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[cleolinda]

I just had, in retrospect, one of those age-old conversations made odd (oddened?) by a modern twist:

I left Firefox open when I went downstairs, and I don't remember what page it was on when I left, but I know it wasn't http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/?skip=120. Here comes Sister Girl--j'accuse! "Have you been reading my journal? "

She hesitates. "Uh, yeah," she says. "I was looking for that thing you said you wrote up, about the time we watched that movie with the girl--you know, the girl with the--the thing!"

"Claire Forlani?"

"YEAH!"

Heh.

Meanwhile, I actually spent the day feeling a little sad, which I didn't expect, because yesterday went by okay, as far as the family thing went, and I'm glad not to have to worry about a relationship while I'm trying to straighten my own shit out--it's a relief. I think what I really need is a good spring cleaning, and I'm desperately overdue to see Della the Goddess of Hair again. Like, four inches of roots overdue. I just feel a little bit like a rainy day, I guess.

R Valentime? Wil u b it?

Valentine's Day at Dinosaur Comics.

EW felt the need to fan the flames of the the R/Hr - H/Hr feud.

Love In The Time Of Carbonite, or the Best Couples from Star Wars ("Decisions of the heart are a lot easier when you find out you might have offspring with giant foreheads and genetic problems").

Pulp love: 25 classic covers.

Are you a savvy consumer of online love?

Valentine's Day: It can be heaven -- or hell.

Valentine's Day brings out hard-liners.

If You're Single And You Know It, Raise Your Hand.

And finally: 'Lost' characters could rescue you on Valentine's Day; Lost Recap Rock [Previously On Lost]. Thus, consider this your Lostentine's entry.


ETA: OMG I AM SO CONFUSED.

Comments

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

Valentine's Day and Lost - tis good. Now if only I got Sawyer for V-day...

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

So...EW wants to start WWIII?
*takes cover*

Valentine Fairy!

[meglimir.livejournal.com]

Thank you Valentine Fairy - you always make my day!
Hope you're having a wonderfully Happy Valentine's Day!

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

OK - I was watching the popup repeat of last week (since I missed it) Naomi was talking to Abbadon about the team, and then ABC cut away to the news broadcast about the NIU shootings. Did I miss anything important?

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the part right at the end, when she's meeting him in the room with the table? (Abbadon is the guy who organized the team, who went to visit Hurley as a survivor?)

If I've got the right place -- during that discussion, he says, "There are no survivors," meaning that if there are any, she should kill them. He announces that the target is Ben Linus.

They cut back to Team Locke, where Sawyer is threatening to shoot Ben. Ben says, you won't kill me because I have too much information you need. Locke asks what the smoke monster is, and I think Ben says that he doesn't know. They raise the gun again, so Ben shouts out Charlotte's entire life history.

Ben tells them that the people are after him. Locke asks him how he knows all of this. Ben has a man on their boat (naturally).

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

AIEEE! Locke is turning into Ben!

[naeelah.livejournal.com]

Aaahh, what was the last thing that Sayid said? I didn't catch it.

I'm really digging this future storyline.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

"Now they know I'm hunting them"? Or something to that affect.

[darth-snarky.livejournal.com]

The i09 Star Wars post just made my day. Thank you for that.

[oasis-zephyr.livejournal.com]

I don't mean for this to be random or selfish, but I'm just curious if anyone has heard in the news about what has been going on at William and Mary. I go here and I am wondering how the media have been representing things. I get the feeling that things aren't being represented truthfully, at least from a vantage of the students, faculty, and staff. If anyone has heard anything, please let me know.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

The university shooting? Last I heard, there were eighteen people in the hospital, and seven (?) other injuries. The gunman killed himself.

[oasis-zephyr.livejournal.com]

Wrong University, but I would hope that people are keeping them in mind right now. William and Mary might be having issues with student representation and the first amendment, but I feel like we need to keep NIU in our minds right now.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe it's because I'm behind on my RSS feeds, but I hadn't heard anything about this at all. I had to Google it to find out. Is this about the sex workers art show? I think I saw something on Jezebel about it. But it was about Laura Ingraham being a cow about it, not W&M specifically.

[oasis-zephyr.livejournal.com]

What's basically gone down is that our president has been forced into a resignation by our board of visitors. They haven't told the students, staff, and faculty the reasoning behind it, which is the cause of such a large amount of uproar on the campus. There have been teach-ins, protests, and a mass wave of media outreach within the last few days.

I'm kind of emotional drained from it and I'm not fully able to cover what has gone on, but www.wrengateblog.com has some more up-to-date coverage. Anyway, if anyone wants to know, I can do a more thorough explanation. People on campus are just trying to get the word out about what has gone on, because there are implications with this scandal that harken of public university censorship and a lack of first amendment rights even without getting into the struggle to defend diversity on college campuses.

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard about it but I'm a W&M alum -- so I got Gene Nichol's resignation e-mail (and Michael Powell's response a couple hours later that same day). There are pretty neutral write-ups in The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune (in addition to some AP stuff and a couple other papers). Unsurprisingly, the coverage in the Hampton Roads and Richmond papers is pretty slanted against Nichol and his supporters.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Hm, in my personal opinion Leia chose Han because he was freaking hot. But that's just me.

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

ETA: OMG I AM SO CONFUSED.

I assume you're talking about "Lost," and WTF OMG I KNOW. I recognized his voice a few seconds before they showed you-know-who, and I bellowed "OH MY GOD" and flopped over on my bed and presumably scared my suitemates. So...they're taking out the people who are faking the 815 crash? Like, whomever put the plane in the ocean and claimed everyone was dead? Kinda like Munich, but more...island-y?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I DID TOO. (Also: "Wait, Ben is a vet? In Berlin?") I seriously need to go back and watch, like the last season or two because I had no idea who Sayid was killing. Were we supposed to recognize the guy he shot at the beginning?

[mehinda.livejournal.com]

I don't think Ben is a vet. I think I've seen in other shows/movies that people who need emergency medical treatment (but can't go to doctors/hospitals for the whole "too many questions" issue) will sometimes go to vet clinics after-hours.

Personally, I think Ben is (or was) CIA (perhaps rogue) and that Sayid has been working for him all along. (Wasn't Sayid "recruited" in the first season in exchange for information about Nadia?)

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

No, we didn't know him, nor Elsa. We already know Ben's got that "magic box" (dirty) that brought him Anthony Cooper on the island, SOMEHOW--maybe he can get off the island as well through it???

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Doc Jensen's recap for this week (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20178348,00.html) was really good, btw.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

There's not a slashy bone in my body when it comes to this show (or a 'shippy one at all, really), but if there was I'd so be 'shipping Ben/Locke.

Well, maybe not CrazierFuture!Ben/Locke. But still.

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

That's interesting, because I was just reading some comments on a Lost blog where people were talking about this. Ben's passport had his name as Dean Moriarty, and...

"Neal Cassady (aka DEAN MORIARTY in Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD) had an alcoholic father, just like Ben. The Grateful Dead sang about him in "The OTHER One" and again in "That's It for the Other One." He was known for being a prankster. He also had a sexual relationship with Allen Ginsburg, so expect a romantic arc with Locke to develop over the rest of Season 4."

(This came from the losteastereggs blog.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Well, tomorrow won't be rainy, I hope. :)

I hear you on the hairdresser - I haven't been in MONTHS and I really need a trim at the very least!

[delle.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

WTF WTF WTF I am so freaking confused.

and if that means it's Sayid in the coffin I'm going to CRY

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

The day we find Sayid in that coffin is the day I turn off the TV and never turn it on again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think Jack would have counted Sayid as a friend (well, up to this point--God knows what might happen later this season), and he tells the funeral director that the deceased is neither friend nor family to him. I really like the theory that it's Michael--he would definitely not be a "friend" after what he did, although Jack might be able to appreciate how Michael did what he felt he had to do to get his son off the island. It could also be Ben, way, way in the future (the fact that Jack wants to go back to the island suggests that it's at the far end of the flashforwards), particularly since 1) Ben has had medical problems before and 2) we know he already has a ton of aliases ready at hand, although I'm not sure why Jack would look on Ben's coffin with that kind of pensiveness. You know, rather than kick it.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

The mental image of Jack walking solemnly up to the casket, and then kicking it and running away, has made my afternoon.

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

Well, regarding the question about his pensiveness, we still don't know what continues to happen. Maybe something regarding Ben's man on the boat happens, or we find out something about Ben that would change our view of everything.

I agree that Jack's flashforwards are probably the far end- at least three months after Hurley's, and probably a while after Sayid's.

Maybe the person in the coffin is someone from the helicopter?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'd been thinking either Ben or Locke -- and I think the events in the flashforward lend toward the latter staying on the island. Michael's a much better candidate, pretty much for the reasons you suggest -- murderer, sure, but not without motivation, hence his ambivalence.

But there has to be a degree of change to descend on Ben's character in the very near future for Sayid to be in his employ -- shy of extreme leverage, which we know Ben's fully capable of exploiting; hell, it's the only way he really interacts with people -- or even company. It could be the same leverage we see Jack and Hurley grappling with in the premiere....

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

You know what also helps in a relationship? Not being related. (http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20178000_3,00.html)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, in case you haven't seen it yet -- Darwin figure unveiled (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/15/cloverfield-monster-toy-revealed/). I really wish it had an OM NOM NOM NOM button, although I think we could bear the burden of the inevitable wash of five-year-olds losing their fingers to it.

Also, OH HAI! I UPGRADED YOUR RAM (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/16/funny-pictures-i-upgraded-your-ram/) goes in my ICHC Hallo'Fame instantly.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was so hoping it would be a real ram.

(I have Darwin up for the next, long-delayed linkspam.)