Short Cuts

I did watch the series finale of 'Lost' last night but for the life of me I can't remember any of it today. Is that weird? I remember bits and pieces but overall I couldn't tell you what happened or what it all means. I mentioned the word PURGATORY in my review of the early episodes of the first season and I guess I was right all along. But that memory thing still freaks me out.

How the hell do the gods arrange everything so that Lindsay Lohan can be put in a position where she should go to jail and she ends up escaping incarceration AGAIN? ("I lost my passport" was such a lame excuse - even "I am on my period" is better) I so want her to go away for a couple of years and then come out and use her experience to make a series of movies set in a woman's prison. You know the type with a cruel warden who keeps tigers as pets.

'24' ends it's TV run tonight. I have many fond memories of this show. I liked the 'real time' set-up. I like how they showed that a black president (David Palmer) could be a cool thing. (I know it earned Obama some votes when he ran). I like how Jack was all but invincible. I will miss Bauer as a character. Say what you want about his violent solutions to the problems he encountered. The man knew how to get the job DONE. You would have acted pretty much the same way if you had experienced even ONE of the crappy days he had and he had EIGHT pretty crappy days. I was sad to see that Elisha Cuthbert had nothing to do with Day 8 but was relieved that her role as professional kidnap victim was put to the side for once. When I first saw that Jack now had a granddaughter I feared the worst. What will I do now for the cathartic release that '24' gave me? I guess now I will have to solve my problems non-violently. Where is the fun in that?

Well, I called it. All this Victoria Day long weekend we had cold and crappy weather that miraculously turned warm and sunny Monday evening. It's the one weather prediction you can make in Western Canada that always comes true. Someone back in our past really pissed of some aboriginal weather god and we 21st century Canadians are paying for it. It can't be a native curse because they too would have to be outside in the bad weather they cursed the white man with. They never even knew about RVs back then. It's all very strange.

Brittany Murphy's husband was found dead today just five months after the young actress passed away. We can expect several delicious conspiracy theories to come out of all this and I for one hope they are creatively bizarre.

Seems like there will not be a Canadian based hockey team in this year's Stanley Cup finals. Sure, many of the players going for the cup are Canadian but it's not the same. I remember a few weeks ago that we had the hope for a Canucks (west)/Canadians (east) final. It's felt like forever since the cup came home. It's one of those few things that really bug us as a nation.

I, however, am happy today. Someone made a torrent of all the eight episodes of 'Kid Notorious'. Such a wicked cool animated program. Producer Robert Evans having adventures with his next door neighbor Slash, his stuffy butler, his foreign housekeeper/cook and of course Puss Puss, the joint rolling kitty. It could be the greatest cartoon you have ever seen. Do I mean that? You bet your ass I do.

I just watched the first ten minutes of the 'Bachelorette' and I notice once again that none of her potential suitors are any color other that white. That show is so Aryan you would think it was made in 1938 Berlin. Are there no good looking black, Hispanic or Asian guys out there? She can eliminate them if she wants but at least give a brother a chance! Way to enhance stereotypes ABC. Who do you think you are? NBC?