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By George, I think I’ve got it! Rivaled only by Jackal PI’s investigatory skills, Spin’s Vixenella has decoded and deciphered the top-secret, encrypted message bearing the key to Spinelli’s summer storyline. More than two weeks ago, Spin’s Vixenella stumbled upon a seemingly straightforward, innocuous quote from an unnamed General Hospital “insider.” See for yourself, and follow along as The Vixenella cracks the code for “insider-speak.”

QUOTE:

Spinelli and Bradford the actor are extremely popular and TPTB truly want to give him a love interest but the question is who? TPTB are quietly looking around for someone for him by this fall, in the meantime he will be helped by different characters.

Covertly, Spin’s Vixenella went to work on the hidden message and finally deciphered it cryptic meaning. The answer is Rice-a-Roni and Re-runs!

The Vixenella invites you along for a walk through her deductive process. First, “TPTB” is well-known code for “The Powers that Be,” aka “TIIC,” “The Idiots in Charge.” TPTB are the people “upstairs,” the “higher ups” at GH…the writers, the producers, the directors, and executives, i.e. Frons, Phelps, Guza, et. al.  

Slowly re-read the entire quote; now focus your attention on "Spinelli and Bradford the actor are extremely popular and TPTB truly want to give him a love interest but the question is who?"

Hmmm...” want to give him a love interest, but who...?”

Who indeed! Mysterious and perplexing, don’t you agree? The illusive question for the ages, ponder...who could be a love interest for Spinelli? The female character Spin has been paired with onscreen for the last 5-6 months leaps to my mind, but The Vixenella is just logical that way. It can’t be Maxie; that is just too simple. Maxie and Spinelli…that would never work. Too many people enjoy them together and see their super-couple potential. Spinelli’s love interest must be someone else, but who? TPTB will never figure out who, if, each time Spinelli is put in a wildly successful pairing, it is unceremoniously jerked out from under him by the new soap hunk flavor of the month.

Turn you attention to the next key phrase in the cipher:  "TPTB truly want to give him a love interest..."

The mystery here lies in the odd irony of the words themselves. A love interest for Spinelli is wholly and completely within TPTB's control, so please forgive The Vixenella, as she seriously questions TPTB’s sincerity or doubts how "truly" TPTB want to give Spin a love interest. If they TRULY wanted to give him a love interest, GIVE HIM ONE! Pray God, what stops them, if a love interest for Spinelli is what TPTB truly want? That is the “Power” part of TPTB…you guys already have everything you need to give Spinelli a love interest…power, paper, pencil, stone tablet….if you write it, it will come. 

Moving on in the deductive process, TPTB seem to have mounted their own covert op. According to the quote, "TPTB are quietly looking around for someone for him (Spinelli) by this fall, in the meantime he will be helped by different characters.” May I say, if TPTB are "quietly looking around for someone" for Spin...it is very quiet! Or is this a cover story concocted by TPTB to stall until they see how it goes with Maxie’s summer love, Dr. Matt Hunter? Sneaky, sneaky…stall Spinelli’s storyline as a way to hedge TPTB bets, just in case Maxie’s new romance bombs. Exactly..keep Spinelli available and flailing aimlessly in the event TPTB need to quickly insert Spinelli to prop up their sordid summer mess.

Back to the coded message, we have already being treated to the “different characters” helping Spin. Thus far, we have seen Spinelli “helped” by Patrick, Coleman, Jason, Sam, Diane, Leyla, and Jax. Next at bat will be the original Vixenella herself, Claudia Z. Have I left anyone out? Stay tuned Spin fans for another summer of rollicking comic relief as Pinball Spinelli is batted about the canvas propping character after character, with limited storyline progression or character development of his own. Only time will tell how long a character like Pinball Spinelli can remain viable and likeable with no story of his own, thrown from wacky hijinks to wacky hijinks, used only for comic relief.

If any of this sounds like a re-run, it is. Strangely, Spinelli fans have travelled this very route before. Did anyone save TPTB quotes from last summer right before or after Lulu was paired with Logan? Here we are again at the precipice, and this time Spinelli will watch Maxie star in this summer’s version of “love-to-hate-to-love” new guy, Matt Hunter.

Why does The Vixenella even bother to learn the names in the Hot Summer New Guy Hit Parade? Some don’t even make it to February Sweeps. Now another year, another viable love interest snatched out from under Spin, and yet another pack of empty promises to his fans. This is not even a thinly disguised RE-RUN! Did we really love it so much last summer; we must feast upon it again, and so soon?

Remember the “old school” TV game shows? When you lost on the old game shows, you were always sent home, with a "lovely parting gift" often Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat? If you don’t remember Rice-a-Roni as the perennially favorite consolation prize, watch some game show re-runs on the Game Show Network. Just a suggestion, since GH is about to go into summer recycles and re-runs itself. At least the Game Show Network has re-runs from many years ago, instead of just last summer.

Read the quote carefully one last time:

Spinelli and Bradford the actor are extremely popular and TPTB truly want to give him a love interest but the question is who? TPTB are quietly looking around for someone for him by this fall, in the meantime he will be helped by different characters.

Aha! Puzzle solved. Spinelli’s storyline this summer is a re-run from last summer. Once again, Spin and his fans are sent home with a heaping helping of Rice-a-Roni, the lovely parting gift for losers! 

Oh, and now Spin’s Vixenella has an encrypted message for TPTB at GH. Let’s see how long it takes them to decode this.

The fans of Spinelli and Bradford Anderson really can’t properly express our thanks. Expect to see our special brand of appreciation passionately expressed in an outpouring of letters, emails, phone calls, lower ratings, horse-heads, etc.…like I said…we simply cannot thank you…ENOUGH!

P.S.  We, Spinelli fans, are just not that into Rice-a-Roni, but we would happily share our lovely parting gift with YOU! 

VIXENELLA'S VIDEO OF THE DAY:  It just doesn't get much more poignant and painful than this people. Almost one year ago today, this beautiful vid was first posted on YouTube by the talented Spencerfanfirst aka Spikey. I always loved this mvid even during the heady days of Spixie, but NOW this vid haunts me almost to tears. If anyone still doubts we are on the cusp of a summer re-run and wasted talent, please take a look at this, and be sure to listen through to the end...there is another interesting twist as the credits roll. Enjoy Rainbow Connection a magnificent mvid showcasing Luke/Laura and Spinelli/Lulu.

 

Do you ever get side-tracked when you are watching a movie or TV show with something that you probably weren't supposed to notice or pay any attention to?  I was watching a movie and the main character was smoking and they showed him looking at some paperwork on his desk and his cigarette was very short.  They briefly showed the paperwork and when the camera came back onto him, his cigarette was a fresh one, and he hadn't gotten a new one.  Usually when someone in a movie is smoking I wonder if they smoke IRL, you can usually tell if they don't inhale.  Something else that I notice is when someone has on eye glasses, if they are not real, they look like flat window glass.  I also pay attention when people are supposed to be driving a car (this is usually on TV because they spend more money and do a better job in movies) how ridiculous and unreal the background looks.  Something else (I can not figure out why it would be done) is if someone is sitting and talking on TV, I have noticed more than once that they may be wearing a wedding ring or have a tatoo on their arm, etc. then later it's like the film (or whatever things are filmed/taped on) has been flipped over.  So the tattoo is on the opposite arm or the wedding ring looks to be on the wrong hand.  What's up with that?  Apparently I either watch really boring stuff and my mind wanders or I have a short attention span!   Ever notice weird stuff like this?

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Here are the names and addresses of the Disney people to send your letters. Write them all! But I put them in order of importance.

This address is for all the people:

The Walt Disney Company
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521


Robert A. Iger, Director (also Disney President & CEO)
robert.a.iger@disney.com

Peter Murphy Senior Advisor to Robert Iger

Board of Directors
Susan Arnold
John E. Bryson
John S. Chen
Judith L. Estrin
Steve Jobs
Fred H. Langhammer
Aylwin B. Lewis
Monica C. Lozano
Robert W. Matschullat
John E. Pepper Jr. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Orin C. Smith

Well this show on CBS called CANE has me intrigued a lot. I had to work Tuesday night and I missed the series premeire but, just watching the video preview of what happened was good. I'm def. going to try to record it, next Tuesday if I have to work.

I caught the Criminal Minds season premeire. It was pretty good. It has a well known former soap star as the star and they had ex-Maggie (I don't know the actress' name but she was Maggie on AMC) on the season premeire. I don't know if she's a regular though.

I don't know what else to watch this fall. CANE is a must see for me now but I don't know about Criminal Minds. I've always been a fan of Without A Trace, maybe I'll start watching that again, now that's a moved back to Thursdays.

Adios, amigos. ;)

So I spend so much time these days listening to these old-time radio shows that it's really interfering with what I laughingly call "housework" (any of you cleaning fanatics who want to come over and take a stab at this apartment, feel free.)  I love most of these old shows, esp. the detectives, but listening to them reminded me of something that used to be standard fare in mystery programs, and that is the old conk on the noggin that every detective used to get in every episode.  No matter how astute, no matter how adept, no matter how clever or on top of his game he was (there weren't any lady detectives to speak of in the old days, though most of them had lady assistants of some sort), you could take it to the bank: just when our hero begins to put 2 and 2 together, he's gonna get whacked on the head and black out.

I remember that it used to be that way on the TV series I watched as a kid.  For a while it seemed like every other TV character was a private detective, but the one I remember best was Joe Mannix.  A thoroughly nice guy, Joe, and he had an African-American secretary, Peggy, which was progressive of him, and she had this adorable little boy whose name escapes me.  But every week Joe was getting conked on the head and passing out.  And it used to really bother me.  I was only like 10 years old, but I'm asking myself "How many times a week can a guy get knocked unconscious and not suffer permanent damage??" 

Well, I didn't realize it then, but Joe came from a long line of private eyes who spent significant amounts of time in la-la land.  Richard Diamond, Sam Spade, George Valentine, the Falcon... they all hit the floor at least once per episode.  I guess every genre has its earmarks, and the old head conk usually gives the criminal a chance to hide some piece of evidence or slip out through the fire escape, heightening the mystery.  But you'd think once in a while these detectives would learn to look around for potential head conkers BEFORE they start rifling through the victim's desk drawers looking for the scratch pad with the impression of a phone number on it.  And what about the old impression on the scratch pad bit?  I've experimented with that trick when I was bored at work, and most of the time the impressions on my scratch pad are too faint for me to read if I rub a pencil over them.  And I already know what the last sheet that was torn off said.

Well, I don't have a TV so I don't watch the modern crime shows.  I did for a while, but then it just got so the crimes were so gruesome that I found I didn't really want to KNOW who did it.  That was one of the reasons that I threw out my TV.  But I will give the modern detectives this:  they usually don't get conked on the head on a regular basis.  DNA tests may not be depicted realistically on the modern detective show, but if our heros can rely on collecting DNA instead of skull fractures, I'm all for it.  Science marches on!