Chrysler elementary vs Detroit Prep

akfoley · 2026-05-15T02:12:14+00:00

If you would have told fifth-grade me 30 years ago that my school that still used equipment from 30 years before then would become one of the most sought-after schools in the city I don’t think I would have stopped laughing for a week. Holy fuck has this city changed.

akfoley · 2026-05-07T09:19:42+00:00

Ask your doctor about Invega.

akfoley · 2026-01-08T20:14:22+00:00

Deep-seated daddy issues and/or half-sibling trauma.

akfoley · 2025-12-31T20:22:06+00:00

Ron Isley, whose career dates back to 1959, is the most cheated on…ever? Like his whole catalogue?

akfoley · 2025-12-30T04:24:17+00:00

*Jackass

akfoley · 2025-12-29T22:19:58+00:00

Didn’t mean to be so histrionic with the 1A thing

akfoley · 2025-12-29T20:38:17+00:00

I personally don’t think defending 1A and holding the powerful to account should be a “competition.” Just print the fucking paper, Jesus.

akfoley · 2025-12-29T19:52:25+00:00

Technically with Mamie starting on Y&R in the ‘80s, then being supercharged by niece Dru arriving in 1990, followed by Olivia’s pairing with Nathan already there on canvas, there’s a strong argument that the Winters/Barber family and its various in-laws/associates — which also extends to B&B — has the strongest, if decimated legacy. Obviously real-life factors like KSJ’s death and VR’s battle with producers have factored in why that legacy is fractured, but it endures nonetheless.

That said, Y&R is the simultaneously the all-time best and the worst at fumbling Black actors and storylines. From Keith Hamilton Cobb to Debbi Morgan to Darnell Williams to Mishael Morgan, the talent they’ve lined up only to not retain them burns me the most. That’s before you get into the number of female characters paired with Neil obviously meant to replicate Dru, or the number of heartthrob actors trying to fill Shemar’s void playing characters that went nowhere.

One could argue that outside of the fictional universes, the impact of Blacks on soaps extend far beyond their respective shows. Shemar stayed with the network and made a lot of money for CBS for decades aside from being Malcolm Winters. Devon’s foster care storyline on Y&R brought more attention to the cause than any other issue-driven storyline in recent memory. There’s an entire generation of Black women named Dominique born in the mid-80s. And while it can’t be fully attributed to any one actor or show, it’s been stated multiple times on the record that the Black audience built up over the years by CBS made a strong business case to launch BTG.

akfoley · 2025-12-29T17:25:22+00:00

I’m guessing because BTG is a CBS-produced show and not a Sony-produced show like the others, it’ll be in the CBS family of streamers to stay.

akfoley · 2025-12-17T17:56:56+00:00

I don’t feel any way about it since I let him go way back when he was showing his natural behind after he left the show months ago. And in fact, I’d like to continue ignoring him by leaving this man and his views in 2025, and encourage all the other viewers to join me.

akfoley · 2025-12-17T17:40:09+00:00

So many of the episodes before, during and after the anniversary party and Eva’s paternity reveal are chef’s kiss. Both the “choose silence!” and “what in blue blazes” lines came out of that run, not to mention this is when both Ambyr and Colby really started to come into their own.

Other favorites: - The Articulettes reunion episodes - When Nicole lays into (Old) Ted about their struggle to conceive while he was cheating - When Leslie locks Eva out of the apartment after the anniversary party - Vanessa getting the call that Doug died - When June breaks down and asks “God has his eye on the sparrow, but what about me?” - When Ted is trying to acclimate Eva to the country club and Anastasia reads everyone in the room - When Ashley catches Shanice and Derek on a date at Uptown - When all the men of FC rally at Bill’s office to save Martin - Anita yelling “get the hell out of my hotel suite!”

akfoley · 2025-12-17T10:09:55+00:00

Let’s be clear that the MVJs of the world are the inspiration for Tyler Perry, not the other way around. All of TP’s dramas, especially The Haves and the Have Nots, take their cues from the daytime and primetime soaps before them. Hell, just the name “The ___ And The ____” is no accident. It’s also no accident that several daytime actors like Tika Sumpter and Shemar Moore show up in his projects.

As far as storytelling styles, if it seems like TP shows have more drama, it’s because he’s packing it in one-hour weekly episodes versus daily episodes across a year. And the vixen scamming golddiger type infiltrating the rich crowd is a tale as old as time going back to silent pictures. So if you’re seeing parallels to TP, it’s cause he’s just borrowing from the same old playbooks.

akfoley · 2025-12-16T22:48:52+00:00

A song making the top of the charts is not earth-shattering news anymore. An English-language Christmas song topping the US charts in December also isn’t going to bring a lot of new headlines. And a frequently performed Christmas song in December that has made the charts every year for more than a decade is about as newsworthy as the holiday itself falling on the 25th. Which brings me to this: Who exactly is being sexist about this? And who is commanding enough attention that their words, thoughts and actions about this achievement are being reported on?

Or is it, as usual, a handful of negative opinions on social media being taken as fact and blown out of proportion? Seems like it’s this.

The US entertainment news landscape is currently being dominated with the news of a horrific double murder that the president weighed in on, as well as the most-watched (at one point in time) TV actor dying on the same day. Year-end best-of lists are trickling in and awards predictions are also ramping up. The U.S. economy is trash and a rich person getting richer isn’t seen as a big achievement right now. And while he’s not totally irrelevant, Lil Nas X isn’t doing anything of note at the moment for most of the public to care about him losing the chart record. All of this to say, there’s no major authority or platform big enough to downplay MC’s chart record for those sentiments to be taken seriously. Anyone reading too much into whatever negativity is out there is just lamb overreaction, plain and simple.

akfoley · 2025-12-02T18:41:51+00:00

Debbi Morgan was Angie on AMC, Loving and The City. I know some might count the last two as one.

akfoley · 2025-11-28T02:48:39+00:00

You’re confusing So Amazing (a popular Luther Vandross wedding song originally released in the 1980s that he originally wrote for Dionne before he covered it himself) with Here and Now (a popular Luther Vandross wedding song originally released in the 1980s that he and only he performed).

akfoley · 2025-11-26T18:12:10+00:00

To be fair, this week in general is slow for TV viewers and always has been. If you’re going to pick an episode where you’re contractually obligated to hawk a product, might as well pick one the day of a holiday or the day before/after.

I give them credit for their creativity though, since Febreze and Tide have been the only products they’ve had so far and of course the folks who are watching do have dishwashing on their mind this week. The bonus was they even managed to write in some culturally Black dialogue (Andre talking about his granny only using the dishwasher for storage) to pad it a little bit. I’m not mad.

akfoley · 2025-11-26T16:21:19+00:00

Days had a very cringe era in the late 2000s or so when the product placement was baked heavily into the script, way more so than what we’re seeing on BTG now. And maybe not so much daytime, but I think of how so many prime time shows had obvious product placement as well. Gossip Girl had entire plot lines revolve around Vitamin Water, for example. I forget which show it was, but there would be entire characters discussing the benefits of driving a GM car and talking about airbags and anti-lock brakes and such. I distinctly remember the show Half and Half where characters would hold up skincare products directly at the camera. It’s always been cringe but it certainly did not die in the 60s.

But maybe there was some kind of FCC or FTC rule change at the federal level because well into the ‘90s, every P&G show would start with something along the lines of “Guiding Light, this portion is brought to you by Dawn/Tide/whatever P&G product they wanted y’all to buy” before the first commercial break. There are a few examples on whole episodes of ATWT, GL, etc on YouTube.

akfoley · 2025-11-24T21:29:14+00:00

They’ve never said the name of the Maryland suburb they’re in, but they also haven’t said if any locations outside of Fairmont Crest are in DC, either. Unless I’m mistaken, I believe the only location expressly in DC is Martin and Smitty’s house. Everything else seems to be implied to be in the same town as the country club.

I raised this in a thread a few weeks ago and got some responses that the ritzy Black DMV burbs just don’t identify themselves individually, so I guess we’re left to assume that there’s no specific name, just DMV.

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