Year: 2008

Creepy Nutcracker

If you have small children it may be best if you don’t let them check the mail for the next few weeks, unless of course, unlike me, you don’t think this year’s Christmas Nutcrackers Stamps are creepy.

We went out this afternoon and cleaned the rest of the leaves off the driveway and sidewalks and such. Afterward I pulled the car out of the garage and gave it a washing. It was pretty dirty from the rains of a couple weeks ago and the drenching it got last Saturday on the trip back from HHI. Maybe tomorrow I’ll pull it back out and give it a wax.

For the first time in a while we went for a bike ride today. At first we were going to ride our single bikes this afternoon, but changed it to the tandem tonight. We went out around 7 PM when it was fully dark and cruised a couple neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights.

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Thanks, I Think?

When we got home from work tonight, we noticed that someone had raked the front yard. Didn’t clean the driveway or do the small side strip on the other side of the driveway, just the front part. It is not much because about half the yard is landscaped as a natural area, but it would take a person a half hour or so to do the job. There was a nice neat pile of the raked leaves in the street. Very strange. No other yard on either side of us was clean, nor across the street either. Did someone get that far before realizing they were at the wrong house on the wrong street? Is it like those wash your windshield shakedowns at intersections, is someone going to knock on our door tomorrow and want $20?

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Flashes Before Your Eyes

(55/82) This was considered a odd departure because we get a flashback that happens during a flashback, but is it really? When Desmond turned the fail safe key and destroyed the hatch he was sent back 5 years earlier when he was dating Penny. He can remember some of the things that happened, a sort of deja vu, and he stumbles on Charlie as a street musician and remembers him from the island, but Charlie doesn’t know him.

On island in the present Desmond can see the future, not all of it and not at will, but he gets random bits at random times. Right now he can see how Charlie dies. He can prevent it, but the universe will course correct, and eventually it will happen.

Holy Airbrush Batman

We are less than 7 weeks to the Season Five premier of TDTVS and ABC has started tossing out promotional photos. Here is one that shows all the main cast members. Where is Jin? Was he left off because he actually did die on the freighter? None of the other main dead people are in there either (if you don’t count Locke who was in the coffin in the final scene of Season Four), Christian, Claire (of course there is some speculation that she isn’t actually dead) and Charlie.

Here is the link to the full resolution image – clickee – just look at the faces, smooth as babies bottoms.

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Not In Portland

Number 54 of 82 concerns how Juliet ended up on the island, she was recruited by a company called Mittelos Bioscience that wants her for her fertility research, but as with all things Lost, that doesn’t end up exactly what she does. My favorite bit is where she tells the folks recruiting her that her husband would never agree to let her go, the only way that’ll happen is if he gets hit by a bus. Guess what happens…

I Do

Episode 53 of 82 centers around Kate and central part in the on island love triangle of her, Jack & Sawyer. Kate is taken to where Jack is being held and tells him he has to operate on Ben to save him or they will kill Sawyer. Jack refuses. She figures out a way to climb out of her cage and breaks into Sawyer’s. They end up doing the deed, but Jack “happens” to see them on a security camera. Thinking that Kate cares for Sawyer he agrees to operate to spare Sawyer after all. Very soap opera-ish episode in that regard.

In the off island flashback Kate, or Monica as she known here, falls in love with a cop named Kevin while still a fugitive and on the run. Our groom is played by none other than Captain Tightpants, Nathan Fillion from Firefly. In the end Monica can’t really stay married, so she has to leave. She drugs Kevin’s iced tea and runs from him. I can only hope that the producers just thought of trying to work in a way for Kate to have the knock out drugs on her lips and kiss him, like Mal had Saffron do to him in the Firefly episode “Our Mrs. Reynolds”, before dismissing it.

Sturgeon’s Law Re-Explained

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of everything on the SciFi Channel is crud. That’s because they are now showing wrestling and Mork & Mindy.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to ‘crap’.

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