I was sitting here watching the news, on Fox and I was shocked and appalled over the story that A woman killed four infants, one was found in a bag in a trunk in the house, another was found in a bag in a garbage can in a Winnebago, and there may be more. My blessings and prayers go out to those poor children and their family. She is facing 1st degree murder, manslaughter and something else they said i forgot, lol

then it went into

Vic from the falcons and the dog fighting. His co defendant, is taking a plea bargain. This certainly raises the stakes against sports star.

Then we had the NEWS CHOPPER colliding into one another,

The Bush/Brown press conference will be under way, with the world wondering can America and England still stand strong together.

Then school girls on a bus began passing out due to carbon monoxide.

And now dumb ass Bush wants give billions in military aid to Saudi Arabia, and Israel to counter Iran.

The world keeps getting more evil and scarier

WHEW!! With stories like these who needs soaps?

P.S. I do like this new format here at SON.

Edited July 30, 200718 yr by aMLCproduction

It's precisely BECAUSE of real-life stories like these that we need soaps.

P.S. I do like this new format here at SON.

You mean the new skin? I changed it back to SON Blue. Although this new one is not bad at all.

MLH: How do you cope with these intrusions?

LEMAY: Luckily, I had a wife who was very amused by all of them. She didn't watch soaps much except for what I wrote. She read the mail and burst into peals of laughter every now and then. But then I began to have a different fix on it. I began to think that if you were living alone in the winter, let's say, in Idaho with the snow all around you a hundred and fifty years ago, what was your contact with the outside world? None. Today you have television. You can watch other people's lives and get so involved in them that you know more and care more about them than you do your children. Which very often happens. People get very upset with what happens to characters on a soap. Now we have moved into something else which is a big threat to the soaps. We have moved into the talk shows. They get other people's stories, the real, gritty, what we used to call "Swamp Yankee" stories where I grew up -- incest, mothers stealing their daughters' husbands -- and in a way that is what soaps used to do with more taste.

Real people experience adultery and breakups too. Should the soaps not deal with those issues either? I believe they need to stop underestimating the audience and incorporate more reality into stories. Detractors against that idea are of the sort who don't want Luke to be gay on ATWT. Everyone responds to good storytelling. I found much of The Sopranos to be totally repulsive, but the integrity of the writing made me watch year after year.

Then you have Lindsay Lohan who is front and center star of her own personal soap opera. Driving drunk, going to rehab, driving drunk again, taking hostages.

Real people experience adultery and breakups too. Should the soaps not deal with those issues either? I believe they need to stop underestimating the audience and incorporate more reality into stories.

I love you. I've been saying that for years. Reality is so much more soapy than anything a writer can come up with. I've always seen soap operas like a fun house mirror. You see the general forms and shapes of reality, just exaggerated a bit.

Tell me about it. This past weekend has been crazy. I have been enthralled in Beyonce's tumble down a flight of steps, headfirst in heels, then getting right back up as if nothing ever happened to flounce around on stage(still in heels). THEN Usher calling off his wedding a few hours before it, then leaving on a plane...alone no less. Whew! The news certainly is continuous drama I'll say. Soaps should take *serious* note.

Edited July 30, 200718 yr by ChiTownBoi03