Coultonfield

If you're waiting for Jonathan Coulton to return to the Twin Cities on May 1st, you can keep an eye for him here...

Lost Again

I'm really enjoying this season of Lost. I know that some people find the never-ending mysteries of the series frustrating -- but I think that is part of the fun.

It is amazing that a series over three series has been able to avoid explaining even some of the most basic rules of the universe that it is in. It is obvious that it is some sort of fantastical premise -- but it is not clear whether it is a science fiction or fantasy series, or "how much" of either of those it is. It is not always clear who the good guys are and who the bad guys are -- and certainly people do bad things for good reasons, and may do good things for bad reasons.

But despite being so vague about the rules -- I rarely feel that this is a show that "cheats" -- it seems to be consistently playing by the rules that they've set out. Even though we don't really know what those rules are.

Lost is back

Excellent episode of Lost tonight -- I won't get into spoiler territory, but it's as good as it ever is, and it looks like now that we're in the latter half of the series, we're getting more and more hints about what is really going on. We aren't getting a lot of answers yet -- but we're being led to them for sure.

JJ Abrams Is Cool

There are a lot of neat videos but also a nice story from JJ Abrams on AICN. I'm in a positive mood for JJ, after seeing Cloverfield and the Star Trek teaser -- and so it's neat to have little story like this as well.

I'll be curious to see how Star Trek is a JJ Abrams film -- my hope is that it can actually be his movie, as well as being a Star Trek film.