Check your local listings because ABC will do it to you every time.  Looking for the pop-up version of LOST I absent mindedly tuned out to the end of a barely respirating episode of the once defunct “Scrubs” and an innocuously banal shit-com called Better Off Ted, which is unfortunately nothing like Better Off Dead. I’m sure I’m the millionth blogger to blog that.  Blogtastic.  Anyway, the cast is great, the art direction dystopian and cool, and the writing is terrible.  Salt doesn’t help.  Sorry Portia!

Enough with the preamble.  LOST wuz a dud with an end we just had to watch (yecch) before the penultimate installment of Life On Mars.  I watched so many NewsCenter 5 promos that I figured out why puppy mill owners are always so obese.  Selling sick puppies to local pet stores is a smokescreen for what these fat bastiches do to the good ones – they eat them.

LOST ON MARS catchphrase: go drinkulate. as in…..I’d go drinkulate with Harvey anyplace anytime anywhere, you name it.

Why you may ask, no new LOST? More time to get over our time travel sickness.  I skipped last night’s rerun but tuned in for the recently canceled Life On Mars.  FYI, if there is an Emmy for lighting design, look no further.

In any other time slot this show would’ve been alright, but LOST is a tough act to follow.  In light of the cancellation, LOM has turned into a really long movie with big name actors, GTA mission-like episodes.  Much better than the sprawling, confused narrative that never seemed to be going anywhere.

Most interesting is the budding, yet floundering relationship between Mol and our hero, who’ll have to struggle with the decision to go back to his own time without the woman he’s sprouted a boner for.  Speaking of getting it up, Keitel’s powers grow with every issue.

Of course BBC America has picked up the sequel to UK original Life On Mars, titled Ashes To Ashes.  Why can’t anybody in the US come up with something original?

I’m not sure when the finale is, but I doubt there are more than 3 more episodes left.  I looking forward to demolishing the series like a season of 24.

This pic was pulled from Lostpedia (which is pretty devoted if you haven’t been there yet).   It was there that I learned about the Dharmacakra.

Anybody else see Horace at the Phish shows down in VA this past weekend? Rift was a mess!  Reba was awesome! (smack dab in the middle of all 3 nights)

Sawyer’s ‘77 alias LaFleur brings to mind another sci-fi Creole, Remy Lebeau.  Rumors have been flying since 2006 that actor Josh Halloway has been in talks to play Gambit, but it seems that the next X-Men movie is really an X-Teen movie – an iteration of New Mutants called X-men 2010: First Class.  Yay.

Some Gamespot fan did this in Photoshop.  Pretty cool, non?

My new favorite Marvel casting job is Al Pacino as Doctor Strange.

txt from livephish.com: 2 my amazement I clicked through undeterred by query for info other than mail and password/to find myself at the end.  I’ll b coming back this way more frequently.  On this frequency I’ll b e ing ltr set 1 wuz awesome!!!! ^o.o^