And here are the nominations for the 2010 Daytime Emmy Awards (with pictures, just in case you’re not so into soap operas that you can recognize them by name).

Phew. No words, no music… This needed to be a slideshow so I could flip through it just to see if there was anyone I recognized.

Yeah, I watch a soap or two. You know it happens; that’s why they run for so long.

Like many award shows over the past few years, the Daytime Emmys have been suffering from low viewership.

I wonder when they will finally get the clue that many of us would rather not be watching glitz and overindulgent, pointless glamor when we’re just scraping by.