Har Mar Superstar Is Pop Music For People Who Hate Pop Music

You guys should really be paying attention to Har Mar Superstar.

The man I referred to as a “pop music god” in last week’s LinkFrogging released Dark Touches, his fourth album in eight years, today.  Like all of his previous records, Dark Touches hits you like a Trojan horse; you don’t REALLY figure it out until [...]

The Mumme Poll: A Democratic Approach To Complaining About College Football

Complaining about the BCS is one of those go-to topics that makes college football blogging (and really, all college football coverage) tick. The annual calls for change are usually that the computers are too objective (seeing only the stats and scores, not the way teams looked on the field), and the human polls aren’t objective enough (regularly [...]

LOST Notes, Season 5 Finale: The Incident

Jacob: It takes a very long time when you’re making the thread…but I suppose that’s the point, isn’t it?
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Rose Nadler It’s always something with you people.

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 15: Follow The Leader

Hugo “Hurley” Reyes: All right, dude. We’re from the future. Sorry.

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 14: The Variable

James “Sawyer/LaFleur” Ford: Whatever her reason is, helping H.G. Wells here talk to his mommy ain’t got nothing to do with it.

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 13: Some Like It Hoth

This week: When you heard the title was “Some Like It Hoth,” you probably had a pretty good idea of how the episode was going to go.  You were mostly right.
Miles Straume: Third day we were here, I was on line at the cafeteria and my mother got in line behind me.  That was my [...]

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 12: Dead Is Dead

This week: “Dead is Dead” (the phrase, not the episode) might be the biggest sack of shit they’ve ever tried to feed us. They may as well have called this one “No Seriously, Walt Is Old Because Time Travel” or “Jack Is A Reasonable Man” or “Different Haircut = Different Ages!!!”.
John Locke: …then [...]

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 11: Whatever Happened, Happened

A review of the past week’s episode of LOST from a frustratedly loyal (and loyally frustrated) fan. This week: The group has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that “Whatever Happened, Happened”.
Roger Linus: LaFleur asked me where my keys were. That bastard doesn’t ask any questions he doesn’t already know [...]

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 10: He’s Our You

A review of the past week’s episode of LOST from a frustratedly loyal (and loyally frustrated) fan. This week: It takes a whole episode of manufactured tension for Sayid to finally do what he was born to do in “He’s Our You”.
James “Sawyer” Ford: Three years, no burning buses. Ya’ll are back for one day…

LOST Notes, Season 5, Episode 9: Namaste

A review of the past week’s episode of LOST from a frustratedly loyal (and loyally frustrated) fan. This week: Say “Namaste” to the returning castaways as Kate puts the “drama” in “Dharma”…or something. Kate’s stupid, that’s my point.
Christian Shephard: I’m sorry, but you have a bit of a journey ahead of you.