Mike TV

One way I've started trying to avoid politics is, it's brilliant really, by watching TV online instead. Because that's much more important in the end, right? Specifically, I've been watching the free HD versions of Lost on ABC.com. They look great, and all seasons are free. Free! In HD! It's like some insane gift from the gods. (Granted with the connection I've got at home it's slightly less than HD, but who cares? It looks great and no one is looking that gift horse in the mouth.) Figuring it can't last long I'm trying to suck them down as quickly as possible, which of course for a working full time parent who's also attempting to do something constructive with his off time is not really that quickly at all. (Although somehow I have managed to put away four episodes this week.)

I've been kind of studying it while I watch it. Trying to figure out the keys are to its impossibly addictive nature. I'm too tired to lay out all the theories here but one of the brilliant things they did was setting up the formula with the stories in the past. Also, just deciding to go there with the implausibilities and then running beyond. And when I'm a little more awake sometime I want to talk about why... but it's been a long hard day.