Meh? Am I right? Mostly meh, anyway. I don’t think it’s wrong to expect Lost to follow up one kickass episode with another, because they’ve done it many times before, but this was so far from kickass that now that I’m sitting down to write this I find myself mostly disappointed in it. But anyway. [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2010
Ice Cream!
March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · food, writing
(Title should be sung, as so:) I bought an ice cream maker on a whim a month or so ago — I had been reading the tumblrs I follow and someone had posted a picture of strawberry ice cream with the note “I think this means I need to get myself an ice cream maker” [...]
Thoughts on Lost – Ab Aeterno
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · lost, television
Today’s post filler comes from Milton’s Areopagitica, which was written in 1644 in support of “the liberty of unlicensed printing” — in other words, against censorship or book banning. I quote it for reasons which should become clear. When God gave [Man] reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing . [...]
Tags:ab aeterno·from the beginning·jacob·lost·man in black·richard·richard alpert·smokey
What was that song, anyway?
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · music
This is not going to be a tribute to Alex Chilton (R.I.P.) because honestly I don’t know enough about Big Star or the Box Tops, aside from the more well-known and deservedly much-loved tracks. And I can’t even tell you that my introduction to Alex Chilton was via The Replacements, as it was for so [...]
Thoughts on Lost – Recon
March 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · lost, reviews, television
Hey. ‘Sup. So ummmm . . . whatcha all doing? Oh, right. Sorry. I was distracted by shirtless Sawyer. What? Like you weren’t. Today is one of those rare days in which I have lots of stuff to do, so I can’t give this episode its full due — but I think that’s fine, since [...]
Stop it: a half-baked, directionless rant on erotica
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · books, reviews, writing
For the last 10 months I’ve been a freelance book reviewer. Most of what I’ve been reading and passing judgment on is erotica, which in itself is a category more widely varied than you might think. There’s contemporary and historical erotica, paranormal erotica, erotic suspense, and so on. Just like your basic porn movies — [...]
Tags:BDSM·erotic fiction·erotica
A new challenge
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · writing
I signed up for Script Frenzy. It’s the lesser-known sister of National Novel Writing Month, during which participants race the month of November to complete a 50,000-word work of fiction. Script Frenzy takes place in April, and the goal is 100 pages in 300 days. The script can be for stage or screen, or it [...]
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The first in what will assuredly be a series
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments · flashbacks, writing
You guys. I’m reading the diary I kept when I was 13. The one I got for my bat mitzvah, the one with my name embossed on the inside front cover, only it’s spelled incorrectly. (Who leaves out the final E in Michelle? You may have your one-L-or-two preference, but that last E is pretty [...]
No, this is the problem.
March 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · writing
The past two weeks or so I’ve felt like I was just spinning my wheels, like I was stuck in the mud and nothing was going to get me out of it, or at least nothing I had any real control over. (It always comes back to control, doesn’t it.) I have things I do [...]
Thoughts on Lost – “Dr. Linus”
March 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments · lost, television
I love Ben. I love Ben so much. Name me another character who is so deceitful, manipulative, Machiavellian, and yet so fragile and emotionally vulnerable. I loved Lost before he showed up, but he is without a doubt the best thing that ever happened to the show. You know a Ben-centric episode is going to [...]
Tags:ben linus·dharma initiative·dr. linus·jack·lost·richard·season 6·sideways