In business news, I can't write enough about how
stupid it is to think that Restless Style is a
magazine. For example, with look at the pretty
pictures, now what do I do with them, Daniel
Romalotti gone, who took his place? Where is Lauren
Baldwin's fashion column? I wanted so badly to read
it. With co-publisher Nick Newman saying this week
that he has the 18-49 age group sewed up, his goal
now, one that he won't negotiate with partner Jack
Abbott because if it's one thing Nick can't stand
it's to not be consulted, is to reach the under 18
age group.
Never mind that survey after survey shows that young
people don't read books, or newspapers, or
magazines, that they get a majority of their
information from the Internet, Nick spends thousands
on some dude named "Ebo" to come up with the
original idea of sticking the CD of some obscure
singer like Katy Perry between the magazine's covers
and this will attract teenage readers?
My bad, Nick, or one of the magazine nitwits, I
don't want to remember which one, said that if you
Google Katy Perry dozens of links to dozens of web
sites will come up. Perry is hot, hot, hot! Christ,
that's almost as bad as Gloria saying today she
learned how to make the most complicated of lattes
by reading the directions posted on the Jitter
Joint's web site. I'll have to ask my coffee shop
lady at Speeder and Earl's if it's true, but I don't
think she has recipes on the S&E site.
For all the money, with his direct connection with
the man and his son, Nick could have got Danny
Romalotti to provide the CD for free.
Say what? No teen has ever heard of Danny? How can
that be? Whenever Danny comes to Genoa City young
and old alike swear they worship him.
In a related matter, I haven't been reading many
fashion magazines, but I'd assume the content is
about fashion - not art. For art, I'd read Art News.
So why would Jack want a profile of Sabrina
Casterfate in Restless Style? As a means to make
Victor Newman angry? Is this how you reach the teen
audience? Is the 18-45 group losing sleep at night
wondering who bought "Dennison of the Deep"? That
the dead fish in formaldehyde Victor spent millions
on, and there's an article in the local newspaper
asking who the "mystery buyer" is? What difference
does it make to the general public when the fish is
in a private gallery closed to the public?
But they funniest thing to happen today wasn't that
Lily Winters has apparently given up trying to be
like her dead mother and giving up a lucrative
modeling career. It's that Neil Winters forgot he
sold the bucket of bolts jet airliner Victor gave
him. Neil was probably right when he said the plane
is in the shop, it was so old Victor didn't want it.
The reason Neil said he sold it was because
maintaining the plane was too expensive.
