Summer Time

no, I know it is odd to only have network, but it works for us. We are in Maryland, Raven country!! Besides Lost, we watch Heroes and Idol, all of which come on network. Now football season is a little tougher. Since Sunday & Monday night football are both on cable, we either miss them, unless the Raven’s are playing, or upon rare occasion, acquire a babysitter and actually go out to see a game. Last year’s playoff against Indianapolis was fun, but a long, depressing, quiet ride home on the metro.
Mrs. Meister

I recalled your previous comment about the Ravens, so I figured the homestead was somewhere in the vacinity of Baltimore.

Embrace our differences hugh? I assume your tongue is planted in your cheek since we know the huge success that was last week.

But, about your “not very funny joke”, perhaps I’m too sensitive after last week, BUT it seemed to me your “Just kidding there Big fella” was directed at Big Jim solely, further insinuating that hanging with the Meisters was an insult.

The last thing I want to do is stir up dissension (unless @ Lost), nor am I too thin skinned to take friendly teasing, however, I didn’t interpret your jocular post as Meister friendly.
Mrs. Meister

I see, personally if I was you I would’ve been more offended my the shack in Montana crack- but that’s just me.

Since your husband has clearly presented himself as a “conservative” & openly branded me as a “liberal” I figured the joke would be obvious.

Just to keep things equal, here’s one at my expense: Tonight I’m going to sit down in front of CNN with a cup of herbal tea & my cat & watch Anderson Cooper weep openly about some war orphans in Darfur (sp?).

See- I’m an equal opportunity stereotypist.

Hey the Kazinski reference was funny!

Being a liberal isn’t a bad thing, being a democrat, though, that’s another thing.

I’d hate to hit the obvious but cats are for women, Nico, I hope it’s your fiancee’s cat. Real men don’t own cats.

In the immortal words of Rodney King, “Can’t we all just…get along?”

Preev, my man, you just haven’t met the right cat yet.

Actually I no longer own a cat (it just sounded right), but I did have one for many years. I was always a dog guy until I found this stray cat back in 1995. She was declawed on all 4 paws & fixed, so you’d think she’d be timid. Instead she dominated all the other stray cats like she was the Queen of the freakin’ jungle. I figured it was only a matter of time before she ran into a big Raccoon though, so I took her home & named her Bunny (cause she looked like a rabbit when she crouched in the grass). She passed away at the ripe old age (estimated) of about 17 last month & is sorely missed.

PS) Yes, the Democratic party are a bunch of pussies who refuse to differentiate themselves from their opposition. The only guy in the whole party with a set of balls is Ted Kennedy & what the fuck good is a dinosaur like him going to do? When it comes to politics in this country I like to quote The Who: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…”.

Well, if I lived in a shack I might be offended, but I live in a house with central air and indoor plumbing and all the other modern day luxuries one would expect to find, lacking only in cable television. Preev was being funny, not taking a potshot. There is a difference.

Preev, cats aren’t for ALL women. I’ve had 3 lab mixes and 0 cats. We do have a couple we take target practice at though when they trespass onto our yard.
Mrs. Meister

Hey, you don’t watch FoxNews either right? I fail to see the difference. C’mon, don’t be so sensitive! You know BigJim & I are as different as can be & we started off hating each other. Now we always have each other’s backs & get along fine. I can be kind of ass sometimes, it’s just who I am. I promise you it’s nothing personal & I don’t mean any disrespect by it.

peace brotha, we cool.
Mrs.Meister

The only good cat is a dead one. They make great baseballs, though. My former best friend was a cat lover until I turned him to the dark side. Got two psycho dogs and treated them like cats, told him you can’t do that, but did it his way and last I heard they were freaking out of control.

Point about cats, the guy who stalked and raped women in Philadelphia years back would always know where the single women lived by looking for cats in the windows. He actually joined the AF, and while stationed in Wyoming got caught doing what he did in Philly. I think they made a Cold Case episode about it or movie of the week. Just watch your cornhole Nico.

GROSS!! Well that’s the last cat I’ll ever own.

oh i meant jimmy

oh well, guess I won’t be watching. Maybe it’ll come out on DVD.
Mrs. Meister

I think it said she was a blonde.
Mrs. Meister

OK, went back to check cause I thought I missed the blonde thing. All it says was “pretty and privileged white female entitlement”, so this could be anyone female. I really don’t think they were talking about lost but there was a comment about something on the beach. I would think that if anyone was coming across that way it would be Elizabeth Mitchell, because she’s had big screen success (Gia). EL and EdR are up and coming and don’t have the success prior to Lost to be be prima donnas. Just my thoughts.

Didn’t I say I’d stay away? Crap, got to stop doing this!

ok, you’re right. I don’t know where I got the blonde thing.
Mrs. Meister

Latest report is it is not Elizabeth Mitchell nor is it a Grey’s Anatomy or Ugly Betty star, looking more like a Lost character. This could be interesting, but you know it will leak out eventually.

My bet on the “Diva” is Sun. She has been giving off that certain vibe towards the other losties. Check out the last few episodes. She has this snotty smirk.

All is not a loss for Jin. Although Vincent runs off with the tongue, they wrestle it away and Jack reattachs it just in the nic-of-time… good excuse for an extended jungle trek and some tense medical moments?

Hurley runs Locke down with it.

Rousseau dynamites the car the same way it was done in Miami Vice the first time around.

BTW - Terry O’Quinn was in Miami Vice - played Richard Cain (ep #1.10).

The circle is complete.

WOW, Terry O’Quinn was in Miami Vice wasn’t he? I thought Kevin Spacey was the only good actor that ever appeared on that show.

If you remember Nash Bridges, Daniel Roebuck who played Dr. Leslie Arzt (blew himself up with the dynamite) was a regular.

Other lost - Nash Bridges tie ins:
Andrew Divoff - Mikhail is listed as doing 2 episodes.

Michael Bowen - Danny Pickett (Juliet shoots him 3 times) also did 1 episode.

Forgot to add: M.C. Gainey - big Tom is listed for 1 episode of Nash too.

Cheech Marin

Jeff Perry (Frank “Sawyer” Duckett) - the guy Sawyer shoots while in Australia

were both regular cast on Nash.

Yikes! How do you both know so much about Nash Bridges? Wasn’t that on CBS? I didn’t think anybody under 70 watched that network…

Ouch!
Watch out, I hear Bob Barker from The Price is Right is retired and full of piss & vinegar. He’ll poke you with the corner of his pillow and drool on your shirt.

As long as he doesn’t try to neuter me it’s fine.

Spaying is not an option?

Not for a boy…

So Bob is retired. Does he get to take those Barker Beauties as part of the deal? He does come across as a bit of a Hefner clone… he needs someone to chase around in his pad.

Yes, Vice and Nash were cool shows in their time. Pitty the fool who don’t know his Don Johnsonology.

Ive always said that if Magyver and Columbo would have been on Lost the show would be over. Those two could have figured everything out and gotten off the island. They just don’t make good characters like that any more…

Yep, they could’ve used Quincy ME to find the cause of death on Mr. Ecko too.

Don’t forget Ironsides being magically cured a la Locke, and solving all the mysteries of the island.

Sure, then Barnaby Jones can come in a wax all philisophical for us.

Maybe it’s time for Commander Magnum to make a comeback, he’s on Hawaii isnt’ he?

Bentham, true. Good call. That Panopticon shit is pretty interesting, by the way.

Fuck. There is really nothing on television during the summer. Any more recommendations from anyone?

Take a gander at my response to Evil’s post up top. Hey JT, did we lose some posts from this thread since this am?

There’s a bunch of posts missing, I know me and you had a bunch about Michael Moore a couple days ago that got dumped. Thinking maybe I imagined it all, but we did talk about that correct?

I think the mystery of John Lantham (if that’s who it is) will be solved in episode 6.14.

As for recommendations, besides what I have recommended, I watch Pimp my ride, trick my truck, how it’s made, John Ratzenberger’s America, and many other cool reality shows, if I have time.

I’ll find out today (hopefully) if I’m going to the sandbox, so that will fill up 4 months just prior to Lost starting.

Well, to your earlier “Lost” Michael Moore thread I’ll say this: I don’t quite think he’s Satan Incarnate like you do. However I think people need to realize his films are editorial & not journalism; there’s a big difference. Roger & Me was a very good movie. Everything since then has been heavy handed to say the least.

I wouldn’t say he’s Satan Incarnate, but he certainly lost a huge base of fans when he did the Fahrenheit 9/11 farce, which has been shown to have many (59 I believe) inaccurate parts. I agreed Roger and me was good, as was Canadian Bacon, but you are right, since then it’s been this personal vendetta to slam and make anything conservative look bad. It’s not documentaries, it’s his opinion on the subject and filled with half truths and inaccuracies. He’s misusing his celebrity and people should ignore his crappy films, they’re not documentaries, but opnionated films. Ok, back to Lost bashing!

Pshaw!
Ignore? That tends to be the American way, or at least the way of the plebs in America, No?
Listen, the festival series in España are off, and I’m having a dandy of a time. So many señoritas, and only one Laurent.
Mr. Moore tends to rattle the cages, this is a good thing. Healthcare in the US is beyond appaling. If only people would wake up to the enormous profits being generated by HMOs and Pharmaceutic corps at the expense of their health, their LIVES! Don’t swallow the R&D spin BS, take a look at their earnings. Nowhere is healthcare perfect, but America, is very far from it. Let the markets decide wether you need a new pancreas! Ha! You’re dead.
I left the trust fund-hippy bars in Granada and sat on a roof of some white walled Carmen house, gypsies on the hillsides above, strumming my mandolina and swigging some tinto verano, very nice, though I should have shagged that Swiss college student caught in a comfortable (the one wealth affords) rebellious phase, yet I went back to my abode and borrowed a laptop to post my au revoir.
I’m back for a while and after an afternoon of pintxos and txakolins I’m here, before siesta, reading this crap. The final episode was fine, Locke is right of course, why leave, nobody has anything to go back to besides Rose’s husbands dental practice! That struck a cord with me. Why leave? I’ll leave you back to your gladhanding and as Harvey Keitel, as Mr. Wolf, stated, “Don’t go suckin’ each other’s dicks yet”, Laurent’s watching.
Ciao.

Nicko, you’re commitment is impressive, but you’re a fair and even handed fellow, not like I. So sad that the turkey left, rather enjoyed his witticisms.

Turk is still around, just kind of taking a break it seems. I try to be fair, but sometimes fail miserably. American health care does stink (I’m lucky enough to have good insurance through work, but it hasn’t always been like that). However, socialized medicine isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A friend of mine since HS is a Canadian citizen (lives in Nova Scotia) & he has told me some real horror stories about the state of Canada’s health system. The wait to see a doctor can be lengthy & every year there are stories about people croaking while waiting 2 months for an appointment. To me there has to be some kind of happy medium between the government funded & private sector.

I blame the health care problem on lawyers. If we could take the liability out of healthcare, and I’m not saying make it a free for all, but take out the frivolous (sp?) lawsuits and let doctors be doctors, who are human and make mistakes. Shit happens, and if a doctor misses a critical diagnoses, then tough titties. If you rely on one human’s diagnosis and have something, then you should have gotten a second opinion. If we can do this, and then shake the insurance companies down, and get away from $3 Tylenol pills when you can buy a 100 for $5 in the store, then we can get cheaper more accessible Healthcare. Also, there are some cash only doctors that are cropping up and they are very affordable, imagine that, take the liability and insurance out of the equation and people can afford it.

Laurent, welcome back, I figured like most French people you had thrown in the white flag and surrendered when the going got tough.

I think you hit the nail on the head there about liability problems. I dated a girl years ago whose step dad was a brilliant neurosurgeon. He had saved countless lives; yet one lawsuit filed by the family of somebody who died on the table (during a VERY complex brain surgery) almost forced him to retire.

That is exactly right, now if he was drunk or was clearly in the wrong, then that’s another story, but even then I say “shit happens.” I guess I’m a little cynical, but if I get bad healthcare (remember I’m in the military - managed healthcare at it’s finest) and I can’t do anything about it. They could chop off a limb, and I have no recourse. I like that though, because I think it frees up the doctors to not worry that every little mistake they make will be rehashed in a courtroom.

I think of Jack’s story he told kate about fear, where he cut the nerve sack on his first solo op, count to five, let the fear take over, then let it go. He made a mistake, and even the best surgeon in the world (not referring to Jack here) could make a mistake and get sued.

I just realized that the island doesn’t have a lawyer, why is that?

there is nothing to gain.
Mrs. Meister