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Back to the Island: Live Together, Die Alone
It’s difficult to believe what LOST would’ve been like without Jack. The show’s creators originally planned to kill the character off in the pilot. In the end, though, Jack was the real through-line for many of us. Season One of … Continue reading
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Google and a God Named Theuth
From Michael Harris’s The End of Absence: In Plato’s Phaedrus, we hear Socrates describing how a king from Egypt called Thamus informed the god Theuth that the phonetic alphabet was not so great a gift. The god was particularly chuffed … Continue reading
Back to the Island: Ten Years of LOST
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the premiere of LOST. It was ten years ago September 22 that ABC premiered the Hawaii-based show down on the beach in Waikiki. The rest, for many of us, is history (and alternate … Continue reading
Into Dalek-ness
It took a good while before the Daleks were brought back full-strength in the Doctor Who reboot a few years ago. If memory serves, we only got one in the first season. Looks like we’re getting one again . . … Continue reading
Everything a Rorshach Test
I recently started following the blog of Rod Dreher, which is its own story (and one I will get to next week). A few days ago he passed on the thoughts of Brian Kaller, who grew up “next door” to … Continue reading
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Goodbye to Goodbye? Michael Harris on Absence
This past weekend I came across Michael Harris’s The End of Absence. It’s an interesting read, often summing up and building off of the thoughts of other books I’ve read about technology and culture over the last couple of years. … Continue reading
The Day of the (Different) Doctor
Breath deep, because the air is strangely fresh in the newest series of Doctor Who. At least that’s my take on it after watching the premiere of the new season at the theater. I’m glad I waited this time around, … Continue reading
A Different Kind of Sophomore Slump
Last week I posted excerpts and a link to a “message to college freshmen.” One of my favorite authors, James K. A. Smith, recently wrote his own “letter to college sophomores” that serves as a nice kind of sequel. He … Continue reading
Waiting for a Different Doctor
Big weekend for fans of Doctor Who. It’s been months since we saw the quick flash of Matt-Smith-into-Peter-Capaldi, which means its also an interesting weekend for Who fans. It’s been some time since there’s been a dramatically older Doctor in … Continue reading
Eggers’s ‘Fathers & Prophets,’ the Novel of Our Times?
The title of Dave Eggers’s newest novel comes from early in the book of Zechariah, who spoke for God near the end of the time of exile. “The LORD was very angry with our forefathers. Therefore tell the people: This … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 