It just occurred to me that I was just as fannishly attached and completely nerdy about soap operas as people who are not me are about comic books. I can tell you storylines from soap operas I didn't even watch! I could give you the Spaulding, Bauer and Lewis family trees. I remember when the actors changed. Mine are gone now, although I guess I could go back to Days of Our Lives. I haven't watched it since 1986, but I still recognize characters! The last time I tried to watch it, they were doing this horrible internal monologue voiceover that drove me insane!
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 30, 2012 8:46:14 am PDT #16079 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
sj - Jul 30, 2012 8:46:26 am PDT #16080 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Heh. I totally remember Sherry Stringfield from GL. Edit: "Christina 'Blake' Bauer Thorpe Lindsay Spaulding Spaulding"!!!
Me too! And now I'm missing GL again.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 30, 2012 8:48:04 am PDT #16081 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I still miss the Bauer Barbeque (even though the one that happened after they got rid of the Bauer house set was really unpleasant).
sj - Jul 30, 2012 8:52:22 am PDT #16082 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It just occurred to me that I was just as fannishly attached and completely nerdy about soap operas as people who are not me are about comic books. I can tell you storylines from soap operas I didn't even watch! I could give you the Spaulding, Bauer and Lewis family trees. I remember when the actors changed. Mine are gone now, although I guess I could go back to Days of Our Lives. I haven't watched it since 1986, but I still recognize characters! The last time I tried to watch it, they were doing this horrible internal monologue voiceover that drove me insane!
Soaps were completely my fandom when I was young, and when I first started using the internet it was to look for soap fan sites. I was a Guiding Light and an As The World Turns fan when I was younger, with occasional All My Children watching if I was home sick from school. Then when Michael Zaslow was sick and moved to One Life to Live, I gave up ATWT for OLTL. And started watching AMC religiously again when GL was canceled. Now all four of them are gone, and I get my soap fix from General Hospital, which I had never watched before, but I followed some of the OLTL characters there.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 30, 2012 8:56:35 am PDT #16083 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am still mad at myself for discarding (maybe 3 years ago) my collection of video tapes of ATWT and GL. I think I had every episode from about 1986 - 1991-- maybe longer. I could have put them up on youtube!
Liese S. - Jul 30, 2012 8:59:00 am PDT #16084 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We should probably take this to the F2F thread.
Okay, heading there now.
aurelia - Jul 30, 2012 9:08:14 am PDT #16085 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oh, wow. An actor I've worked with is competing in the Paralympics. [link]
brenda m - Jul 30, 2012 9:13:48 am PDT #16086 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Neat. I remember her from that show at the Goodman.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2012 9:30:28 am PDT #16087 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I freaking love the Paralympics.
ION, I finally did my piece of the reviews of my boss and another coworker! I kind of wish/hope my boss asked some other people for feedback on me, but wasn't confident enough to request it. Ah well.
sj - Jul 30, 2012 10:17:59 am PDT #16088 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am still mad at myself for discarding (maybe 3 years ago) my collection of video tapes of ATWT and GL. I think I had every episode from about 1986 - 1991-- maybe longer. I could have put them up on youtube!
A lot of them are up on you tube. I threw out a bunch of tapes too, but the picture quality and sound on them were really poor.