Friday, May 25, 2007

Avoiding Working on My Final Papers

Billy Bass was funny (read: freaky) for 10 seconds before it became tirelessly unhumourous. This little diddy of American Inventions fails to make it even that long. It isn't hard to see why the Terrorists hate us.

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When I burp in a room by myself, why do I say excuse me? (Paging Mr. Pavlov...Mr. Pavlov, call for you on Line Crazy!)

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LOST is (potentially) going in a whole new direction, and the Season Finale left me personally troubled and unsettled. I want to make two points: first, that the title may refer metaphorically to the characters lives before landing on the island, while on the island, and after being rescued from the island. Second, a theme of the first half of the show has been the "failed father figure." Drawing what we can from Jack's "flash-forward" in the last episode, it is possible to hypothesize that a theme from the second half of the show may be "repeating the sins of the father."

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It is sunny and 81 in New England. I'm going outside...

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