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Art Linkletter, 1912-2010

Posted by Sherry on 5/27/2010 in Television

Art Linkletter died yesterday (May 26th) at the age of 97. This video made me cry: Click on image to purchase at Amazon.

 
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LOST, the Best Lines

Posted by Sherry on 5/26/2010 in General, Television

“It’s been six days, and we’re all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don’t? We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim. He tried to save her and now you’re about to crucify him. We can’t [...]

 
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Lots of LOST Thoughts; Probably More to Come

Posted by Sherry on 5/24/2010 in 2010 Projects, Church, Community, Fantasy Fiction, General, LOST Project, Television

Idol or icon? LOST, Lord of the Rings, the books referenced in LOST, even the Bible itself can become idol rather than icon if we become enmeshed in the details of the stories or of the Word and never see through to the Author, to God Himself. It is possible to find True Truth in [...]

 
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LOST Rehash: Across the Sea

Posted by Sherry on 5/11/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, LOST Project, Television

“Mom always liked you best!”–Tommy Smothers “Expectant moms, let that be a lesson to you: always choose more than one name, just in case.” –via Twitter “Just because you don’t understand something, that doesn’t mean it’s over your heads. It might just be gibberish.” –also via Twitter “In Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, the main [...]

 
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The Cain and Abel Motif

Posted by Sherry on 2/23/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, LOST Project, Television

I’m setting these speculations to post on a Tuesday, the day that LOST airs in the U.S., but I am still on blog hiatus for Lent. My Cain and Abel thoughts may be outdated or superseded by events in the TV show by the time this post appears. Cain and Abel were the first brothers. [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: February 16th

Posted by Sherry on 2/16/2010 in --February, Birthdays, General, Television

Henry Adams, b. 1838. He was the grandson of one president and the great-grandson of another. Numbered among his many friends were Lincoln’s private secretary John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, geologist Clarence King, Senators Lucius Lamar and James Cameron, artist John La Farge, and writer Edith Wharton. His most famous work was an [...]

 
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LOST Rehash: What Kate Does

Posted by Sherry on 2/9/2010 in 2010 Projects, LOST Project, Television

Wow! LOST becomes Island of the Zombies. So, to start toward the beginning, this episode is called What Kate Does. In an episode in season two of LOST called What Kate Did, we found out that Kate blew up her biological father, Wayne, and that she has a step-father named Sam Austen. On the island [...]

 
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LOST Rehash: LA X

Posted by Sherry on 2/3/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, LOST Project, Television

Antagonist: “They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.” Jacob: “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” Antagonist aka Smokey aka Fake Locke aka Dark Suit aka Esau—if the writers would just provide a name for the guy I would be pleased. Are we making any [...]

 
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Gearing Up for LOST

Posted by Sherry on 2/1/2010 in General, Television

Christ and Pop Culture: LOST’s Biggest Question SciFI Wire’s 100 Questions LOST had Better Answer. My favorite/biggest questions of the 100: Who is Jacob? Is he good or evil? (And he’d better be one or the other. None of this dualistic, mumbo-jumbo, “good and evil are two sides of the same coin” nonsense.) Six Keys [...]

 
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Bah! Humbug!

Posted by Sherry on 12/13/2009 in Celebrations, Christmas, Television

I’m feeling kind of Grouchy today. I don’t want to take it out on my family and ruin their holiday spirit, but the internet is a safe place to vent, isn’t it? I’ll probably be more positive tomorrow, but in the meantime, Oscar and I are simpatico.

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