“You Know What The Problem With Tacoma Is?” LOST creator has the answer (via @exit133)

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“I’m missing my prom to watch the finale of your show, and have almost lost a long-time girlfriend over it,” the fan emailed. “If that is not loyalty … I do not know what is.” What kind of a high-school holds its prom on a Sunday, a bemused Cuse said on the podcast. “You know what?” he said. “I just want to say that if your school is having their prom on a Sunday, you’re far better off staying home and watching Lost. I mean, why on a Sunday? What’s up with that? Where is he, Tacoma?” Tacoma, Washington, Lindelof Read more…

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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I enjoyed Gaiman's fantasy novel American Gods. It's a somewhat meandering novel (though why it meanders eventually makes sense) but with good characters and an interesting plot. The fantasy element assumes that America itself has no gods. Rather our immigrants, whether on a land bridge 14000 years ago or on a boat from Norway 100 years ago, brought their gods with them. And then forgot them. The land is filled with gods who used to be worshipped and feared but now wander the streets conning people into little acts of worship. And they are being challenged by the new gods–gods Read more…

Made me laugh

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I asked Alexander – who actually co-owns the Villa Caffe & Imbibery on Market Street with Robyn Murphy – what the dinner special was for the night. He replied spaghetti, which was thrilling news. After he submitted the order to Murphy in the back kitchen, he reappeared to explain he was in big trouble. Apparently, earlier in the day when Alexander asked her what was for dinner, “spaghetti” was actually THEIR dinner they would eventually enjoy upstairs in their residence. “Oh, I’m in big trouble. She’s quickly making you spaghetti. It will be out a few minutes,” he explained. via Read more…

When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques

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via amazon.com The World Trade Center, PLU, and City Club sponsored a lecture by Martin Jacques this morning. We were at the beautiful MOG theater and had a good-size crowd there. And the talk was fascinating. My first instinct when I heard the topic was “Isn’t that what everyone said about Japan 20 years ago?” But Jacques argument was rooted not in economic GDP data but history and other data that was fairly convincing. He touched on many themes including history, ethnicity, belief in the state, and others to suggest that as China modernizes they will not follow our model Read more…