The strike goes on

Today marked my first visit to the ANTM writer's strike picket line! I heaved myself out of bed at the crack of 10:30 AM to support my man and hang out with special guests like Lisa D'Amato and Ebony Taylor, who were both on Cycle 5.

Also making a special appearance was a little cockroach you may be familiar with if you watched Cycle 6 and now understand that live animals can be Bedazzled. (Click on that link and remember Tana, from national television.)

It kind of sucks that I sleep through most of the actual picketing every day, but I was so happy to spend a few hours with everyone today and hold a sign while marching in a circle and chanting. Unforunately, your 11 AM being my 4 AM, I was a little out of sorts and chanting all wrong:

"WHAT DO WE WANT?"
"YES!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"
"CONTRACTS!"

I also entered the picket line without having studied the actual chants anyway, so even when I perked up a little bit, I found my contributions to be conspicuously literal:

"ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT?"
Everyone else: "DAMN RIGHT!"
Me: "Yes!"

"WHO'S GOT THE POWER?"
Everyone else: "WE'VE GOT THE POWER!"
Me: "Is it us?"

It was great to see how together and organized it all was, with so many people gathered in front of the building, with t-shirts, signs, a trailer, special guests, support from cars driving by, lots of press, etc. Someone from NPR recorded the sound of our chanting, and you may hear me on the radio, buried among many other voices, responding to "WHAT DO WE WANT?" with "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS, BUT I WANT LUNCH!"

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