This Place is Dead Alright

Due to Ronnie being quite new to the internet :o) he's managed to accidentally kill off This Place is Dead. This means that both he and Tommy have had to turn up at the doss house, bundles in hand, looking for new internet accommodation.

You'll find Ronnie and an already healthy number of posts at www.ronniebrown.co.uk while Tommy's monthly posts can be found at Nice Marmot. And as a new addition to the former TPID family Ronnie's wife Claire now has her own blog. Go visit them all.

Speechless

From tomorrow a number of high profile actors will be taking part in an internet campaign to highlight the Writers' Guild Strike.

Run by Deadline Hollywood and entitled 'Speechless' the campaign features Sean Penn, Holly Hunter, Laura Linney, Alan Cumming, Jay Leno, Harvey Keitel, Tina Fey, Tim Robbins, David Schwimmer, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Andre 3000, Chazz Palminteri, Jason Bateman, Justine Bateman, Rosanna Arquette, Diane Ladd and Matthew Perry among many others.

"During the first day of the strike, director/writer George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl) and writer Alan Sereboff (The Red House) were struck by the talent surrounding them on the picket line. Hickenlooper suggested to Sereboff that they focus their energies on a creative campaign. That night, they met at WGA Headquarters with writers Ian Deitchman (Life As We Know It), Justin Zakham (The Bucket List) and director Josh Marston (Maria Full of Grace). After conferring, the team came to an agreement: What better way to bring attention to the issues regarding the Internet then to use the Internet itself?"

In this video below one of the writing staff of The Daily Show brings you Not The Daily Show.



In that clip there's talk of Viacom suing YouTube's parent company Google for a Billion Dollars. Here on the real Daily Show Jon Stewart and Demetri Martin explain how that might work.

Showrunners Out on Strike

Here's a video of the showrunners of TV shows such as The Shield, Scrubs, Family Guy and ER out on strike. There's more of this kind of stuff at United Hollywood.

Whiskerino

As some of you may know I am part of Whiskerino 2007, a beard growing contest. It's run by Michael of Yewknee and the Scottish contigent is spearheaded by Ronnie at This Place is Dead.

Simply we have to grow a beard from 1 November to 29 February. Some girls joined in, but unfortunatley they have now been thrown out of the site. You can keep in touch with our progress by visiting the Whiskerino site.

Tom

Ronnie

Mong Minger

Pish Search

Some people arrive at this blog through some odd searches. It would appear that there are a few sexy terms that bring folk here. I'm glad however that someone somewhere likes the YOMG girls so much.

Torrent Tom

While reading today's Independent I discovered that I'm an expert on Bit Torrents.

We Have The Numbers

A while back, friend of 'Pish Ronnie of This Place Is Dead fame got a tattoo based on some graffiti he'd seen on holiday in the States. Here are some possible follow ups.

Sometimes you need to be reminded that people can be just brilliant.

Search the 'Net With Dice

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