Fans, a friend was kind enough to alert me that there's a massive sale on a huge number of classic and cult TV titles now on amazon.com.  The DS DVDs are part of the sale and are priced around $30 to $31.49 apiece (not including shipping).  Usually on the site if you buy more than $25 of merchandise they throw in the shipping for free but am not sure if this applies for this sale.

No doubt the sale is stimulated in part by all the reports in the press lately regarding "the death of the DVD."  A Boston paper last week interviewed faculty at a media studies and communications dept. at one of the local Universities stating that internet downloads and home-burnt DVD-Rs (or Blu-Ray-Rs, I guess) are the wave of the future, although the final statement of one professor was that "speeds are not quite there" for the kind of quality that most consumers would expect for a paid download.

The growing numbers of file-sharing sites around these days remind me of the "Napster" craze of some years back.  Interesting times!

G.

Isn't that supposed to be:  "Roger Davis is coming.  Look busy!"?

Just checking ... I get confused so easily. 

G.

Forget the lightbulb.  I still want to know how they keep those candles and torches lit--sometimes for CENTURIES!-- in every secret room on the premises.

G.

What a hoot!  It does indeed sound as if somebody on the staff of that soap has been watching their old tapes from the Jason Maguire storyline.

I like to call that show "The Hung and the Listless."  An acquaintance of mine is a huge fan of actor Daniel Goddard, who used to play The Beastmaster on that show about 9 years ago, and is now on Y&R as a character named Cane ('"as in Hurricane").  Apparently there are masses of current clips from Y&R on YouTube, perhaps some including the storyline involving the Jason Maguire clone.

Now all that has to happen is that a young wastrel friend of the Maguire fellow shows up with an interest in the family jewels. Tee hee!

G.

Hooray, Hooray!  I can't wait!  Thanks so much for sharing the new, Claude darling!

G.

What staggers me is how the popularity of DS appears to be soaring.  Every month seems to bring a new bounty of press cuttings and pop culture references to the series.  And it hasn't been on any channel's schedule in several years now!

I would never have thought that something as lo-fi and "unique" as our beloved show would turn out to be the darling of the iWhatever age.

G.

I am LMAOROFL at the MB's brilliant caption about Barnabas agonizing that Jeb has cursed him to walk the night at Pepe LePew!  Hilarious!

And, I'm sure I'm the ONLY fan trashy enough to notice that in the 1841 PT lottery storyline, it truly does look as if Morgan has taken a leaf out of the "Spinal Tap" songbook and now has a cucumber wrapped in foil down his trousers... perhaps he's preparing to serenaade Catherine with "lick my love-pump, baby" in the drawing room later in the evening??

cheers, G.