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When Des was beating the crap out of Ben, I felt like I was Wii boxing right along with him.

How sad to see a slightly less evil Ben pushing Alex on the swing.  Almost evoked some sympathy for the devil.

John Locke is in control.  Finally.

I know I’ve been milking this, but people are still finding their way here by searching for Desmond Hume’s sunglasses.  They’re Euclids by Edward Beiner.  And they are awesome.

Tonight’s the premiere of the third incarnation of David Letterman’s old show.  I’m pretty sure I saw the old Carson curtain behind him in a promo last week.  Even though Carson never had that time-slot, the show is set in the same studio space Carson used before moving to Burbank, so there’s already some throwback continuity stuff built in.   

Someone has just commented on a previous post that the Dez glasses from a few episodes ago are the Euclid frames by Edward Beiner.

Can anyone varify?  Or is this another case of LOST yeilding more questions than answers???

UPDATE:  Entertainment Weekly seems to have the scoop.

You might know that Shephard Fairey, the artist  behind the underground “Andre Has A Posse” and “OBEY” posters, is also the designer of the definitive icon of the Obama campaign.  I’m probably not alone in noting just a little bit of irony here.  I’m probably also not the only one who’s googled “Obama poster maker” a few times in recent months.  Finally there’s an option that doesn’t require PhotoShop skills:  www.obamapostermaker.com.

Earlier today I found a posterized picture of John Locke from LOST emblazoned with the phrase “Yes I Can.”  This was paired with a posterized picture of Jack saying “No You Can’t.”  If you watch LOST, you know the deal.  So this sparked a little battle on facebook between my sister and I: I’m squarely in Locke’s camp and she’s on Team Jack.  She challenged my wife to choose sides, and my wife made her own poster:

and then I made this one:

As I’m finishing this post, Shephard Fairey was just featured on a TV commercial.  Looks like he won an award from the USA Network.  Is zeitgeisty a word?

Looks like I’m not the only one digging on Desmond’s sunglasses. Quite a few search hits to this blog from people looking for those bad boys. I’m pretty sure Liam Gallagher has a few. His scarf was pretty ace, too.

Maybe I’ll do a post about the monomyth and LOST.  Which of our friends on the island is the Hero With 1000 Faces?  Charlie and Mr. Eko were early examples, and like I said yesterday, Des is the moral compass of the show. 

Spoilers ahead.  You’ve been warned.  

Widmore: I didn’t see the Widmore reveal coming.  Was he on the Black Rock (as I’m pretty sure Richard was)?

Locke and Richard: So Locke shows Richard the compass, which, as you probably figured out last week, is the item that Richard brings to Kid Locke in the early 60s a few seasons ago.  Now we know why Richard went to Kid Locke in the first place: Old Locke told him to come find him in the future/past…so when Richard shows Kid Locke the compass and Kid Locke doesn’t recognize it, Richard is all disappointed.  What remains to be seen is where the compass came from in the first place.  Richard gave it to Locke in the first episode of this season, and Locke gave it to Past Richard last night.  Future Richard will bring it to Kid Locke in the 60s but doesn’t give it to him.  Does Richard retain possession of the compass until he gives it to Present Locke in last week’s episode?  Present Locke then gives it to Past Richard who then takes it to Kid Locke etc.

I don’t care how crazy he gets:  I love John Locke.  Remember when he lived on the commune?  I forgot all about that until just now.

Desmond:  The moral center of this entire show.  I think he’s the only guy who’s always been good, and he’s the one guy I get the sense that all the fans are rooting for. He’s not just the temporal constant…he’s also the moral constant.  And he named his little boy Charlie.  Heart strings!  So, why is Desmond, to use Farraday’s word, “unique” with reference to causality ?  I’m not sure why, but I’ll remind you that Desmond David Hume’s namesake, philosopher David Hume, posited that if you drop an object and it falls to earth nine times in a row, you cannot know with certainty that when you drop it a tenth time it fill not rather rise.  You can’t know that it will fall until it has.  Even though Farraday is convinced that nothing can be changed by interfering with, if this were a comic book, we’d call the time stream, he tries anyway and succeeds in getting a message to Present Desmond in the past. Sweet.

How awesome were Desmond’s sunglasses, by the way?  He looks like he should be the spry middle-aged front man of a slightly pre-Brit Pop Scottish outfit. 

Juliet: back to uber-creepy.  She’s holding out on Sawyer.  I’m surprised he’s not more visibly upset.  I hope he’s planning on using his sick fraud skills soon.  Remember when he sang “Redemption Song” on the raft?  ”Oh Pirates, yes they rob I….”