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Nice to see you, Tgreg. We've really missed your input here. Are you still LOST-pure? In the comparison that Lindelof made, if Locke = Snape, then Hurley = Harry Potter. I believe that JKR said that she originally planned to have Ron die; and she only finally changed her mind during the writing of the final book. Continuing the analogy, Charlie = Ron. Watching "Through the Looking Glass" still gets me. Charlie was/is such a great character. Another thought I've been having recently, regarding the energy/electromagnetism, the voices, etc. And I got around to it, what is the electromagnetism inherent on the island (and presumably at other spots around the world, according to Issac, the healer who Rose went to)? Well, first, let me expound.... We are energy. Our bodies are electric (thank you, Walt Whitman, ye knew not how right you were) from our heartbeats to the +s and -s of the sodium-potassium pump that basically charges all of our cells. Our neurons fire electrical messages to our brains. Reading what some of the whispers were (thanks for that link DrDank), some of them said "sis" in the ones with Shannon after Boone had died. It's like the energy of the dead is still there, it's flowing. In the 'LOST is a Game' theory, it could be like... the players who've finished their game still being able to watch and act on the current players --- kind of like how in LIFE after you finish and their are still players playing, you can still spin the wheel --- I believe they call it playing the lottery. Anyway, think of it... Ghosthunters in the real world use EMF equipment to detect ghosts. The wellspring of the electromagnetic energy in the Swan could come from those who've died on the island (or it could be a larger group than that) and are still present in an undercurrent beneath the surface. Run this by Miles' gift. He can somehow read the electromagnetic energy of the dead to communicate with them. Hurley, among others, can see the electromagnetic energy take form. Locke/Locke's body was a receptor of the electromagnetic energy of the MIB. It might also help explain Richard, and even Jacob, living so long, the extraordinary healing powers, etc. It is pure energy healing them (especially, it seems, for Locke) and keeping them alive, up to a certain threshold. Dead is dead, as Ben said, but then again, dead does not mean the end of the game or the end of energy. I've been thinking about this for a while now, stringing together some deeply philosophical ideas I've had for a long time after taking chemistry, biology/botany, and throwing in some Shakespeare, Vonnegut, Asimov and Kafka.... and finally decided to share b/c more and more it addresses the most basic property of the island --- its energy. Lindelof a while ago said that there will be some things we never find out about the island, but that some of the questions people often ask are almost self-same to things that aren't given answers in other works. As he made the case, no one really asks What is the nature of the Force in Star Wars? It just is; perhaps a real explanation isn't even possible. You just have to take some things as they're presented.

There's a site called "LOST Spoilers" that's a good read during the hiatus. Right now they're posting some clips and snips of Cuse and Lindelof, and what some of the actors are saying. One interesting tidbit: And a Michael Emerson (Ben) snip: You know, I was just thinking a moment the other day (I know. I shouldn't do that). In terms of the whole "LOST is a game" theory.... The title of the series is 'Lost,' not 'Won.' Just something to think about.

Nice. Don't think anyone will turn down another hour... and to think that probably right now they're working on rough scripts. I believe filming has historically started in August/Sept. for the January start. If I hadn't gotten the DVDs before that would be tempting now. Combined that's less coin for them all in Blu-Rays than the regular DVDs as/when they came out. Will probably get S5 in BD (we've had it for half a year now and I still haven't seen a BD in the thing to test it out). ----- I am now thru S3 in the re-watching. A couple of things to note: 1. Locke told Eko that he saw the monster as a bright, white light. I assume he was speaking about the time he was hunting boar. I wonder if that has anything to do with how the finale faded to white. Could there be two monsters, or rather, could the monster serve two different controllers' interests? 2. The Others seem to still be getting Dharma food even after the Purge, when Dharma had to have known something wasn't right. And the drops would indicate they know right where the island is. Why didn't the food drops stop? I have my own theory about this. It's that the Others are exactly the thing Dharma wanted to happen all along, and it has a lot to do with Daniel Faraday. Let's think here. The Others knew the past and they apparently know the future --- they were building the runway in the precise spot for Ajira to land. They know everything that's going to happen... they just need to act it all out, play the part, and make it happen to fulfill the universe's course of events. I think Juliet is still working in this manner; she may have had feelings for Sawyer, but she was/is on her own 'long con' mission. 3. Originally I thought it was just Ben being Ben that he took Locke to Jacob's cabin and Locke saw the MIB. What I think now is that the Others knew all along that Locke would be the MIB. Note the details. They'd been testing Locke since he was a boy, but it wasn't to determine if he was the next Other leader. It was to determine if he was the MIB. The more I watch again, the more I think MIB has been deep-seated in Locke since birth. All the evidence goes into a collective, how Locke carries himself, the things that nobody else would cope with in order for MIB to preserve the loophole. How he often talks about things that happened so long ago --- e.g. Michelangelo --- that MIB might have been more familiar with from his own mortal life. And another thing. Could the MIB also be named 'Jacob'? I think there's a distinct reason they withheld his name.

It wasn't just in their final years. They gorge(d) pork just as much as the other side, if not more. The only time Republicans preach fiscal restraint is when they're not at the trough. Ditto on the pendulum. We're now seeing the effects of Bush swinging it further to the right than it's been in a while --- on the backswing, the pendulum will swing further to the left than it's been in a while.

If that's not a veiled shot across the bow, I've never seen one. Palin will have a tough go if she does re-enter elective politics. As a fiscal conservative and post-Republican, I can definitely say that it's her type that drove me out of usually supporting that ticket. They're liars who don't want to reduce spending; they just want to spend our money in different stores. Tired of the pony show where they have no substance, not many accomplishments, and no ability to form a rational argument --- not to mention a rational sentence. If that party wants to get anywhere, they need to focus on people who have business success and have shown they can turn failure around. B/c in 2012, I think that's where we'll still be, if not worse than it is now.

In the same vein as William Jefferson... pretty much, he would have to stop being black. That might do it. And however that might sound in a PC sense, it's the truth and you know it.

I can't wait to see what a tome like that might do to the English language. Even as someone who'd never vote for her, at least Hillary can speak in fairly grammatical sentences when she's in front of a camera. The same situation drops Palin's IQ to ~ 40. I don't know if McCain would have done better w/ another VP choice, but bizzaro Palin sure didn't help, especially among the independents. It was rather sad last year to see a respected statesman sing an early an swan song b/c he was pressured into picking her as VP rather than his first couple of choices (e.g. Lieberman) b/c they didn't 'poll well' among the base. As far as Palin's political future, it's gone. She's officially quit a governorship b/c it was too difficult. Will she quit when it gets too difficult to be a ________? And even this killer point is down the list of attack arguments from any future election opponent. If it is her intention to work behind the scenes as was her vague statement... well, her camp might find out that the flavor of the month changes frequently.

It never ceases to amaze me. If you have money in the bank to afford to be a sugar daddy and are looking for a mistress, at the very LEAST go with HOT and crazy. And it's not too hard --- go to the nearest university and they'll 'bout line up for you. Going for ugly and crazy is just plain stupid. Sahel Kazemi

Ba da bing!!

Best thing for her and for the GOP would be for her and her family to quietly go away.

Umm, the Jets did it. And this year, the 49ers unveiled new unis that are a slight tweak of the Montana-era ones.

I heard that Dick Jauron is getting Bill a CB. Happy b-day!

+1 (But, minus the "appreciat[ing] a song or two" part). My TV is going to be turned off until the Saint Michael lovefest stops. Truth is, the world has one less pervert. No loss there. There was a time I used to be constantly amazed seeing people fawn over celebrities who are among the scum of the earth. Then I realized that fully 2/3 of the people in this country skate along on the surface of life, totally oblivious to anything going on that won't directly impact them in the next 5 minutes.

Just to clarify from above, no one was using the Wildcat / Single Wing formation in the NFL until My-yami. Whatever Mularky was running, it wasn't Wildcat. Any claim that he's been using it for 10 years is dubious. If he means his little 'gadget plays' (that more often than not failed in the Bills Offense), he should say 'gadget plays.' I'm far from saying MM is a meathead (and tho I'm glad he's no longer the Bills' coach, I wasn't and am not a fan of DJ either), but it's a little douche-y to compare end-around-QB/HB-options to Wildcat. The objective of getting an advantage through on-field chaos is the same, but the o-line formation (from left to right: TE, G, C, G, T, T, TE) and execution is totally different. My cousin's husband, a high school coach downstate who uses the single-wing/Wildcat spread, was interviewed and quoted in an SI piece about it last year.

Apparently, he groups all 'gadget plays' under the name Wildcat.

You also have to consider what kind of wife you have.

I didn't watch the show when it aired. But from the clip, that seems to be the case. He held back saying anything b/c she's a woman and anything he says or does besides encouragement (like he was trying to do) will be taken the wrong way. You could see from the look on TO's face that he's thinking, "I did the best I could. How much longer is this sh--?" I would not be reading anything into his response on this show toward how he would react on the football. On the contrary he showed a lot of control there. And hopefully, seeing someone who is as destructive to a (albeit, small) team will hold up a mirror and help him see the effect of some of his previous antics / calling out of teammates. I don't see how this tirade helps Ms. Krupa's professional career. People generally don't like working with people who, during crunch time, start pouring down the f-bombs. They're difficult to work with and they drag productivity down. Beauty fades and there's a million girls out there looking to take her place. Swearing like that and getting agitated and angry doesn't help anything --- in fact, anger makes your concentration worse in physical tasks. There's a reason why sports psychologists preach positive visualization. In college, during summers I did hardscaping, and if you start getting angry that stones aren't fitting, start swearing and getting worked up, nothing's going to go right. You start giving up easier and throwing stones back on the ground when working on a solution for another minute would have fixed the problem. I've worked with swearers and people quick to anger, and they create a toxic zone where things just don't get done b/c they're too busy being angry.

I would print out an 8x11 that says exactly that, and put it on the fridge, on his door, etc. FOOTBALL & ACADEMICS. YOU DON'T GET ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER. (Unless you go to UMiami or FSU....)

Of the options I listed, this would be the way I would go. List it for ~ 3 weeks and if there's no bite, I'd sell it to the junkyard place. Even $200 cash in hand is much better than a $500 deduction (if it's not the straw that breaks the camel's back vis-a-vis putting you in a lower tax bracket).

You might see if it can be donated for a tax deduction. There are a few organizations/charities that do that in the northeast. I don't know what they have as far as drive-ability requirements. You could put it in the listings and try to get some cash by hoping there's a kid who wants a spare 'parts car.' I have a friend who did that with a junker Puegot back in college. Call an auto parts yard (you know... ones that have a lot of wreck cars) which pretty much does the same thing as the kid mentioned above, for the odd customer who needs a gas door, fender, windshield fluid tank, etc. Or, you could sing some Don McLean and take it to the levy. Whatever way, from the sounds of it, don't expect to get much.

Read again. I wasn't commenting on Edwards' toughness. It is Pennington who, as I wrote, gets rattled and 'turns into a little girl.' I was flabbergasted at the gameplan for My-ami last season, giving the dude all day to throw and a still-white jersey at games' end. You need to hit Pennington, then he loses focus and his accuracy goes to hell. I wrote that to this point I haven't seen this from Edwards. He's taken hits, gotten back up and still marched the O down the field. (Usually, for a FG. That's gotta change, especially with the new toys Owens and Nelson, and this year may be make-or-break.).

To this point, I have not seen Trent take a hard hit (one that doesn't cause actual injury) and then seemingly transform into a little girl. Have seen this many times with Chadwick --- having a great game connecting passes, then a DE lands a POW! on him and if/when he gets up, he's erratic and his accuracy is more or less shot. And w/o accuracy CP is nothing.

Googling "Adam Rutherford," in the real world, he was a famous Pyramidologist. Hmm. Adam Rutherford in Jack's ER. Hard to say with the angle and the blood, but I don't think it can be ruled out. I can't find one of the coffin scene in "Abandoned" that's the bigger part of the argument. Anyone else with the DVDs? Or can anyone find the coffin image? It's not for nothing that they concealed the face. And in the "Abandoned" cast list, there is no listing for who played Adam Rutherford in the coffin. Jacob

I really think it is going to be the "LOST is a Game" (there's actually a very cool website/theory page called this, but their interpretation is that it's tantamount to a real-life video game. On edit: Link). However, it's going to be much more involved than it being a board and pieces, a box (think, the checker box itself) like backgammon, Risk, Mouse Trap, etc. that have been referenced. All of these little hints throughout the series about games and stuff are building toward something. As such, I don't think that in the series finale, the camera is going to do an overhead pan-out and the island is going to be on a gameboard. Tho... I will admit, that would be a totally awesome screenshot. Cuse and Lindelof (and I would hope JJ Abrams might be involved) want this series to end awesomely, and have said it's going to be awesome. Frankly, minus the Nikki&Paulo episode, they've earned my trust.

In grade school, I had a bus driver named Ms. Krupa. Nothing like!!!