Vortex, you now scare me in an additional way.

The sad thing is that I haven't watched DOOL since college.

do the GH watchers know that Sarah Brown is back and NOT playing Carly? i'm pretty sure her first ep was today and she has a ONS with Sonny. it's like old times!!

which reminds me, i have stuff to watch on the TiFaux.

I believe that Belle is being written off the show. But not fast enough.

And! I saw all these ads about how John Black was "back" and I didn't know he'd left, so I found a site that does summaries, and this is fantastic:

John and Marlena were married in a beautiful ceremony, but didn't have long to enjoy themselves -- John was shot by E.J. Wells, and fell into a coma. He was later kidnapped from the hospital and his kidney stolen. John was just beginning to take his life back when he was the victim of a hit and run.

So he's back from being dead for a few months. And he has amnesia. Which is pretty standard for this crowd, but I'm wondering if he came back for his kidney.

Wasn't Marlena a homicidal maniac for a while? I heard she was a homicidal maniac.

I know she was possessed by Satan at some point. Though possibly not the same point.

I hate rapid aging syndrome. Makes me feel old.

I have it!

Seriously, they tell me I'm 37.... but I'm pretty sure I was only born a few seasons ago. To a princess. And Stefano.

egad, are these plots for reals?! I haven't laughed so hard in ages.

I saw all the posts and thought there was either Strike or Tim news. Days works too.

not cousins

If for no other reason than Shawn's father, Bo, isn't really a Brady, but is Victor (not shown on Days unless someone dies) Kiriakis' son.

Or is Marlena a Brady by marriage. Wait, it's coming back -- Marlena was married to Roman, who fell off a cliff and came back as John Black, then remembered that he was Roman, until the original actor decided to come back, then they said that Stefano had brainwashed John into thinking that he was Roman, but now Roman was back and Marlena was all torn because she was in love with John because she thought he was Roman, and the kids had worked it out with the new guy.

And we forgot to add that when Roman came back the next time, he looked and talked exactly like the blue collar construction worker and former Salem resident Chris Kositchek, however everyone in Salem was too polite to say anything. Even Maggie, with whom he had flirted--AS Chris.

As a result of my childhood, I have way too many memory synapses wasted on this show.

Wait till you hear about the laser-shootin' boots.

Yeah, Marlena was the Salem Stalker a couple years back. She killed all the most beloved members of the cast, and then she was killed, except nobody really died and she didn't really do it. They all woke up in The Village, basically. And then Tony DiMera made a volcano blow up , and then there was a tsunami, and then I lost track for a while.

That was under the same head writer who did the possessed-by-the-devil story. And created Passions. He is my hero.

And I just found this:

When their plane began to lose altitude Marlena agreed to jump from the plane, and was rescued by Smokey Robinson

They all woke up in The Village, basically

even better--Melaswen--or New Salem spelled backwards.