Since coming back to New Orleans, I’ve been having a hard time getting excited about Mardi Gras. Now I have some information that is making me want to get out there to a parade.
I am a life-long fan of All My Children (yes, the ABC soap opera, of all things). Feel free to make fun, I understand. AMC was something very special that I shared with my mother and especially my grandmother (who lived with my family for 13 years starting when I was 4). She mailed me clippings of the soap during college when I couldn’t watch and we faithfully wrote letters back and forth about “our story” until the day she died. I do my best to watch every now and then and keep somewhat up-to-date online. Not keeping up with the story would be an insult to her memory; it was and is our special bond. (I also hold a secret desire to be a soap writer and have fun following the silly plot twists.)
And as a soap follower, I had my special favorites growing up. One of them, Dixie Cooney, (played by Cady McClain) has just come back to the show after a hiatus of several years — and dear Dixie is going to be rolling with Morpheus on Friday night! She is actually going to be joined by several soap stars from AMC and other ABC soaps — most notably, AMC’s own Erica Kane (Susan Lucci, the diva of daytime!) The next day, the stars are throwing a free “fun in the sun” party in Jackson Square. I totally want to be well enough to see them in Morpheus… but the question is if I will actually make it out to the square with all the lunatic fans on Saturday? (And then, the real question: if I go, does that make me a lunatic fan?)
Gwen | 23-Feb-06 at 8:31 pm | Permalink
who cares?!? go and do it, your grandmother would LOVE that you went.
Evie, Bethany, & Scott | 01-Mar-06 at 6:52 am | Permalink
Yes it does make you a lunatic fan-but I agree with Gwen-who cares. just have fun!