#roger thorpe

[adampascalfan]

Pop culture podcast:  That time a soap opera created a rapist character who became so popular he became a central character of the show

Me, a long time soap viewer who can name 4 of these characters off the type of my head:  Wanna narrow that down a bit there?

[theartofthecover]

KI-6: Killers #2 (Variant Cover) (2019)

Art by: Sanford Greene

[quoteapalooza]

And then, in the scrapbooking aisle, I see 0.79$ sticker packs with like rainbows and unicorns that say DREAMS CAN COME TRUE! And it makes me want to cry the way we feed nonsense crap like this to kids, who are going to inherit a century of ugly wars started by people who died long ago, but who were sick and damaged enough to transmit their hatred down through the centuries. Dreams don’t come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. – Roger Thorpe, in ‘The Gum Thief’ by Douglas Coupland

[quoteapalooza]

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age—regardless of how they look on the outside—pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don’t want to be who they are anymore. They want OUT... It’s universal. Do YOU want out? Do you often wish you could be somebody, ANYbody, other than who you are—the you who holds a job and feeds a family—the you who keeps a relatively okay place to live and who still tries to keep your friendships alive? In other words, the you who’s going to remain pretty much the same until the casket? – Roger Thorpe, in ‘The Gum Thief’ by Douglas Coupland

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Emmy-winning actor Michael Zaslow passed away on this day in 1998. He was best known for his Emmy-winning performance as Roger Thorpe in GUIDING LIGHT. His other soap roles included David Renaldi in ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and Pete Chernak on LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING.