DRW50

Summer of 1992 is when my interest started to wane. No Alex, recasting Blake, Mindy leaving, the woeful, dull as hell Nick mushmouthing "Melinda" 50000 times a week, tedious Mallet/Harley and Harley losing her spark, etc. At the time the Frank and Julie story was one of the few that interested me, along with the custody battle for Peter. I enjoyed seeing her scheme. It helped that I hated Lucy and she did too.

@jam6242 I thought you might be interested in this, mostly just for the sake of curiosity. Some truly bizarre and cringeworthy cable access show - at about 24 or 25 minutes one of the Joyce Dewitt-esque lady singers doing endless spoken word sings a bit of "Try To Remember" and dedicates it to Bill Hayes, mentioning he almost lost his life. WKYT-TV 27 1969-73 Town Talk June Rollings and Ted Grizzard - YouTube

McConnell is lucky the media will suddenly turn into that "I can't read" meme from Arthur. The knives continue to get thrown around:

Now that the increasingly self-decimating deadend/grifter left is obsessing over Ryan Knight wearing a "Medicare 4 All" beret that makes him look like he reenacts Shirley Temple movies for tiktok, here's another reminder of the allegations that he invented stories about a sick dog to steal money from followers.

Not that it ever really matters (it didn't when McConnell said he would work to do nothing but stop Obama from getting reelected), but McConnell finally saying the quiet part out loud should put the "why isn't Biden bipartisan" [!@#$%^&*] to bed once and for all.

The Beltway types have been pushing this narrative for a year now, sped up even more when they feverishly tried to make this a wedge issue for Biden before settling on border hysteria. I saw Seth Mandel, the right winger who is an enabler of his hatemonger wife (who said she was fine with killing old people in order for her kids to be in school), using this article to claim people who are cautious about reopening are just like Tucker Carlson. And the statistics are BS too.

A lot of the Trump cultists on social media have moved to Substack. I wonder if any of them got his people to have him start up a blog.

@Vee Maggie Haberman aside, this made me laugh and laugh. All these mentally ill grifters just keep slowly walking into Trump's knife.

Sorry. I didn't see it while going through the clips.

Josh Barro is one of those tedious faux-macho edgelords that make up so much of the Bernie bros, but as Liz Cheney faces her political doom, this same thought popped into my mind:

I may be thinking about that shithead Mario Lopez. Never mind...

I mostly avoid CNN but I did watch the clip of Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo. So much of CNN is performative and patronizing, which is one of the reasons I hate that network, but Lemon's resigned disgust was all too real. He was also clearly not interested in Cuomo's hollow Beltway babble about how they needed to hear from Santorum because he represents the views of those who don't believe the election results were real and so on - as Lemon said, we already hear plenty from those people! As much as CNN has remained a hack factory over the years, at least Lemon has seemed to genuinely change for the better over the last decade. Anyway:

Wasn't Jerry on some flop Dick Clark "male View" or was that someone else?

The story of the DuMont lineup being thrown in the river makes me angry even thinking about it. I just perennially hope for something, anything, of an old soap to show up.

Personally I think we're in better company. Seeing this stuff made me emotional, I have to admit - what an exquisite and truly unique show this was and could have remained (and, compared to some other soaps, did manage to maintain some fragment of itself to the end). I will always be sorry that so many of its best times were junked by NBC and will likely never be seen again.

Someone uploaded Points of View (BBC's viewer response show) episodes from last year, and this one has a segment on how inspired various viewers were after watching Bob Ross. It's touching to see his influence remains after all this time.

I think Robin was fine, and she was a good physical match for what Kelly would be - she was also a strong dramatic actress, and for however difficult she may have been, she worked well with the other Capwells. But I think there was something very special about Carrington. She lit up the screen and she worked so well with just about everybody. I was just a kid when I first saw her on SB and I was immediately fascinated by her, along with Eden, Sophia, Julia, and Gina. I'm sorry that SB was her last (or one of her last) real roles.

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Thanks, @Vee . I have mixed feelings about that decision - I think they could have worked Strange in in a way that would not have seemed like him being her savior and chastiser, or becoming all about him - but I can understand the idea and appreciate that they wanted to give Wanda her own voice. I will say if they were concerned about white optics, then I find myself even more in the camp that feels they didn't quite do enough at the end with the Monica and Wanda relationship to avoid racial tropes.

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Coons also recently tried to use post-Jan 6 unity as a reason to not release vaccine patents, which made me cringe. I know he has a strong voice in Biden's ear, but I'm sure Biden will make his own decisions. I just feel like the messaging and strategy for so much of these bills is becoming a dumpster fire. Maybe that was always going to be the case with 50 seats and I should just be happy we got another stimulus, I don't know.

@JaneAusten here is a tweet on what you were mentioning: