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!
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.
Falling off pickup trucks? There aren't many good ways to die, but that's really really not one. Please don't do that.
