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• The latest Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, which is available as a free download will also now be available as a physical CD. However, The NIN Hotline reports that only 200,000 copies will be released in the United States. The physical release will include, among other things, “a DVD of NIN performing live tracks from The Slip at rehearsals,” and I am ready to beat down anybody who stands in the way of me getting a copy.
• William Katt, the star of the most awesome television program of all-time, The Greatest American Hero, will be guest-starring on NBC’s Heroes next season. Newsarama reports that Katt will play a “really, really wonderful, seedy, smarmy-mouthed reporter.” Me, I haven’t seen any of the second season of Heroes, but I’m definitely going to have to catch up, now that I know about this upcoming guest appearance.

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Lost Spoilers We Haven’t Seen Yet

DarkUFO has an excellent piece on teases made by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse that haven’t yet paid off. For example, they’ve promised lots more information on the late, great love of Hurley’s life, Libby. They’ve sworn that we’ll find out what the deal is with the four-toed statue. And they’ve said repeatedly that the French woman, Rousseau, was going to get a flashback, which isn’t looking likely after the events of the fourth season.

Does this mean that the producers of Lost have no idea what they’re doing? No, I don’t think so. I think these items are simply an example of how a story evolves as you’re telling it. Even when you know the ending, you can never be exactly sure how you’re going to get there.

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Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three

As I type this, my family and I are stuck in a lovely patch of summer weekend traffic. We’re headed up to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to visit with my wife’s sister and her husband. While we’re there, we will probably end up rewatching at least two or three episodes of Lost in order to catch them up. Apparently, they haven’t seen an episode since the last time they were down at our house, and the episode that was on heavy rotation that weekend was “Something Nice Back Home.”

They have no idea how much awesomeness they’re in for, do they?

I’m always pretty good about not spoiling people while they’re watching an episode that I’ve already seen, but I’m dying to talk about my theories and whatnot with them. Until then, let’s you and I, dear reader, talk about the third part of Lost’s fourth season finale, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three.”

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Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two

Lost’s fourth season ended last week with what was pretty much the ass-kickingest episode out of a season full of ass-kicking episodes. These new, shorter seasons really suit the program, as far as I’m concerned. There’s not a lot of padding or filler, and that raises the stakes pretty significantly. Every bit of story feels a bit more urgent, every scrape our characters get themselves into seems a bit more dangerous. And the payoffs are coming fast and furious now. Now we know who was in the coffin. Now we know how you move an island. Now we know how the Oceanic Six turned out to be the Oceanic Six when, for a while, it looked like they might be the Oceanic Seven or the Oceanic Eight. Some viewers and reviewers are already complaining about there being even more questions now than ever before, but that’s hogwash as far as I’m concerned. You can feel this series heading towards its conclusion. The answers are coming, and they’re coming every episode now.

Because this will be our final “Last Week on Lost” until next February, I’ve decided to break it up into two parts. So, here (below the fold) are my thoughts on the first part of last week’s episode, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two.”

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Bob Barker Was My Hero

Here’s an excellent find by Leslie at Smoke Rings, Coffee Stains: The Top 8 Moments in The Price is Right History. I’m sure that there are some clips from the early days that there just aren’t tapes of that would maybe knock some of these clips off the list, but it is a pretty good list nevertheless.

The Price is Right was a summertime obsession of mine when I was growing up. It came on at eleven in the morning on the local CBS affiliate, and I hardly went a day without watching it. My favorite game was Plinko (though I swear there was another one that I can’t remember that I liked more, one that was hardly ever played) and my favorite Barker’s Beauty was probably Dian.

Any other Price is Right fanatics out there among the Geek Force? I haven’t been able to watch it in years. How’s Drew Carey doing filling Bob’s shoes?

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