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Soap & Lunch All this soap and lunch business started in January, when I was supposed to begin my thesis and decided to begin by making a video about my compulsive watching of All My Children. In November, I found out entirely by accident that sixteen-year-old Bianca Montgomery, daughter of Erica Kane (aka, Susan Lucci or "La Looch") was in the process of announcing her fabulous gayness on national television. The sad truth is that my television only picks up ABC and having cable television might prevent me from graduating college. So, one day I was astonished to find, having flipped on the tel during lunch--hello!--two very attractive young women cornered by a gang of bitches (also promising...) in the girls' locker room (could it get any better?), accused of being lesbians. Sigh. I believe that was the Laura-Is-An-Internet-Porn-Star episode. Unfortunately, after watching it regularly for a few weeks, um...it became completely unbearable. After the coming-out scene, Bianca was not on for weeks!!! All that time, I had to endure the hideous antics of Mateo and Haley, Tad and Leslie, and-- worst of all-- that Hungarian princess, Gillian, and her moronic yacht-dwelling boyfriend. I can't even remember his name, but he runs an internet start-up. Meanwhile, there's three feet of snow outside, and I'm stuffing my face and watching three hours of TV every afternoon -- and I'm thinking, "Boy, this thesis thing is totally f*cked". But then I discovered I was not alone. First, I found out that my friend Ana, who appears in the video, was also secretly watching AMC!! Actually, she watches all kinds of bad things, like Dawson's Creek and much Lifetime television, so perhaps I shouldn't have been so surprised. Then Ana showed me the whole world of people who are (mildly) obsessed with the Adventures of our own LesBianca. In particular, I drew a lot of comfort from reading actiongrrl's diary entries about All My Children. Then I knew that everything would be OK... Now you can watch my video which was actually inspired (if you can believe it!) by Herbert Marcuse's ideas about the regimentation of leisure time in One Dimensional Man. Believe it...my planner looks like a TV guide, and vice versa. Happy viewing and please go to and sign the guestbook--->  View My Guestbook Sign My Guestbook |
