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Feb. 6th, 2004
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Feb. 6th, 2004 04:10 pmNew Zander rumor, new Zander rumor! I really hope this one is true......( Read more... )
I don't know. I should probably stop before I get too far ahead :)
I don't know. I should probably stop before I get too far ahead :)
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Feb. 6th, 2004 09:19 pmNow, I don't mind Oprah that much. I really don't. I don't watch her show regularly, but as a person, I think she seems pretty cool - she's certainly a good role model. And etc.
But I'm looking at these pictures, and reading this article, about her 50th birthday party, and it just seems so incredibly ostentatious. I'm all for a good celebration, but this just seemed really over-the-top. I don't know. It just doesn't seem necessary to me.
Like I said, I don't begrudge the woman anything. I don't really understand why her 50th birthday is being treated like it's a national holiday - as far as I recall, there are other women in the world who have reached 50 years old before. Really. I think my mother might even have been one of them. I mean, if she was turning 100 - okay, I get it. But 50? And all of this hoopla, and this really gratuitous display? *shrugs* Maybe I'm just too cynical, or something. I don't know.
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I'm pretty much of the opinion that Rosie O'Donnell is completely, certifiably, insane. Anne Heche insane. Courtney Love insane. I mean, I give the woman credit - she was always very supportive of *N Sync, after all :-) - but, yes. Insane.
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I didn't see all of ER last night, but I saw it basically from 10:30 on. And yes - I saw the Controversial Boob Moment, or I suppose, the Controversial Blurry Boob moment. It - didn't really seem that big a deal to me. It wasn't like it was a sexual situation, or done to go "Hey, look, it's a BREAST! Woo hoo, isn't that HOT?" And it aired at around 10:45, which I think should be late enough. Come on, everyone brings up the NYPD Blue argument - it's okay to see Dennis Franz's ass, but not okay to see someone's breast in a completely non-sexual manner? This is the same time period we're talking about. So, I don't know. I didn't really see the big deal about all of it, myself, but whatever.
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Chocolate marshmallow ripple ice cream makes me ridiculously happy. Oh, Schwan's man, you are my friend.
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I hear the Days camp is complaining and demanding that Bo and Hope get a storyline. Weh? Sure, maybe I don't watch regularly, but.....don't they have a storyline? I mean, they're right in the middle of this serial killer story. So, I don't get it. What more do they want? Every time I turn my TV to Days, I'm faced with Bo's gritted teeth and snarling, and his trusty sidekick RoboHope.
Maybe it's just me, but the Days fans always seem to be a very.....vocal.....group. I watch Days occasionally, as I've said, but since I don't watch it all the time, I don't really consider myself a big "fan" of it. Not like I am with General Hospital. (And with GH, it's sort of a love/hate thing most of the time....*eyeroll*) My soap "order", as it were, seems to go: GH, One Life, Days. At least, at this point - this has changed before, and will likely change again. GH is usually on top, though.
But, yeah, Days fans. It seems every time I hear something, it's a fanbase complaining that (a) there's not enough John/Marlena, (b) there's not enough Bo/Hope, or (c) there's not enough John/Marlena/Bo/Hope. Of course, I'm biased, because I'm not particularly big on either couple. I'm the same with the Shelle group. Personally, I can't stand Shawn OR Belle, and then you put them both together, and it's like a root canal. So maybe that's why I'm fuzzy on all of it.
As for John/Marlena/Bo/Hope.....I don't know, maybe if I'd watched in the 80s? Lots of people have said that when you start watching the soap is usually a big deciding factor in who your "couples" are. I'll ask my sister sometime - I think she watched Days in the 80s. Maybe she's all crazy about Bo and Hope, and John and Marlena, and I just never knew.
I started watching soaps when I was quite young - my sister would babysit me, and in those days, she was big into Guiding Light. This was about the time that Reva had postpartum depression and drove off a bridge. That's my first real soap memory. I didn't really get what it was all about, but it was cool, and my mom would consistently yell at my sister for letting me watch soaps. Heh. So of course I was more inclined to watch it, because it was "forbidden".
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Since I'm in a nostalgic mood.....I was thinking of when I first got dragged into this crazy *N Sync world (heh). I'll cut in case I gush: ( Read more... )
So, what about you guys? What song (if there is one) really dragged you into this fandom, kicking and screaming? ;-) Have you been around since MMC, or 1999, or NSA, or The Hiatus, or what? I'm curious. :)
ETA: And since I went into soaps, and my history with them, above....what about for you soap fans on the friendslist? What was your first "soap", per se? What got you into it?
But I'm looking at these pictures, and reading this article, about her 50th birthday party, and it just seems so incredibly ostentatious. I'm all for a good celebration, but this just seemed really over-the-top. I don't know. It just doesn't seem necessary to me.
Like I said, I don't begrudge the woman anything. I don't really understand why her 50th birthday is being treated like it's a national holiday - as far as I recall, there are other women in the world who have reached 50 years old before. Really. I think my mother might even have been one of them. I mean, if she was turning 100 - okay, I get it. But 50? And all of this hoopla, and this really gratuitous display? *shrugs* Maybe I'm just too cynical, or something. I don't know.
~*~
I'm pretty much of the opinion that Rosie O'Donnell is completely, certifiably, insane. Anne Heche insane. Courtney Love insane. I mean, I give the woman credit - she was always very supportive of *N Sync, after all :-) - but, yes. Insane.
~*~
I didn't see all of ER last night, but I saw it basically from 10:30 on. And yes - I saw the Controversial Boob Moment, or I suppose, the Controversial Blurry Boob moment. It - didn't really seem that big a deal to me. It wasn't like it was a sexual situation, or done to go "Hey, look, it's a BREAST! Woo hoo, isn't that HOT?" And it aired at around 10:45, which I think should be late enough. Come on, everyone brings up the NYPD Blue argument - it's okay to see Dennis Franz's ass, but not okay to see someone's breast in a completely non-sexual manner? This is the same time period we're talking about. So, I don't know. I didn't really see the big deal about all of it, myself, but whatever.
~*~
Chocolate marshmallow ripple ice cream makes me ridiculously happy. Oh, Schwan's man, you are my friend.
~*~
I hear the Days camp is complaining and demanding that Bo and Hope get a storyline. Weh? Sure, maybe I don't watch regularly, but.....don't they have a storyline? I mean, they're right in the middle of this serial killer story. So, I don't get it. What more do they want? Every time I turn my TV to Days, I'm faced with Bo's gritted teeth and snarling, and his trusty sidekick RoboHope.
Maybe it's just me, but the Days fans always seem to be a very.....vocal.....group. I watch Days occasionally, as I've said, but since I don't watch it all the time, I don't really consider myself a big "fan" of it. Not like I am with General Hospital. (And with GH, it's sort of a love/hate thing most of the time....*eyeroll*) My soap "order", as it were, seems to go: GH, One Life, Days. At least, at this point - this has changed before, and will likely change again. GH is usually on top, though.
But, yeah, Days fans. It seems every time I hear something, it's a fanbase complaining that (a) there's not enough John/Marlena, (b) there's not enough Bo/Hope, or (c) there's not enough John/Marlena/Bo/Hope. Of course, I'm biased, because I'm not particularly big on either couple. I'm the same with the Shelle group. Personally, I can't stand Shawn OR Belle, and then you put them both together, and it's like a root canal. So maybe that's why I'm fuzzy on all of it.
As for John/Marlena/Bo/Hope.....I don't know, maybe if I'd watched in the 80s? Lots of people have said that when you start watching the soap is usually a big deciding factor in who your "couples" are. I'll ask my sister sometime - I think she watched Days in the 80s. Maybe she's all crazy about Bo and Hope, and John and Marlena, and I just never knew.
I started watching soaps when I was quite young - my sister would babysit me, and in those days, she was big into Guiding Light. This was about the time that Reva had postpartum depression and drove off a bridge. That's my first real soap memory. I didn't really get what it was all about, but it was cool, and my mom would consistently yell at my sister for letting me watch soaps. Heh. So of course I was more inclined to watch it, because it was "forbidden".
~*~
Since I'm in a nostalgic mood.....I was thinking of when I first got dragged into this crazy *N Sync world (heh). I'll cut in case I gush: ( Read more... )
So, what about you guys? What song (if there is one) really dragged you into this fandom, kicking and screaming? ;-) Have you been around since MMC, or 1999, or NSA, or The Hiatus, or what? I'm curious. :)
ETA: And since I went into soaps, and my history with them, above....what about for you soap fans on the friendslist? What was your first "soap", per se? What got you into it?