You may or may not have noticed the title of this blog is “My Daytime Drama,” and the reason for that is threefold:

1) I was a theater chick all through middle school, junior high, high school, and college, and my life never seemed to be lacking in the day-to-day drama.

2) Throughout high school and college, if you’d asked me what I wanted to do with my life, I would have told you I wanted to be on General Hospital.*

3) My first manuscript has something to do with a girl who wants to be on a musical soap opera (think: Glee/General Hospital hybrid).

That said, I’d like to pay homage to the soap gods every once in a while with a series I’m calling “Suds Me, Baby.”

This first installment will highlight my number one soap crush, Port Charles’s favorite mobster coffee importer, Sonny Corinthos.

Portrayed by Maurice Benard (cousin of former San Francisco Giant Marvin Benard),

Michael “Sonny” Corinthos came on the  General Hospital scene in 1993 as a strip club owner and minor mafia employee of then-notorious mobster Frank Smith.

Rivaling only All My Children‘s Erica Cane in number of lovers, Sonny has come out on top (hehe—pun intended) in terms of love, time and time again.

Brenda Barrett (portrayed by Vanessa Marcil-Giovinozzo) was his first love on the show and, some would argue, will always remain his greatest love (time will tell, as VM-G recently returned to GH, and the two have already shared some screen time. *swoon!!*).

After his first wife, Lilly, was blown up in a car bomb (yeah, the writers *might* have stolen a detail or two from The Godfather), this mafioso entrepreneur picked up the pieces of his shattered life and went on to sire a slew of children with a number of leading ladies, including

Carly Benson, Alexis Davis, and a couple other chicks who miscarried because they were either shot or fell down staircases (or both).

This stand-up guy even adopted Carly’s son Michael, when he was married to her. What’s more, he discovered he fathered a son he didn’t even know about—the delicious Dante Falconeri—way back in his Brooklyn days.

He has managed to mostly stay out of jail over the years—after all, he’s  just businessman—and even though he’s had his share of setbacks (getting beaten as a child, losing his friend Stone to AIDS, losing his sister I forget how—I almost forgot he even *had* a sister—being bipolar, having Mike—vomit—as a father), he and his dimples always seem to persevere.

With he and enforcer pal Jason Morgan (portrayed by the always-leather-jacketed Steve Burton), Port Charles is never a dull place.

So, here’s to you, Sonny.  Keep “importing that coffee” and sexing up daytime. The ladies heart you!!!

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*Shut up. Don’t laugh. It’s been on the air for 47 years—and some of the actors have been on the show almost as long. Do you have that clutch or steady of a career? (Didn’t think so.)