Newscoma

Let’s link it up, shall we. Let’s go:

• I love me some splatterpunk and Craig Spector and John Skipp were really good at it. Well, this one is for Kathy T. because Naveen Andrews who plays Sayid on Lost will be starring in their next movie. Cool.
•  Sean Braisted writes of a possible run by former governor Ned McWherter’s son, Mike McWherter for senate against incumbent Lamar Alexander. Carter opines as well.
• I found this over at Tits List and I must say, this is amazing. It’s the picture up above and I just can’t stop looking at it.
• Harrison Ford is back. He’s not a president or Secret Service agent or frolicking on the beach with a pre-crazy Anne Heche. He’s someone you might remember. You know the guy named after a state. Indiana, you are looking pretty good.
• We all have to as American citizens follow this crazy thing called the law. Getting snarky with Lord Cheney.
• Remember those Weight Watchers cards that came out in the 70’s that you could instantly put in a recipe box. I remember my mom had some because this was a marketing technique used to target SHM’s back a few decades ago. Well, want to see some of them. Go here. Appetizing, umm, not. The author of that blog calls this one fishsnuff.

• Hank Medress who sang “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” died this week. He was 68. I think everyone has sung this song at one time or another.
• Social networks seem to be the technology people dig right now. I played around on Tumblr today. Very odd. A blog but not as it is a tumblelog. I RSS’d my feed from here and it always posts twice. It’s very interesting though as it held my attention for awhile. This article from LifeHacker explains it better than I can.
  

I’m out. Give your hubby, your wife, your lover, your dog, your cat or your fish a big old kiss and be nice to each other.

Won’t hurt and probably will help.

Spoilers if you haven’t seen Lost, so go look at this if you don’t want to know.

So, we had a flash forward last night with Lost.

If you dig the show, your going to read a great deal about it all over the web the next couple of days, if not you can read about something else. Like Charles Manson being denied parole again. Which actually was about as surprising as what we saw last night.

Lost sort of had that Slaughterhouse-Five thing going on and I don’t know what the direction of the show is going to take now that we have seen the future. I almost, let me add almost, felt sorry for Jack last night. Not for the drugs and alcohol but just because he really had lost a lot of fashion sense and made a poor choice in having a beard.

I’m not surprised and quite honestly thought it was a ballsy move by the writers and producers to enter this new territory. It would have been easier to have them stay on the island, but to move the direction into a rescue that may or may not happen is pretty nifty.

And, was it just me (and although I did question whether you could write on your WET hand with a Sharpie) I thought Charlie actually did some really decent acting in last night’s show. We knew it was coming. And it would have been easier to save him but they didn’t and for some reason, I dig that. (The music as he was drowning was haunting.)

Things I liked:

• Sayid, the man, getting his ninja-fu on when they were being saved.
• Jack beating the tar out of Ben.
• Okay, I worked in radio. It was a cart machine playing Danielle’s message. A CART MACHINE? Hell, they didn’t work for more than ten minutes when I was spinning vinyl and it worked for 16 years? (Sorry, I just was incredulous. This will mean nothing to anyone but me and a few of the old school radio guys I know.)
• Hurley (but knock it off on treating him like he’s less than because he’s a fat guy. For God’s Sake, stop it.)
• Jin was bad ass. BAD ASS in not flinching (well a little) but I like his quiet strength.
• All of the movie homages last night. The Star Trek Dr. McCoy nod (I’m a doctor, dammit Jim, not an astrophysicist) and reference between Rose and Bernard (I’m a Dentist, I’m not Rambo.) Jack fixing to end it all like George Bailey.
• I like that it makes me think about it enough to write about it on this silly blog.

Things I didn’t like:

• It was slower than I thought it would be. I know, dramatic tension, suspended disbelief, yada, yada. but I really like it when Lost is in action mode.
• They should have given some reference to Walt being as big as a house.
• Once again, these dumbasses just sigh and give withering glares instead of having those crazy, wacky conversations.

Things I wonder:

• I could be totally wrong here but I’ve been thinking. Did Ben require Kate to have monkey-fu with Sawyer back during that six week soap/palm tree opera at the beginning of the season. Just a thought and it never occurred to me until last night. Was that why she was crying at the beginning of the season with Jack. Just a theory, not saying I’m right or wrong.

Eight more months. On to new things.

I am at home.

This is of the good.

Squirrel Queen is in Nashville covering TSSAA Spring Fling. I am in Hooterville. I wish that I were in Nashville. Alas, I guess I need to drink a big can of “Get the Hell Over It.”

My dog is lying on my lap and apparently has eaten something truly nasty ’cause she smells like ass but she is a sweet dog so I’m letting it go. I have a nice sleepy thing going on and I’m just rooting around the tubes.

Ahhhh, nice.

This, my friends, is the funniest thing I’ve ever read about Lost courtesy of Atomic Tumor.

Seriously delicious and hysterical.

Lost Spoilers lie here, so don’t enter if you haven’t seen it.

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Well, everyone should know how to make a fish biscuit. (You will get that if you watch Lost.)

Because we all know that fish biscuits have the power of love hidden inside. Like a strangely morphed scene from Like Water For Chocolate, I’ve been imagining those secret Dharma cooks laboring away over a hot oven mixing batches of biscuit dough and being sure to cry a few tears into the bowl. What else in the world could inspire two incredibly dirty and hot kids to get nekkid in a cage on camera?

Just head over to Kungfoodie. 

Spoilers below, Read at your own risk

Ooohhh.

I had honestly gotten all snarky on Lost. I had. I was hoping that all of this season’s rambling around was going somewhere.

Well, dammit it all, it has. Last night’s episode was reminiscent of the Lost goodness of the first season. It answered a lot of questions, of course one being, that Kate is, indeed, ignorant. Looks good in a dirty wife-beater, I suppose, but still she did the big screw-up. But I digress. (Homer, of course, couldn’t get over Sayid and Desmond being in the same confined space together.)

I couldn’t get over that Sayid said it. He doesn’t trust Jack. Go Sayid! (Repeat after me, Make Sayid the the leader.)

So, I won’t ramble here incessantly, let’s do a Lost list:

• Locke is one crafty guy. And what was Richard Alpert looking so non-khakified giving him the file on James/Sawyer. Is there some dissent over Ben being the “leader?” And we’ve seen Richard (who it occurred to me this morning used to be on Suddenly Susan, a sit-com I never watched. Didn’t even look that one up until I thought about it. Yay me) off the island and on it. I don’t know why I find this significant, but I do.
• Anthony Cooper/Real Sawyer (“’cause I was young and Huck Finn was taken”) was one crazy sumbitch (as we say in the South.) Tearing up James/Current Sawyer’s letter was just dog-assed mean. But he’s never been a good guy anyway.Conning his kid out of a kidney, throwing him out of a window, stealing money without remorse, blah, blah, blah as he said to James/Current Sawyer. I mean he was the good guy on “Emergency”. Not anymore. I really dug his evilness last night.
• If Hurley is the conscience of the Losties, and he ain’t trusting Jack, then the good doctor is in trouble and is not the leader anymore. When Sayid asked if they’d told Jack about Naomi, and they said no and he said “Good.” Holy moly, I’ve predicted it before, we are heading into “Lord of the Flies” territory. I believe this.
• Jack, just tell Kate for God’s sake. Idiot boy. Now I will probably eat my words and he will do something heroic but this season, he’s just irritating me.
• Homer said “Is Mikhial the smoke monster?” I don’t know. I don’t think so. I just know he isn’t pushing up daisies like Ethan is.
• The tape recorder that Locke gave Sawyer is going to cause some issues. Of course, Locke continues to undermine Jack’s Authority. Well, good.
• ‘Coma Theory – Ben wanted Locke to kill Anthony Cooper/Sawyer to diminish his power. But Cooper had to go for whatever reason, so Mr. Diplomacy/Richard Alpert made it happen without diminishing Locke’s connection with the island.
• Sawyer’s mom’s name is Mary. Wonder if there is significance there? Maybe, maybe not.
• Did anybody notice last week that Sun’s hair has grown 12 inches in three months on the island. Yeah, me too.

And I end of course, with “Make Sayid the leader.” Homer thinks the mantra should be “Make Sayid naked.”

Boy, am I going to pay for that later on. Anyway, I feel like Lost is back. Lost during May sweeps is going to be fun.

My title is me practicing if I ever get a job writing copy for a television network. How’d I do?

Oh, Lost. Why must we use the biblical references? Because I can’t keep up and to be honest, I’m just not that good at it and I have to go ask my sister Homer, who is better at religious doctrine that myself. I also had to ask Squeegee Monkee as he was raised Catholic and he knows stuff. I found out this morning he was not an altar boy, although I have seen him altered throughout his two decades with my sister. I thought he was an altar boy at one time. He assures me he wasn’t. Dang, my resident lapsed Catholic can’t help me either.

I digress. Let’s get to my ramblings about this stupid show that enthralls me.

***spoilers, rhetoric and me being all theory girl***

Ruth was the forgotten girlfriend of that wacky, sexy and very troubled Scot, Desmond. I’m hearing on-line that the girl who was not Penny that fell from the sky is named Naomi according to some of the advanced press on the show. So we have the references to the Book of Ruth from the bible that was about compassion (Ruth) and bitterness (Naomi.) which I realize I write about in a very elementary way for the purposes of this post but I think that might be right. As I said, I’m not very good with biblical references.

And then we have all the Abraham sacrificing his son as Desmond was asked to do with Charlie. Did I get that right? Is that why he only got the not Penny girl. If Charlie had died, would he have been worthy of the real Penny?

*sigh*

Where this is going I have no idea. And as you can see, my knowledge of The Book of Ruth is pretty shaky, but Lost doesn’t do anything without a reason. But then again, I’ve been watching this show for three damned years and I still don’t understand crap because many times there is no rhyme or reason. What ever happened to the black and white stones? What about the dead people called Adam and Eve? Why wouldn’t Jack let anyone sleep in the bed in the hatch? (Bastard.)Why does Jack act like a dick all the time? Why don’t the “socks” revolt against Jack? Why don’t the beachies make Sayid the Leader, because he’s the only one that I identify with on this show ? (yes, I identify with the Iraqi torture dude. Shut up) Why is Locke always the victim in his flashbacks? Will Kate continue to give Juliet the hairy eyeball? Will Kate continue to have meaningless Monkey Fu with Sawyer? Was it meaningless?

Will the smoke monster come after Jack because that’s what I think about every Wednesday night and it makes me happy that might happen. I determined last night it’s why I keep watching.

Remind me to start drinking tequila when I watch Lost as I think it would make more sense?

Charlie, all dying in the beginning of the show during Desmond’s flashforward, makes me wonder. Is that Charlie’s death scene? Will Charlie really die? Because, although I don’t want Jack to die because I couldn’t bitch about him, I would like to see him rendered speechless so Sayid can be the leader. And Charlie too? Couldn’t there be a selective plague on the island that would shut them both up and make Claire a better actress (No Claire sighting last night, thank goodness.) And if I was in Charlie’s shoes and was being plagued by the invisible spectre of the grim reaper chasing him around as told to him by his good friend Desmond, I would not have gone on the testosterone “camping” trip with Hurley and Jin.

I would probably be out throwing rocks into that big ocean making my amends with the world. But that’s just me.

Now Fionnula Flannigan showed back up in a picture on the desk of Desmond’s monk buddy. Not all the pictures of Dez and Penny look the same to me. And I have a feeling things are going to go all Ralph, Jack, Simon and Piggy from Lord of the Flies.

As I have typed 4,540 question marks in this post, I’m done. My brain hurts and I need to go pack because I’m headed to Nashville.

How do the writers for Lost come up with plotlines?

This parody delves into that.  I laughed.

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Not necessarily safe for work.

In watching Lost in a drug-induced stupor last night (I think I’m feeling better today and I’m not going to push it although I am going into work in a few minutes), I couldn’t help but go back to my on-going mantra that Jack Shepherd doesn’t have the sense of a billy goat. He gets suckered more than anyone I’ve ever seen on Lost.

Repeat after me: Make Sayid your leader, because Jack is going to lead you into the pit of hell and then act like it was your fault.

As nothing as ever as it seems on Lost, the whole last three minutes of the show could prove one of two things: first, that Juliet is the serving the Dark Master, Ben Linus, or that she’s playing both ends against the middle. There are no pat answers when it comes to this show and it leads us down paths that end at a cul-de-sac, so I’m not 100 percent convinced about her intentions.

Now, as questions were answered, more have come up, as is Lost’s style. Juliet is at a crossroads on the show, and it can go either way. I think my question now is that we know we shouldn’t trust Juliet, but is Captain Jack really trustworthy as he makes idiotic decisions that end up being the ultimate screw-up time and time again for all the beachaways. I think I would let my niece, Bear who is seven, make the decision around the island before I’d let the good Dr. Shepherd.

Or I’d go live with Ben who has access to Fried Chicken and television. In all honesty, in his little professor glasses, he almost appeared human last night.

Juliet is a bad ass, there is no doubt and she’s playing everyone like a drum. Jack is letting her. So there you go.

One thing, as I can be a sucker for hot, unrequited smoldering looks of love and passion, Sawyer’s reception of Kate last night did, indeed, smoke. Very sexy.

I liked this episode, and I was glad to see the Beachies actually have a meeting about their home. It was sort of like a homeowner’s association meeting, but, I can’t even go on about Jack. I just can’t.

Repeat after me: Make Sayid your leader.

We already knew there was something fishy about Lost Island babies but we really didn’t get any answers there. I also was a bit surprised to see Juliet and Goodman being all lovey-dovey, but, hey, just because your on an island doesn’t mean you don’t have needs so I can’t help but wonder if some revenge is coming up, but when Juliet realized Ben had cancer, and then her crying jag about getting off the island then being with Goodman may mean that’s was just a Red Herring thrown out there to get us thinking about absolutely nothing as that is the way of Lost.

So, what does this all say. Sun and Jin will be big storylines, finally, maybe. I still think Desmond is the key to a lot of the mysteries but he’s just sort of cute, trippy weird that I don’t know when that’s going to fit in and if we can get Kate to quit making stupid decisions, build a hut with Sawyer who does love her and is still kissable even though the man hasn’t seen a toothbrush in three months, and abandon that the elitist Jack who could never ever love her because of his own demons, then these folks might have a life just like the Professor and Mary Ann did (I always thought there was a spark there. I swear I did) on Gilligan’s Island.

With that said, one last time, Make Sayid your leader and despite my snark, I love me some Lost.

It’s always question time after an episode of Lost. The last two week’s episodes are those standard sort of fillery one hour of televisions that I seek as many Easter Eggs as I can find because I’ve learned that even in the slowest, weirdest weeks, there is something that will prove (or at least in my Lost brainwashed head) to come back and haunt this lovable group of castaways.

The one thing about Lost is that nothing is ever as it seems. The two minutes that Jack Shepherd was on screen made me cringe, because as usual, he’s all about the sullen blame game which irritates the snot (I wish) out of me. Part of me things that last night’s subtle episode was about good intentions pave the way to hell and Jack will give you stink-eye because it’s not about him and it must always be about Jack.

Repeat after me: “It must always be about Jack.” Not my motto, but Jack’s.

*sigh*

I’m leaning toward the fact that Juliet is not of the good. No sirree, not at all but then again, I could be wrong because, you know, it’s Lost. As Ethan appeared in the promo for next week, my first thought was is Juliet going to seek some kind of revenge because how many men work on your plumbing (stop it) as he was doing in the first episode, but, alas, that would be too simple and Lost is never simple. And Kate, well Kate is just Kate. Good intentions pave the way to hell and all (I’m saying it again), and we learned in her flashback that her mother kept her word. When she was lying in the hospital bed, she did yell for help, which she did tell her wayward child in the bathroom last night. Of course, Kate being the girl so guided by her emotions at all time, didn’t heed her mother’s advice.

Repeat after me: “It must always be about Kate screwing up.”

The most electrifying two minutes last night were, of course, Locke’s appearance. Locke has been given (I think) what he wanted by Ben. Not his father necessarily, but answers about his evil mistress, the island. He’s is in the cool kids club. I like watching Locke because we know he’s the most complicated person on the planet with his island love.
My question, as Homer and I discussed the epi this morning, was why didn’t Sayid or Juliet or one of them stay behind in the camp and the other two (doesn’t matter which two) go back to the beach and say, “Hey campers, we got houses. Yup, you’ve been on the beach for three months and now we can sleep in bunk beds and eat chicken from a refrigerator because only like five of us were allowed to sleep in the hatch when that was an option.”

But no once again, because “I don’t want to be a leader but your damn skippy I do” Jack made a decision and everyone followed him like anemic ducks.

Make Sayid the leader. I say this every week.

Repeat after me: “Sayid, please hit Jack in the back of the head with the butt of your ever present rifle so things can get done.”

Maybe that was too practical.

And Hurley and Sawyer, well, there is another whole can of worms. Hurley is really good at strategy and falls into the category of being a kingmaker instead of a king. And Sawyer just confuses me but Hurley played the ultimate con, and I think Sawyer, for once, got it.

Next week will be a Juliet-centric episode. In her first flashback, she was made into the victim. This upcoming week, I think we are going to learn where Juliet learned her Kung-Fu and how she received her status amongst the others.

And I hope and pray that Sayid starts bitch-slapping some sense into these people. This, of course, would make me very happy.

Lost kicked butt last night. Seriously, there were a ton of moments that reminded me why I like this show. There are probably spoilers here so leave if you don’t want to know.

It was just great television. The relationships that these people have never ceased to amaze me.

• Locke and Benry are good together. If you remember from last season, Ben was going to get John Locke when he was captured by Danielle. Now we know why they wanted him. My favorite line of the evening was when Ben said imagine the island as a box and Locke said “I hope that box is big enough for you to imagine yourself a new submarine.” Ben is also one manipulative dude. I also liked the whole “cheater” scenario. Very, very cool. No one wants to be a cheater. Even strange Benry.
• I think it goes without saying that everyone on this island has an agenda.
• I still think Sayid is the smartest people on the island. What he said to Alex was wicked smart.
• What the heck was that new tattoo on Jack’s inner arm? I haven’t seen that before. It was one of those things when Kate, Sayid and Locke were still in the jungle watching watching through the Lostie binoculars. What is going on here? No …. I don’t want to find out about the meaning of that one if I have to go through another Bai Ling episode.
• I didn’t expect Locke to be in the wheelchair in quite the fashion that he was put in it. Thanks Lost, finally, for answering this question.
• Just because Ben said “get that man from Tallahassee” doesn’t mean that Cooper is that man or that Cooper is Locke’s father. I don’t know about this one, just pontificating.
• What does Jack know about the children/abducted folks from the list that he didn’t tell Kate. Once again, if these people would talk about things, it would probably help everyone out.

Last night’s episode is the reason why I liked Lost in the first place. I really dig it. As someone who doesn’t watch a ton of television, this is a show that makes me think and wonder about it.

I always compare the relationships in Lost to those in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Drew Goddard (and the departed David Fury) might be part of the reasons why.

Yay.

This wonderful Photo from here. 

As I am a Lost fan (although much of my loyalty in the last few months has gone to Heroes), I’m glad that the writers are moving back to the beach. I became somewhat fed up recently, but the last two weeks have been better, and for this I’m pretty grateful because I was getting to the point of “Put a fork in me …”

But with Sayid’s story last week and then Claire’s this week, I feel like we are moving forward. I guess I have high expectations because the pilot to this series was so awesomely good as was the first season that I realize we are somewhere in the mid-point if the Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse do, indeed, have an ending.

Patience is hard for me (see post below.)

Anyway, as much as I dig watching Locke, the reality is he is an asshat on the island. I love the actor, Terry O’Quinn’s, portrayal of him, but sometimes he is such an idiot that it makes me want, as I squint at the television with my stink-eye, to whack him in the head with that cricket bat that took Desmond down a few weeks ago.

I think with Hurley’s story two weeks ago and tonight’s episode were about having faith, hope and changing one’s own destiny. Claire needed to put that opus (KC is so right) on that seagull’s leg to represent hope but it was a bit far-fetched and her self-righteous indignation was just sort of goofy if you ask me with Charlie and Desmond.

And I hate that Russian guy is gone. I liked him. He was a great antagonist for Sayid. Locke, on the other hand, guided by his own mission to, and I’m speculating here, kill Benry for destroying his faith (speculating campers, just speculating.)

The whole John Christian Shepherd thing seemed a bit contrived but I’m willing to give it a shot. And as for the looks on Kate and Sayid’s faces watching Jack play football playfully with Zeke/Mr. Friendly/Tom sort of made me happy. Here they are eating grubs and the 80th day of mangos and dealing with a freaked-out mysterious “I’ve-got-my-own-agenda” Locke, and they see Jack spiking a football.

So, I have one comment. Sayid is the smartest guy out there, so why isn’t he the leader? He is a hell of a lot smarter than anyone else on the island, Kate is a good ally as his partner because she doesn’t mind hitting somebody with the butt of a gun or kicking them in the face (they work pretty well together) and both Locke and Jack are irritating me because they are too busy fighting their own demons. And if they bring Bai Ling back, I will scream. Literally scream (worst Lost episode ever in my book.)

Oh, and I still miss the smoke monster and Mister Eko.

So I’m a bit more enthusiastic than I was three weeks ago, but I’m still wary.

Don’t toy with my emotions, Lost. I mean it. (I’m such a girl.)