One of my favorites of the strip ‘Garfield Minus Garfield‘

Garfield Minus Garfield February 5, 2010

In general, “Lost” viewers are an intelligent group. You have to have some brains to keep what’s going on straight in your head – or at least what you think is going on. Do any of us really know? No.

But after the season premiere of season 6 I’ve been reading some comments, theories, etc. that tell me people are focusing way too much on the minute details and forgetting the big picture.

SPOILERS AHEAD. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN EPISODES 1 AND 2 OF SEASON SIX, STOP READING NOW.

I’ll add some buffer space. If you don’t want spoilers, get out now while you still can.

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Okay, you were warned.

Okay, the bomb went off and it worked…and it didn’t. We have two times lines. Yay! Double the angst, glowering looks and “son-of-a-bitches.” One where the bomb did work and the plane did not crash and the island has sunk; one where the island did not sink but all the Losties were booted into the present – Jacob is dead so we know they’re in the same time period as Ben, Not-Locke and Richard Alpert.

In the timeline where the bomb worked and the plane didn’t crash, we are seeing differences – major differences. And for some reason, this is confusing people. Desmond was on the plane – and he was wearing a wedding ring. Hurley is the luckiest guy he knows. Boone failed to retrieve Shannon.

We have to remember that detonating the bomb didn’t just zip our characters back onto the plane – it changed everything related to the island from 1977 to the present – well, 2004, anyway. (Remember, that’s when the plane crashed.)

So it makes sense for Desmond to be on the plane. Even if he went on his life-affirming boat race, there wasn’t an island to trap him. Hell, maybe he won and proved his worth. Then again, it might not even be Penny he’s married to. Maybe he and Libby hit it off and got hitched.

Because the island is on the ocean floor it may no longer be affecting any of our characters and therefore, anything could be different. Granted, I don’t buy that it would have any effect on Shannon but that change was most likely due to the fact that the actress wouldn’t come back for the final season.

My curiosity isn’t about the major changes we’re seeing, what I’m most curious about is what we’re NOT seeing. I know the actor playing Walt is way too old to play himself from 2004, but we didn’t see Michael at all. Our favorite exploding science teacher made an appearance but we didn’t see see Libby or Nicki and Paulo.

Oh come on, wouldn’t it have at least been amusing to see our least favorite island couple return even for just a cameo?

Michael may have been left out due to acting conflicts, the whole thing with Walt’s age or something else. Personally, I’m taking Libby’s absence as a sign that my original opinion that Libby was in fact an Other may be correct.

We shall see…and I can hardly wait.

The following is an article regarding the controversial Tim Tebow Superbowl ad:

But Pam was against abortion, and she had faith in God. She refused. Today, her reward is a healthy, athletic, stellar son. “I’ve always been very [pro-life] because that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman,” Tim told reporters last week. That’s the prescribed moral of the story: Choose life. Dave Andrusko, the editor of National Right to Life News, puts it eloquently: “This amazing young man is able to share his many gifts because, and only because, Pam Tebow said no to abortion and yes to life.”

Pam’s story certainly is moving. But as a guide to making abortion decisions, it’s misleading. Doctors are right to worry about continuing pregnancies like hers. Placental abruption has killed thousands of women and fetuses. No doubt some of these women trusted in God and said no to abortion, as she did. But they didn’t end up with Heisman-winning sons. They ended up dead.

Being dead is just the first problem with dying in pregnancy. Another problem is that the fetus you were trying to save dies with you. A third problem is that your existing kids lose their mother. A fourth problem is that if you had aborted the pregnancy, you might have gotten pregnant again and brought a new baby into the world, but now you can’t. And now the Tebows have exposed a fifth problem: You can’t make a TV ad.

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So, the long months of waiting for the sixth and final season of Lost are almost over – just 3.5 hours until the big event.

But not for me. I have to wait until it’s posted online.I love living in the country but we don’t have cable television and our antenna doesn’t receive a strong enough signal for the converter box to give us anything but our local NPR stations. As Pepe Lepeu would say, “Le sigh.”

I know I’m not alone but that doesn’t make it any better. All day tomorrow I’m going to have to resist the urge to visit my favorite Lost sites and discussions. I’ve done my best to avoid any spoilers and I certainly don’t want to blow it this close to actually getting to see it.

Oh well. In little more than 24 hours from now I’ll be able to watch. I haven’t been this excited about a tv show premier since the second season of Twin Peaks.

I knew there was a reason I find these types of reports really, really annoying. Finally, it’s all spelled out for me.

No, it’s not ‘flowery’ (yet) but I have to say that this template is awesome. You can customize almost everything, it’s slick and clean and formats everything properly. I kept coming across beautiful themes that just didn’t function right.

So, thank you to the creators of the Suffusion theme. Now, if I can only figure out how to stop new windows from opening when the page tabs are clicked, it’ll be perfect.

I’m in the process of combining my website and this blog into one entity. I have moved all of my Quotation and Humor pages. Next are the links and then I should be done.

I still haven’t found a template I really like, however. I need a three column but I would like it to be feminine without being too girly. I do like flowers. If anyone knows of a good template that meets all that criteria please let me know. I would really appreciate it!

Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans
by Nate Silver

Over the past decade or so, divorce has gradually become more uncommon in the United States. Since 2003, however, the decline in divorce rates has been largely confined to states which have not passed a state constitutional ban on gay marriage. These states saw their divorce rates decrease by an average of 8 percent between 2003 and 2008. States which had passed a same-sex marriage ban as of January 1, 2008, however, saw their divorce rates rise by about 1 percent over the same period….READ MORE

A great scene from a mediocre movie: Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye in The Five Pennys

Today is the 10th anniversary of the day my husband and I first met each other in person. We had met online months earlier (August 30th, to be exact) and sometime around October decided it was time to meet in person even though he lived in Florida and I lived in Arkansas.

My mother and step-father gave me the plane tickets as a Christmas gift and I spent my week’s vacation down in Sunny Florida. However, my flight didn’t get in until around 11:00 the night I flew in and this (along with other reasons I won’t delve into) screwed up both of our sleep schedule so I didn’t see much of that sun anyway.

By the third day it was clear to both of us that we wanted to be together permanently. A month later I became a Floridian and 10 months after that, I became Mrs. Mills.

There’s still no other place I’d rather be than with Chris. He is the man I love, my partner in all things and the best friend I’ve ever had. He even tolerates my love of talking dog movies.

We rang in the year 2000 together and now, ten years later, we’ll ring in the second decade of what I hope to be many more decades together.

I love you, Chris.