Hiatus

For the next three months, this blog will be on hiatus.

Lot of personal stuff that I'm trying to straighten out.

See y'all in August (I hope!)

Some photos for fun

The above is still the best explanation I have for the last 8 years.



One of the many reasons I love LOST is how visually striking it is. It has a look to it that no other show has. This is simply a picture of Locke amidst the island jungle (Hurley in lower left), and it is a haunting image, simply by dint of composition and color. It is gorgeous, and eerie, and one can practically hear the jungle birds screeching in the lonely distance.



This is from a recent issue of Vanity Fair that re-created classic moments from the films of Alfred Hitchcock with contemporary actors. Above, Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad) does a damn good job of stepping into the Madison Avenue shoes of Roger O Thornhill (played by Cary Grant) in North by Northwest (1959) (and BTW, one of my Top Ten favorite films of all time). This is the classic scene where Thornhill is being chased across a vast Illinois prairie by the malevolent pilot of a crop-duster. Go Rogen!

Go here to see the whole spread. It's awesome, even if you're not a Hitchcock fan (but you should be!)

And this one is just plain funny.

Truer sentiments rarely expressed better

The Radzinsky Problem

I've been working on this for a while, scrawling down notes, typing up rough drafts, re-watching LOST episodes (never a chore!), and what I'm trying to do is come up with my own theory about some Season Two stuff; namely, going back to the Swan and re-examine its importance prior to the Violet Sky Event.

I have some ideas about Radzinsky, some ideas about Kelvin Inman, some ideas about Charles Widmore, about the blast-door map, the button, the Swan, DHARMA, the Numbers, the Incident and even Libby.

It's coming together and I hope to post it soon.

Hey, it'll only cost 50 million!

A few months back I posted a picture of an island in the Fiji archipelago that I fantasize about owning someday. Hey, daydreams are okay, right?

Anyway, here are some more pictures.

Oooooohhhh, I want this so bad!!

Can you imagine this bad boy all pimped out like a Jonny Quest-meets-Myst-meets-LOST--meets-The Incredibles--meets Jules Verne kind of milieu? Oof! It would be very cool to travel to Fiji and take a day trip to this island and just spend the day wandering across it.

Kanacea. . . .

Tintin movie on the way

Some seriously good news for us Tintin fans.

What? I never told you? Oh, Crom, yes, I am a huuuuuge Tintinologist. One of the first comics I vividly remember reading at the age of 5 was Tintin In Tibet. I've collected a few of the books over the years, with some of my favorites being:


















This one....

















And this one....

And this one.

So, now I read how Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are combining forces to create a live-action Tintin movie!!! By all Cthulhu holds holy, just think of the geek pedigree that movie will have! Casting so far, as I understand it, has Thomas Sangster (Liam Neeson's stepson in Love, Actually) as the intrepid boy journalist Tintin and the great Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.

That chortling sound you hear rolling out from the Rockies is me.

Seriously. Follow the link.

I mean this: Go here.

It's priceless. Best line: when Batman greets Robin with "Hey, player, what's up?"