Yup, am derfinitely crazy....

Weekends are the worst in viewing anything new. Lots of boring, ageing, older white men bloviating about nothing and selling talking p0ints. I sort of hate them.

Soooo... to entertain myself, I went to some other Soaps I hadn't seen. I sorta like All MY Children, but hooked on to General Hospital.

You are going to HAVE to fasten your seat-belts about this. It has nothing to do with a hospital, and it's like watching a never-ending Godfather film. I was way surprised.

I only checked in there because Peter's Aunt Hildegard somehow used to watch it on cable, and was NOT reachable when it aired. God help you if you interrupted her while watching. Hildegard was the Nazi one. The crazy one, who went alone at night to Harlem to recruit people, Afrrican American people of her persuasion to revolt. She was beyond radical, and died some years ago, God rest her soul.

But alive, she was a force to be reckoned with. I only met her once.... unforturnately. Unfortunately because THAT waas one time too many.

She bloody terrorised the entire family, who were Socialists. It even made her mother, Peter's grandmother lash out at her. 'YOUR Hitler made me miss the golden era of MGM musicals!'

(I'm choking for laughing here. One of the funniest lines I have ever heard.... Don't get me wrong, things were bad, and his grandma was sort of Hollywood star-struck, and had withdrawal symptoms. She must have been amazing.)

I gave that gem to one of his cousins when they were here. After all, it was hilarious... at least for me.

I think I have posted this before, but WWII wasn't exactly a cake-walk. Bombs fell, and air raids, and they were in the middle of town. Peter was five, and what did Grandma do? She brought a grammaphone into the cellar, he had p-neumonia, and what was the record? Fred Astaire, 'Cheek to Cheek'. _Do y'know the first line of that? 'Heaven, I'm in Heaven...'

And the bombs falling....

The Block-wart could have SO busted her. if he had been a real Nazi....

She nearly got into a fist-figtht with a market person on Jakominiplatz, some of you might remember that place, and they lived a block up at the time.... It was about Ginger Rogers being waaaay suprerior to Marika Rökk. Who is still alive, and does a bad Eva Gabor imitation....

That wasn't even thinkable then. And way dangerous.

So Hildegard was the egg the cuckoo laid in some foreign nest. She has always sort of fascinated me. She drank champagne, sending her husband to Stalingrad, and he was 'lucky' enough to be a POW and return, which realllly pissed her off. She was just crazy. She wanted to be a war widow. Her daughter was a paleontologist... and drank herself to
death, way too young...

Families are sort of odd, Y'know????

So what Hiledgard 'see' in General Hospital'. I guess it will be a mystery, but somehow I think there is a subliminal message in there, but am not so twisted to 'get' it.

So don't mind me, move along... nothing to see here....

But finding out the series is about the Mafia, and not a horsepital.... that cäarified a few things....

Odd.