DramatistDreamer

Okay, as a freelancer, this hit.

Zheng ended Haley today. Sorry I missed this. I mean Halep. Whatever autocorrect.🙄

Man, say it isn’t so! R.I.P. Ray Liotta, a prolific character actor.

While those other dudes are dithering, James is still on the job.

Jack Dorsey stepped down from the Twitter board, many say should come as no surprise, given that it was expected but the timing is leading others to interpret this as a sign that Jack is trying to distance himself (belatedly) from Elon Musk, who he had been reportedly in favor of buying Twitter, and also taking it as a signal that Twitter is in disarray. Sorry for the punctuation issues, but anything involving these clowns doesn’t inspire me to spend more time and diligence as I can barely stand them.

If they want a business story that will play out like a soap opera, Y&R ought to have one of those companies be a social media platform instead of a podcast. Every day there are new twists and turns in this Twitter saga that reads like a kind of tech media soap opera.

Dang, fighting two very dreadful illnesses.😔

This video could go in a number of threads, but sadly it seems especially relevant to this thread right now.

Aren’t these the same people who advocate for “Free Speech” when it involves the right to insult people? Now they want to tamp down someone who wants to say something?

Don’t want to get too far ahead of myself and she is far from my fave, but Sloane Stephens really looked like she came to play today! That Nike kit is not flattering but I feel like that has become par for the course with most of the WTA and Nike these days.

I really hope so. It seems like so much of the news that I have read recently seems so focused on what the Biden. administration has not been able to accomplish without giving as much focus on what has been blocking the way. Please let there be some good changes between now and the midterm elections.🙏🏾

And it’s looking increasingly likely that Republicans will be back in power in the fall. I still hope that won’t be the case.

An absolutely dreadful society we’re living in. There is no reason to be living this way. It’s sick!

Tsonga looks exactly like both his parents together and Suga has grown but remains adorable. Tennis is losing so much personality and swagger because sadly, this marks the beginning of that. Tsonga is one of the very few who have beaten the Big 3 in majors. This ceremony is so poignant.

Oh man, if only this could be untrue. Another blow to Guiding Light fans. R.I.P. Ms. Lawson. Procter and Gamble soaps have suffered some huge losses of their talented alumni lately, without any significant way to truly eulogize them publicly.

Oh Tsonga:(( You tried your best though. 👏🏾

I just finished watching a PBS Masterpiece miniseries called Ridley Road. Initially I got a kick out of the fact that the main protagonist bore a slight resemblance to Ileana Douglas but I quickly got caught up in the actual story. I had never read the novel so I didn’t really know what to expect, but the story had a satisfying conclusion.

I’ve had to come to the realization years ago that not everyone has the same level of motivation.

Wow, are matches still being played at this hour?

Fantastic play from Anisimova, horrible kit by Nike. A reasonably entertaining match between her and Osaka.

Wow @Videnbas, that’s a whole lot to take in!😳 I stopped watching consistently around ‘92, so I missed a lot of the man-sharing, but I can’t say that I’m surprised. It’s odd to really think about but, out of CBS Daytime soaps, the P&G soaps seemed the most “progressive”, in stories (if not necessarily aesthetics) even though they were among the oldest shows of the genre.

I doubt that they will let that happen. Dang, Ons has hit the skids already? Wasn’t she regarded as one of the favorites? These new-ish gworls can’t be trusted, it seems.

I don’t really think you have to write an overtly sexual character to write a character who has a healthy sex life. Emma Snyder on ATWT was certainly no sexpot, lol. She ran a farm where she worked her hands until calloused and had a gaggle of children. Still, the show didn’t shy away from showing her as a sexual being, especially in the first six years she was on the canvas. Lucinda Walsh was a businesswoman who ran what was described as a Fortune 500 company. She was hard charging in the boardroom and the bedroom. She had many aspects to her character but she had needs and desires and made this clear. A few times, she almost teetered on the verge of desperation but not to the point where she was offering men her company to marry her, she was never that desperate. To me, Eric was far from sensual yet we still saw him with a harem’s worth of women in his life. Had Bill Spencer stayed longer, I have no doubt he would have caught up to Eric, or come close. I just don’t understand why we couldn’t have gotten more attention to those aspects of the lives of the women who were supposedly in Bill and Eric’s age range, especially in those years where the show was supposed to be at its best.

I just compare Stephanie and Sally with women in that same age group on other soaps—someone like Lucinda Walsh (ATWT) and there’s just no comparison. Even Emma Snyder (ATWT) in her onscreen prime outpaces Beth, Stephanie and Sally. Lucinda had an active onscreen sex life, that rivaled any man half her age and for awhile, so did wholesome Emma Snyder. And Lucinda legit had a man who, hard as he may have tried, couldn’t escape his love and desire for her. I can’t think of any comparable comparisons for women in that age group during that same period of time on B&B. Bill Spencer also had Donna Logan, a young woman younger than his daughter, fawning all over him for a period of time. One gets the sense that if he had wanted her, he would have had her.