Sturgeon’s Law

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The Lost Weekend

LostStar­ring Brian Bog­a­r­dus as Don Bir­nam and intro­duc­ing Donna Bog­a­r­dus as Helen St. James.

We went to the video store this evening and spent $25 rent­ing all 7 DVDs of TDTVS. Twice.

The first time we went into the store and found the TV sec­tion where they had the Lost discs all lined up. I grabbed the first three think­ing that would be enough to keep us busy for a while. Donna said, “No get all of them.” Checked out all seven and came home. Donna took a quick nap and about 5:30 we thought we would start our marathon. Each disc has 4 episodes and each episode lasts about 42 min­utes, so we fig­ured we would watch one disc tonight leav­ing 3 for Sat­ur­day and 3 for Sun­day. When I opened up the case for disc one, I real­ized it was a Sea­son One disc. WTF? All of them were Sea­son One…

We didn’t pay atten­tion in the store, we just fig­ured that the sec­ond season’s stuff would right up front because it just came out on Tues­day. Nope. Donna called the store up and asked if they had Sea­son Two in stock. They did. She asked them to put the whole set aside for and we would be in later to get them.

As we were check­ing out we asked for the “Stu­pid Renters Dis­count” and explained what we had done. The man­ager was there and had the clerk call up our account. She could see we had picked out 7 DVDs just two hours before and took pity on us. She did a swap thing and we didn’t have to pay for them the sec­ond time. Nice.

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5 comments to The Lost Weekend

  • Mr VFR

    Won­dered what the fuss was about re. “Lost” as I’m not into watch­ing much net­work TV if it’s not sports — so went to web­site and read syns of first few episodes — might be fun as win­ter is soon com­ing to the north­land and I have a new HD TV. Read­ing C.Cussler’s Dirk Pitt nov­els now after watch­ing “Sahara” DVD. Wear my Seiko Orange Mon­ster while read­ing since I can’t afford a Doxa.

  • I’m not much of a net­work TV either and from now on this is the way to watch them, on DVD. No commercials!

  • Rae

    We did “24” this way for sev­eral week­ends. We w ent through two sea­sons in about a month. Pre­pare for the shock of “there aren’t any more?”

  • Mr VFR

    From the local B&N video guy/techie/nerd/e-pod type, he highly rec­om­mended “24”, had bought the full set of X-files, hadn’t seen “Lost” so “24” has moved onto my “to-do some­time” list. Thanks for the tips, btw T-mobile pre­paid phone (sam­sung) has been trou­ble free for 10 mo. on the $100/1000 min card. PDA/calendar on the phone has been nice too.

  • We’ve had a cou­ple of 24 rec­om­men­da­tions and might use that to fill the void between Lost DVDs, but we’ve got to take it a lit­tle slower, main­lin­ing a sea­son of a TV show is hard on this ol’ body.