I have a deep, overwhelming hatred of Bret Easton Ellis. Watching the Insiders trailer was like fetish porn for me, that's how repulsive he is to me.

@ Disaster: Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I grew up reading Crichton, and really enjoy his novels. They're just not literary in the same way, say, Pynchon is, which is a shame. Then again, there is a certain point where the goals of sharp thriller plot motion and critical literature are in conflict.

If Crichton were a better writer, I think one could easily make a case that the entirety of Disclosure is a misdirect, and his entire point was to just paint a picture of late-20th century gender relations. Part of his work's perennial problem was that he always toed the line between general technophobia and an actual…

A Clockwork Zombie
The Good, the Bad, and the Zombie

A Portrait of the Zombie as a Young Man

I thought that was an episode of Scrubs.

(having now read the review)

Motherfuck
I didn't watch the episode through before this (actually, I came in at the end on accident, but w/e), so I got spoiler'd. Sigh.

Richard
Another Richard Alpert (or, in this time period, Zombie Richard) episode, even only partially, is good in my book. Although the whole "he'll never be the same, lose innocence, be one of us" made me think "he's going to turn Ben into a zombie!"

Actually, the show has made it clear on several occasions that what House does in the episodes is pretty much all he does - his tendency to take a case a week or so is pretty pronounced.

Eh
I think this show needs to just give up the ghost and kick the PotW concept. This season has had far, far, FAR too many gimmicks (guy who won't leave house, guy who takes hostages, blah blah blah). It's tiresome, and it detracts from the show by and large. The question is, what would replace it?

In my opinion
Any episode featuring bag-on-head Thomas Pynchon is gold even without anything else. Heck, I'd watch a TV show featuring bag-on-head Thomas Pynchon.

Hey, you should live in Colorado. You get enough ski accident anecdotes to suggest that skis are sticks made of death. Or vice-versa.

I have found that the sheer projectile force of my bird is diminished severely by moving the thumb away from its anchoring position on the fingers.

You know you are reading quality journalism
when the journalists are of sound enough mind to spot and pounce on a quality double entendre. Take that, New York Times!

Address-o-Matic
It was a phone call? I thought it could have been a text.

I figured out this show's problem
Or at least, what it's been for this season since, oh, "Birthmarks" or so.

Howard: that's a reasonable thing, although such an admission would certainly reduce the number of things the smoke monster can be down to just "nanobot machine", which I thought was eliminated at some point (though I could be wrong).

Among other things: "your fence may stop other things, but not us". Maybe he didn't mean the Hostiles, but rather the "island zombies"? While watching the episode, I couldn't help but refer to him as Zombie Richard.

Richard Alpert
I really like the "Anatomy Lesson" theory. I think that might explain why Richard Alpert is "ageless". Of course, we've seen him off the island (when testing Locke), but perhaps he died before then. He's certainly been there throughout Locke's life - he might be one of those people who's key to the…