Sunday, October 18, 2009

"Freckles," my favorite!

Sonny Boy was sent a funny poster from a frat brother. It's a Lost poster with the whole cast in character, but the faces are filled with all the frat brothers. Our kid is proudly standing as the studly Sawyer (my favorite) and all the other brothers are very well picked, even Kate and the doomed Shannon. It's posted on a network where all parties involved can see it, and the comments are worth the price of admission.
Sonny Boy is helplessly addicted to Lost. He's a maven, even taught a class on it. It's a deeply philosophical experience for him, the whole John Locke, Determinism thing. I just like Sawyer's nicknames. When Jeremy Benthem's name first came on the scene, Sonny Boy was home for winter break. The moment the name was uttered, he got 5 texts asking who That is. He could talk about Lost for hours on end, and just looking into it to make sure I had Jeremy's name right, I can see the plethora of information-saga-creating-soap-opera-esque rhetoric there is. All for a television show. It must be the key that will unlock all the answers to our embittered economy, our division of red and blue states, the coming together of beliefs of whether the earth's climate is nature or nurture.
I suppose when the series kicks off in January or February it will be bitter sweet for all of the fans. 16 blessed episodes until all the answers are revealed and the show is finished forever.
As I spoke with Sonny Boy today and he advised me to watch several of the last episodes on Hulu to catch up and refresh my memory, I can once again fill my head with the smoke monster, the evil and brilliantly portrayed Ben, all the pretty women who are murdered on that set, Sawyer's bod and his schizo boyish charm crossed faded to sullen felon mixed in with some BO.
I always wondered how Kate was such an expert following tracks, and do we as passengers really have that many drugs in our luggage? Oh yeah, I forgot, there is a full on hospital somewhere on that island, or the neighboring one.
Who would have thought that when I so seriously studied meditation and the Hindu religion that the sacred Namaste would become a catch phrase on a popular TV show?

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