{"id":3915,"date":"2010-05-12T22:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T02:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2010-05-12T22:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T02:12:25","slug":"wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was unseasonably cold here today. Maybe not as cold as in some parts — my father said yesterday the news was reporting snow in my old central Pennsylvanian stomping grounds — but chilly nevertheless. My mom is still sick, but with the confirmation today that it is pneumonia, we’re hoping that rest and antibiotics will have her feeling better soon.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, my day was about the same as yesterday, except for a “brown bag” lunch we had at work today. We have these on occasion, where they invite a guest speaker and give everyone who attends the talk a free lunch of sandwiches or pizza. Today was the latter, and a talk on book publicity. It turned out to be a fairly interesting topic, with an engaging speaker — neither of which are guaranteed when attending these things. Of course, it was helped along by visual aids that included a clip of one of his authors on The Colbert Report<\/i><\/a>. But hey, that and free pizza ain’t half bad.<\/p>\n

In other news, I stayed up much too late last night watching yesterday’s episode of Lost<\/i>, which a lot of people seem to have really hated. Honestly, I can see where they’re coming from — it focuses on two (relatively) minor characters and offers a lot of non-answers (or simply more questions) as answers for the show’s central mysteries — but the truth is, I really liked it. There are plenty of answers I wish it had<\/i> given, plenty of mysteries that I wish had been explained. But I keep coming back to something Noel Murray wrote in a comment to his AV Club review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For me it goes back to the idea that the story keeps repeating. It doesn’t “explain” anything necessarily — if anything, it raises more questions — but in a show where incidents and images and lines recur, the idea that even the central “hero” and “villain” of the piece come from a fractured background just like the 815ers makes the endgame more meaningful. It’s no longer a war between Good God and Bad God. It’s just a continuation of an ancient struggle that makes even the people who claim to be doing the right thing into terrible, terrible people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lots of people, including Murray, have been insisting for a long time that the show can’t help but disappoint<\/i> in its final season, that anyone looking for some perfect closure or understanding of exactly what happened is going to be let down. I think “Across the Sea” may be the first time that’s really sinking in for some folks. <\/p>\n

Me, I really enjoyed the episode. I don’t know yet what exactly it means for the last few hours to come, but I’m eager to find out.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was unseasonably cold here today. Maybe not as cold as in some parts — my father said yesterday the news was reporting snow in my old central Pennsylvanian stomping grounds — but chilly nevertheless. My mom is still sick, but with the confirmation today that it is pneumonia, we’re hoping that rest and antibiotics … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,5,28,17,52],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-health","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}