Lost calls it quits

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That's right, only two more seasons of Lost. The producers have won and are going to be allowed to kill their creation in a timely manner.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/05/04/lost-to-end-in-two-years/

I read an awesome article today that presents Locke as a modern mythological hero, a la Joseph Campbell.

http://www.thetailsection.com/lost-mythology/lost-is-locke-the-primary-hero.php#comments

EW Heroes

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Entertainment Weekly will have 5(!) different covers this week. Each cover is said to contain different clues about the final episodes of the season. They can be purchased in a bundle for $10, or just view all the covers online. The 5 covers clearly create one continuous background.

Books

I found a really cool book-cataloging site thanks to a post on twitter. I literally gave myself a cramp in my "mouse arm" putting all my books up last night.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/BubbaCoop

Concrete art

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When I started writing stuff in myspace blogs, I never intended it to be 70% reposted material from other sources. And before that, I never intended to blog at all, but "everyone is doing it".

Now that's out of the way, here's some more unoriginal stuff that's too stinkin' cool to not share.

http://www.frederikmolenschot.nl/ (click on Solid Poetry under Products)

Dry concrete tiles...nothing spectacular, but when these get wet...

they make fancy designs.

Hell is for Heroes

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I bought this DVD a couple of months ago because it was cheap and it was Steve McQueen (I'm still slowly attempting to fill in all the gaps regarding McQueen movies I haven't seen.) It's nothing really spectacular. The opening titles are cheesy. The score is really dated. And at the end they mixed actual WWII footage into the movie. It wasn't horrible, either, but I find the most interesting part of the movie to actually be the cast.

Steve McQueen, of course
James Coburn
Bobby Darin(!)
and introducing
Bob Newhart

Podcasts

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I don't even listen to music anymore on my mp3 player. I've got podcasts backlogged, in a couple of cases, all the way back to 2005. And on top of that there are new daily and weekly podcasts always coming out. But I thought I'd take a second to promote some of the podcasts I listen to.

http://gspn.tv/ especially http://gspn.tv/lost

http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/podcast

http://bothright.com/

http://www.crankyfanatic.com

http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/

http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/

http://thatswhatshesaid.libsyn.com/

http://the10thwonder.com/

http://www.sqpn.com/scripts/lordoftherings.php

http://www.perfectmovie.net/

http://www.ifc.com/podcastfeed.xml

Australian DVDs...

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...and their limited edition tin (or wood, for The Godfather Trilogy) packaging. Just cool to look at, I think. There are more at http://www.ezydvd.com.au/exclusives.zml

Thanks to Kevin for the link.