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Oh now I remember this. Ugly stuff. So much needless sickness.

It was probably one of the first songs I ever heard that felt like a real person singing real emotions, odd as it is to say. The whole thing has so many layers along with the slick production.

I've been watching some of this recently. Is Eddie leaving? (I hope not as the actor is hot) Who is Miley to Drew and Harper? Who was Talia? Is his name Miley?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/arts/music/lloyd-price-personality-hitmaker-is-dead-at-88.html Always loved "Personality.

I'll always remember her best from Bachelor Party. A gorgeous woman.

Even political pundits who love to be contrarian and downplay serious concerns, like Nate Silver, Matthew Yglesias, and Dave Wasserman, are now openly saying things like if something doesn't change, democracy is likely finished and if a Democrat does win in 2024, the results will not be certified. Manchin, Sinema, Warner, Feinstein just don't give a damn about the reforms needed to safeguard democracy. And unless that changes, then we're well and truly screwed. And the leftists who spend their time berating Breyer to retire (as if he is going to listen or care) are just distracting from the point.

Sela mentions it in a Bobbie Wygant interview (so rare to find Sisters interviews). I put it in the primetime soaps thread.

This is very sad to watch as a commentary on America today, but it did make me laugh.

Thanks. I shouldn't cloud the Clarke allegations with other matters, but hearing about them just makes me even more wary of what was going on at the time.

That would have caused some conflict with Holly (from WSPR) and Vanessa (given their feud) too. JFP got a lot of praise for her expertise in bloc voting for nominations and wins. An example of the industry, and the press, being unable to see the forest for the trees. In the long run, did any of those Emmys help anybody with anything? The only soap that might have benefited, in not immediately being canceled, was Santa Barbara, but even that is generous.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/07/us-jobs-added-april-hiring-slows-485641 The talking points are already all over the place - unemployment benefits are to blame, people are lazy and worthless and don't want to break a sweat, and more and more states are getting cookies and cuddles from the media for shutting them down in order to force people to return to work. Raising wages or having more fair compensation is still seen as radical and never able to happen. I know people who have been out of work for going on months and haven't even been able to get in touch with unemployment, let alone draw any, but of course they are just lazy bums, ruining the economy. One of those days where you really hate what your country has become...or was all along.

Today and tomorrow are election results for Scotland's parliament. The SNP have the most seats, but not enough of a majority to push for another independence referendum. People are waiting to see if they will hit that number. Here's Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader, saying it plainly: You can follow results here:

I have already said this but I have wondered just how toxic the atmosphere was on the first season of Doctor Who. The main reason Christopher Eccleston quit was apparently due to a director, but I wonder... Barrowman has skirted the line for years now.

Thank you for finding those. @AdelaideCate007 also put up some 1993 episodes with those - thank you.

That story was, I believe, a huge flop with fans. The character was sent packing. I can't remember if he was later killed off.

Justin Deas screaming on a rooftop for an hour. Shameless Emmy bait that nearly got the show canned.

@vetsoapfan @Mitch @Bill Bauer I hope you all see the above.

Definitely. Janet experienced so much of that first-hand, especially the weird obsession with her love life when she was a young girl - to the point of having to deny, then and repeatedly since, that she gave away a love child. It's one of those things people laugh about, but imagine being the one who has to hear that for 25-30-35 years.

Loathsome media darling and newfound Trump chanteuse Elise Stefanik, who has all the charisma of a tree stump and presents herself like Sarah Huckabee Sanders' very very slightly less awkward sister, had a meltdown over Nancy Pelosi shading her. It was the usual performative outrage, designed to raise more money from dumbasses, but you can tell from just how feverish the language is that deep down Nancy got her and it's going to leave a mark. Nancy is expert at stuff like that. This will be the first and last time I enjoy anything involving that sack of potatoes from NY-21.

Not surprising, but absolutely infuriating.

The Rising tends to get lots of love from the dead-end left because they hate the Democratic Party and have many segments talking about how terrible it is. Krystal Ball is an alleged grifter (just ask the people who donated to her PAC a few years ago) and changes political allegiances with the wind, but a lot of people love to ignore this because she says the right buzzwords. I'm also not sure why she keeps trying to do those thumbnail poses that look so awkward. She looks like someone asked Beth Hart to "do sexy."

At the time I just told myself that she latched on to Frank because he was kind to her. I do think it was a thin story, as so much of that period was (even in that story itself, I never bought that Eleni would go into business with Alan-Michael after his scheming and betrayals). There was not much to pick from, sad to say. I remember when watching a particular nadir for me was Buzz having to live in a hovel or something and Nadine had to help him with a mobster and money schemes (I later learned the mobster was played by an actor JFP had worked with on Santa Barbara - I guess that sums up her storytelling choices). Lucy was not the first example of JFP making her vision the dominant force above any storytelling logic (that would probably be Buzz), but she was the one that bugged me most, mainly because of the timing with Harley leaving, and also because they kept forcing her on Alan-Michael even though viewers never cared. I did start to like her more during the Brent story, but that really was her only strong story even though she was on the show for 3 and a half years.

I think in recent years a lot of people have projected themselves onto Britney in a way which can often feel gross and invasive. It reminds me a lot of what happened in the last 10-15 years of Michael Jackson's life.