Comic for Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Posted: 12:06 am, Thursday, May 25th

Poor Pete. I guess. This is as good a time as any to mention that I'm taking Monday off - I haven't taken a day off since the holidays, which is kind of staggering for me to think of. We're going to Boston to visit Sweats and see a Sox game, and then hopefully we'll be grilling in the park on Monday back in the loverly borough o' Brooklyn, and I can't imagine too many of you will be hitting refresh come Monday morning to see what's happening to the gang, so, yeah.

I came *so* close to live-blogging the finale of Lost for today's entry, but I didn't want to have to worry about trying to be slightly humorous or thoughtful or anything while (spoiler!) trying to figure out what the hell was going on. OK, so Penny has an arctic team tracking electromagnetic pulses to try and locate Desmond. Does this mean her dad is the guy funding the Dharma Initiative, because how would she know to track electromagnetic pulses? Also, why the arctic? Does this mean that they're in some kind of Savage Land, which would kind of halfway explain the polar bear that no one's mentioned in about a season and a half? I have to wait *how* long to get some actual answers? Ma-a-a-a-an. I hope next season's got better pacing than this one, but the last four episodes sure were something else. Go, Lost.

Medium Large had an absolutely incredible strip yesterday (by way of Tuesday - long story that you can get by sorting through the comment archive if you want to) . It's times like this that I'm bummed about having a realistic strip. I'm never, ever going to be able to work smallpox scabs into a Five Bucks to Friday storyline. (I s'pose I could toss it into Five and Dime, maybe, but, God, talking tableware? Beyond awesome.)

Shocking story on this bizarre disease that drove Billy Koch out of baseball. It's called Morgellons disease, and evidently fibers grow out of you when you have it. That is crazy. Even weirder, it seems like half of the medical establishment doesn't even believe it exists and thinks it's a case of the patients becoming delusional. (The reason you're getting a wikipedia article is because webmd.com doesn't list it.)

Hey, they named a dino after Hogwarts.

God, check out some fo the crap in the pajiba round-up - Hollywood has paid a one or two million dollar advance on the idea of a script about a guy having to be the tooth fairy. Wow. And then there's a Bruckheimer project called 'Game Boys' that may actually have the ability to be the worst movie Bruckheimer's name's ever been attached to, which is really saying something.

Two kind of funny search results got people here yesterday - one person Yahoo!ed "boston red sox backgrounds for myspace" (um, sorry), and one was looking for "bullfrog recipes" (you sick, sick fuck). Speaking of MySpace, I'm kind of taking a chance on this particular nightmare - either the page wasn't loading correctly, or this one is actually so badly laid out that half of it is completely unreadable.

bullfrog

Thanks for the Lost spoiler alert. I didn't realize last night's was 2 hours and only made it through half an hour before turning in.

Question: How do you find out what people searched for to get to the site?

Some thing RAW set up for me shows me my hit count and where they were directed from - if you just have the site bookmarked or type in the .url, it shows up blank, though.

Hey, you gave me two weeks to finally get around to watching the Gilmores finale without spoiling it for me, I m'ise well not piss everyone off this morning if they had other plans last night.

RAW just sent me this.. Schilling is an enemy in EverQuest II, now.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151009

I wish Curt would get with the times and get addicted to World of WarCraft.

LOST Stuff: Apparently they created a website for the Hanso Foundation. www.thehansofoundation.org They also published Bad Twin, the book that Sawyer found the manuscript of. It is on the local top 10 list!! I heard some other interesting theories on the local radio show this morning and I guess the various websites and going nuts today.

Other Lost stuff:

I agree that there would seem to be no way for her to know of the electromagnetic thing unless she was somehow connected. As for the Arctic guys, they might just be flying in a de-pressurized plane and have to wear warm clothing WWII-bomber style. Also, why do the others want Sawyer, Kate and Jack so bad? And what's up with Henry Gale actually being the leader? Fuck the others. I do like the plot twist that one of the good guys has done something quite sketchy (Michael), but what happened to Said and Jin's sneak-attack plans from the boat?

The sneak attack plans got torpedo-ed when the ambush site turned out to be nowhere near the beach that Michael told Jack they were going to (and therefore the beach that Sayid sailed to). I guess the Others figured out that Michael would crack like the lame-o he is and set up that whole camp to make sure the Lostaways couldn't find them again.

I knew about the Bad Twin, and I thought those Hanso Foundation ads were too ridiculous not to be anything other than additional marketing for the show.

LOST STUFF:

My guess is that Hurley goes to Sayid & Jin. There was much discussion about the look exchanged by Kate & Jack - a plan??

What if Penny doesn't know that Desmond was there, but it does show the connection between Widmore and Hanso/the Island.

How about Libby? A mole? She is showing up everywhere. Wasn't Kelvin the US army guy in Sayid's background?

What's with Charlie? After a few weeks without him he was all over the place this episode.

The Enron douchebags are both guilty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/business/25c nd-enron.html?hp&ex=1148616000&en=7b5839ed0afd26ec&ei=5094&p artner=homepage

I wish I could put a bet on "will receive presidential pardon on Shitwit's way out."

No, the US army guy in Sayid's background was Kate's dad, I thought. I think Libby wound up in the nuthouse shortly after giving Desmond the boat - let's face it, people giving their recently deceased husband's boat away to folks they run into at the Starbucks probably aren't that stable. I think Charlie was the representative of faith mixed with reason. Ever since he kicked the skag, he's been on the spiritual train, but had a much more reasonable approach than Locke (no matter how much shit is magnetically attaching itself to the wall, let's not enter the code) or Eko (better not explain why I'm doing what I'm doing, and also, I should detonate TNT while standing ten feet away in an enclosed area).

Forgot about the look between Jack and Kate. Definitely either a plan or an agreement to get it on like wildcats if they ever get out of the mess they're in.

There were two guys in Sayid's background. The one who taught him to be a torturer (Kelvin) and the guy in the transport truck that showed him a picture of his daughter (Kate's dad).

I was thinking some of the same things about Charlie/Eko/Locke: Religion v. Reason and both alienated Charlie recently. But there was something really creepy about Charlie and he wasn't even wearing the hoodie.

I still think there is more to Libby than crazy woman who gave her boat away.

I guess all I really remember from the Sayid episode is how tremendously CGI Iraq looked.

I'm with you guys on the Libby theories. She's gotta be some kind of weird psychic mind-traveler or something, but now that she's dead I wonder how much they'll bother with her backstory. We may never know.

TIME's TV blogger also noted the polar research station, then brought back the polar-bear appearance. Coincidence? Am I the only dumb-ass that thought they were flying around in an airplane? I figured they flew near the island or something and picked up the signal.

::::::Am I the only dumb-ass that thought they were flying around in an airplane?

I also thought they were in a plane.