More Lost: Backward voice

Did I call it or what? I knew it wouldn't take long for some nerd to do the dirty work for the rest of us... y'know the scene when Kate dreams about Clare, and there's the phone call of a voice talking backwards?....

Here it is, forward & backward:

(and p.s. thanks wade for finding it)

10:50AM the next day, still thinking about LOST!

"LOST: Who's your daddy?"

came up with this new idea, bc there's been a lot of importance placed on christian (jack & claire's dad) and widmore (penny's dad), who we know now is pals with sun's dad.

here it is: is there a significance on each character's relationship with their dads??

• jack = christian is a creep alcoholic
• claire = again christian is a creep womanizer
• locke = his dad stole his kidney. quick call 911.
• sawyer = dad was killed by locke's dad
• penny = hates her dad - the big evil guy
• ben = killed his dad, must've hated him
• alex = ben is NOT her dad and she kinda hates him
• kate = killed her step-dad, obv hates him
• sun = her dad's an evil sob too and she hates him.
• jin = his dad was poor, jin always felt bad for blowing him off (was it resolved?)
• hurley = his dad is a loser, but a nice guy, plus he's cheech for godssakes. and they reconciled all that.

and anyone remember who is the father of claire's baby?

ok, i need to let my brain rest for a few. talk amongst yourselves.

Gah! 11:40 pm and still thinking about Lost!

Whoa whoa whoa... alternate endings tomorrow morning? and what about that silly marvin candle in all the dharma videos... why did he say his name was something else in that last video? does everyone change their names now? i.e. locke?

just read this on facebook: "I just noticed Christian Shepard is on that Octagon video. He is the surgeon with the mask on." Huh?!

and what about the call kate gets in the middle of the night with the person talking backwards? can't wait until some AV nerd figures out what it was and lets the rest of us know. lol.

ok, must go to bed. grr, lost, you obsessive little show!!!

Who is Jeremy Bentham?

good question. kinda like, "who killed laura palmer?" "who shot JR?" or "who is kaiser soze?"

if you've never seen the show --- it is an awesome cinematic spectacle. like the most incredible action/adventure/mystery movie that you can only get on TV. i sometimes can't believe that all of it is happening on my tv screen... how did we ever get so lucky to have such freaking incredible tv??

• desmond: "... boom."
  
• what about the fight scene with sayid and the Evil Military Dude?! awesome!
  
• ben's "manners" crack me up
  
• "time travelling bunnies? yes."
• omg. miles SO funny.
• episode's not over yet, will they resolve the mystery about charlotte having been there before?
  

best comeback. ever.

locke: ben, what did you do? you just killed everyone on that boat!

ben: so?

• ben's random little asides... blows up stuff in the hatch and goes "i better change" lol wtf
  
• the sun/jin boat thing was SO sad, i love how she's turned into an cold angry bitch in the future.
  
• dharma rum, love it.
  
• WHAT?! moving the island is as easy as turning a dial?! WHAT?
  
• after all of that trauma and stress, and sun manages to stay pregnant. amazing.

OMG CLAIRE! WHAT THE...?!

awww! penelope and desmond! thank god something worked out!

a lotta slo mo goes on in this show.... if they actually ran in real time, would all the episodes be shorter?

Staving off hunger and waiting for the Tivo

9:29.... gonna start watching LOST in a few, so I can just fast forward thru all the commercials once I start watching. thank god for tivo.

So, I've made it an entire day without coffee (replaced by green tea, taste leaves something to be desired)... consumed a banana at 10am, but only had broth, a V8 fusion drink, and a TRU-GREEN juice from the juice place on nassau st. (now open, so i can get my liquid dinner consisting of spinach, celery, parsley, and carrots all liquified together. and guess what: it's ORANGE. totally expected GREEN. and it was delish, actually).

thought to self, wow, i am really getting thru this liquid detox thing!

and then right at 9:20... thinking about how i won't get to bed until after 11... i realize. holy S, i'm actually getting hungry.

ok time's up, time to watch. trying to convince myself a quart of water will last me until 11... yaaaaahhhh...

One Night Stands & Getting Stranded

A new survey asked people how Sex & The City influenced their lives...

• 80% said Sex & The City showed them how to go out and have fun without looking for a commitment.


• 55% said it encouraged them to date more like men


• 43% said it allowed women to be unfaithful (curiously, of that 43%, it was mostly GUYS who believed this)


• 50% said it made women more likely to have sex on the first day (again, most of the people that said that were MEN)

Hold up, now. A TV show was THAT influential on their personal lives???

OK, let me think...

How the TV show LOST has influenced my life:

• I now honestly believe that... if you get stranded on a deserted island and you look hard enough, you'll find a hatch in the jungle where no frills peanut butter & shampoo are stored in a bunker. Conveniently there won't be a working radio or CB, but you'll have enough salad dressing to last a lifetime.


• ... that an emergency appendectomy can be performed on a beautiful beach, and you can do it with local anesthesia.


• ... if you're a bad person with a secret past or criminal record, beware of black smoke. That includes exhaust on a motor vehicle, just to be on the safe side.


• ... it's always going to be 1996, which really wasn't all that bad of a year. I would've graduated college in '96, if I hadn't cut so many classes. (see the Time Loop Theory if that doesn't make sense... not about how it took me 9 semesters to finish school, but about why it's gonna be 1996 forever.)


• ... when things get boring, you'll suddenly discover you have these two friends, Nicki & Paolo, who have this whole elaborate secret past, have been with you the entire time, and you'll accidentally bury them alive, and now you can forget all about them.


• ... and above all: You can spend 40+ days on the beach of a deserted tropical island pretty close to the equator and have zero need for suncreen. Ergo, the "supposed" need for sunblock must be a government hoax. UV Rays?! PFF!! Baloney!

Thank you, Lost.

My liquid detox fast (I invented this)

So I didn't just concoct this cockamamie plan, I've been thinking about it for a while, how all I eat is crap and just because I use splenda in my coffee and eat all my veggies, that doesn't make me such a healthy eater. Pretty much sealed the deal after downing a bowl of raspberry margarita last night, and after the initial sugar-rush-slash-brain-freeze, it dawned on me that I've gotta fast. NOW.

This morning, no coffee (thus far. And yes, I have a raging headache). Made it a point to pass Nassau St. so I could stop at this new juice place --- and sure enough it was closed. God, why are you trying to stop me from fasting???

Newman said he has a friend that lost 8 lbs fasting on a liquid diet. That'd be nice, but I just feel all gross and icky lately, I think I need to do this to like hit the reset button on my belly, so to speak. I've gotta very screwy digestive system --- my cousin says that IBS tendencies run in the family, along with other great maladies like deviated septums, forgetfulness, and varicose veins. Great. I just find that when I am doing stupid things like starving myself to fit into a dress, that my stomach doesn't bubble & churn in rebellious anger like it usually does.

Here's what I'm doing (or at least, trying to do) for the next four days:

• cut out alcohol, sugar, caffeine
• consume fresh fruit/veggie juice. (today, v8 had to suffice)
• drink lots of water
• hope to God I don't get constipated

By the way, I wouldn't follow my brilliant fruit juice detox fast without a doctor's consent. Just an FYI.

If Whitney Houston were a Huxtable...

Inside TV has a list of stars that were turned down for top TV roles. Picture it: Kramer as Al Bundy? Chandler BING on Smellrose Place? Whoa...


10. Star: RAQUEL WELCH; Part: Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island"
Lost to: Dawn Wells; Year: 1964

9. Star: MICHAEL RICHARDS; Part: Al Bundy on "Married...with Children"
Lost to: Ed O'Neill; Year: 1987

8. Star: TERI HATCHER; Part: Jamie Buchman on "Mad About You"
Lost to: Helen Hunt; Year: 1992

7. Star: LARA FLYNN BOYLE; Part: Ally McBeal on "Ally McBeal"
Lost to: Calista Flockhart; Year: 1997

6. Star: MATTHEW PERRY; Part: Billy Campbell on "Melrose Place"
Lost to: Andrew Shue; Year: 1992

5. Star: PATRICIA HEATON; Part: Elaine on "Seinfeld"
Lost to: Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Year: 1990

4. Star: JASON BATEMAN; Part: Alex P. Keaton on "Family Ties"
Lost to: Michael J. Fox; Year: 1982

3. Star: LISA KUDROW; Part: Roz Doyle on "Frasier"
Lost to: Peri Gilpin; Year: 1993

2. Star: WHITNEY HOUSTON; Part: Sondra Huxtable on "The Cosby Show"
Lost to: Sabrina Le Beauf; Year: 1984

1. Star: KATIE HOLMES; Part: Buffy Summers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Lost to: Sarah Michelle Gellar; Year: 1997

Made me think of roles that wouldn't be the same if played by somebody else:

- Any of the Desperate Housewives
- Ben Linus on Lost
- Mulder or Scully
- Barney on How I met Your Mother (Doogie Howser rocks!)
- Tony Micelli
- House
- Karen or Jack on Will & Grace
- The Fonz
- Prez Jed Bartlett on West Wing
- Prez David Palmer on 24

Women are liars too??

It's unbelievable, isn't it? But apparently, women lie.

Yes :::sigh::: sometimes we do.

Susan Shapiro Barash, author of "Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth About Why Women Lie" says

"Women lie more celeverly and successfully than men.... [Women also] lie as a survival technique but also to get what they want."

Right on. Top lies?

• 75% of women hide how much money they spend. No kidding. I've known many a good woman myself (possibly even myself) who've pulled stunts like sneaking purchases into the house, and snipping the price tags off. I have one girlfriend who'd leave the shopping bags in the car and stealthily smuggle new clothes into the house in her purse. She also has a curious amount of generous "friends" who suddenly don't fit into a whole bag of unworn, brand new clothes and now want to just give them to her. (I know her husband, so her identity goes with me to my grave.)


• 2nd most common lie: CHEATING. 60% of females confessed to having had an affair. (Shame on you ladies. You are not my sister-girl anymore. But if you are one of my sister-girls, I guess I'd be lying on your behalf too, but despising you at the same time.)


• 3rd on the list? MOTHERHOOD. 50% of moms have mixed feelings about motherhood even though they blissfully will walk around saying how hunky-dory everything is. Remember when Desperate Housewives' Lynette had that nervous breakdown in the playground?

The author lady also says that women will often fabricate the truth in order to get what they want from people (including lovers, colleagues, and bosses). Chicks also tell non-truths to either keep up on appearances or to one-up other people, like lying about plastic surgery, or inflate their children's or hubby's successes.

I'd get up at the crack of dawn for....

Not a lot, apparently.

Memorial Day Weekend... big shopping weekend, and I was fully on board for it this year. Made a list of stuff to get and because I hate nothing more than mobs of people and standing in lines, decided I would get up at the crack of dawn and get my shopping out the way.

Except -- when it came down to it, I didn't need anything all that bad, and decided to sleep in instead. Enjoyed the sleep infinitely more than any amount of joy that shopping could have brought me, and then it dawned on me:

there's not a lot of things I would get up at the crack of dawn for.

Nor are there a lot of things I'd stand and wait in line for.

Here's my short list:
(And basically, all of these things would have to be being handed out for free)

1. Free shoes


2. Free 600 thread count linens


3. Free smoked salmon


4. Free tickets to a private performance by Harry Connick, Jr.
   (and by private, I mean his wife has to stay home.)


5. Free makeup
   

My new haircut (and it's unisex apparently)

marieclaire.com ROCKS. they have this thing on their website, you upload your pic and you can try on certain hairstyles.

i'm finally getting into cosmo bleu to get my lovely stylist robyn to fix my hair. totally overdue. so i picked a hairstyle, and you know it's awesome if it works on different faces.

THUS, i tried mine out on the MEN OF PST.

(OK, I might've added in some makeup too.)
      



      



 

Dropped in the toilet

About a MILLION cell phones are dropped in toilets each year.

SERIOUSLY?! HOW? HOW does this happen? i must know.

OK, once I dropped my keys in the toilet bowl at a Baja Fresh. Normally I would not dare bothering to retrieve them, but it was a brand new Baja Fresh, and the toilet looked pretty damn clean to me. Thank God I'd forgotten to put my flash drive back on my keychain that day!!

BUT... the most valuable thing i ever dropped in the toilet??

MY OWN TUSH.

I fell in the toilet. Granted, I was a little kid, but my dad had left the toilet seat up in the middle of the night. i was at the age where i had to balance myself on the toilet seat bc my feet couldn't totally reach the floor.

SPLASH!

ick.

"If you wanna live in the zip, you gotta live by the code"

SO CORNY. but i LOOOOVE it. Behold:
The trailer for the new 90210 show




p.s. i am not the party responsible for coming up with that horrendous slogan.

OK i lied, i have no new lost theories

i'm actually just fishing for you to thoughtfully share your LOST theories, bc let's face it, i'm too lazy to do my own thinking.

i do have one set of theories (again, shaped largely from someone else's theories) --- http://www.timelooptheory.com/ it's a whole impressive thing about the TIME MACHINE theory. it will hurt your brain, but simultaneously blow you away. prepare for a major migraine, but totally worth it.

so here are my lost questions that i've been thinkin' up in my little noggin:

1) CLAIRE'S BABY AARON: what is the significance of aaron? why was he meant to get off the island and not be raised by "those people in los angeles" and also not meant to be raised by jack? is he like supposed to be the second coming or something? think it's something to do with being a descendant of christian shepard (jack's dad)?

2) CLAIRE: is she alive? (on island time, that is)

3) LOCKE: in the flashback where his mom shows up to tell him about his dad in need of a stolen kidney, what happened next to the mom? anyone remember?

4) THE COFFIN: remember when we saw the first flash-forward last season? now we know who's in the Oceanic 6, anyone think it might be Sayid in the coffin?

5) .... ok that's about all my brain can push out right now. sorry for the abrupt ending there, i need some advil.

RE: Someone fix the spam filter please

what's funnier is that these arrived next:

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From: Carter Newton [mailto:enthralca96@accountsroom.com]

Sent: Wed 5/21/2008 1:30 PM

To: Toni Ryan

Subject: best

your life is crap

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From: Florine Mccain [mailto:approving99@tconp.net]

Sent: Wed 5/21/2008 1:58 PM

To: Toni Ryan

Subject: best

your life is crap

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ISN'T THERE such a thing as ORIGINAL spam these days?? Good grief. lol. well, i guess it's better than being offered a youknowwhat-pump.

Someone fix the spam filter please

Just got the following in my inbox:

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From: Dominick Andrade [mailto:mayfliesfd47@globalrecycle.net]

Sent: Wed 5/21/2008 1:23 PM

To: Toni Ryan

Subject: best

your life is crap

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Oh ok, maybe it's not spam. my bad.