supply everything from the wood to build the sets to the specialty fields that supply trained animals. I can't imagine that's a big market. Did these vendors survive? Did they "just" have to lay a lot of people off? The trickle down effect is, I'm sure, staggering. And was it all necessary?

How about....you cannot air the "new" shows on the Internet until this is all straightened out. Still a big monetary incentive. Thousands of people are not thrown out of work. And I still get to watch House and Two and a Half Men.


Because.... seriously.... at the end of a day... why do I have to suffer?


Forgive the time relevance of this post. It has been on my mind many weeks now, but I have had computer issues. As in, some bastard stole mine.