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by Brent Kellogg
July 11, 2008

I'm disturbed today, and it's not my usual disturbance brought about by overdosing on meds in order to maintain some sanity while writing about the people and events in Genoa City. It has nothing to do with why Cane Ashby had to walk six miles along a deserted highway to get gas and three of those carrying a can filled with gasoline. Amber Moore and Professor Gerbil going to their place of work to canoodle on the sofa after hours, who does this, and why does Amber have a key to building doesn't bother me as much as the apparent, impending, takeover of Jabot Cosmetics by Gloria Bardwell.

Expressing this concern to a colleague didn't help. I was told a power shakeup at Jabot is long overdue. CEO Nikki, why are my teeth yellow, Newman Chow has been there too long and she's not much more qualified than Gloria to run a toxic chemical company. With Nikki about to be kidnapped and held in an abandoned warehouse, or something similar, until Victor Newman can save her from co-CEO David Chow, with Nikki leaving the office every five minutes to attend pity parties with her daughter and parent company owner Katherine Chancellor, with David out working imaginary business deals, with Chancellor Industries CEO Jill Abbott focused now on Jabot attorney Heather Stevens' personal crusade to find who killed Mr. Kim Chee, Jabot is ripe for picking.

That's fine, but it doesn't resolve the issue as to how former Jabot power broker Jack Abbott might return to become Gloria's brain since she so obviously needs one. There's a long-standing court order preventing Jack from so much as walking into Jabot. He frequently violates the walk-in part with impunity, so how can Gloria get around this little problem?

According to her slippery husband Jeff, once he and his wife have purchased a major "stake" in Jabot eventually making a hostile takeover possible, with Jabot owed by Gloria, the court order will no longer apply to Jack. Details at this point are sketchy, but can you imagine Gloria's ambulance-chasing lawyer son making this happen? There won't be any opposition by Jabot's corporate attorney, because Heather will be much too busy to handle anything company related. There won't be any appearance before a judge, Michael Baldwin will wave his magic wand and the order will disappear. Additionally, Baldwin will ask Jeff to turn the poison skin cream over so that there won't be anything to hang over Gloria's head. Jeff will agree, but then discover that his Korean girlfriend swiped the cream and took it back to Korea.

And along the way there will be much fallout. The existing animosity held by angry Nick will rage to the point where Jack, and perhaps his whorish wife Sharon, will bail out of Restless Style Magazine. Then Sharon may bail on Jack when she realizes he and Gloria have become partners, and for sure when Sharon gets that Gloria won't be leaving the mansion any time soon. Depending on how long it takes Nick to figure out that his wife Phyllis has become a liability, until her son returns from Summer Camp rapidly aged, Sharon will have Nick's shoulder to cry on.

Back in Genoa City as an angry teenager, like Adam Wilson, Noah Newman could seek revenge on Jack for screwing his mother over. Noah could lurk at the Athletic Supporter Gym overhearing Jack's conversation concerning the Villain of the Week. He could then ask his girlfriend, Daniel Romalotti, to get him information on the villain to use as leverage against Jack and so, as we know, the circle of hate will go unbroken.

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Brent's coffee courtesy of Speeder & Earls, Burlington, VT.