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NG: Don’t know the film, but if you still haven’t gotten Advil by mid-April, let me know.
Ben-Yehudah: B”H It must have been frickin’ freezing out there (Mr. Bigglesworth – name that film!)...
Eric: The reason people arrive early to get into Costco when it opens, I believe, is because they run restaurants or...
NG: You can of course do the open collar, as long as you’re wearing something under it or over it.
Vicki: I love the Israeli dress code. I wish I were a guy just so I could do the open collar.

America in 140 characters or fewer

Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

Two facts about Oprah

Here are two things I didn’t know about Oprah that I learned from reading the article about her in Newsweek (by the way – nice job, Newsweek):

Oprah has made a deal to launch her own cable television channel that will reach 70 million homes.
At Oprah’s retail store in Chicago, women can purchase used shoes and [...]

Autotune the News #4

There was an article in Slate back in, I think, April that mentioned this guy who’s making autotuned cable news mashups and putting them on youtube. He’s awesome and his videos are hilarious, and even just bad enough (eg, fake mustache falling off) to be even funnier than if he’d had a tremendous budget.

Check out [...]

LOST questions, LOST answers

As many people know, I’ve been talking for a while about re-watching all five seasons of LOST that have aired so far and making a list of every question that’s been asked on the show and every answer for it. I have now begun this project and I invite my loyal readers and the general [...]

Sawyer is Jacob (my final answer)!

I was reading about the Dutch invasion of England recently to pass the time when it struck me that the movement to reinstate the descendants of poor James II and VII, the legitimate sovereign overthrown, is Jacobitism. That word comes from the name James in Latin, a language that we know the Others/Hostiles use to [...]

Dharma is the UN – and other theories

Forgive me for pointing it out, but I can’t be the only person to have noticed that the Dharma Initiative’s light blue and the United Nations’ light blue are one and the same. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Dharma is a secret branch of the UN, or meant somehow [...]

America, part 1: at a glance

Ever wondered what I do when I go to America? So have I. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how I spent my winter vacation.

Day 1: JFK, Reagan, AT&T, T-Mobile, Chipotle, Costco, CVS, Lenscrafters, chicken tenders, cookies, Benny Lava

Day 2: pancakes, online glasses shopping, Kohl’s, Popeye’s, Goodwill, AT&T, Buca di Beppo

Day 3: Costco, Pizza Hut, At&t, [...]

Lost 0504

Some observations:

Before I forget, I was just re-watching episode three, and I noticed that when Desmond goes to Widmore’s office, there’s some Dharma art on display. It’s a painting of a polar bear with the word NAMASTE across it. It’s pretty tacky and totally unlike what I’d expect of Widmore’s taste.
Hurley’s orange jumpsuit is actually [...]

Rod and Fox

Here are the top five reasons why Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder are actually the same person:

They both have now been advised to “trust no one.”
They both insist that all they care about is the truth.
They both have testified before government subcommittees.
They both believe Elvis is still alive.
They both look [...]

Fringe

Start with X-FIles. Age Mulder by about 35 years, halve his sanity and double his intelligence. Make Scully younger, blonder, more credulous and less intelligent. Combine Skinner and Il Fumadore and turn them both into Lost’s Matthew Abbadon. Insert Pacey from Dawson’s Creek, aged a decade but no less a smartass. Hang weird computer generated [...]

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