My roommate and I had a few people over for a LOST series finale get-together last night. I told people to bring one of their “desert island” or “death row” meals – something they couldn’t live without. And bonus points if they tied it into LOST. People played along. I channeled my beer label design skills into some Dharma Initiative beer (which was really a lot of Oskar Blues and Ska canned craft beer).

(pssst: download and print this PDF to make your own Dharma Initiative labels!)

Other people brought some tasty and very creative stuff! I really enjoy spending time with other creative people:

• Jin and Suns – Gin & tonic + Sunny D (my favorite Sunny D ad)
• Little Smoke Monsters – Smokey Franks
• eClaires – pretty obviously eclairs (which we didn’t eat)
• Michael’s Traitor Tots – Tater Tots (flavored with the mouthwatering flavor of redeeming oneself after committing a few horrific murders)
• CupKates – like 3 dozen cupcakes (they were oh so delicious!)

My house doesn’t hold that many people, but we crammed out small group in and watched the finale. I thought it started out really strong, but by the end we were reduced to something akin to the Battlestar Galactica finale*. Don’t get me wrong, I loved BSG, but the last 30 minutes of the series finale was beyond terrible. When you look at series finale episodes, they’re often pretty bad. Seinfeld, BSG, and the Sopranos are among my most notable shows that ended in a less-than-stellar fashion.

Given the evidence, tying up these shows is a really tough thing to do.

My question is this: wouldn’t you want to figure out the ending pretty much first? And all the while work towards this ending to achieve your vision? That’s how I’d probably do it.

I’m just testing a post to twitter plugin for wordpress called Tweetly Updater. Nothing to see here. Well, there’s something to see here:

Oh, Chief Wiggum, you’re the best.

Don’t worry, no spoilers here. In last night’s 2 hour episode of 24, the CTU analysts use a 15″ MacBook Pro. Same as me. The tactical team looking for a terrorist on an airplane full of terrorists was getting his image data for visual confirmation on a Dell Axim, which is also something I own.

I can’t believe that they’re spying on me to find out the best computer gear to feature on the show. I’d imagine that a Slingbox somehow comes in handy later in the season, given that I just bought one of those, too.

One of my main gripes with the show is that 2 years has passed since the last season of 24, yet all the cars are current models, as is much of the technology. Lame city.

Fuck that South Park Squigglevision bullshit. If you want the real deal, check out Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist on DVD (season 1), Season Two here. These are must-haves for every humor enthusiast. Guest stars such as Dom Irera, Emo Phillips, Todd Barry, Ray Romano, Dave Attel, Steven Wright, Kevin Meaney, Kathy Griffin, Louis C.K., Jim Gaffigan, Brian Regan, and Mitch Hedberg. Not bad for a Jew on the TV, eh?

Before there were lots of prime-time shows directly related to comic books. Smallville, Who Wants to Be A Superhero?, and (who could ever forget) Lois & Clark. I think that Heroes is by far the best of the lot. I have to admit that I’m more excited for the Heroes to come back on TV in January than Lost, 24 or Extras (but Extras is hilarious) in its’ own right.

The following are on at the same time, on Saturday morning between 12:30 and 2AM:

Damien–Omen II (FMC)
Street Fighter II (E-WAM)
RoboCop2 (ENCR)
Sister Act 2 Back in the Habit (S-BLK)
Star Wars Episode II/Attack of the Clones (MAX-E)
The Hills Have Eyes II (FLIXe)
Degrassi:The Next Generation (NOG/N)
El Señor de los Cielos II (CINE)

Kate from Lost. She’s one of those livelinks girls.

You can read signs in the backgrounds. Take SportsCenter, for instance. The college football crew was in Iowa City and there were maybe two thousand Iowhiners (what do you call people from Iowa anyway?) cheering. And cheering loud. There was a guy a ways back with a white sign that read

Corso is my dad, Herbstreit is my mom

An obvious jab at Kirk Herbstreit, you never would have seen it in standard definition. Not entirely sure what Herbstreit did to him, but it must’ve been terrible.