DramatistDreamer

Thanks for trying. I'm not on FB, so I appreciate it.

Nice to see that Lyndsy is still, in fact, acting. I remember when there were folks who were insinuating that she had retired from acting, when I thought she was just taking time off after having a baby.

Someone posted the scenes in this thread a few years ago. Yes, I believe it was from YouTube but whether it's still there, I have no idea.

I don't think so. Jumaane Williams was likely more of a factor, as each seemed to be concerned about the other running. Williams may still enter the race anyway. If he does, James definitely complicates matters for him.

Tish James running for governor of New York is something I knew was coming and yet...

Just this morning, I heard the prosecutor's office was considering charges.

That's quite sad to hear.

For the sake of everyone that continues to have expectations, I hope it pans out, but I'm long past the point of any actual expectations where that YouTube page is concerned. I didn't realize that the Michael Damian one has been postponed. Maybe Michael saw that view count?

If it wasn't made clear before-

It's been a full year and numbers don't lie. I do think that the Michael Damian livestream will likely do decent numbers because Damian is active on social media and will pick up the slack in promoting it. And as I posted in the Y&R classic thread, Y&R fans are likely to watch in larger numbers than ATWT fans, some of whom are not on social media at all.

Don't get me wrong, I could care less about the Locher Room but I would hate for someone to base this (perceived lack of) interest in this soap on his abysmal view counts, especially since we're now seeing popular streaming platforms start to take an interest in daytime soaps.

You don't watch Y&R, do you? Marland was still relatively subtle compared to Y&R's more after schoolesque type messaging. To this day, I don't know of a daytime soap that had the discipline to keep a storyline going for two solid years before the main character discovered the truth of the matter. Whoever it is, hopefully it will draw a higher view count than most of his recent virtual reunions.

When I saw scenes a few years ago on YouTube of Susan's "open marriage" with Dan Stewart in the 70s, that told me that ATWT was not as conservative as many had made it out to be. It could be pretty risqué at times, but it was often so subtly done, it could be easy for viewers to overlook this.

The unvaccinated players are really beginning to show themselves. Shame.

Only last week, U.S. news media made it sound like this would be a long-shot prospect at best.

^^ This can still be iced by the prosecutor general, who is a Bolsonaro appointee but this has already gone much further than predicted by some media.

Maybe because it's elections in my neck of the woods, I am tapped out at the moment. My energies have really been directed to the very local and a few international events.

It's about time, especially for Rosenworcel, who has been acting chairwoman and before that, on the board of the FCC since the Obama administration.

Y&R fans usually turn up for livestreams, regardless of who does them. Locher needs this kind of livestream to juice up his click counts since his view counts over the last several months have been exceedingly low.

Ironically, just this morning, I saw a headline that claimed that Eli Musk was already on his way to becoming the first trillionaire. TBH, I really didn't care enough to read the actual article.

It's actually not good to be so reliant on countries on the other side of the world for medications that a significant amount of the country's population is so reliant on like inhalers. Especially when one country may have a mercurial relationship with the other.

Oh, I double mask anytime I am in indoor spaces with others. Also, there has been a global shortage of drivers for years, which has now been exposed with this pandemic. I did hear experts say that the national stockpile diminished for reasons that have little to do with supply chain issues. Supply chain issues are the reasons for toilet paper, disinfecting wipes and paper towels being scarce, as well as the reason why even used cars have become as expensive as some new vehicles. But the national stockpile issues are somewhat connected but not entirely. It's one of the reasons why politicians who once believed that manufacturing returning to the U.S. was impractical and virtually impossible are now pushing for manufacturing corridors, though mostly modest. The pandemic has shown shortfalls in patients being able to procure simple generic blood pressure medicines, as most are made in either China or India. So the idea of a cluster of manufacturing hubs, rather than huge factories has, at least for the moment become more than a talking point for nationalist minded politicians.