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The Freewayblogger is on a West Coast Peace Tour

If you live on the West Coast and are lucky, you've seen the work of the Freeway Blogger. This video highlights some of his recent work. Freeway Blogger himself has promised to be on the thread tonight, so feel free to post any questions or comments.

Open Thread below...

Our man skippy the bush kangaroo went to show his support of the WGA strike in Hollywood, and it looks like there's going to be some more picketers out there:

it looks like the networks are going to get squeezed from all sides. the news writers for cbs have voted to go on strike. hollywood reporter:

after working without a contract for more than two years, cbs news employees represented by the wga east have approved a strike through an authorization vote.

eighty-one% of the 75%-80% of the union's rank and file who turned out in a special election thursday and friday voted to authorize the strike. that, however, doesn't mean a strike is imminent. it first would have to be approved by the negotiating committee and upper echelon of the wga.

the wga already is in a three-week-old strike with many of its members in a separate union for tv and film writers, which has resulted in picket lines in new york and on the west coast. the cbs news union's negotiating committee is scheduling a meeting after thanksgiving to assess the situation, wgae president michael winship said..[..]

if this were a conservative blog, we'd make some crack about how the cbs news execs were going to have to make the news up themselves now.

I don't know about you, but I'm seriously jonesing for The Daily Show and Colbert Report...anything that's gonna squeeze the networks into getting to the table and negotiating is good with me.

Today Show Boat Photo-Op

This is funny stuff. I've been working on it for a couple of hours and just got the east coast feed. To boat or not to boat. On the east coast feed, Michelle is paddling in what looks like a river-until a couple of people go walking by. The west coast feed is a bit different.

Download | play -WMP West Coast Feed-no boat

Download | play -QT West Coast Feed

Download | play -WMP-East Coast Feed-with boat (hattip The Political Teen for the East Coast feed)

On the west coast feed they got rid of it entirely and had her standing in the water.

"In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera _ making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep....read on

The corporate big wigs didn't take too kindly to West's tirade against President Bush earlier today on the Concert for Hurricane Relief, so they edited his remarks on the West Coast feed. (hat tip Digby)

Jane was kind enough to throw a BBQ for us West Coast Bloggers that was hosted by Steve Audio. (sorry Steve) I haven't been able to get out much becasue if my injury so it was a treat to meet so many for the first time. I want to thank Ezra for driving me there. She blogged about it here.