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Commentary by Brent Kellogg
October 21, 2009

You are aware that everything in Genoa City is ass backwards, but when you own a rag like Useless Style and you've decided to sell it, don't you have an asking price? Don't you put it on the market and have the slightest loyalty to the readers and advertisers who have made the rag, and you, the success it is today? Of course you do. But not present owner Phyllis Newman who has, in the blink of an eye, lost interest in USM because it's too much like "work". Moreover, with concern from her husband that Newman Enterprises has been "suffering" during the short amount of time business mogul Victor Newman has been in the hospital getting a heart transplant, Phyllis would like to be rid of USM so she might help save NE despite there being no clear indication as to what qualifies her to do anything more than wipe spilled sperm off office sofas and carpets.

To that end, Nick Newman said this week that potential buyer Billy Abbott doesn't know how to run a business and would furthermore use the rag to smear his father for having taken Colleen 'See See' Carlton's heart. Not that it mattered, no sooner had Nick insulted Billy during a meeting to discuss the sale, but what he eagerly went along with Phyllis' decision to sell despite all the hacking that the rag had been his and Phyllis' "dream". In fact, Nick said he used to love the look in her eyes when new sales figures would roll in, and who will ever forget how USM could barely afford a dependable elevator and circuit breaker. Business was booming. Jack Abbott even said the rag would set the world on fire.

The dream over long ago, Phyllis actually had to remind Nick of how it went down such that Nick stuck her with all the work when he decided to return to the empire which he'd swear on a stack of Bibles he runs with his sister and low-level VP, half-brother Adam Wilson. Add to that horror, Nick's daughter almost died at the magazine when Phyllis foolishly allowed Summer Newman be watched by a crazy woman named Patty Williams. Since then, with all the time spent wringing her hands over the comatose Summer, Phyllis noted she's been so busy working the rag there's barely been time to suck air except for when she was in the Swiss Alps for a week at a time when USM's entire staff was absent without leave. Still worried that USM employees would be better served by a CEO who gives a damn and might continue full medical and dental and eye care benefits, Nick urged Phyllis not to sell but had in less than an hour changed his mind when Billy bid an undisclosed amount of money for the rag which all parties agreed to without haggle, without written stipulation that Billy won't use the rag to trash the Newman family, and no apparent legal representation on either side given that USM is a sort of magazine conglomerate of the highest caliber.

Much like trading marbles on a playground, moments later employee Chloe Abbott was informed that she'd have to call the father of her baby "boss" which overjoyed Chloe as once the deal is done Billy will have a source of income of which to pay alimony and put food into their baby's belly as if to say any child born into the Abbott family and living at the Chancellor Mausoleum runs the risk of poverty.

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