DramatistDreamer

This is why I'm side-eye all the fawning and hagiography surrounding Gov. Cuomo these days. Cuomo and DeBlasio have a history of squabbling and pettiness toward each other, leaving issues unresolved at even the best of times. And this fawning is too reminiscent of the hagiography surrounding Giuliani after 9/11 (not comparing to two, Giuliani has always been horrible) which makes me very uncomfortable.

Watching videos are fine but people really need to read.

I'm going to try to catch this live. The ATWT livestream has about 9700 views. If that could somehow be bumped up to 10,000 perhaps it might encourage Locher (or someone else) to do more of these. If people have a lot of soap fans on their social media (outside of this board), maybe they can get them to watch/listen. If there is a sense that a respectable number of people are interested via the view count, who knows? Someone might decide that there is enough interest to engage fans of these shows a bit more, down the road.

Then I must be in that minority too because I would love to hear from all those you mentioned, especially in their own words, unfiltered. Boy I hope Locher (or someone) can make these type of livestream events a regular thing because I'd also love to hear from people like Scott Bryce, Hillary Bailey Smith, Melanie Smith, etc. I like hearing insightful anecdotes and stories on their characters, how they got their roles, storylines that surprised them, etc. So much fun.

Life is hard enough right now. I'm not trying to study those Bernie-bots. I'm trying to maintain whatever good health I can manage right now.

EleVEN by Venus has a YouTube page that has archived all her IG workouts. Haha, I see you Sloane! Okay, maybe that's not Sloane herself...maybe.

^^None of us are surprised by that, right? OTOH Japan seems to have acted somewhat late (like most wealthy countries) at the same time the Japanese government appears to be learning from the missteps of other countries. This was done in countries like S. Korea and Taiwan with success. Even China did this, eventually, which seemed to be credited (along with lockdown measures) for flattening the curve.

I try not to get too personal on social media but a friend of mine lost three patients in the space of 12 hours in Brooklyn. A relative, who is a nurse is currently recovering from COVID-19 after being hospitalized. I try not to get angry over things I cannot control but scientists have been talking about pandemics for decades now and yet the "rich" countries in particular have by and large, handled this pandemic poorly, with deadly results. People need to start realizing that their votes have life or death consequences, it not to be taken lightly. Do your homework before you cast your vote, someone's life (someone close to you, if not your own) will likely depend on it. Allowing incompetent leaders like Johnson and Trump into office while shrugging your shoulders and hoping that only others suffer will come back on you.

The people who now surmise that Johnson must've deteriorated fast could not have seen what he looked like the last time he was on camera. He'd still had a fever after 10 days, which is not, under any circumstances a good sign. Also, with his build, he was likely to have underlying health issues.

Yes, I enjoyed both too. Shannon still looks great!

I was speaking specifically as to why I think Sony/Y&R wouldn't want to stream on YouTube. I think if even Y&R were to permanently go off the air, say, this summer, they'd be more inclined to sell/stream seasons on a digital platform (especially if they could get paid for it) than P&G ever was with their soaps because unlike P&G's most celebrated soaps, Y&R has its full library of episodes from Day 1 preserved and intact, no missing episodes. It's a good point you make about not having enough current episodes to fill their time by the end of spring but CBS has that All Access platform so should they wish to stream classic episodes, there is a ready-made platform. There will probably be complaining as there always is among some soap fans who want their soaps delivered on network television but for the rest that are glued to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and the like, if they haven't completely dropped the soaps, they'd probably be open to watching some classics on a streaming platform.

OMG. The letter that Tommy Lee published on his social media (Open Letter to Trump).😵 Originally it was published by someone else but Lee amplified it by putting it on his social media. That caused some confusion.

I instinctively bypass journalists who cannot spell infrastructure properly.

Although I haven't watch The Hallmark Channel in years, from what I remember, Hallmark Channel only seems to care about their own original programming. They chopped up Golden Girls with harsh edits for ads worse than Lifetime ever did.

Depending on my mood, I might read a newspaper article online that covers his remarks but I've long stopped listening to him, as I can't stand the sound of his voice and am disgusted by his overall demeanor.

It's definitely crossed my mind on more than one occasion, as it concerns the men in my family. At least the ones who live here in the U.S. This is not a concern for my family that live in the Caribbean. There's a podcast that Jonathan Capeheart did with Susan Rice (I'll admit that I have yet to listen to it) where Rice is saying that the Obama administration and she personally helped to compile, a 60 page document on what to do in case of a pandemic (she describes it as a kind of "For Dummies" guide) for the incoming Trump administration. Without question that guide was tossed to the side.

This data is from Australia, by the way. So far, the U.S. refuses to publish data in terms of race and socio-economic status.

The NAACP hosting a virtual town hall summit with the current surgeon general is a two-edged sword, with Jerome Adams' history. Next time (should there be a next time), the NAACP may want to find another scientist/doctor who has not presided over one of the worst health crises a state has experienced in the past several decades. Many Black men are beginning to express their ambivalence about wearing masks in countries like the U.S. where police shoot unarmed blacks at an alarming rate.

When I first started hearing/reading about this, I thought (hoped) it was a few people spreading false accounts and determined that I should refrain from posting this anywhere but this account tends to have more legitimacy than any of the other accounts I've seen. I still hope this is somehow untrue because this is truly despicable. Knowing France's colonial history (as well as England, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands) it would not surprise me at all, if true.

Good points! When we think about how many various episodes and storylines they all did, thousands of pages of dialogue to remember, some things are going to have more space in the memory bank. That's life.