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They still don't have the votes.

Jinx!

Welp:

Here’s a twist: Lindsey Graham suggests to @tedbarrettcnn that McConnell should consider delaying Kavanaugh vote if the three GOP senators “have any follow-on that’s reasonable. We’ve waited this long. I want to do it right. We should have probably done this several weeks ago.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 3, 2018

Susan Collins continues to avoid answering reporter questions about Kavanaugh, dashes on the floor and darts onto an awaiting senators-only after votes - this after Capitol Police cleared her hallway to prevent stakeouts outside her office, an aggressive move in a public hallway

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 3, 2018

ABC Studios and producers have kept "Criminal Minds" DP Greg St. Johns in place despite multiple harassment and abuse claims, an HR probe, and an investigation by a California state agency. https://t.co/NKPOB7Qvsw

— Daniel Holloway (@gdanielholloway) October 2, 2018

Meanwhile:

: - ) ALL.#PresidentialAlert #TwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/z19YWuAPLJ

— Twin Peaks 🌑 (@ThatsOurWaldo) October 3, 2018

LOL! This show is cursed.

Wayans clearly never wanted to do it in the first place according to the BTS stuff - he only did the pilot when his preferred show didn't go ahead, and was allegedly just clocking the hours and barely ever shooting coverage for scenes beyond his close-ups, doing the bare minimum. Both he and Crawford sounded like horrible divas for different reasons.

we've achieved breakthrough when an NBC News company tweet casually flags WH whataboutism. https://t.co/I7M1JMc99l

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 3, 2018

I will say this: The trailer is great, and Adam McKay's The Big Short was exceptional, smart, angry work in this vein. So okay, I'll go.

I just have no interest in reliving that era when things are even worse now - nor do I have any morbid interest in how Christian Bale has once again mutated his body to do it.

After 25+ years - the video game:

An OFFICIAL Twin Peaks VR experience is in the works and can be previewed at David Lynch's @FestDisruption next week! #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksVR https://t.co/lJCmIt9dUZ

— Twin Peaks 🌑 (@ThatsOurWaldo) October 3, 2018

The People story in question.

No.

2 minutes ago, John said:

didnt even realize that Adrianna who he was into was Latina and flipped out when he learned the fact

LMAO! This I didn't know. I thought Adriana was a deliberate cover. It was obvious it was going to be Tate though, so Chris Beetem was foolish.

To be clear, as for the killers, I'm sighing at the show - they had Haver, the KCK and Colson all over the course of a year-plus, and the last two ran almost simultaneously. Awful.

The OPP (yeah you know me! I could never take them using the acronym onscreen seriously, and they did it constantly) was 2007. I guess it's actually pretty timely now, but was very poorly written.

No, Stephen Haver was a year earlier (sigh) - the Music Box Killer in 2003-04 under Malone. Literary agent Hayes Barber was the Killing Club culprit; he was actually Marcie's demented former classmate Ivan Potter. Naturally, Daniel Colson's slew of murders had been running at the same time as this story because why not have two murder sprees at once, right?

I always liked Viki shutting down Marcie - it was one of the few shining Viki moments from 2003 to 2007, a dark, lonely time for the character.

3 hours ago, Khan said:

That is HILARIOUS.  Please tell me it's available on YT.

Probably? I dunno. It was in early July '05, I believe.

ETA: Yep! (not embeddable)

5 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Yep Jay Wilkison was kinda wasted--I thought Riley was one of the more compelling characters of that time (though the detail that he was named after Joe Riley struck me as bizarre and just a random pointless connection to the past) but he basically got stuck in his father, Daniel Colson's horrible plot which led to him (I think) going back on drugs, being arrested and leaving for rehab.

And the irony is all that only came about because he took off with the audience despite being a bit player for Flash's band originally. He was used to give her something to do before she exited because fans preferred him to her and Joey (her cousin!), then clicked with Jessica Morris. He was still wasted on her extremely minimal talents - I always liked him and regretted his exit, as he'd become like a son to Nora and a brother to Matthew.

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Was she originally part of the LOVE Center crew?

No - Flash was gone by then. The Love Crew debacle was summer 2004: Marcie, Jen, Riley, Julie Tanaka, jock Nick Messina, Shannon McBain (who I'd forgotten existed until just now and who was played by Mrs. Jensen Ackles, Danneel Harris!), and yes, Matt Cavenaugh as token gay non-core character Mark Solomon. Rex and Adriana also orbited it.

The Love Crew mess was so bad: Retrofitted youths thrown together overnight, most of them new, all of them struggling in this incredibly earnest, embarrassing ploy for teen viewers. There was even a bizarre ghost story/past lovers angle with Lord and McBain ancestors thrown in that Malone mercifully was forced to ditch before it went anywhere, and which was rewritten as R.J.(!!) faking a haunting so he could claim the land. But somehow Higley's story the following year was worse - the Killing Club murders, based on Malone's lame IRL book(!!), in which Marcie whined and howled her way through a storyline featuring all her Love Crew pals being brutally murdered until finally the show realized fans were pissed enough at Marcie that they actually trotted Viki out to sit her down and say (and I quote) "please stop it" and told her it was her fault.

God, those were some rough years.

On #LSSC tonight: Since we now know Brett Kavanaugh got into a fight after a #UB40 concert, the only logical next move is to mix him into @UB40official’s biggest (and only) hit, ‘Red, Red Wine.’ pic.twitter.com/1wAlIRpKLm

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) October 2, 2018

They gave Flash a lot of scenes with Asa because her initial intro storyline as a runaway was a complete botch - lusting for her cousin because Brian Frons micromanaged the storyline with Joey, Jen and Flash and wanted it frontburnered and over-promoted when none of them were capable. The show pushed very hard to retrofit Jessica Morris' Jen into Marty Saybrooke, which was insulting, and Bruce Michael Hall's Joey was good at some things and terrible at others - he couldn't carry a major story on his own, certainly not with weak regular partners.

Afterwards, they thought tying Flash/Sarah more closely to the Buchanans and Asa would help. It did, but they didn't give her any other stories beyond a backburner romance with recurring player Riley, who became increasingly popular and stuck around without her (I think Jay Wilkison went on to do Broadway). I liked Shanelle Workman at the time, but today her weaknesses are extremely apparent and the whole Hot Topic goth thing is now super-dated. It was clear at the time they intended to bring on her brother C.J. (long rumored to be OLTL's mythical gay unicorn) and bring back Tina, who they were actively trying to recast, but none of it manifested onscreen.

Listen, I won't hear slander of UB40. I loved them when I was 11!

Tremble with fear, perpetrators - the FBI have found the infamous "Squi":

Update via @PostKranish: FBI has also interview Chris Garrett, who dated Ford in high school and also attended the July 1, 1982, gathering, per Kavanaugh's calendar https://t.co/48V6ditXyy

— Matea Gold (@mateagold) October 3, 2018

It never occurred to me that the future of female reproductive rights in America may hinge on the testimony of someone named “Squi.”

— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) October 3, 2018

Yeah, it's all her.

Forget it, Khan. It's Chinatown.

Yep, that's her.

I recall A Daytime to Remember with Reba McEntire, but I don't remember a specific anniversary celebration. I kind of suspect JFP may have folded it into the primetime episodes with Todd holding everyone hostage at the Buchanan lodge - that would be like her.

From the very weird 35th in Malone and Griffith's very weird 2003 - I honestly can't remember much beyond (yet another) OTT gothic fantasy episode in which Natalie and Cristian face hallucinatory fears and doubts about their upcoming wedding, including goofy clip montages of 'those who have loved and lost in Llanview.' Natalie and Cris had been super popular in 2001-2, but were severely backburnered most of the year in favor of Bree's Jessica, Antonio, Mitch, Jen, Flash/Sarah, Walker/Todd, etc. (Flash is already getting backburnered by this episode due to her disastrous intro story with Joey - she went on to spend most of her time with Riley and Asa before exiting the following January.) Natalie and Cris didn't get major airtime again until the fall, with the arrival of John McBain and David Fumero's exit.

Malone and Griffith's answer to everything in 2003-2004 seemed to be another OTT gothic fantasy episode. There's even a few I've probably forgotten. There were too many, even for a kid who had grown up watching Dark Shadows. (And frankly the budget strained worse than DS at times.)

Good for him. He was always so cute.

Since we've been discussing our early days in Eric's thread, AMC's slew of exotic mansions and estates belonging to royalty and aristocrats in an alleged small town always baffled and annoyed me as a kid, at least at first when I started watching. Later I just went with it - I loved Dimitri and Erica, and Edmund and Maria.

Here it is. In a 1983 letter, a copy of which was reviewed by NYT, Brett Kavanaugh warned his friends of the danger of eviction from an Ocean City, MD condo: "Warn the neighbors that we're loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us."https://t.co/qvsWdNZXKm

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 2, 2018

Kavanaugh signed the letter "Bart," which coincidentally is the first name of a character in Mark Judge's book: Bart O'Kavanaugh. https://t.co/y5CyyHwgbl

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 2, 2018

We also tracked down a copy of Georgetown Prep's underground newspaper, written in part by Mark Judge. It includes a column about Holton-Arms girls, calling them "hosebags." (Look it up.)

Christine Blasey Ford was a student there. pic.twitter.com/5jGKOmTJNa

— David Enrich (@davidenrich) October 2, 2018