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The problem with high expectations is that you’re almost always disappointed. Take Richard Alpert’s episode this past Tuesday on LOST. They acted like it was this huge reveal that he came over on the Black Rock. We knew that already, whether they had expressly said it or not. We also knew that he can’t die, blah blah blah. What was kind of cool was that it was the smoke monster who saved Richard, and maybe even brought him back to life. That was different. I think they’re trying to get me to question if the smoke monster is bad or good, if Jacob is good or evil. And I was over the moon when they suggested the island might be hell. As someone who is still clinging to purgatory, that was pretty neat. I’m sure it isn’t, and it will be something shitty. Mostly, the episode just made me sad. Sad for Richard and his crappy life. But I don’t really feel like I learned anything new that I hadn’t already figured out on my own, you know? It’s like they rotate between a terrible episode and an aw...

Another Chatroulette Musical!. Seriously, watch this video it is hilarious. I assume they edited out all of the penises because there are a lot on chatroulette. And if you don’t know what chatroulette is, man, get with the times. A super bonus is that it stars Ben Folds, who I love. LOOOVE. He is great and genius-like. Enjoy!! LOST post coming later, and also possibly something about Dancing With the Stars, which is obnoxious.

Lady Gaga’s new single “Telephone” has been out for awhile, and the video was just released a week or so ago. The best place to see it besides youtube is ladygaga.com. It really isn’t that great overall – it’s like 10 minutes, so that’s kind of cool. The funniest part is that Beyonce has a small part and she does Gaga choreography. Gaga’s stuff is kind of herky jerky and a little bizarre, and so it makes for good tv to see Beyonce trying to pull it off – which she does okay. I don’t know – I think the “Bad Romance” video is better, probably because of the song and the choreography. It’s great. There are two things I’m concerned about, though.Gaga’s weight and makeup. She has always been thin, but now she’s crazy super skinny and I don’t want her to look like Victoria Beckham, you know? And she is actually very pretty, but she wears this scary drag makeup lately that makes her look crazy. No wonder people think she’s a man, right? The super dark and thick eyebrows are strange and it’s j...

What is the greatest game ever, you ask? Just Dance for the Wii. Youtube some videos if you want to see people doing it, but it is hilarious and awesome, and actually a pretty good workout.

There is a show on NBC right now called “Who Do You Think You Are?” which is freaking awesome, especially if you like history. Celebrities, with the help of ancestry.com, try to track their family history until they find something cool. It shows these people going to historical societies and archives, searching census records and all the kinds of things that we historians study that nobody else really knows about or knows how to find. It’s worth watching. And as of now, there have only been two episodes, and they’re probably online somewhere. It’s awesome, I swear. Watch it! History!

I was nervous about the final season of LOST because I had a feeling that it was going to be a huge and massive disappointment. But actually, although there have been a few episodes that sucked it hard, but two in particular were great. Not surprisingly, they were the episodes about Locke and Ben, and they’re my favorite characters. But they were also the episodes where you find out [SPOILER ALERT] that the numbers are associated with the six candidates – you also find out what a candidate is. And in Ben’s episode you find out that everyone who has been touched by Jacob can’t die. BANANAS. I also love the new Richard Alpert, because he’s scared all the time and confused, and Jack is the crazy unpredictable one. I absolutely love it. So who can’t die? Kate (Jacob touched her on the nose when she was trying to steal that lunchbox), Sawyer (when he was writing the letter to Sawyer), Sayid (when Nadia died), Locke (when he was pushed out of the building), Sun & Jin (at their wedding), ...

Now that I have had a day to think about it, I think I’m actually more bitter than before that Avatar didn’t win Best Picture. And here is why. It’s the same concept I was talking about before about Best Costume Design. It doesn’t matter how good the costuming was in a contemporary movie, if your film was set in Victorian England or something, you’re going to win whether you actually deserve it or not. It’s just a fact. It is sort of the same thing with Best Picture and Best Director. Kathyn Bigelow was a woman, and no woman had ever won Best Director, so she got it. It’s all political and that is crazy. It’s movies for crying out loud. The best one wins. Not the one you think will make you seem more socially aware or whatever, but the best one. And the best one was Avatar – but it was more anti-government and pro-environment and The Hurt Locker was patriotism all the way. So of course it won. I could almost understand if Avatar was a misunderstood movie and the amazingness hadn’t yet...