After reading the following essay, I can imagine Charlie sitting up in bed and yelling "Eureka!", and then realizing that he was yelling the title to the wrong TV show, yelling "Lost and Fringe!  And Jack Lewis!"

We have all the elements to a great story here- a long forgotten text, a mysterious TV show and a college professor trying to find THE TRUTH.  Too bad we have no budget to hire Tom Hanks.

In this case, though, we do have Dr. Starr's latest Lost essay.  Enjoy!

Wow. I don’t throw the phrase “Stupidest thing I ever saw” around lightly, but this might be a contender. Certainly there’s one sequence in this episode that might actually be the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I remember this episode from when it first aired - vaguely - so I remembered the scene. A year or so later, my mom was in the hospital, and this episode came on the Waiting Room TV, presumably to fill up dead air on the schedule. At first I remember being excited, but when I realized what episode it was, I sighed and flipped around looking for Hogan’s Heroes or whatever.

Chuck gets sent on a mission … with Hannah?

In one of the best orchestrated scenes of the series (and they’ve had some good ones!) Chuck is left hanging upside down in the vault trying to grab the mask while Sarah is fighting for her life above the vault. Meanwhile, Hannah--just doing her Nerdy job--is trying to open the vault doors with the computer. Casey, however, is trying to override Hannah and keep the doors closed. Chuck gets the mask, Sarah clobbers the bad-guy, Hannah gets the door open just in time and Shaw manages to evade the detection of the bad guys while Casey remains safely undetected. All would be hunky-dory if not for the fact that Hannah thinks Chuck still has feelings for Sarah and is just playing her.

 -Or- “Some people just aren’t wrapped tightly enough"

Our erstwhile reader, Kit, has recently brought to my attention an article on CNN (Dot) Com about how Avatar is adversely affecting some people psychologically, and has requested that I stop making fun of obsessive Trekies as a result. Well, obviously *That* ain’t gonna’ happen , but he does make a very valid point about how obsessive genre fans aren’t a Trek-only phenomenon. In some cases, it can be dangerously obsessive.

"The Cut" is a Norwegian band that I know nothing about, and which only has a cursory mention on Wiki, but no actual page for 'em or what have you. Vocals aren't exactly golden, but I cut slack because English isn't their first language. Check it out under the jump

hi there everyone. sorry for the gregor samsa-styled typing, but i hurt my finger the other day.

I must have been walking across campus when it happened.

It was a small bible college on the edge of Appalachia - pretty scenery, naïve girls, stolid minds. I hated the place, and it hated me, it and I were a poor marriage from the moment we’d met, but I’d made my bed and had no choice but to lie, cheat, and steal in it. I’d gone to a bigger, better state school before a nervous breakdown landed me here, the victim of loving parents who felt a Christian environment would be better for me than a secular one, I’d meet a better class of people, I’d get in less trouble, my mental wounds would heal more quickly here.