I had an absolutely amazing time at the kickoff night of A Tribute To Pine Valley at NYC's acclaimed Town Hall. I assumed I would have fun — what's not to like about being in a room with AMC faves Vincent Irizarry (David), Jacob Young (JR, now B&B's Rick), Michael E. Knight (Tad), Cameron Mathison (Ryan), Darnell Williams (Jesse) and Walt Willey (Jack)?

AMC, what are you thinking? That's what I was thinking watching today's show, in which Kendall dreamed about smooching Griffin in the living room of the house Zach built for her, on a couch where they'd made love many a time.

AMC gave us a serious scare this week, and it's not necessarily out of the woods — in the absence of some sort of official announcement of the show's safety made by the network, I just have to hope that the reassuring talk EP Julie Hanan Carruthers delivered to the cast this week is where this story ends.

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.

Ryan and Greenlee fans: come out, come out, wherever you are! I totally get why Todd and Téa, and Jason and Sam, were the subjects of the "vintage" "fan fave" episodes that hijacked, I mean, borrowed the ABC lineup today.

Yesterday, before I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Nouri (Caleb, AMC), I dug out some old photographs of the actor in his SEARCH FOR TOMORROW days.

I'm totally ho-hum on the whole Amanda-as-model concept, but one thing I am not lukewarm about is the return of Kate Collins as Amanda's heart-in-the-right-place/everything-else-in-the-wrong-place mama, Janet.

It's not that often that I'm reduced to a sobbing mess by an episode of AMC, but the Palmer memorial show certainly accomplished that trick.

YouTube has made our lives here at the Digest a lot easier — there's no more reliable way of fact-checking than going straight to the source, and with such a wide array of vintage clips available online, we frequently luck out and find the very scene readers have a question about or that we want to describe accurately in something we're writing.

I had an action-and soup-packed trip to the AMC set yesterday. To explain the latter: There is a particular tomato soup much coveted by the people of Pine Valley, and it was available to the cast yesterday.