These tangent spin-off books always seem like a cool idea until you actually read them—remember Evil Twin from Lost? Still, I'll probably read it. OK yes I surely will.

Yes, yes and yes. That is excellent. If that had been part of the actual episode, it would have worked a lot better and been a good deal more emotionally resonant than it was.

Yeah, this show does a lot better with its own mythology—Audrey/Lucy & etc—than it does with the trouble-of-the-week plots, which have always been head-scratchers. I'm hoping the slow burning subplots of Duke the troubled killer and the two newspaper guys get some real attention soon.

Interesting—my first impulse is to see it developing into a political thriller, albeit with a good amount of military action. We haven't met the President yet, we don't know if the conspiracy is his baby or if there's a cabal in the govn't doing it all.

Got to say, I don't generally like military shows, the whole military sensibility is anathema to me, but I watched the first 2 episodes of this last night and enjoyed the hell out of them. Decent characters and good storytelling won me over. With Revolution and 666 Park Ave on my shit list for being crappy, this may…

What this really means is shaking people down, giving way more tickets for jaywalking and other stupid shit to boost the city's budget. They do it here in LA all the time.

"Pineal sac." Heh heh.

I made a terrarium but it died.

A lot of people were complaining about wifi problems on a different forum, rebooting seems to solve it.

I say balls! The iPhone 4s download was available and I started it hours ago, but the progress bar is empty of any downloaded goodness and it says below it, "Less than a minute remaining," for over an hour now. To reiterate: balls.

Get. Rid. Of. The. Stars.

I had to laugh at the covers at the link: there's a haunted house one, mermaids, Alice in Wonderland, gangsters, superheroes, a mummy and other iconic premises. Kind of like Choose Your Own Adventure books with porn.

And it will be even more absurd when they lose; imagine a McCain/Palin Prowler cruising around.

I thought the funniest thing in the episode was when Neffi asked Amy if she was a queen: "Yes. Yes I am."

Whatever they ultimately do, I doubt it will be that coherent.

Looks like a lightweight rehash of Flashforward and The Event. Off-the-shelf characters and conflicts, generic bad guys and a mystery the show will never, ever try to solve. But with a main character who's trying to be like Katniss from Hunger Games.

And if you go all the way to the bottom you'll find yourself in AMITYVILLE.

So what do you use to reveal semen invisible ink?

Nope. Can't say I have any use for a giant rapper's head. But have you got the giant ass that was erected on Sunset Blvd for the release of Baby Got Back? Yes that was really real.

Yes, exactly—when I started reading this my question was: how to they define consciousness? Without a clear answer to this the rest of it doesn't mean much, even to those of us who have no urge whatsoever to torture zebra finches.