Is Lost great or what!

This season has been really quality so far, don't you agree?  What an excellent show!  My brain is too lazy to THEORIZE now, so here are some of my general THOUGHTS on the last couple episodes:

• I'm liking the alterna-timeline stuff.  What a great idea that was, writers of Lost!  I like how the differences between the two realities were quite subtle at first (the flight attendant gives Jack two bottles of vodka instead of one) but are getting progressively wackier (Locke's dad apparently didn't steal his kidney and shove him out of an eight-story window, and Jack has a teenage son who is just as sullen and irritable as his father whaaaaaaaaaaaaat) as time goes on.  
• I'm also loving all the Season 1-Season 6 mirror stuff.  Very Harry Potter.
• I'm fine with how people who knew each other on the island pre-Incident keep bumping into other island folks, cause that sort of thing happens all the time no duh, but what was up with Dogen being in the alterna-timeline?  I'm not sure why but that just doesn't make any sort of sense, even by Lost standards!
• It's nice to have Claire back, but does she really have to be a crazy axe-murderer?  I don't want Jin to die.  Kate, sure, but not Jin.
• What about Widmore?  Why hasn't he been mentioned AT ALL in the past, oh, 15-20 episodes??  Is he the guy Jacob says is coming to the island???  Should I even care????
• Miles has had, like, TWO LINES this season.  Not cool, writers of Lost.

And here are some non-plot-related Lost things:

• I didn't know this until surprisingly recently, but Jack's tears have a NAME (jears!), a Facebook page, and a neat video.
• Geronimo Jack's Beard is the best portmanteau I have ever heard, and it is also a pretty cool podcast that Jorge Garcia does.  Jorge Garcia, the guy who plays Hurley!  It's basically just Jorge Garcia (who, by the way, has been killing it lately) and his lady friend chatting about the mysteries of Lost, as people on a Lost podcast are wont to do, but WITH A TWIST because he's actually on the show and he reads the scripts and stuff. 
• I'm kind of glad Michael is no longer on the show, to be honest.
• This is old, but the Lost art show is still great.
• And also, this Lost subway map.

A list of my favorite rom-coms

Just in time for the day after Valentine's Day!

I didn't include anything that doesn't fit my own strict definition of what a rom-com is, which is basically "a movie that is somewhere between Legally Blonde and About a Boy."  Obviously, not every movie that is both romantic and comedic is a rom-com, no duh.  Several movies that I love have been left out because they do not fit these rigid requirements.  For example, Pretty in Pink (too many teenagers), The Princess Bride (too much adventure), Amélie (too French), The Science of Sleep (also too French), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (too sad), Benny and Joon (too much mental-patient-as-love-interest) and Chocolat (too serious) are NOT ROM-COMS.  Got it?  Okay.  Here are my 14 favorite rom-coms! 

1.  About a Boy -What a great movie this is!  Probably the best thing Hugh Grant, the KING of rom-coms, has ever done, and possibly the best thing Nicholas Hoult, aka Tony from Skins, has ever done (is About a Boy better than series one and two of Skins?  WHO KNOWS!!!)  Seriously, so great though.  Oh, and kahdooze to the ladies in About a Boy.  It is, after all, a rom-com, and not just a heart-warming tale of friendship between a lonely man and a misfit child.

2.  Love Actually - Some people say this one is a bit dumb or unrealistic, to which I say "yeah, but whatever!"  It's got everything you want from a rom-com - Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, romance, comedy, Bill Nighy (?), and happy endings for everyone!  Yay!

3.  Bridget Jones's Diary - Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, killing it again here.  Both true masters of the art of rom-com. 

4.  High Fidelity - John Cusack, another master of the form, at his rom-commiest best (Say Anything is also pretty great, but it has the same problem as Pretty in Pink [re: teenagers]).  

5.  My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Great movie!  Lots of quality laughs.  FUN FACT: this is the only rom-com on my list with Joey "the Fat One" Fatone of N*SYNC in it!

6.  Knocked Up - I feel like this one barely qualifies since it's so Judd Apatow-y and it's almost too funny.  But Katherine Heigl has been in nothing but rom-coms, so sure, this works.

7.  10 Things I Hate About You - Heath Ledger probably could have become a rom-com legend if, you know, he didn't die or whatever.

8.  The Wedding Singer - Adam Sandler is always trying to make SERIOUS ROM-COMS and usually they are pretty bad, but I like this one. 

9.  Legally Blonde -Classic!

10.  Miss Congeniality - Also a classic!

11.  13 Going on 30 - This one is also pretty good!

12.  Ghost Town - Perfectly nice movie.  Not sure if I buy Ricky Gervais' attempts at becoming a ROM-COM LEADING MAN, though.  That's hard to pull off even when one is not a chubby little fat man.

13.  (500) Days of Summer -Very cute, but we'll have to wait and see if it becomes a CLASSIC.

14.  Serendipity - Some people might think this one is very stupid, but I like it. 

HONORARY MENTION:  Moonstruck, because it's my mom's favorite movie.