There’s gotta be a whole panoply of emotions swirling through Hollywood in advance of the strike–anger, frustration, exhilaration–but here on the internet (ironically, one of the contested spaces from which the writers want a larger cut), we’re pretty much all looking from the outside in. So that means it’s business as usual…which means snark and opportunism. Here’s some of the best:

• There were no blogs in 1988, during the last WGA strike–there was only Moonlighting.
• AMC’s Future of Classic blog has a post about strike movies. There’s a poll where you can vote for your favorite, but seems to be busted, because my vote didn’t register. For the record, I chose Matewan.
• Also from FoC: A warning that the longer this goes on, the higher the probability of a Jackass 3.
• “I’m Brian Williams, and I’ll be hosting Saturday Night Live this week. And if the threatened writers’ strike takes place, I’ll be hosting My Name is Earl.” [Lost Remote]
• The masters of non-scripted content at World of Wonder use their latest podcast to, um, wonder if a strike could actually happen. But then Fenton Bailey remembers, “I was like, ‘War in Iraq? What war? There isn’t gonna be one!’ Don’t take my word for it!”