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by Todd Brown
June 7, 2008

Why can't Lily get a flight to New York out of Genoa City? Since when in the hell does anyone in Genoa City have trouble getting a flight to any destination in the world? People fly to Paris, Rome and London on the spur of the moment out of Genoa City. You'd think their airport was O'Hare. It's not like she was trying to get to Zimbabwe for God's sake. And please, I'm so tired of people telling Lily how important it is for her to finish school. Yeah, she can make millions and millions of dollars as a super model but no, it's more important for her to get her degree right now as if she's going to be a biochemist. Let's face it, Lily's options are limited. She's not exactly a mental giant. Neil thinks she could become a doctor or an attorney? God forbid. I wouldn't wish Lily on my worst enemy facing angioplasty or a lawsuit as their doctor or attorney.

What happened to the pool house? Last time I saw it was a rather lavish condo with two stories and all the amenities. You know, back when the Glow By Jabot kids were all hanging around. Now it's like a shack. I remember when Diane was living there and burned it down to frame Phyllis, but apparently they rebuilt it. Now it's like an outhouse or something stuffed with junk and bad pipes. And how come they make Fisher sleep there? That doesn't even make sense. They got that dog for Noah but told him the dog had to sleep in another house? Isn't it an awful lot of trouble going out there to let him in and out? Yet by Friday she'd cleaned the place up pretty nice from what I could tell. Except there seemed to be a lot of liquor bottles in the background. I wonder if Fisher has a drinking problem.

Even now that someone has been poisoned there, everyone will still continue to patronize Crimson Lights. And why not? The owner and proprietor is a convicted arsonist, child predator and attempted murderer; his fiance is a convicted killer and his mother is a crazy woman. Charles Manson could be the barrista and Lizzie Borden could be the waitress and everyone in town would still go there. That's because there are no Starbucks in Genoa City, no other coffee shops, and God forbid anyone go to the grocery store and buy Folgers.

While it's nice that they finally addressed the issue of why Miguel has not been seen in years and never will be again, his send-off was something short of deserving. All Victor could offer was a half-hearted comment that he "was a nice man." That's the best he's got? For a man who practically raised his children and spent more time with them than he ever did? Miguel cooked and cleaned for this family. He chauffeured their kids around town and babysat for them from the time they were born until they were adults with their own children and then he looked after those too. And the best he got out of the deal was some lousy clock he had to wind up every day for those bastards?

Victor is certainly one to lecture Adam on the folly of arrogance and overconfidence. Except that those things work out badly for everyone except Victor himself. Nobody does arrogance like Victor Newman but it never fails him. That's because the writers are so enamored of Eric Braeden they insist on shoving him down our throats as though he were some infallible and irresistible daytime version of Hugh Heffner without the sense of humor. He's been given a new lover and a new son to hump his leg since the last ones didn't work out so well but he admonishes his son for daring to emulate his own tactics.

I must print a retraction to last week's column in which I observed an odd jar of what seemed to be green goo in the workout room at the athletic club. After careful inspection I have determined that this jar is, in fact, a depository for lemon slices floating in water. Not that having a large jar of floating lemon slices makes more sense than having a large jar of green goo in the workout room. After all, I personally wouldn't go within ten feet of a jar of lemon slices that are, from what I can gather, left there for sweaty workout people to stick their hands in and squeeze them into their bottled water. Nevertheless, I stand corrected. I'm sure there's a good reason for it. You know me, I don't like to judge.

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