Friday Rap

Is it just me....or have the writers responsible for the plot and storyline on All My Children gone absolutely crazy....

I am well familiar with taking license with reality....however the suspension of belief that it would take to make these story lines acceptable...is criminal...

I am literally ready to rid the world of Ryan, Zach, and Josh

But... Kendall and Randi....they are a disgrace to womanhood...no woman in the history of the planet is that stupid...ever....even while pretending....

And I thought Crystal was bad a couple of months ago...man!

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Speaking of monumentally intellectually challenged women...Our Sarah made a speech in Hong Kong this week....

Word is she was true to form of never letting the facts get in the way of her fiction..

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Speaking of facts on Health Care Reform....a new poll says 65% of voters now favor the public option..

The House is set to vote on it for the first time on Tuesday..

Call your Congressman please....Tell them that Health Care Reform Without single pay or a public option..

is just another government subsidy for the Insurance and health care industry...

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New survey out says spanking your kids makes them stupid....Not according to my Mom...She always said she would beat the black off me...and 50 years later I stand before you in all my light, bright and butterscotch skin...

No Black anywhere except in my mind...she missed that...I'm happy to say...

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Good to see Momar back in the limelight....he's old time crazy...been that way for years...his speech to the UN shows nothing's changed....

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It's still early....but I'm not seeing any signs what so ever...that my President is going to dismantle the evil empire and imperial presidency crafted together by the former regime...what's that about power corrupting...those who get it...don't want to give it up...

Maybe it's the ultimate addiction.

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New gadget for cooks....a cocoon cooker that will allow you to grow meat and fish from a prepackaged mix of dehydrated...well you don't want to know....

Of course PETA may like it....won't have to kill animals anymore...just whip up a chia steak in the kitchen for dinner...

Think I will pass....

Freelancing-Confessions of an All My Children Junkie

I have to confess, the soap opera All My Children rules my work day. I am a morning writer, a freelance writer, who works from home.

My brain functions best early in the day, shortly after daybreak and after I’ve breakfasted and meditated, doing my favored exercise this month. Sometimes that’s just reading the morning paper. I get comfortable, while grabbing my laptop and settle in to knock out the articles to which I’ve been assigned by my editor.

Utilizing Background Noise

The television is on for background noise, a habit I picked up while working in TV news for 27 years. The newsroom is always humming with background noise, primarily from the monitors, 30-40 TVs turned to every other news channel. You get used to working in the noise. In fact, I can’t do computer work at home without it, so I turn on the television set in my office and work away.

Dealing with Interruptions

Now in my neck of the woods AMC comes on at 1pm. That means I stop to eat lunch, check out the noon news, let the dogs outside and get myself settled for my date with Erica Kane and her friends, family and neighbors. I wasn’t always like this. I used to scoff at those who dropped everything to watch the soaps. When I worked at ABC, the newsroom literally ground to a halt because nearly everyone with a couple of exceptions like me, were hooked on the Ryan’s Hope-All My Children-General Hospital block. It was amazing that any news got covered at all during those two and a half hours. But we managed

Resistence is Futile

But somehow, while working at home alone, I got hooked. I started peeking at the soaps while writing. Then I started listening to the soaps. Then I started asking my sister to background me on what led up to what I was watching and not understanding. She’s been hooked for 40 years. My dad, too. He got hooked while changing work shifts from first to second. Finally, I had to stop pretending to work and just give in. I don’t write when All My Children is on.


I’ve got to see who killed Stuart, and why Liza is back in Pine Valley and whether David will get his come uppence or if Zach will get out of jail. I mean it is driving me crazy waiting to see this stuff unfold. I can’t believe it.

Pushing Through the Block

I should be searching for new writing gigs. I should be formatting new proposals, making new bids for newly posted jobs in the database. I need to do the things that will keep my work from home income from dropping below acceptable levels. Waiting for Erica Kane to pick out her 12th husband is not what an efficient freelancer should be doing with her day.

I am as disciplined as all get out, as long as AMC is not on. I can crank out with the best of them. However as long as Kendall Slater is being a self centered little tyrant, or crazy Annie is shooting people for justifiable reasons I’m catatonic, hanging on every word in the make believe world of soaps.



Junkie to the end.