Thursday, April 15, 2010

So since I didn't pay any taxes this year, does that also give me some kind of super-immunity to death?

Bad: Using your 2008 W2 to fill out your 2009 tax return, resulting in a $3000 inaccuracy in your income and requiring an amendment.

Not so Bad: Discovering that amending is not only fairly easy, but that you get another 113 bucks!

If I wasn't a Liberal already, this year's tax return would really have done the trick.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Liveblogging "Lost" [Spoilerz, clearly]

8:00 - If they kill Desmond I will LOSE MY SHIT

8:01 - So my *tentative* guess is that the reason ol' Whit has been keeping Pen and Des apart might turn out to be because Desmond has some special/inevitable link with the Island, and he was trying to protect her. Also, I'm tired of his being so one-dimensional.

8:03 - First break and no flashes! Could this mean this week is waste-of-time-free?

8:04 - And back. Yes Jin, it makes perfect sense to just stand around while they threaten to fry Desmond like that guy who is now a hamburger.

8:05 - Faraday reference! Also, it's your own fault you've never met your son, you dick. Also - don't anyone ask what he means by saying everyone will disappear! Because that would be crazy!

8:06 - Lamest. Explanation. Ever. No wonder none of the castaways are grad students. We would NOT stand for this questionable rhetoric.

8:08 - AHHHHH! HE FLASHES! I KNEW IT! Totally called this like a month ago.

8:10 - Why does everyone on this show remind me of my uncle? Maybe it's all the planes. Also - is he a Whitmore flunkie? And who is that driver?

8:11 - I wear my sunglasses in a tinted-window car/So I can, so I can...

8:13 - I want a Kindle. These twee little hipster ads have worked on me.

8:15 - Looks like this episode is going to parallel the post-blast one. And OMG it's all coming together! Faraday and Charlie and Des - Oh my!

8:16 - Can you say "heavy-handed?"

8:18 - ...can you say "heavy-handed?" Though it's cute that Charlie is in love with Claire again.

8:20 - OH MY GOD. He had a near-death and he saw Claire? Does that mean she's dead? (Also - overlap with Flashforward much?)

8:20 - Fuck on a stick I love Desmond. Even douchey heartless Desmond. But it's not his fault 'cause Penny apparently was never born.

8:22 - HIJINX!

8:23 - Fuck. Me. Shit just got real.

8:26 - Fucking storm. I am now sitting right next to the antennae, at a really awkward angle to the TV, and it's still skipping from time to time. Teach me not to go to Jevin's.

8:27 - That Friskies commercial is fucking trippy.

8:29 - Aww, no full-frontal chest? Tease. But now he looks like old Des again.

8:30 - Is that like me listing "Biddy Martin" as my emergency contact?

8:31 - MRIs are really boring. I wish I'd had awesome hallucinations in mine.

8:32 - Jack attack! With his awesomely bad hair.

8:33 - I didn't know this episode moved to an HCW stairwell!

8:34 - It's Exposition Charlie! "None of this matters!" Amen Charlie, amen. My feelings about the parallel universes exactly.

8:38 - Mrs. Hawking = still a raging bitch. Or IS she?

8:41 - Oooo! Happenings! She still is in control of everything!

8:42 - Oh. Em. Gee. Don't try to keep Des and Pen apart, you fool. Love conquers all!

8:43 - Ahhhhhhhhhh.

8:47 - "V is for survival"?? Not last I checked.

8:48 - So he saw Charlotte. Why do they all see their loves? It's working, but it seems sappy.

8:49 - Is Desmond still his Constant?? Also, I love seeing Normal Faraday.

8:53 - Ah...the "grass is greener" idea. And - wow. How does he know? What did he see?

8:56 - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! And now the stadium!! Why the Jack parallel?

8:57 - She's training for the race maybe - why? For ol' Whit's approval?

8:58 - Thank God that wasn't the last scene, where they stare at each other.

8:59 - Ahhhh! Sayid'd!

8:59 - Jigga wha,,,?

9:00 - Coffee! Juliet's dying words! But obviously something will prevent his making the date.

9:01 - The manifest??
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Wow. So I haven't been that into this season, especially not the parallels, but this episode...damn. 100%. Why is it that Desmond always, *always* has the best episodes? This had everything - references to old plotlines, connections with the on-Island plot, real progress towards an ending...I mean, to make me wait until this far into the season to even vaguely care about the flashes was poor, but I'm not considering stopping watching and letting eps stack up until the finale like I had been. I care again - and they did it all in a flash sideways.

Ok, show writers. I believe again.





...also - called it! I knew Desmond's flash to the past when the hatch blew was the same thing that's been going on this season. Devoting too much brain space to a TV show FTW.

[PS - Elizabeth Mitchell is so fucking hot. I might start watching this bullshit show just for her.]

Monday, April 5, 2010

Bad NBC, Bad!

Granted I'm no connoisseur of late night TV, but...Jay Leno is not funny. Like, not even medium-low funny. Not even if I was a Conservative.

EDIT: He just commented that "Scientists say that drinking too much soda can cause sexual dysfunction in men...[well duh,] that's why they're call SOFT drinks." Is Late Night always this lame?