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Just when you thought you “knew” what was going on…

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Looks like some of our favorites might be making a return from the dead?!
Claire. Charlie. Shannon. Michael. Ana Lucia. Mr. Eko. John. Libby. Boone.
And what about “blown-to-smitherines” Arzt???… will he be “put back together” again?
(Sadly, I don’t see my favorite, and presumably also exploded, Juliet in the picture?!)
But does that also mean that all of “The Others” who died might be back too?!
Mikhail. Goodwin. Ethan. Mr. Friendly. Ms. Klugh… and ultimately, Jacob???

Another great (and sadly final) season of “LOST” begins tonight with three hours of fun!
Here’s to hoping we get a few answers this season.. and that some of my “predictions”
turn out to be correct… and that we might FINALLY get see more about Libby’s backstory!
Just when she was getting interesting… she’s killed & off the show!!!
But now she might be back?!

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They’re back… and I can’t wait.

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Only sixteen more days… and still counting…

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So I was just adding some dates to my calendar… classes… art fairs… deadlines…
and just realized that the much-discussed & President-bumping premiere
of “LOST” Season Six is on Tuesday, February 2nd… February second…
which is also Groundhog’s Day!!!

Have you seen the movie?!
The one with Bill Murray where he keeps waking up at the same time & same day
and it is Groundhog’s Day over… and over… and over again. Things keep repeating.
Slight changes have huge impact on the outcome of his day… the same day!
Over… and over… and over again!  Like his personal “time continuum” is skipping
like a record…  hmmm…. sound familiar here?

Coincidence?…  I doubt it.
Nothing is a coincidence with these people.

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Okay… so many of you by now know that I lead a very simple life.
I don’t read the newspaper. I don’t watch the news. I don’t do politics, sports or religion.
But when it starts to interfere with my TV obsessions… watch out!!!

So when “word on the street” started up and they were saying that Obama’s speech
might interfere with the 3-hour premiere night of fun of the final season of “LOST”…
I was a bit concerned. And so were many other “LOST” fans… so now the next installment…

According to “The Huffington Post”
forwarded by my friend & fellow “LOST” fan Emily…

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was coy on Friday when it came to offering
a date for the President to deliver the upcoming State of the Union Address. He deflected
questions as to whether the speech before a bicameral gathering of Congress would take
place in January or February and only smiled suggestively when asked whether President
Obama was waiting until health care reform was passed first.

But the press secretary did rule out one possible SOTU date — much to the delight of a
major television network. The speech, Gibbs said, would not take place on the same night
as the three-hour premiere of the final season of ABC’s “Lost”.

“I don’t foresee a scenario in which millions people who hope to finally get some
conclusion with ‘Lost’ are pre-empted by the President,” he said. “You can quote
a senior administration official.”

That response came to a question poised by a noticeably anxious ABC Radio’s
Ann Compton. But — in a reflection of just how freaked out the network is about
a SOTU-”Lost” duel — it didn’t put an end to the concerns.

Towards the end of the briefing, an AP radio reporter asked “on Ann’s behalf” whether
February 2 (the date of the premiere) “was definitely not it for the State of the Union address?”
Gibbs confirmed that to be true, while expressing his “love that all of the sudden ABC [news]
is asking on behalf of ABC [the network].”

At which point a third ABC reporter, White House correspondent Jake Tapper,
chimed in: “How about on behalf of the Dharma Initiative.”

Today’s score?…   Obama: Zero… “The Others”: One
And that’s just a little too close to tap-dancing on the politics line for me! Whew…

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So while the TV networks deal with those yahoos in Washington
about the schedule for the State Of The Union Address…
another one of my favorite shows announced its cast for the 20th anniversary edition
of Survivor. And this time the two tribes will be divided by “Heroes vs. Villains.”
Which is pretty easy to do… since all the players this season being returning castaways!
We’ve seen all of them before. We know how they play the game. We know their strengths.
We know their weaknesses. But how will they need to “change their game”
to keep the others off guard and make it to the end?!

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Mark your calendars… Survivor Heroes vs. Villains premieres on Thursday, February 11th.
Unless some political muckity-muck decides to spout off again?!…

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Word on the street… a little more than a rumor at this point…
with no confirmation from ABC… and I’m not happy about this…
but President Barack Obama’s “State Of The Union Address” was announced today
and it is the same night as the “LOST” three-hour premiere event!!!

Say it isn’t so… where are their priorities?!

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Mark your calendars…
Only 51 days until the premiere of the last & final season of “LOST”.
And here’s a little glimpse of this season’s poster… not sure what any of it means?!

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From my recollection, here’s the list of characters shown on the poster from left to right…
some dead, some alive, some “who-knows-anymore-on-this-crazy-Island”?!!!

Daniel, Boone, Miles, Michael, Ana Lucia, Charlotte, Frank, Shannon, Desmond, Mr. Eko,
Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Locke, Benjamin Linus, Sayid, Libby, Sun, Jin, Claire, Hurley, Juliet,
Charlie, Richard Alpert, Bernard, Rose, Vincent.

Yep… I think that’s Libby in the mix?! maybe I’m wrong?! but who else?… Nikki?
I’m so excited…  I can’t wait…  but I can…  I have to…  51 days and counting…

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010let the games begin…