and now...even more Fraternity Row!

[gwynnega]

I'm not loving the new LJ changes (though I gather I'm not seeing a lot of 'em, because I force my default style on everyone's comments pages).

In a few hours, I will be on vacation. Yay!!! Happy Hanukkah to those of you who celebrate.

In a few weeks, One Life To Live will be off the air. Waaaah. But in the meantime, OLTL continues to be such a delight. Monday's entire show was devoted to Roxy's dream of finding herself in the world of Fraternity Row (OLTL's soap-within-a-soap). I could write pages about this hilarious episode, which pokes fun at OLTL's Two Todds storyline and DID storylines ("an unfortunate non-hereditary ailment I inherited from my mother") and the gratuitously shirtless Ford brothers (here called the Mazda brothers), and which features bravura performances by pretty much everyone involved, including Erika Slezak as sweet housekeeper Gilda (with Frau Blucher German accent) and her malevolent alter-ego Matilda, and Roger Howarth as the mulleted Dash Dunning (who may not actually be the Real Dash Dunning). And the end of the episode turns on a dime from the hilarious to the bittersweet, as Roxy and David walk through the empty studio corridor after Fraternity Row's final taping...

Comments

[kore]

I HAVE TO figure out how to fix the LJ thing, because it's seriously giving me migraines. aaaaaaaaaaghghghg.

[gwynnega]

I've always had the force-my-style thing set on LJ, which I guess is why it's not giving me much trouble now (yet).

Have you seen this? It seems to have some workarounds:

http://advancing.livejournal.com/133124.html

[kore]

Ohh, that's really helpful, thanks....I guess I will have to go to Minimalism or something other than the style I finally settled on for my LJ, which is one of their big selling points. grumble grumble. (And at least this isn't, say, four or so years ago when I had a super-customized individual LJ style with my own background and CSS....)

[kore]

I really hate to keep bugging the shit out of you, but how do you choose to force your default style on everyone's pages? Just looking for a quick link.

[gwynnega]

No problem! You go to: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=display

Then scroll down to Comments Pages and make sure "View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style" is checked.

There's also an option to select "View all journals and communities in my own style."

[kore]

AUGH 'View all journals and communities in my own style' is not available to Plus....but at least 'View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style' is. Thank you!

[gwynnega]

I hope it helps! Actually I'd only ever forced my style to the comments pages, but now I'm trying forcing it to journals and communities too, what with the new "upgrade."

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Hey, wanna catch lunch on Friday?

[gwynnega]

Sure! Want to try Say Cheese (next to Trader Joe's)? I haven't been there in years because of Coffee Table, but it's always crowded...

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Sure! I need to do a tj run anyways... does 1pm work for you?

[gwynnega]

1 pm's good. See you then!

[fishsanwitt]

I'm really loving OLTL and I can't believe it's ending in about two weeks!

Screw ABC.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I finally got round to watching that, and it was fun.

[gwynnega]

Glad you enjoyed it!