“Lost” haikus (Season 1)

Alex and I have waited ’til now to watch LOST. We’ve watched several episodes, and her crackpot idea was to write a haiku about each one. Her crackpot ideas tend to be awesome.

Anyway, here are the first seven, plus a limerick I wrote out of the normal sequence, and an extra haiku she wrote. I’ll post the rest as we go.

S1E1 (Pilot, Part 1)
Me: Alex
How did we survive?
Everybody’s dead except
trendy stereotypes
It’s New Zealand, right?
Ents gone berserk! Cute doctor…
now please kill Shannon.


S1E2 (Pilot, Part 2)
Me: Alex
So Kate’s got secrets.
Party of Five Guy won’t care
after her bath scene.
Baldy should have packed
his Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Sushi on the beach!


S1E3 (“Tabula Rasa“)
Me: Alex
Jack finally gets some
moral ambiguity.
Sawyer’s a bad shot.
Secrets will blow up…
Do whistles call polar bears?
Kate–WHAT DID YOU DO?!


S1E4 (“Walkabout“)
Me: Alex
Locke’s legs work again.
Jack sees some guy in a suit.
(There’s still a monster!)
Charlie’s out of blow;
John Locke don’t need no wheelchair
to hunt for wild boar


S1E5 (“White Rabbit“)
Me: Alex
Drama for the stars,
dwindling life expectancy
for forty extras.
Worst Lifeguard Ever!
Jack’s dad’s corpse leads to water…
Still hate Sawyer most.


S1E6 (“House of the Rising Sun“)
Me: Alex
Asian girl is sad.
Asian guy likes whacking fish
and drowning Black guys.
Koreans’ bad blood,
More yin-yang in the forest
while beachies sit tight

S1E7 (“The Moth“)
Me: Alex
Charlie’s got the shakes
The signal thing worked somehow
(moth is symbolic)
Withdrawal sure sucks
And so does being useless
So Go Charlie Go!
Supplementary Items
Me: Alex
One survivor for each demographic
(not one of which, so far, is Sapphic)
the sex is just flirting
the violence just hurting
but the plot exposition is graphic
Hurley, we love you!
When do we hear your story?
Will we like you less?

Accidental Poetry & Hellboy 2 review


unrelated Moses picture

So I was websurfing, looking for Pixies tabs, when I stumbled across the following, in a bass tab for “Isla de la Encanta”:

You really should be abel
to tell when to play what. 

Is that not some awesome stuff? It’s unintentionally haiku-esque. It’s profound. It’s just plain good advice. I especially like the (probably also unintentional, but still cool) alternate spelling of “able.” The line break is even in the original!

In other news, Alex and I saw Hellboy 2 last night.

Review: meh. sokay. 2 1/2 stars (out of 4).