thank you, television gods

For giving me a fucking amazing Lost tonight. Seriously, at the last shot, my jaw dropped, and stayed hanging open for at least a full sixty seconds afterward. Holy crap. ( Spoilers )

There was this one part with Smokey Robinson on American Idol tonight that made me laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm curious if it made anyone else laugh too. ( AI )

Links!

Hey look, volcano monitoring actualy saves lives. *eyeroll*

Really moving piece about the 20 year anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, written by a former Alaskan fisherwoman.

You knitters are really getting out of hand.

On the street reactions to Bill O'Reilly's dirty audiobook.

Gallery of some of the items up for auction from Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch. There's a lot of pictures and stuff of little boys. Eeek.

And finally, I love this song so very much, because I could have written it myself. Hey Paul Krugman!

Awesome.

And yes, I'm still incredibly bitter and sad about BSG. airings's cracky icons help, though. (Spoilers there, obvs.) I need to go upload some of those now. Oh! And jo_march wrote this great post about the narrative paradigm and why the finale flunks the test.

rats with wings

Had dinner with yahtzee63 tonight and she was kind enough to listen to me rant and rave about the BSG finale whilst consuming a decent amount of cheap white wine. Cheap wine and pasta does help make things a little better. But the wine also made me a bit morose and then on the train home I read this gorgeous fic by loki013 and I got all verklempt and aaaaargh. Sniffle.

I need to bring back my rage. Here, this quote from RDM from the SCI FI boards (SyFy boards?) certainly helps bring back the anger: ( Cut for spoilers of the avian kind. )

I hate people.

In related news, I love this post by rawles imploring fandom to stop telling people how to engage with their fiction. Well said.

And I still haven't gotten my fucking computer from Dell! They keep pushing the estimated delivery date back. Latest is April 9th. WTF? I AM DISPLEASED.

In brighter news, I saw that Friday Night Lights is being renewed for another two seasons or something, so I am very happy for you FNL fans!

Also, this article about the Obamas around town is really cute.

Ready to start getting over this any time now.