Lost Wednesdays: The Candidate

Happy Cinco de Mayo!



WARNING: POST CONTAINS EPISODE SPOILERS

WTF, writers? W. T. F.?! Sun and Jin and Sayid and Frank in the span of, what, five minutes? All I said to M was, "If they kill Sawyer I quit. I don't even care what happens after that. I. Quit." His bemused smile told me he didn't exactly believe me. I'm sure he was imagining me in the other room, hands over eyes, demanding he tell me every thing taking place on screen--in detail. Let's all hope for his sake Sawyer doesn't bite it.

The Island's Braintrust

I really don't even know where to begin. I guess its pretty certain that Jack is the candidate and the one who will save all. There were so many "trust me"s and "I'll fix you"s getting thrown around I was starting to get dizzy. What the implications of Parallel Universe Locke being in a plane crash that he caused, which paralyzed him and rendered Anthony Cooper a vegetable, I have no idea. I wonder if Anthony is still the guy Sawyer is looking for in the alt reality. (Did it seem to anyone else that Bernard remembered something when talking to Jack or seemed to know a little of the bigger picture of all of them being on the same plane?)

Not necessary

So, yeah, I still don't think it's all sunk in. I did see the whole C4 bit coming when NotLocke handed Jack his pack, but what I don't totally get is why the bomb went off. Wouldn't it have been like Richard's dynamite? Just fizzling out? Why did Sawyer pulling those wires suddenly make it go off? Didn't get that, but I would appreciate it if anyone could enlighten me!

Jack walking into the water at the end gave a whole Jesus-John The Baptist vibe to all the goings on. His crying face was awful, though. And of course Kate's gunshot wound is non-fatal. The only wounded person in the sub and of course she makes it out alive. Ugh. So now we have to hope that somehow the alternate reality people get back to the island to fix all this mess but...can they? Or is "what's done is done"?

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner...?

Just one more question I had -- when everyone was getting into the sub and they were getting shot at by Widmore's guys why didn't NotLocke go all Smoke Monster on them? So many questions, although the previews for next week seem to make clear that there is a right and wrong side to be on in this whole mess--good and evil and all that jazz.

Thoughts?

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The Met Ball: The American Woman

The Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute benefit is always great fun--designers and models, stars and hundreds of amazing dresses. Okay, some not so amazing, but that's fun too, isn't it?

Glam Metallics and Sparkles

Jenny from the Block looking all grown up and fab in Zuhair Murad. For some reason I love J. Lo in these princess-y type dresses. When I was younger I thought this Badgley Mischka was the height of glam.

 

SJP in Halston

Marion Cotillard in Dior

Nicole Richie looking great in Marc

Jacobs. Looking forward to seeing

her bridal gown.

Lily Donaldson, a golden goddess

in Marc Jacobs.

Nicole's Oscar de la Renta SAG dress

makes another outing. I like it better on

Nicole and without the ribbon sash.

Jessica Alba rocking the old Hollywood

glam style in Sophie Theallet for Gap.

Black and Blue

Loving Sienna Miller in Pucci. Girl has some great shoes.

Lady O and Oscar

I'm not sure if I should, but I think

Mila Kunis looks great in her Vera Wang.

For once I am liking Renee in Carolina.

The cut still seems severe for her shoulders,

but I like the bottom detail.

*sigh*

Very Patriotic

Va-va-voom Donna!

Camille Belle's Jason Wu is simple and

elegant and she looks stunning and regal.

I'm not usually a huge Emmy Rossum fan,

although here I think she looks fresh

and adorable in Kenneth Cole.

DvF is a little too literal, I think.

Short and Sweet

Liu Wen in Naeem Khan and

Constance Jablonski in Jason Wu

Lily Collins in an adorable Chanel

Haute Couture gown.

Ladylike Menswear

I think only Zoe Kravitz (in Alexander

Wang for Gap) pulls it off. Alexa

Chung looks like the Colonel.

Flights of Fancy

Thandy Newton is gorgeous and I love

the way her green Solange Azagury-Partridge

jewels play off the fuschia of her dress.

I like Coco Rocha's Zac Posen.

Can't wait to see the wedding gown

he designs for her.

I think Elisa Sednaoui is gorgeous.

This Chanel frock, however, is not.

Maybe its the weird wing-train.

Really Zac? Really?!

Poor Doutzen Kroes.

What do you think of Anna and Bee's outfits?

I'm on the fence. Doesn't Bee's make her

waist look itty-bitty? They're wearing

Chanel and Balenciaga, respectively.

Gaga

Book of the Week: Past Imperfect

Good morning all! I've hit 200 followers -- what a great way to start the week! I want to thank you all for coming here, commenting and contributing. I have only been blogging for about four months, but I can't believe the change its already made in my life and all the wonderful people I've "met." So, really, thanks.

So down to business, this week's book is Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes. We are told the story from the perspective of a 60ish marginally successful writer who, in his youth, ran with London's young high society set. At the beginning of the novel the writer is summoned by an old friend and current enemy, Damian Baxter, who needs to ask a favour. During their youth the writer introduced Damian, charming but largely penniless, into the upper class London society Season. Much to his chagrin Damian was soon cutting a swath through the ladies of the group, breaking hearts left and right, including the protagonist's own life-long love Lady Serena Gresham.

As the novel opens Damian is a dying billionaire, he has lived up to all the expectations of his future greatness, but he is alone and unhappy. Baxter has received an anonymous letter letting him know he is a father and he sends the narrator on a quest to find out which of his past paramours mothered this child. The quest sends our narrator on a walk down memory lane, which for him is both poignant and nostalgic.

Fellowes, the screenwriter of Gosford Park, does the class novel well, masterfully evoking the nameless protagonist's ideal 1960s British upper class world. Whether this world only exists in hindsight is not clear, but it is fun to be transported for awhile. Sometimes you have to suspend disbelief--like these matrons being so ready to expose details of their pasts to someone they haven't seen in 40 years--but Fellowes prose makes this one a good read.

I was also totally psyched to open my email and find I had won a giveaway from the lovely Franki's Life in a Venti Cup! How cool is this prize?! Now I just have to choose the colours I want. You can visit her great store here. Thanks again Franki!