Egad! No post since just before CHRISTMAS!!!

Wow, I knew I hadn't blogged in a while, but it was still a bit of a shock to see that the date of my last post was December 23rd. Bozhemoi!!!

Since then, I was in I Hate Hamlet as the Ghost of John Barrymore and right after that--and I do mean RIGHT after that--I played Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers. So, yeah, I have been a bit busy with theatre, but now that I am done with shows for a while--at least until summer Shakespeare gets under way--I really have no excuse not to start attending to Station 15.

Here's a couple of shots of me as the evil Cardinal:

Yeah, it was taken in the dressing room, but it was still a way cool picture of three bad guys. From left to right, the gorgeous Kailey Portsmouth as Milady DeWinter; moi; and Ryan Pfeiffer as Comte Rochefort.

And another....

Sadly, I don't have any pix from I Hate Hamlet as of yet. That was an amazing show.

So, for a blog that is purportedly about LOST, I seem to spend a lot more time dealing with other things. Oh, well; some of my favorite bloggers post pictures of their cats, or their orchids, or somesuch thing or another.

I fully plan on writing some thoughts on Season 4, but in short, the show is moving like gangbusters and it is becoming wilder and wilder with each episode. Yeah!!!

I am going to write about some questions I have regarding the evolution of Ben Linus from Prisoner in the Hatch to some kind of multinational power-monger.

One last photo:

This is from last summer, and I mentioned it in one of my earliest blog posts. One the left of me is my pal Justin, with whom I have acted Shakespeare here for the past two summers. On my right is Justin's friend and fellow grad school classmate Keir O'Donnell, who played the crazy artist Todd in Wedding Crashers, and who also appeared on LOST as Baby Aaron's biological father Thomas in the first season episode Raised by Another.

More posts soon! I'm back in the saddle!

Season Four of LOST coming soon!

It's only a little over a month away. January 31st. Thursdays!! Yes!! One of my days off! I was hoping to have cable and a flat-screen TV for this season, but oh well--maybe later! Trust me, I will find a way to watch the show!

That said--does it look like an incredible season coming up or what? The writer's strike happened just as LOST had eight episodes in the can, so what I'm hoping is that we will have an eight-episode mini-season...the strike will be resolved (in the writers' favor)...production will commence for the last eight episodes of the season...these will air in the summer...the DVD box set for season 4 will come out in December with 16 episodes...and season 5 will begin in January or February of 2009.

That's what I hope at any rate.

Cool LOST stuff.

It's been hard on us LOST-ians these past months.

We've been waiting with the proverbial patience of Job for the 4th season to start, and the Writer's Strike may have an effect on that, but we still wait. And wait. And wait.

Sooner or later, though, we have to resort to any number of things to get some sort of LOST fix. Over on DarkUFO, they've been doing all kinds of things (polls, fantasy leagues, etc.), the 2 minute mob-isodes get critiqued and analyzed to the bejayzus, and me...well, I crawl from site to site, looking for more theories, more analyses, more cool stuff to feed the Inner Geek.

And this is one thing I found:











The Lost Boys, of whom I know absolutely nothing, are clearly some damned fine cartoonists. They do a weekly cartoon based on LOST, and yeah, you kinda gotta be in the know to actually get the jokes, but they are done with such panache, skill and affection that I think even non-LOST-ians would get la frisson au Geek. And when I find that *$%#@ website address, I'll get a link to it for yez.

Can you imagine similar cartoons done for (gasp!) Sex and the City? Desperate Housewives? Grey's Anatomy? Heaven forfend.

We are Geeks and we rule.

UPDATE: Here's the link.

LOST Season 3 DVD coming out soon!

And by soon, I mean real soon!

Here's the plan: Buy the DVD set ASAFP, but don't watch it until December 22!! I won't have rehearsals that day, it's a day off of work, and all I want to do is watch each episode back-to-back, and then feast on all the extras. Mmmmm. Pizza, Mountain Dew and LOST.

Man, it really is the simple pleasures that make life so sweet!

Housekeeping. Literally.

I can't believe the whole of November went by and I only posted ONCE on my blog. Well, "Forum" ended at the beginning of the month, and from there I started immediately on my living room project (my landlord gave me the go-ahead to replace the stained, shabby carpeting in the living room with spanking-new, shiny and aesthetically pleasing laminate wood flooring!), which wasn't completed until this very morning.

I also--and against what I thought was a pretty determined path I was going to follow--went ahead and auditioned for another play...and got cast.

So, I barreled pretty much straight from one play to another. I will be playing the Ghost of John Barrymore in "I Hate Hamlet". I have to rehearse a sword-fight for an hour-and-a-half before the regular rehearsal, which goes from 6:30pm tp 9:30pm. And then, I go to work.

And to top all of this off, the car broke down. In the winter. And my job is 2 miles uphill from where I live. I know, I know, I shouldn't be grumbling. I'm actually glad to be involved in another show, the swordfight is going to look waaaaay cool, the living room is done (so that burden is gone), and sooner or later, the car will get fixed.

It's just that right now...I feel like grumbling.

An Unintended Hiatus

Well, it's been a while.

The last blog I posted was just before "Forum" opened, and that was, what? two, three weeks ago? The show closed last Sunday, and I've been slowly re-adapting to the humdrummery of the night shift.

Not that there hasn't been plenty to write about.

The writers' strike in LA has some quite possibly serious ramifications not just for LOST, but for every TV show, period. I have thoughts on that, but not for right now. Suffice to say, I am with the writers on this (of course!), and I hope they get what they want soon.

I could write quite a bit on how "Forum" went, and I will probably do so. All I want to say is that the cast party for that show was grrrreat! And no, not for what you might imagine was an alcohol-drenched debauch among nubile coeds--nope, sorry. It was just fun. That's all. Simple fun. Belting out Disney cartoon songs, goofing on this, cackling at that. Just a lot of fun.

I guess the thing foremost in my reveries (concerning this blogsite) is that when I began this blog 3 months and change ago, I intended to write about LOST a lot more than I actually have been. To be fair to myself, this is one looooong hiatus before the fourth season starts (IF it starts, due to the strike). I scour the Internet looking for something, anything, related to LOST. I have found some really cool sites, but they all seem to be suffering from the same malady as me; hiatus uninterruptus.

Well, if it comes to it, I can always change the name of the blogsite from Station 15 to Kyle-topia.

Tomorrow I plan to do a few more posts. I have a very busy winter looming ahead of me, so I want to articulate what some of my winternial challenges will be. I have started writing my alternate history, The October Tsar. If I want to be successful between writing a book and going to the gym, I have to apply the same sort of discipline that I use when I make sure I go to rehearsal every day.

AND...in addition to all that, I have been (happily?) coerced into auditioning for I Hate Hamlet, quite possibly to play the part of John Barrymore's ghost. AND, my pal Lauren (who played Philia the Virgin in "Forum") is going to direct The Three Musketeers for her senior project. Can anyone say...Richelieu? Mmmm, perhaps.

(Sigh)

Gonna be a busy-ass winter. But I guess it could be worse.

More "Forum" pictures

EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE A MAID!


PSEUDOLUS TRIES TO SCAM MILES GLORIOSUS



FUNERAL FOR A FAKE VIRGIN




COMEDY TONIGHT!!!