He was in a 30 Rock episode as Jenna's former stalker recently…also unrecognizable. He's lost an entire human's worth of weight.

I don't think I'm alone in feeling that Neutral Milk Hotel should NEVER release another album (which is not to say that Mangum shouldn't make more music…just retire the name), because what are the chances that anything else he releases will not besmirch the name?

I have a fondness for Ben Affleck, mainly because of his great SNL appearances. I like his little-role thing, like in Extract, and I think he can keep a pretty decent career of those happening, and still direct some good movies.

Elevator Joke
When everyone turned away and left, was I the only one who expected Troy and Abed to actually levitate up instead of fake going down?

Apparently where I teach (community college in queens), it's the cheese fries that are what's happening. I am nonplussed by this fad.

Bitch hunter was a fantastic aside, which they don't seem to be doing a lot of anymore.

I make my students read this: http://theoatmeal.com/comic…

And the fact that he denies doing that suggests that maybe that Locke wasn't Smokey…

Check plus.

Miles has consistently used Jaboni, though. No R.

numbers 2 and 3 have both occurred to be, along with the kwon kid and walt. I've always thought the focus on parent-child relationships since the beginning of the series indicated that it was the children of the Losties that would be important in the end. This season has started to convince me otherwise, though,…

Sack-Butt, you are on a roll.

I think some nerd is right - Smokey doesn't lie when asked a direct question…but he doesn't necessarily tell the WHOLE truth. That is to say, yes, he was Christian in that season 1 episode, and likely Christian in the cabin with Claire, but not necessarily Christian in Dharmaville or Christian visiting Michael on the…

I think they're just choosing not to show all of the non-essential events in the alterna-verse. Jin could have spent a couple of days dealing with customs, etc. How long did it take Locke to get fired and then get a new job? How long did it take Miles to do a background check on Sawyer's trip? I figured the whole…

I'm of the opinion that Christian on-island was Smokey, and Christian off-island was Jack's drugged-up guilt hallucinations, just like Ana Lucia and Libby were Michael's guilt hallucinations.

Tina is right - Jacob was not dead yet, so Smokey could still change form. Witness that he turned into Alex in front of Ben around the same time.

Yeah, I also considered that he had become paralyzed, but that due to the ministrations of Smokey, he wouldn't be paralyzed for long, just like Locke with his broken leg in the hatch, or Rose with her cancer.

Well, it wasn't this year, but the Sinhalese gov't in Sri Lanka is institutionally Buddhist.

Baronzemo, isn't religion the poppiest of pop culture?

FYI - I dunno about the dude who runs chik-fil-a, which is why I don't have any particular issues with them, but a lot of people boycott various christian organizations because of where their money is going. Examples - Walden media, the production company who made the narnia movies, donates some of its profits to…