Color Video of London 1927
Posted on February 9, 2010
Fyi this is not colorized, this is how it was shot:
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Lost stuff
Posted on February 8, 2010
Remember how when Obama won you would kind of wake up in a dreamworld, and say to yourself when making coffee, “Did that actually happen?” The same thing is happening to me with Lost. If you want a recap, check out this link, its pretty decent and pretty funny. Here’s a quote:
They meet up with Jack at the bombed-out pit that’s the remnants of the destroyed Swan station — the hatch — and not the construction site, meaning the hatch was built, meaning it blew up, caused the crash, etc. Jack isn’t awake for a minute when Sawyer flies out and kicks him into the pit, which has to hurt. (It was Shannon who referred to it as Craphole Island back in the first season, and at this point she’s probably happy to be dead just so she doesn’t have to deal with this level of insanity. Angry polar bears would be a relief for Jack.) His ass-kicking takes a pause when Sawyer hears Juliet crying out from beneath the rubble pile drawn in by the explosion, so he and the rest start working to get her out.
Slate’s TV Club has a pretty interesting theory:
Jack and Seth, I’m sure Mr. Eko’s death has been etched into your memories like scripture onto a walking stick. Eko kneels at the feet of his brother, who has inexplicably come back from the dead, and chooses not to ask for forgiveness. “I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to survive,” he says. Yemi/Smokey, visibly angry, responds, “You speak to me as if I were your brother.” Then Yemi/Smokey turns into a fist and smashes the life out of the best character Lost has ever given us. Which brings me to Lost TV Club Theory No. 4! Smokey offed Eko because he was too useful to Jacob—it was a political assassination.
Interesting if anything. The Slate TV Club has a fine eye for details, and the comments are useful, which is a refreshing change of pace. Worth a read if you are trapped in the snow like the rest of the civilized world. Slate links us to this Entertainment Weekly article, which is very, very long (6 internet pages). I have not read it except for the first page, which was decent, but only really a recap.
Here’s a Lost choose your own adventure from Gawker.
My sister’s bf posted this amalgam of theories and questions in the comments:
1- Juliet was happy before she died and Miles said she said “it worked”. Also, Sawyer told Kate that he is not going to kill Jack, because he wants Jack to suffer. So I thought, when someone days in the island, then he is saved, he starts live his normal life (the plane which didn’t crash).
Also, Miles heard something from the dead body of Sayid, when Hugo asked him about it, he just said “nothing”, but I think we will find out what it is in the next episodes.
2- Locke is the black smoke and now I think Sayid is going to be Jacob, because he returned to life from death.
3- Why was Desmond in the plane? He wasn’t in the plane that crashed, he came to the island with his boat.
4- Desmond was familiar to Jack in the plane, because he saw it in the stadium when he was running a few years ago. (so it is not about the island)
5- Sayid has an Iran passport?!? Why not Iraq?
6- The flight is in 2004, the people in the island are in 2007. Is there a parallel universe or the plane does not crash but somehow they still end up in the island between 2004 and 2007? But in 207, in the temple, one of the girls said “they are from the first plane”.
1) Interesting theory. I thought that when Miles was confused about Sayid’s body, it was because he was realizing that Sayid.
2) That would be awesome. I am up for a Sayid – SmokeMonsterLocke showdown.
3) I think this question is on everyone’s mind, and it comes down to the central question, “What happened when the bomb went off?”
5) Sayid is an international man of mystery. A better question is why he didn’t have a black passport from Monte Carlo.
6) What makes this even stranger, is that we know that in 2004 that the island is underwater. So something has to happen to A) make there be an actual island. I suppose magic and gear turning will solve this one. B) get those guys back on the island. I like your idea of being saved on the island means living a real life. For a while I was thinking that it was inevitable that they would go back to the island, a theory I still espouse. Maybe the bomb blasted them into two separate time streams. I doubt it, but the laws of physics make Lady Gaga seem normal. Also, about the addendum about Juliet dying to save herself: Wouldn’t she have stabbed Sawyer in the throat so that he could live a normal life off of the island? Or is she a female Jesus?
Any commentary is welcome. Give me links and I will put them up here. Lets try to make a “Things to watch for” list for tomorrow. Also, did anyone see any cultural references besides “Apocalypse Now!”?
Also I was sad to see that Shannon did not make the cut. She was annoying, but the hottest.
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Throwback Monday: Rocketman – William Shatner
Posted on February 8, 2010
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Big Honkin’ Pile O’ Links
Posted on February 7, 2010
Hey guys, my Sunday routine is to drink coffee and then read through all the articles on fark.com. I usually make an individiual post for each one, but there were a buttload this week, so I’ll make a big post:
Turns out that an objective view of churches is not that great.
An Insider’s guide to the gay -to-straight conversion.
We’re going to have to make some big decisions real fast about what to do with the dollar.
South Butt vs North Face. Butt != Face. I gotta match.
Text messages are sold to you at a 6,500% markup. Yeah.
The economics of supermarkets in snow storms.
Aerogel can now be made into commercially viable insulation. Awesome.
Prarie dogs have the most complex animal language.
70,000 year old language dies. <-If you read one article, read the dollar one above and then this one. Yes that’s two. Make sure you read this one.
Arts Photographer Graphs her photos.
What will happen to our knowledge if there’s an apocalypse?
Fish caught evolving into 3 species.
How to fix our budget, and why its not going to happen. <- Don’t read this one, it’s too depressing.
There are a bunch of Lost links, but I am going to have a huge post on Monday about the show.
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Snow Taco Lips: The Fallout
Posted on February 7, 2010
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North Fairfax
Our backyard, that's about 20 inches of snow.
That's the Potomac. Beautiful stuff. Gorgeous day.
Veronica action shot.
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Colourful India
Posted on February 6, 2010
This weeks Boston Big Picture is gorgeous. Called Colourful India, I feel like it really captures the spirit of the subcontinent. Here are a couple examples; definitely make your way there:
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An American Self Portrait
Posted on February 6, 2010
My friend and flexability advisor Evelyn Zak sent me a link to this photo set, which depicts just how much stuff we go through. The photo series is done by Chris Jordan and is called “An American Self Portrait”. This one is the best and its a depiction of the 2 million plastic bottles which our country goes through EVERY 5 MINUTES. Hope this helps you understand your impact:
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