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gwydion* "Prospect of “radicalized, authoritarian” Maldives threatens all nations: former president Nasheed:" http://minivannews.com/politics/prospect-of-%E2%80%9Cradicalised-authoritarian-maldives-threatens-all-nations-former-president-nasheed-56444
* They have arrested the person who tried to poison the President and a Mississippi Senator. It sounds like he has a history of threatening letters which made him easy to track. There were some other suspicious package incidents across the county. There was also someone waving a gun about at the capitol, but no one is hurt. They think they have a picture of the Boston Bomber leaving the bomb at the marathon. Bombing cases can be slow, because of all the forensics involved. I'm guessing they are holding details back right now and as they aren't calling for tips, they likely have a good idea who they are looking for. So investigation ongoing with that.
* Is anyone surprised the Republicans are filibustering universal background checks? Remember how I said we need filibuster reform and how I was furious with Harry Reed for wimping out? Yeah.
* "Thatcher's Funeral:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/04/thatchers-funeral.html
* "Three Girls Like Us-One Year Later:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/three-girls-like-us-one-year-later.html
* neo_prodigy responds to a troll: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1109329.html
* Cat Update: The day we hydrated the Butt, I noticed he was really scared of the other cats. According to Squirrel, his sister has been bullying him hard. I suspect she's not clear on it being him. He came back smelling funny, moving different. She has decided to ostracize him. Squirrel's moved a feeding station into his hidey hole and Hector and I are going to lengths to make him feel safe and welcome when he's out and about. (Mache doesn't bully. She will slap a cat down if ze disrespects her or gets in her space uninvited, but she's politically fairly withdrawn these days. She's old. She hurts. She wants to sleep and soak up pets, mostly.) Today the Butt came out twice for goosh as well as water runs. He's calmed down around Hector and has decided that they are still buddies. Squirrel's seen him going in and out of my room when I'm asleep, but he's not coming for cuddles. There's been a massive territorial shift since the Butt's been sick, with him living almost entirely in Squirrel's room and LM living almost entirely in common areas. The Butt has been eating and drinking well the last few days, but he's still scary thin and he's lost a lot of fur.
* If you have not gotten your hands on a copy of "The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination:
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius" you are missing out. Like most anthologies, some stories are better than others, but trust me, they have a high consent ration of A+ pieces and while I'm only half through, there have been no clunkers and I'd give the worst story a B+. Seriously, they have pieces by folks like Austin Grossman, Seanan McGuire, and my beloved David Levine. Some of the pieces are pretty dark, more are wickedly funny. While I can't swear to the whole anthology as I'm not done, it's delightful and terribly hard to put down. This is the most exciting thing I've read in a while.
* I not a Boomer so my relationship with Fleetwood Mac is not what theirs is, still, I feel deeply uncomfortable with using something as powerful as "Landslide" to sell beer. I find that song borderline physically painful in it's intensity. Having clips of it playing over and over in ads is gong to be torture.
* I have gotten to 1979 in Barney Miller. It's the Jack Soo retrospective. At the time, we didn't know Mr. Soo had cancer and that he was dying. They'd covered his absences with "temporarily reassigned" throw aways like they did for nearly every member of the regular cast at one point or another. Knowing he died this time, it was a little chilling. At the end of his run, they gave him an episode where he got to explode about the way they took him for granted. It was a beautiful bit of acting, and heartbreaking knowing that he was literally dying as they filmed it. Then there was the temporarily resigned thing. Then Wojo was reorganizing the files, a sign they thought he wasn't coming back. Now the memorial episode. Damn. How strange I am upset all over again all these decades later, maybe more upset than I was at the time.
* They have arrested the person who tried to poison the President and a Mississippi Senator. It sounds like he has a history of threatening letters which made him easy to track. There were some other suspicious package incidents across the county. There was also someone waving a gun about at the capitol, but no one is hurt. They think they have a picture of the Boston Bomber leaving the bomb at the marathon. Bombing cases can be slow, because of all the forensics involved. I'm guessing they are holding details back right now and as they aren't calling for tips, they likely have a good idea who they are looking for. So investigation ongoing with that.
* Is anyone surprised the Republicans are filibustering universal background checks? Remember how I said we need filibuster reform and how I was furious with Harry Reed for wimping out? Yeah.
* "Thatcher's Funeral:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/04/thatchers-funeral.html
* "Three Girls Like Us-One Year Later:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/three-girls-like-us-one-year-later.html
* neo_prodigy responds to a troll: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1109329.html
* Cat Update: The day we hydrated the Butt, I noticed he was really scared of the other cats. According to Squirrel, his sister has been bullying him hard. I suspect she's not clear on it being him. He came back smelling funny, moving different. She has decided to ostracize him. Squirrel's moved a feeding station into his hidey hole and Hector and I are going to lengths to make him feel safe and welcome when he's out and about. (Mache doesn't bully. She will slap a cat down if ze disrespects her or gets in her space uninvited, but she's politically fairly withdrawn these days. She's old. She hurts. She wants to sleep and soak up pets, mostly.) Today the Butt came out twice for goosh as well as water runs. He's calmed down around Hector and has decided that they are still buddies. Squirrel's seen him going in and out of my room when I'm asleep, but he's not coming for cuddles. There's been a massive territorial shift since the Butt's been sick, with him living almost entirely in Squirrel's room and LM living almost entirely in common areas. The Butt has been eating and drinking well the last few days, but he's still scary thin and he's lost a lot of fur.
* If you have not gotten your hands on a copy of "The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination:
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius" you are missing out. Like most anthologies, some stories are better than others, but trust me, they have a high consent ration of A+ pieces and while I'm only half through, there have been no clunkers and I'd give the worst story a B+. Seriously, they have pieces by folks like Austin Grossman, Seanan McGuire, and my beloved David Levine. Some of the pieces are pretty dark, more are wickedly funny. While I can't swear to the whole anthology as I'm not done, it's delightful and terribly hard to put down. This is the most exciting thing I've read in a while.
* I not a Boomer so my relationship with Fleetwood Mac is not what theirs is, still, I feel deeply uncomfortable with using something as powerful as "Landslide" to sell beer. I find that song borderline physically painful in it's intensity. Having clips of it playing over and over in ads is gong to be torture.
* I have gotten to 1979 in Barney Miller. It's the Jack Soo retrospective. At the time, we didn't know Mr. Soo had cancer and that he was dying. They'd covered his absences with "temporarily reassigned" throw aways like they did for nearly every member of the regular cast at one point or another. Knowing he died this time, it was a little chilling. At the end of his run, they gave him an episode where he got to explode about the way they took him for granted. It was a beautiful bit of acting, and heartbreaking knowing that he was literally dying as they filmed it. Then there was the temporarily resigned thing. Then Wojo was reorganizing the files, a sign they thought he wasn't coming back. Now the memorial episode. Damn. How strange I am upset all over again all these decades later, maybe more upset than I was at the time.