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[gwydion]

* Confusing news on the Russia/Ukraine situation. Putin says he will withdraw his troops on the border, is calling for a cancel of the East Ukrainian Referendum, and says he approves of the election. However, the troops are still there and nothing tangible has happened yet. It is thought he might be pretending in the hopes of heading off sanctions against their banks.

* 8-11 girls aged 11-15 have been kidnapped by the same group (Boko Haram) that took the 276 already taken in Nigeria.

* Greenwick Found. "Nigeria's Stolen Girls:" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/04/nigerias-stolen-girls.html?utm_source=www&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=20140430

* The Prime Minister of Thailand has been ordered to step down by the Court.

* "Almost 60 royal mummies discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings:" http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/100031.aspx

* "'Cotton bud' scoop declared treasure:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-27191511

* "Iron Age human remains are uncovered:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27210411

* "Ancient bones show signs of struggle with coeliac disease:" http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-bones-show-signs-of-struggle-with-coeliac-disease-1.15128

* "'Lost village' story becomes clearer:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-27187708

* "Man landing on Madeira could be four centuries prior to its colonization by the Portuguese:" http://phys.org/news/2014-04-madeira-centuries-prior-colonization-portuguese.html

* Glee 5:19 "Old Dog New Tricks:"


* I hate blind items.

* I have a bad feeling about the charity for publicity thing.

* Did Mercedes just call Sam her dog/pet?

* Wow, Kurt really has been hiding a lot of his stuff.

* Kurt+ Peter Pan= Natural

* I know Memory is cheese, but this version is so beautiful it made it new for me. All the head shots with the familiar elderly actors. I can't even.... Ouch.

* May I say the casting of the elderly performers was a knife twisting in the heart. June Squibb, Billy Dee Williams, Jay David, and Tim Conway.

* And Sam just pulled the same shit on Artie or top of the whole getting a pet and letting it rampage without checking with his partner/owner of the place where he lives. Fuck you Sam.

* ...And Kurt getting denied. Fuck you Rachel.

* I bet they were just looking for an excuse to sing "Werewolves of London." Hell, I'm always looking for an excuse to sing "Werewolves of London."

* The Sam and Mercedes fight needed to happen.

* Kurt's dead mother. The previous Peter Pan died to invite him in to the show. Kurt and death and the elderly and....O.o

* At this point, I started waiting for the inevitable Maggie betrayal.

* Seriously, fuck you Rachel.

* The Kurt/Rachel compare and contrast was interesting. I like that Kurt's motives are not entirely altruistic even though what he was doing was a lot more real and that Rachel was not entirely selfish, coming through in the end, even though she was horrible through most of this.

* The Priest of death as the boy who'll never grow up helping dying people find their inner children... Wow, just wow.



* I keep thinking about the Fangs for the Fantasy podcast insight about what the Stark girls might represent for the Hound. Brilliant and dovetailing nicely with some things I'm also playing with on Game of Bones. My boy has a different goal and approach, but there is something similar underneath.

* Worth thinking about. "Star Wars is the closest thing we have to Homer:" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/star-wars-is-the-closest-thing-we-have-to-homer-9318496.html

* I've got circular swaps with openings.
Just Tea: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83424-just-tea-spring-circular-swap/
Hot drinks: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83154-spring-drink-swap-open/
Scented Products: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83239-spring-scented-products-kitchen-sink-circular-swap/

* The Clutch: