This bit from Alan Sepinwall’s review of the last episode of Lost is key to why I loved it, and the series as a whole. “Ultimately, “Lost” didn’t succeed because of the mythology. We’ve seen too many examples of mythology-heavy, character-light series fail over the last six years to think that. “Lost” succeeded on emotion, whether […]
On this trip I’m reading The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan. I’m just at the beginning, where he is talking about apples and John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed). Historical books have always interested me (as do historical novels with a wee bit of fiction in them) and so I find this part especially fascinating. […]