--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > Really, if Hagelin *believed* what he was saying > > > at the end of this clip, I can imagine that he > > > had some problems with the revelation. That he > > > immediately sent out an email "press release" > > > saying what he did...uh...reinforces my take on > > > him as a "well-practiced bullshitter" above. > > > > You "left" the TMO more than 30 years ago, why do you care ? > > A reasonable question -- and one that I will > address because I woke up in a really silly > mood today, Sir Nabs. Caveat emptor. :-) > > I don't "care," in the sense that it affects > my view of who or what I am. I "care" in the > sense of someone who has occasionally tuned > into the latest episode of "All My Children." > In other words, from the point of view of a... > uh...gulp!...former soap opera junkie. >
That's funny. I used to watch that soap too. I was hooked for a couple of years. I recall 'Trevor' who often referred to his girlfriend 'Janet' as "my doll,' ha ha ha... Then there was that stinker, Adam Chandler, always messing with other people's lives... Erica too. I finally got sick of watching after it sunk in that the damn thing never ended. No one's problems EVER really finished getting solved. Reminds me of the soap opera right here in Pine Val... I mean Fairfield Life. > I have been fortunate in my consultant life, and > have rarely spent more than a few weeks "between > gigs" during my "on the beach" periods between > contracts. *During* those few "on the beach" eras, > while I was interviewing for a new contract, I > confess to spending my lunch hours between inter- > views at bars that showed my favorite American > daytime soap operas. > > It's not as if you *could* interview anywhere in > the hours between 12:00 and 14:00 (Euro time), > right? The potential interviewers -- both in the > HR departments and among the tech interviewers -- > were all too busy getting schnockered over lunch. > Which is one reason I always preferred after- > lunch interviews. Does that make me a Bad Person? > > Anyway, during that two-hour stretch between > potentially money-making interviews, I became... > uh...addicted to "As The World Turns," and in > particular its resident hariden, Erica Kane. > > "*Supreme* Being In Denial" was Erica Kane. I once > ran into the actress who played her in an elevator > bound for Windows On The World, and my "short take" > on the actress (Susan Lucci) was that she was...uh > ...short. 5 feet 2 inches short. I had to look way > *down* in the elevator to even notice she was there. > > And yet she -- member of a soap opera troupe since > the age of 23 (in 1970) -- had managed to encapsulate > onscreen the essence of self-absorbed, all-powerful > bitchiness such that in her industry she pretty much > *defined* the essence of a Soap Opera Evil Queen. > > I watch -- with unashamed glee -- the ongoing attempts > of a spiritual movement that saw its "high point" > back in the late 60s to appear to Still Be Relevant > with the same sense of enjoyment that I occasionally > still download an episode of "All My Children." > > It's a "What could I have been thinking?" thang. >
