Quotable

regrets are illuminations come too late - Joseph Campbell
(Yes, as I’m teaching Gilgamesh, I’m revisiting some of The Hero With A Thousand Faces.)

I am blogging this fast return from the apple store in NYC. The big one.

You know; this one:
(image forthcoming)
 
Now that this NYC trip is on and I”m on spring break, perhaps I can get back to writing about the bullshit education system, Les Miserables, Peter Cameron’s Someday this Pain will be Useful to You, and David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten.  And some Lost.

Lost 5.6 “Namaste”

9:06-  Love Lapidus.   Curious as to why Sun doesn’t disappear.  I may or may not have noted a couple weeks ago that I don’t think Jack ever originally crashed.
9:08- Let’s talk about the emotion here of Hurly hugging Sawyer.  Even though in show time, we’ve only seen these characters separated by about 6 hours, in [...]

Live Blogging “Lost” ep. 5.8- “LaFleur”

1st of all- what the fuck? (apologies for the F-bomb)   I thought that the point of Lost was to get us an uniterrupted block of shows.   And now we have to wait until March 18?  What the hell?
9:02- Well there’s the statue.  
9:03-  Now let’s think about Sawyer for a minute.  The last time we saw [...]

“Lost” and general television note:

Listen, if you want the best, most erudite Lost blog on the internet, visit:
www.memles.wordpress.com

Live Blogging “Lost” fucked uppery

For some reason, my router isn’t letting my laptop onto wordpress. : (   I will blog later, or at commercials.   I just jumped over here to my imac at the first commercial break.

Optimism

This is what I read on a card a few days ago.  It was sent to me by a friend.
1.  the path is not straight.
2.  mistakes need not be fatal.
3.  people are more important than achievements or possessions.
4.  be gentle with your parents.
5.  never stop doing what you care most about.
6.  learn to use a semicolon.
7.  [...]

Intrepid Medicine & Wrong Science

A Classic.  Sadly, Monkeyfluids is now defunct, but PLEASE still visit.  I wish I could take credit but I can’t.  In the meantime:

More oral sex (studies needed)

I personally thought that sociological implications were enough to justify keeping an oral sex study funded at Georgia State University.  But what about moving over to the schools of biology & medicine as well.   I agree with my Andrew Sullivan that this study needs to be verified and more studies like it to be done.  [...]

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