Natalia's AMC farewell brought tears to my eyes. Shannon Kane was an under-utilized asset throughout her time on AMC (some of which couldn't be helped — girl's got a budding film career on her hands, after all), but her charisma and beauty are unmistakable.

I've been watching THE VAMPIRE DIARIES since it started airing on the CW, and now I've seen the first two Twilight movies. And for me, VD is the better production, hands down.

I'm very disappointed with the news that Kyle Lowder (Rick) has been let go from B&B. Aside from him being a talented actor and a nice guy to boot, I think that there was still plenty of potential story for his character.

I think I'd rather go over my skin with a cheese grater than sit through another gratuitously exploitative rape storyline on daytime. It'd be less painful. This morning, before the DAYS rerun on SOAPnet, I rewatched the tail end of GH. After again experiencing the scenes where Michael initially revealed to Jason that he'd been raped, I was ready to crawl under my desk and cry for an hour rather than attending to my job duties. And my colleague Joe helpfully reminded me that this was just the tip of the rape-y iceberg: We have the Jason/Michael fallout scenes ahead of us today, and Michael still has to repeat the entire story to Carly and Sonny.