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• in a funk...

  September 29, 2008

  • Like my Red Room colleague, Jennifer Gibbons, I've been in a bit of a funk of late and haven't felt much

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• democrats 2008: the great american soap opera writ large…

  September 15, 2008

  • I generally resist, indeed reject, the term soap opera when it's used as shorthand for those cheap and melodramatic plot twists that define soap opera as an adjective (Continue Reading » 1 Comment

• republicans 2008: the great american soap opera as subtext…

  September 8, 2008

  • You have to hand it to the Republicans. They really do understand soap opera - the short story arc, the long story arc, the need for characters with compelling back stories.

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• a slightly belated happy birthday...

  September 3, 2008

  • to Helen Wagner, who celebrated her 90th yesterday.

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• nineteen sixty-eight: more than enough…

  September 3, 2008

  • Like Nelson Branco, I'd been holding off critiquing One Life to Live's recently-wrapped visit to 1968.

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• we'd be rolling our eyes in disdain....

  September 1, 2008

  • if a soap headwriter dared try to pull this one off. but the 17 year-old daughter of republican vp candidate, sarah palin, is pregnant and planning to marry the father.

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• election 2008 and the soap opera fan…

  September 1, 2008

  • Deep as I was in the unfolding drama of last week's Democratic National Convention, I kept my appointed, if eclectic, rounds, and not surprisingly, found a few connections between soap opera fans a

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• red room: linking connections, creating convergence…

  August 19, 2008

  • Now that the dust seems to have settled in l'affair Hinsey (see my previous two posts), I took a couple of days to decompress ( I know I just took a short vacation; but even on the Cape,

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• where or where to begin…

  August 14, 2008

  • I just packed away my hazmet gear after what I can only hope is my last visit to the cesspool into which Continue Reading » 4 Comments

• and they say nothing happens in august…

  August 11, 2008

  • I had planned to ease my way back into the habit of writing after a bit of time off.

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• one more before i leave…

  July 30, 2008

  • Well, I was right, Rick Decker is no James Stenbeck.

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• a little vacation reading…

  July 30, 2008

  • I’m heading off for a short vacation.

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• it’s like déjà vu, all over again…

  July 29, 2008

  • When I read about Colleen Zenk Pinter evoking Douglas Marland earlier this month, I was reminded of a comment I made almost exa

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• scrolling through the chaff…

  July 27, 2008

  • A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through the archives at Snark Weighs In, and came across this very funny piece from March 2006

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• what we have here is a failure to communicate…

  July 22, 2008

  • When General Hospital's Executive Producer, Gloria Monty, asked Anthony Geary to join the cast as Luke Spenser in 1978, he famously said, "I hate soap opera." To which Monty

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