DramatistDreamer

This and the earlier news report showing Nation guard members being deployed to Iraq just points to some ominous signs. I hope I'm wrong.

Tennis still doesn't know how to present itself as a sport. The first match being broadcast to an audience in the inaugural year of a brand-new event and this is how they do it??? I don't always agree with Ben but he does have a point here.

Yay diversity! The system of voting in this country has become so warped that donations and polling in states that don't resemble the rest of the country has effectively replaced voting in determining the nominee. People keep mentioning Obama as if that's a panacea for the fact that this is the same system that gave us Bush and Trump. One can say that had Bush not f*cked up so thoroughly most of these voters wouldn't have even considered Obama in the first place. It's unlikely that the process will much matter anyway. By the time the primaries get to me the nominee will already have been decided. I am just not into defending a process where a select group of people in phone polls and their purse strings decide, rather than voters at the actual polls. Whoever the nominee ends up being, I'll do my civic duty but I'm not going to pretend that the process is anything but ruled by money.

I love how Tennis Australia is posting these propaganda photos of a select group of players sunning themselves on a beach while pretty much the entire west coast of the country is in flames. Clueless.

What voters are we talking about? Primaries haven't even started.

The people should have had a chance to decide, not money. Castro wasn't my choice but the process that doesn't even allow a decent cross-section of the public to vote on who goes and who stays deserves just as much of the side-eye as the candidate's perceived flaws. You cannot tell me that this process is a defensible one when you have Gabbard still in, as well as a highly flawed billionaire candidate who feels he can feel free to jump in at any time and be viable in the process. Nope.

Cory Booker will be next. Then it will be a genuine POC candidate 'royal flush'. Yay, diversity!

Many parts of Australia have been experiencing horrendous air quality due to those deadly wildfires. Does tennis have any plans to protect the health of their players or are they waiting for players to collapse on court before announcing a plan?

When I saw that a few of Eddie Murphy's SNL clips were getting millions views per video, I knew that the initial numbers would be closer to 20 million viewers.

Reading this last night just made me feel so sad, I didn't even want to post this news development. I really need 2020 to be a far better, kinder, healthier year. Please!

Disturbing how many future advances in science this administration has derailed with its willful erosion of the agencies that specialize in scientific research. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/science-under-attack-how-trump-is-sidelining-researchers-and-their-work/ar-BBYqouK?li=AA4Zoy

Apt conclusion to this injury-plagued exho.

Barbara Crampton just had a birthday but you wouldn't know it. She looks fantastic! If it were up to me (which, of course, it isn't), I would've had her back at Y&R, either during the anniversary of Ruthless or as a special guest on Hilary's GC Buzz, maybe even putting their heads together to plot something nefarious for ratings and promotion of Leanna Love's latest sh*t stirring unauthorized biography!

Apparently Nakashima also beat Taylor Fritz earlier.

My bad, I guess my memories after Nella #1 have sort of faded. It just seemed as though Rowell inherited a diminished form of the character, whereas Lemmons had more storyline in comparison.

These days she's best known as Billie Eilish's mom that is pictured in that thumbnail. What I liked most about Casey was the way that he was written initially. He was introduced in a way that was gradual, he was integrated into the cast in a way that made him a distinctive character yet he didn't take over storylines, he was absorbed into storylines alongside other character. I think making Casey a would-be rival with Seth Snyder for Frannie Hughes' affections helped to integrate the character by surrounding him with various characters in a way that stood out but not too much. By the time, he had branched off into a separate storyline as a result of being paired with Lyla, viewers felt as if we had grown to know this character. Soaps today do not take the time and effort to do this (I don't know why, since it's only their job). When Katie was brought back as an adult, the writers certainly didn't bother to try to gently integrate her character with the rest of the cast, they just created storylines to revolve around her which is why I think there was so much resentment of the character (which I think eventually trickled down to feelings about the actress among some viewers). As a doctor at Memorial, Casey was surrounded by Hughes, Dixons, Walshes (he was Lucinda's physician also), as well as Synders, Stewarts and eventually Montgomerys. This is why soaps always included doctors, lawyers, and proprietors of businesses in their cast of characters, so easy to integrate into the canvas because they interacted with most of the town, regardless of class and stations in life.

Victoria Rowell was Nella Franklin #3. Nella Franklin #2 Kasi Lemmons had departed from the role when her iteration of Nella left with Beau Farrell. I hated what that storyline did to Pam and Nella's friendship, another casualty of material written during the Writer's Strike.

From what I've read, there's been a stampede of withdrawals from the tournament. I know it's something of an exhibition now but still, not good. I think I preferred it when it was a $125K WTA tournament, at least then, the WTA site provided free streaming and kept it cute. This year, The Hawaiian Open pretty much seems like an indoor Challenger tournament. The one match I managed to see did bring a smile to my face though, to see MAGA-ite Christian Harrison gets his butt beat by Brandon Shinakawa, who literally just left college and whose only previous experience was in a few summertime Challenger tournaments.

LOL, I had to reach back in the thread to see what I was commenting on--that Patricia Heaton show, which is somehow still on the air on CBS. I guess somebody must be watching it though.

Seeing that list reminds me that Cinemax is still around. And Galavision? Whew, I haven't thought about that channel in a minute! Also, what's the Tennis Network? Is that supposed to be The Tennis Channel? There seems to be some other channels missing from the list, what does that mean?

Todd finally felt that fire under his feet and decided to come up with this bullsh*t narrative about naivete. Again, as I always ask, why is he even in that job? It's obvious that he's incompetent. And the big dumb jerk attributed a Maya Angelou quote to Toni Morrison. NBC looks even dumber for hiring him in the first place.

Didn't I once mention how injury-prone she was/is? I also mentioned that I believed it would impact her character as she ages, as she is still only a teenager. She's having physical problems that I would associate with players who have been in the grind of the Tour for a much longer period of years. It reminds me of Ana Konjuh unfortunately.

By the way, IMDB streaming seems to have taken off, with new titles being added every few weeks. And because it's owned by Amazon, you best believe Amazon places ads for their various products and services before and during running times for these shows. Like I said, if P&G had any sense...