Daze..part 1

Warning: Fellas, don't read. The following subject deals with a pastime of many women [and some men].
I'm talking soap operas.



This past week I have been wallowing in the glorious hammy episodes of Days of our Lives & General Hospital, the shows that I grew up on and followed until my college years.Now the great internet has stored my favorite memories online.

The 80's were very special time for soap fans, it was in that decade that the "supercouple" was born and it changed the story structure to these shows . On GH it was Luke and Laura, Robin & Scorpio, Frisco & Felicia. Days had Bo & Hope, Patch & Kayla, Shane & Kim.

Each show had ex-government agents falling in love with the town's good girls, then somebody getting kidnapped by a presumed dead rich Euro-something super villain who is really the father of so and so in town. Evil Von Villain tries to kill everybody with his henchmen on his secret island. In the Days story, Hope was in a cage suspended over a vat of acid...A vat of acid. Can't get any better than that.
Actually, you can--because Kayla went deaf. Well, in another storyline, not on the island I mean.


I have to say that while I enjoyed some these supercouples, my real favorites were the villains. Like good ol' Scotty Baldwin below. The man was hated by most of the town, but he didn't give a s***. I always liked the smarmy way he dealt with people. You could tell that Scotty thought the town was full of imbeciles. He was right.




Never understood why Laura gave up Baldwin for this dude.C'mon he has a fro.

Amazon bigfoot?

Note! Picture above is a dude pretending to be a Northern Californian bigfoot. Not to be confused with this Amazonian bigfoot article.

Excerpts from New York times article--
The folklore here is full of tales of encounters with the creature, and nearly every Indian tribe in the Amazon, including those that have had no contact with one another, have a word for the mapinguary (pronounced ma-ping-wahr-EE). The name is usually translated as “the roaring animal” or “the fetid beast.”

Dr. Oren said he had talked to “a couple of hundred people” who had said they had seen the mapinguary in the most remote parts of the Amazon and a handful who had said they had had direct contact."

But all accounts agree that the creature is tall, seven feet or more when it stands on two legs, that it emits a strong, extremely disagreeable odor, and that it has thick, matted fur, which covers a carapace that makes it all but impervious to bullets and arrows.

“The only way you can kill a mapinguary is by shooting at its head,” said Domingos Parintintin, a tribal leader in Amazonas State. “But that is hard to do because it has the power to make you dizzy and turn day into night. So the best thing to do if you see one is climb a tree and hide.”

end of article.

My favorite is the last part. The best thing to do is climb a tree and hide, even though the beastie has the ability to alter time and reality, and maybe swallow you whole.

Lost Boys!

I certainly don't need this. It's silly and a kinda ugly. Waste of money that is.


Dammit. I really want one.


---and whatever happened to the "sequel"?

A #@% disgrace!

Watched Slapshot this morning. Haven't seen this in ages. Paul Newman is just a complete jerk but he's so wonderful at it.
Here's a fan tribute I found on the Hanson brothers.