DramatistDreamer

The CRT hysteria is reminiscent of the Northern Triangle caravan hysteria from two years ago. All over the news until the day after November 2020 elections. While news like this hardly ever gets reported. While also ignoring the fact that VP Harris has been making frequent diplomatic trips to Northern Triangle countries, including to Honduras last week.

Which is why the runaway inflation narrative is almost constantly being pushed, rather than the very real story, which is that, in the midst of all this misery, the billionaires made money hand over fist, while still neglecting to pay their fair share of the tax burden.

Me either. That story had life to it and Tracey played it for all it was worth. JG got unnerved by highly vocal stans of the Lauren & Michael coupling and backed away from letting the story unfold and resolve the way it should have. When it ran hot, it was a very entertaining story though.

Very telling. Probably the last time I heard or seen her involved in a halfway decently written story that was all her own.

Did Peng Shuai light the Olympic cauldron yet?💀

The post I made earlier should have been posted here. (Seriously though, my inbox is being inundated with these reports.) Lately, I have been receiving a lot of reports in my inbox (most of which I have yet to read) concerning the diminishing ratings and returns of network television and the mushrooming opportunities in streaming television, particularly AVOD and FAST television streaming, FAST is particularly appealing to advertisers these days as it is Free Ad-Enabled Streaming Television. Although I didn't know it at the time, FAST is basically what I predicted would hold a great deal of appeal to advertisers. I think I posted as much in another thread. Should I move this post to that thread? (Can I even find that thread?)

They contracted CLN and TEB for long periods of time while vastly underutilizing them. From what I remember, didn't CK elect to be recurring when she wanted to pursue prime time?

Yeah, Cartagena is not the capital city but it is a major city in Colombia, which was no doubt named after the Spanish city while a colony of Spain. The only other name that popped into my head is Santiago, which is often boilerplate for a generic Spanish language speaking capital city but I have a feeling it was Cartagena, not Santiago.

Lately, I have been receiving a lot of reports in my inbox (most of which I have yet to read) concerning the diminishing ratings and returns of network television and the mushrooming opportunities in streaming television, particularly AVOD and FAST television streaming, FAST is particularly appealing to advertisers these days as it is Free Ad-Enabled Streaming Television. Although I didn't know it at the time, FAST is basically what I predicted would hold a great deal of appeal to advertisers. I think I posted as much in another thread. Should I move this post to that thread? (Can I even find that thread?)

COVID-19 has caused people to re-strategize and rethink a lot of things.

That makes sense, although it is somewhat hilarious that they decided to write an exit story for such an underutilized character.

Apparently there are different types of recurring because when CK was recurring, she was on about as often as she was when on contract. I guess it just depends on a whole other set of criteria. (*shrug*).

This story is about 7 or 8 years too late. This could've been written as a decent lead off to the Lauren and Carmine affair. Is CLB going off the canvas? Or is this departure story related?

Speaking of SoapClassics, Mark Yates, who was the President of SoapClassics apparently runs a company called Creator House Media https://www.creatorhousemedia.com/

Hmm, for some reason Cartagena sticks in my mind but cannot be sure.

Usually, I tend to ignore Tubi but they're giving me some reasons to click on.

Steffi Graf was not beloved until she was retired. I remember during the Italian Open, the Italian press used to refer to her as the "Ugly German girl". The one time that I can remember a "pro Graf" outside of Germany was when she played Martina Hingis at Roland Garros and Hingis upset at a call that had gone against her and, as she argued what she considered to be a bad call, crossed on the other side (her opponent's side) of the net, which is considered a big faux pas. Hingis got booed relentlessly and dissolved into tears and never recovered during the match, which Steffi came back and won. Hingis' coach and mother came on court after the match (something that would never be allowed today) to console Martina, and help Hingis collect herself for the trophy ceremony. That's the one time when I can remember a solidly pro-Graf crowd outside of Germany. No Steffi didn't handle things the best in the wake of Seles' attack, but neither did anyone else, the courts handling the criminal case especially. Steffi may also have been preoccupied by the tax evasion case that looked over her. Though her father handled her finances, any discrepancies were Steffi's responsibility and from what I remember, she faced the possibility of actual jail time (which didn't happen). Sabatini may have been less accomplished than Graf but she was more popular. I remember cheering Gabriela throughout her U.S. Open final against Graf and was elated when she took the championship match and I actually enjoy watching Graf. But Gaby was known then as the "Princess Of The Pompador".

He is who we all thought he was.

I read her memoir several years ago and remember her talking about her weight gain in the wake of her father's illness and death and how the weight caused her foot injuries. When Seles was number one and the stabbing happened, I wasn't able to see the match because I was in school at the time and could only see the news footage. It was shocking, like looking at some other sport, some place that I could not recognize. It was only years later, watching that ESPN SportsCentury documentary, that I would learn how the WTA had voted against freezing Seles' ranking in place while she was off the Tour recuperating. It was cold-blooded but the WTA shouldn't have put it to a vote, they should have just done the right thing and automatically froze her ranking like they do nowadays-- they don't give players any say on the matter, they just do it. People are under the impression that WTA is a union, it is not- it has a Player's Council but when there are decisions to be made on tournaments, especially the majors, they usually don't consult the players at all. As for Steffi, she should have reacted sooner, but with an abusive father and zealous fanatics that she clearly wanted no part of, Steffi had her share of personal problems too.

Hopefully the surgery and recovery will all be successful for Allyson.

At first, I thought this was yesterday's news being recycled but apparently this happened again today.

Critiques aside, mission accomplished?

One consistent critique of the documentary is that it was it didn't delve deeply enough (another complaint this is somewhat tangential is that the doc was too short) but Janet Jackson has always been somewhat of a mysterious woman, perhaps the result of being from a famous family that has been in the spotlight since she was a very young child. She was never going to give viewers everything. How exactly do people think she was able to keep a nearly decade old marriage a secret in front of the eyes of the world? The New York Times Arts section does call Janet "an astonishingly modern pop superstar" which actually sounds accurate. And this is where the line is and should be drawn between Women of Color and Black Women. I realize that not everyone's struggles are the same but Black women in the United States have a profoundly different experience worldwide and in the United States. Black women were the only women brought to the Americas in chains and bred for commerce. The vestiges of that history are still reverberating to this day and neither money nor education nor class has allowed escape this reality. My mother, my aunts have experienced this, I have experienced this, which is why I recognize things for how they truly are.