I still miss the Bauer Barbeque (even though the one that happened after they got rid of the Bauer house set was really unpleasant).

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.

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!

We should probably take this to the F2F thread.

Okay, heading there now.

Oh, wow. An actor I've worked with is competing in the Paralympics. [link]

Neat. I remember her from that show at the Goodman.

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.

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.

For some reason, the alumni of my high school have a face book group to post about people who graduated from that school who have died. A lot of it is remembering people who died while they were in school. Because I come from a small town, there are people who are a good 10 or 15 years older than me who I know as well as people who are younger than I am. Holy moses, it is depressing looking at this long list of kids who died in tractor accidents, football accidents, boating accidents, falling off pick-up trucks, gun accidents and suicides. Not to mention the murder. One thing I can say that is good, is there seemed to be a lot more accidents in the 70's and 80's than now- better safety precautions, less farming and hunting in the community (not that that is necessarily good) less drunk driving.

"Open the kimono" in a local letter to the editor: [link]

It's everywhere.