Striking Bugs

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	*Photography*

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 – Striking Bugs

Burbank, the scene, the second week of the Hollywood writers' strike –


	The strikers – and the chant was, "Hey, Bugs Bunny, Stealing Money Isn't Funny!"

Ellen seems to be hiding, for good reason –

The syndicated "Ellen" is on the air without its union writers, to the WGA's publicly stated displeasure, but host Ellen DeGeneres was sweating it on the first episode taped after the strike started Nov. 5 (with digital-media residuals a central issue).

DeGeneres extended her trademark opening dance last Friday for lack of a monologue then launched into a laundry list of guest Vince Vaughn's attributes ("tall," "very, very tall"). Seven minutes to kill until the commercial break, she was told.

DeGeneres' next line: "How many pints are in a quart?"

The anti-Ellen is standing just across the street.




	And it's such a quiet, pleasant place –




	Of course…

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.


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