My Love Letter to Daytime Tv

Dear Daytime Tv of My Childhood,

The world and the Powers that Be want you to change. Disappear. Become more…real.
I disagree with this decision wholeheartedly and am doing what I can to fight the good fight. We’ve got allies in high places, and all the “little people” are doing what we can to save you.

I, for one, want you to stay the way you are. You are, and you have been for 30 years, my escape, my inspiration. Since the moment I came home from my one and only day at preschool, and sat down to see Julie Williams’(Susan Hayes, DAYS) face on the screen.

You have been there to comfort me when I was sick. You have also been the REASON I was “sick” on many an occasion. You have added romance to a life where previously there was none.

I was upset when Another World went away and Days of Our Lives lost its damn mind, so I sought sanctuary at ABC, with three strong leaders of daytime. All My Children(Greg & Jenny forever!), One Life to Live(how can you not love Tess? And Todd? And Blair? And-) General Hospital, where the women look good AND run the show, and the men look good and back up their women.

I have been faithful to the three ABC soaps for the past several years, recording days and days on an old VHS so I don’t miss what happened with Dorian and David or Kendall and Zack. So it’s understandable that I am upset with the news of One Life to Live and All My Children’s cancellations. I cried like I had just lost my best friend. I started shaking, got furious, and got pro-active. I was not about to take this lying down, ESPECIALLY not when the man who made this decision wants to treat us like trained animals and force us to watch what HE wants us to watch. (I love you, Tim Gunn, but I do NOT need a lifestyle show)

So. There is a Facebook campaign. Twitter is heated with #saveoursoap hashtags #fireFrons is another popular one. There are petitions. If you want to help Save Our Soaps, then just jump in. The more physical letters the better. Email, call, write your local affiliate that their ratings will be going down after the shows are gone. Warn them about the money they will be losing. Talk to their ad department. Email the sponsors whose commercials air during our shows. Tell THEM not only will you boycott their products, but there is no reason for them to watch daytime tv anymore, once the shows are gone.

Write the crew. Write the actors. Send a letter to the writers, thanking them for what they’ve been doing. It’s not a sign of giving up, it’s sending our support to THEM. Several hundred people will soon be unemployed. They could use our support as well.

Dearest Daytime, I am urging everyone I can to speak up and make their displeasure known. If the viewers get into an uproar and start bringing money into the fray ( THANK YOU, HOOVER!) they will listen with both ears. You don’t mess with a businessman and his money.

I dare say, my dearest daytime tv, we have learned a thing or to in our time.

Keeping Romance Alive,

Samantha Jane


If you are interested in helping save One Life to Live and All My Children, I’ve gleaned the following info from other SOS sites.



Robert A. Iger
President and CEO
Walt Disney Company
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Mail Stop 1062
Burbank, CA 91521


Anne X. Sweeney
President
ABC Television Network
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521


Brian Frons
President
ABC Daytime Programming
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521


Proctor & Gamble
Dave McCracken
NA MDO External Relations
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-983-6248
Email: mccracken.ds@pg.com


Marie-Laure Salvado
Director, External Relations North America MDO
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-893-7643
Email: Salvado.ml@pg.com
Fax: 513-945-4412


Gerri Cunnigan
NA MDO External Relations
One Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-983-0816
Email: cunnigan.ge@pg.com


Kimberly Clark
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
PO Box 619100
Dallas, TX 75261-9100
Phone: 972-281-1200
Fax: 972-281-1490


Colonial Penn
Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company
399 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19181
Phone: 1-877-877-8052


And let’s not forget Disney’s Board of Directors. If thousands of angry soap fans suddenly decided to boycott their products, how would they feel about cancelling the soaps. Board members who run or are on the board of other companies who you can contact are:

John S. Chen
Sybase Inc.
Sybase, United States Headquarters
One Sybase Drive
Dublin, CA 94568
Phone: 1-800-SYBASE5 (792.2735) or 1-925-236-5000

Judith L. Estrin
JLABS, LLC
2455 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: 408.490.1000
Fax: 408.562.0080


Steve Jobs
Apple, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Phone: 408.996.1010
Fred H. Langhammer


Estee Lauder
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
Phone: 212-572-4200


Aylwin B. Lewis
Potbelly Sandwich Works
222 Merchandise Mart Plz
23rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: (312) 951-0600
Monica C. Lozano


impreMedia, LLC
700 S. Flower Street, Suite 3000
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 622-8332


Robert W. Matschullat
The Clorox Company
1221 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 271-7000
Robert W. Matschullat


Visa Inc.
Visa Inc
900 Metro Center Blvd.
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone: 650-432-3200
Fax: 650-432-7436
(via savesoaps.freei.me)

Twitter Is My Shrink

I had a new kind of breakdown last night. It was different from the others in that I wasn't sobbing hysterically or angry or hurt or feeling anything other than...well, I'm not really sure what I was feeling. Not jealousy. Maybe envy tinged with regret. But I knew, years ago, that the regret would come. It was one of those, "I'm going to do THIS. I know THIS is going to make me feel like THIS in the future, so don't complain about it when it happens." I'm not exactly complaining. Just trying to write out and understand the feelings. So. I "went off" several times in 140 characters or less. It's nothing explosive, you see. Just stuff that was in my head that needed to get out. It seemed like it should be a blog instead, so here I am. I'm not re-formatting or re-wording anything, as tonight's emotions would color what I wrote last night.


Reading a blog of a person I used to call "friend"--I can't call anyone "Friend" b/c I'm not one anymore. It hurts to see what I've missed..

I have limitations, mostly monetary, some mental, & I HAVE2live w/i my limits. I've always been "Baby in the corner" b/c I put myself there.

It's easier to be away from everyone for me. My head is so full, I can't focus on anything. So i'm trying to focus on ME, as everyone says 2

I've never really been part of a group. I'm the one on the outskirts, watching, feeling, emoting, not feeling cared for. Still there.

So I don't trust easily. And when I do, it usually ends up badly. So. No trusting. No friends. No fun. All raw emotion and nowhere to put it

It makes me wish that I was taught the RIGHT way to be a human, to be a person. I wasn't. No one taught me. They thought I already knew.

But I don't. And that's why I get the looks, or the cold shoulder, from mostly everyone. "Oh, Sam's here. Ok." I'd like to walk into a room

like my little David Mays and get the "Norm" treatment. I don't want to take anything away from my David, b/c I adore him, but I'm jealous

of that little fucker. I won't lie. He's awesome. Even when he's DOWN, he's awesome. And I don't have the tools to be there for him.

I lost my dad before he lost his, so I should have known how to show him how to get through it. But I'm not like everyone else, so I can't.

I have to concentrate all my energies on surviving, not dying, and just staying afloat. Everyone else has great "salaried" careers. I don't.

My only problem w/that is the $$$ I don't have to go places & do things. So I'm at home. I had what I would call a successful theatre career

In my time in the theatre, I worked on or participated in 200 or more shows and did a fairly decent job. THAT was my career. I have retired

from the theatre due2some BULL SHIT that was thrown at me. Now I'm becoming even more hermity as a writer, my FIRST love, & ppl don't get it

And I certainly don't expect them to. I was raised NOT to have friends, but acquaintances. I didn't do sleepovers, phone calls. I did recess

And having acquaintances seems much safer than the alternative.I wasted SEVEN years on some mess. Thankfully I got the gist of that mess on

paper, which is Story #1. Thanks for the life experience, Dbag. (Yes, DBag. The anger comes nearly a decade later.) I was stunted by this

experience, and wasn't able to be open and giving at a time when I needed to be, or needed something from them(something being support)

I'm even more closed off now. I focus my emotions on the stories I'm trying to develop. I want, I need, I would like to have, but why give

voice to those things I won't ever have? I wasn't put on this earth for anything other than to learn and create. I wasn't put here 2 love or

be loved. I'm here to experience all the bad, take it in so that others won't necessarily have to experience it. I'm the empath. I feel what

others feel, but hold no excitement, love, peace, serenity, happiness for myself. It's not to be. I feel as if I was hatched from an egg.

I got the worst version of parents available. Sure, I blame them for a BUNCH of stuff, at the beginning, but then who's at fault later?

Their influence was there, of course, but then I got to be "on my own" ish and went nutbag crazy. And went downhill from there.

The. End.



That's it. It's disjointed. It's imperfect. It's real. It's vulnerable. It's true. There's no "Throw me a pity party" here, not an explanation, but just the way I feel and have felt. I would say I'm more of an observer, but my sightlines have diminished quite a bit since I started throwing people off my island.