Hi folks. Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here again. This time I’m interviewing the undisputed star of Sundown, the frying pan Keamy used to make his eggs in the sideways timeline.

Keamy’s Frying Pan, glad you could make it.

Eggs-cuse my lateness. Frank Lapidus lent me his alarm clock. Stupid thing doesn’t work at all.

That’s all right.  How did–

These questions aren’t going to be too tough, are they? I’m totally fried.

Big night last night?

Boy, you said it. I’m eggs-hausted. Ever since Keamy was eggs-ecuted by Sayid in Sundown, I’ve been trying to keep the kitchen from getting too scrambled. It’s eggs-asperating dealing with some of those utensils. You know what they’re like, Muffins. You try to set a good egg-sample, you egg-spect the others to follow your lead. And then the cheese grater and the meat tenderizer egg-schange blows over the waffle iron. I’m not eggs-aggerating. Frankly, I feel a little eggs-ploited.

Um… you’re not going to keep doing this through the interview, are you?

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One of my favorite LOST art forms are vids, basically music videos created by using clips of LOST.  Once a week, on LOST day, I’ll be posting a few of my favorite fan vids primarily collected from LOST Video Island – a site dedicated to hosting, viewing and “grading” vids.  [I HIGHLY recommend this site if you want to see LOTS of fun and interesting fan art!]

Since I have been accused of having a “Jack Bias” (a well-founded accustation!), I will make every effort to include as diverse a selection of losties as I can! Promise!

Today’s vid selections:  Sawyer, The Others, Desmond & Penny, Kate and Jack.

Featured vid: John & Ben “Ooh De Lally” (Disney’s Robin Hood theme song-Comedy)

John and Ben bond male-style as they hike through the forest.

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Disney Petition:  The Epic Journey Comes To An End

For those of you who don’t know the particulars:  LOSTblog’s very own Jon was the “hard core” LOST fan behind the Petition to ABC/Disney for LOST Themed Ride.  I suggested to Jon that since I was in Hawa’i and definitely going to the beach premiere, I’d be happy to try to present the petition to Damon and Carlton if I could.  Jon thought that might be cool, so once the signature reached a total of 4815, he sent me the file, I created a binder and we did everything we could to infiltrate the very thick layer of peeps around Team Darlton.

Long story short, we ALMOST got it to them!  Karen from Karen’s Lost Notebook hung out with me behind the screen while we waited for “official” word about what was to be.  Karen did “make it in” with the petition in hand, but in the hurry and chaos of scooting all the VIPs off the beach after the premiere ended, she couldn’t connect with Damon and Carlton.   [Many, many thanks to Karen for giving it a go! We appreciate your participation and enthusiasm!]

Undaunted, and irked, I reconnected with a very kind ABC publicity peep (the ABC spokesperson who contributed to the brief write up I did of the premiere) via email, and she offered to receive the petition in the mail and make sure it got sent directly to our boys.  Today I got email confirmation that, YES, that darn thing made it to Darlton’s offices.  No word on any personal reaction or any public comments about the petition. HOWEVER, I’m definitely proud that Paul Scheer brought up the LOST ride idea at the Paley fest!  (I’m also happy they think it’s as funny as we do!)

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Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here again. A timely interview this time around with yet another inanimate object from the Lost island. Welcome back, Shannon’s Asthma Inhaler…

So, long time no see…

Boy, you said it. Way back in Season One for me. Shannon just dropped me on the ground, which led to Sawyer being tortured by Sayid, because they thought he’d taken me.

And you’ve been sitting there ever since?

Oh no. Not at all. After that, Nikki and Paulo found me and threw me away even further. Those jerks. A little while later, the Hurley Bird came along and picked me up and flew off. I think it was going to take me to its nest, but on the way back, it bumped into Room 23, having been summoned there by Walt. Stunned, the Hurley Bird flew off, leaving me behind. Tom found me and put me in the Lost and Found drawer in the sheriff’s office. Ben, the big liar, claimed I belonged to him and pocketed me. When he went to visit Mikhail he gave me to him as a peace offering. Later, Ben convinced Mikhail that he (Mikhail) owed him (Ben) a favor and talked him into trying to stop Charlie and Desmond from turning off the Looking Glass station. In fact, Mikhail used me to help him hold his breath long enough to get down there and cause all his mischief.

But how did–

Of course, once he died, I was eaten by the DHARMA shark, which was then caught and released by Charlotte, who was fishing from the edge of the freighter just off the island. The shark coughed me straight back into Lapidus’s lap. So he and the others brought me with them when they flew into the island. Sayid found me in the helicopter and when he went to New Otherton, he didn’t just trade Miles for Kate, he also traded me! Locke gave me to Karl, who, he said, looked as if he could use me. Then when Keamy shot Karl and Rousseau fleeing through the jungle and buried them, he (Keamy) salvaged me and kept me in his pocket. But when Ben unleashed the Smoke Monster on him after he also killed Alex, he fled into the jungle, where he dropped me almost exactly where Shannon had dropped me in the first place. And that’s where Hurley and Jack found me.

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I say pshaw! to Jeff “Doc” Jensen and his awesome, yet flawed, allusion to Huey Lewis and the News as a soundtrack to LOST.  While I agree with Dan Snierson that ‘Fore’ isn’t even spelled right, and I love Rush, he’s also sadly mistaken.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll restate it here, The Spine (released in 2004) has my vote for the Unofficial Soundtrack of LOST.

While the unofficial tome of LOST greatness is indubitably LOSTpedia, I will be quoting seriously from the unofficial tome of TMBG (four letters compared to 19 letters) greatness, This Might Be a Wiki.

Before diving into the deep unsettling greatness of The Spine, I’m gonna settle in with TMBG’s 2008 release of Here Come the 123’s.  It’s masked as an album for kids, helping with numbers and math, very Schoolhouse Rock-esque with a punk back beat.  Two tracks come to mind, Apartment Four and  Figure Eight. The lyric “Just follow the sound, That’s where the four is found” reminds me of the smoke monster sound, and who is the smoke monster? Locke.  What’s his number? 4. I could close the case right here, n’est pas?  Continuing the theme, Figure Eight is a homage to the number eight, that when tilted to the side, or skated on the ice is the figure of infinity, repeating forever, loopy.  Remind you of a little game between say, number four (Locke, Smoke Monster, MiB) and his nemesis Jacob, the guy that sends his calling card (the Ankh, symbol of eternal life) in a guitar case with Hugo Hurley Reyes, who’s number is… 8.

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Another snappy re-cap by the not at all artistically limited DivaHeatherMac

Thanks to @DarkUFO for the heads up

Hi folks. Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here again. It’s time for another interview with an inanimate object from the Lost island. This time around? The Circle of Ash

Circle of Ash, thanks for your time. We first saw you way back in Season Three surrounding Jacob’s cabin–

Surrounding somebody’s cabin. Not necessarily Jacob’s.

Of course. We first saw you back then surrounding somebody’s cabin and immediately wondered what your purpose was. And then in the Season Six premiere we saw that you served as protection from the Smoke Monster. Is it fair to say you’re just a low-tech version of the sonic fence?

Humph. I prefer to think of the sonic fence as an overly elaborate version of me. I have many advantages over the sonic fence. I’m portable. Anybody can carry some ash around and form a circle anywhere on the island. That’s more convenient than a ridiculously large sonic fence. Also, you can’t just saunter past me with a pair of ear plugs.

But you didn’t help Bram much when the Smoke Monster attacked him in the four toed foot?

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Sure, it’s the Muppet, but come on, you follow all sorts of interesting characters on Facebook, don’t you?  Thanks to our friend JOpinionated for this link, it’s a hoot!

These are HILARIOUS! Artist Lee Bretschneider has created some exactly-right Valentines for the LOST lovers in your life!

See the rest here and don’t miss any of them!

This is the theory, by Anne Elk (Miss)

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Between the Bud Light commercial on CBS and Jimmy Fallon’s parody on NBC, I’m positive that Jacob works for ABC publicity and is playing jedi-mind tricks to get all of this free publicity.

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Thanks to a pre-coffee discussion with @badm0mbot on Twitter, my mind in a serious caffeine deficit jumped to this conclusion: LOST is based on They Might Be Giants lyrics!

First proof: Particle Man (lyrics)

A story of four different “men” (or is it mans?).  Particle Man seems to be not fixed in time or space, “Is he a dot, or is he a speck? when he’s underwater does he get wet?”  I think that’s pointing to Desmond, but I could be persuaded that it’s Daniel given that he went underwater in a submarine and didn’t get wet.

Triangle man seems to hate everybody.  So I’m thinking Triangle Man is Smokey/MiB.  He picks fights with Particle Man and later with Person Man (Is he depressed, is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless?).  Person Man also lives in a garbage can.  So Person Man is obviously John Locke (Triangle Man fights Person Man, Triangle wins).

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Hi everybody. Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here again. Following on from my less-than-successful interview with the Sonic Fence Ear Plugs, I decided to turn my charred attention to a more recent prop: Hurley’s Guitar Case

Hurley’s Guitar Case, how are you?

I’m sorry. I was happy to be referred to as a ‘guitar case’ last season. Help with the mystery and suspense and that. Fine. Whatever. But now that my contents have been revealed, I don’t want to be referred to as a ‘guitar case’ any longer. I’m a bloody ankh god, I am.

Oo-kay. So I take it you knew the ankh was inside you all along?

Yep. All last year with everybody speculating ‘What’s in the guitar case?’, I was just sitting back, grinning, thinking ‘I know and you’re all wrong’. It was fun being so incredibly smug and all-knowing. Now I know how Damon and Carlton feel.

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Hi. Juliet’s Smokin’ Muffins here with the first of hopefully many interviews with some of the less-appreciated props and objects from Lost.

First up, the ear plugs that Amy used to walk through the sonic fence unharmed in ‘LaFleur’

1. You’ve obviously worked closely with the sonic fence over the years. Can you tell us how exactly it repels the Smoke Monster? Does it play hypersonic awful boy band music?

I’m sorry. What?

2. If the Smoke Monster can take human form, why doesn’t it just pop you in its ears and walk through the sonic fence?

Are you talking to me? I can’t hear a word you’re saying.

3. How did Mikhail survive going through the fence? Was he secretly wearing you? Or is he just stupidly hard to kill?

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