If you are wondering what screenwriters are doing while on strike, some of it is private online projects that are pretty damn good, like The Old Negro Space Program (10:22).

It’s a very funny send up of Ken Burns documentaries (full disclosure, I went to Hampshire College for 2 years, and he graduated from there, though we never met, IIRC, he was up for an Oscar for his Brooklyn Bridge documentary my freshman year).

The movie studios are saying that they don’t need the writers, but it appears that a number of striking writers are in talks to launch Web start-ups, so I’m not sure if it’s not the other way around.