Eric Krassinger

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Out enjoying some cold beers with my group.

Here is a link to a great article that Matt Smith posted on twitter. I have already forwarded this article to some people but thought I would make a post about it since I thought it was such well written and got such great response on it. It is great to see such a class act article written about St Louis and its stadium in such a big arena like the New York Times.

Everyone seems to think this was a mind blowing episode. To me, an avid Lost fan, this seemed like a pretty predictable episode except for a few parts. I guess the show does have to start wrapping things up at some point. The one thing that I have no clue what is going on is the deal with the Statue people. Who is this potential third group and when are we going to find out more about them? I sure hope we don’t have to wait till next season.

• I sure hope no one thought it was a surprise to find that Widmore was Faraday’s father. I pretty much thought this was a given once we found out that the connections with Eloise and that she was on the island.
• I along with other writers had theorized that Faraday was going to die soon because his story was coming to an end. I did not expect it to be this episode but was not surprised. What I am surprised is how it happened. Why did he go in all gun slinging and making threats? He was one person surrounded by everyone with guns? What were we to expect? I sure didn’t think that he was going to kill Richard.
• The interesting thing about Faraday and his mom is that it almost seems like she knows her past and that she killed her own son. It is a weird time loop that has been discussed a lot this year. Does not make a lot of sense yet.
• I have no clue what is going to happen to Sawyer and group. From the previews it looks like they are being sent back to the sub. Why are they just not executed? I do not think they will get on the sub so it makes me believe that it is possibly that we will skip back to 2008 the next time we see them.
• Why is Faraday losing his mind? Is it because he exposed himself to high radiation?
• The whole H-bomb concept is very interesting. Obviously Faraday did not know how Jack and the 05 got back so he is not part of the Statue cult. But it was theorized that he would be the island’s demise. I do not see it happening.
• We also found out that Widmore did stage the crash which I also hope everyone already knew.
• Why did Miles just not agree that he was his son? Does it have bad consequences if he knows that?
• There is a lot of talk about the Comicon video with Mile’s now revealed Dad. Was it Miles or Faraday shooting the video? It was after the incident so how could it be Faraday?
• I am not happy with the possibly cheesy way of them blowing the island up and everything resetting. As I said this would not happen but this would be such a cop out. They could do that next episode and the show could be over basically. Thus why it is not going to happen.

This was a weekend that I was looking forward to while also demising it. I was looking forward to it because it was supposed to be in the 80s plus the Cubs were in town. The Cubs are not in town over the weekend until September so I knew this might be the only warm time to go down to the ballpark for the good rivalry. The bad part was that I was just coming off a cold/flu/whatever where I was sick for the past 2 weeks. Plus (the real kicker) I had a 10 page paper due, a 10 page group paper, and presentation due for my Marketing class. I had not even started my individual paper.

I did not end up doing anything on Friday except watching NBA playoffs. I was exhausted from being sick so could not muster up the energy to do any homework.

I slept over 12 hours on Friday night. It was awesome. It was the first day I woke up feeling good in weeks. Unfortunately I did not feel like working so I went to Jeff’s for a “draft party.” Basically we drank and cooked on the grill while we watched the NFL draft and the Cards game. We then hurried to my place to meet up with a bunch of other people to go to PaddyO’s and Al’s after the game. All I can say is that it was packed and I (we) had way too much of a good time. I”l leave it at that. By the end of the night, the group of 10 guys was spread out all over the city for various reasons due to alcohol. Mike and I ended up at Harry’s because I knew some people there. It was insanely packed. I am guessing because of the Cubs in town plus it was probably the first warm Saturday of the year so everyone was out. There was attractive ladies all over the place and I ran into a lot of people that I knew. One of the highlights of the night that I can say in this blog was Mike’s (Mike #2 for some of my friends) drunkiness. He had no clue that we went to Paddyos and vaguely remembered going to Maurizo’s by himself. I went home and my friends kept strangling in through the night. I woke up to Mike talking excessively on the phone and found two girls passed out on my couches. That is a whole another story in itself.

I tried to do my papers on Sunday but was so tired from the very little sleep I got the night before. Instead I watched a lot of NBA playoffs and How the Earth was Made. I probably watched like 5 episodes. Since I am a slacker, I had to take off work to do my paper. Thankfully it is done. All I need to do is make a presentation tonight, make sure my Econ final is okay, and go to my Econ class on Wednesday and I will be done with school forever.

One word describes my weekend. It is disappointing. I have been sick since last Monday. I think it is the flu. I did not go out at all this weekend even though there was so much going on. I did not work on my 10 page term paper, 10 page group paper and presentation, nor my Econ final. I was hoping to have 2 of the 3 completed by now so I could enjoy the Cubs being in town next weekend (it looks like it might hit 80 next weekend). Instead I watched a ton of NHL and NBA playoffs, a couple Cards game, and a lot of Civilization 4. The Blues and Cards lost both games this weekend thus adding to my disappointment. At least the Lakers won which is almost automatic. I also watched Stardust on Showtime again. It really is one of my favorite movies.

Weekend

I went to our first Cardinals game of the season with the group. Our seats are in the back row in the lower bowl by the right field foul pole. They are pretty good seats. They would be especially good if it happened to rain since we are under the overhang. I did drink way too much that night. We went to Paddy O’s afterwards for a little bit then went to Rue 13 for 80’s night. It was an extremely late night. I stayed in Saturday night because of that. I watched Doubt. I was not impressed. My streak of seeing bad movies continues.

Blues

The first Blues playoff game was a disappointment. I was not that familiar with Vancouver before last night’s game. I was really upset and insulted when I saw that every ESPN analyst picked Vancouver to win (most in 5 games). I did not know that Vancouver was on a similar hot streak as the Blues plus they have a super hot goalie. The Blues did not have a lot of pressure on Luongo but he did make excellence saves (as Mason did also) that provided Vancouver with the win. Overall it was a very entertaining game due to its feistiness. Jackman was really getting in the middle of everything. I believe the Blues downfall that game was not scoring on the 2 man advantage and only scoring on 1 of the many powerplays. I am also very scared of the Sedin twins. That line was skating circle around us with the help of Demitra. I thought all along that we only needed to win 1 of the first two games due to our great home crowd.

Lost

Last nights episode of Lost was pretty entertaining. Like other people have indicated, these past 3 episodes all seem to be setup episodes for something greater to come. Unfortunately, we will not find out for another two weeks since there is a “clip show” next week. Below are my thoughts on the episode:

• Widmore did not hire “the Shadow of the Statue” people. I am going with the idea that they are the original people from the island. My only problem that contradicts this is that I think Richard is part of this group. I read an interesting theory that Richard is not on any side and is basically an intermediary that tries to help the “sides.”
• Miles is the son of Dr Chang. The weird possibility about this finding is that it is possible that Miles tells Dr Chang that the Purge is coming which basically saves his life and his mothers.
• Hurley is starting to be one of my favorite characters. He really is funny plus he says what everything is thinking and writing about in the various Lost blogs.
• Faraday did not go crazy. He must have gone back on the sub when Sawyer and Juliet had the chance 3 years ago. What I found weird about his moment was how cocky he appeared when he said hi to Miles.
• Pretty awesome that one of the workers died by basically having is whole filling pulled out of his head via his brain courtesy of the giant unknown magnet.

Random Thoughts

• Why do I have this cold (or whatever it is)? It is the worst timing.
• I am not sure about my fantasy team. The hitters stepped it up big time this week but my pitching still seems to be my weakness even though it should be my strong point. I only have the two Cy Young award winners from last year and a bunch of other great pitchers and closers.
• Only 4 sessions (2 weeks) left in grad school forever!
• I am not pleased with my phone. I have extreme memory leakage. I am confused about several things. I am reading forums about other peoples Bolds and they are talking about 128MB of memory where I only have 28 after a restart and goes down to 0 by the end of the day. I am only running WeatheEye, Twitterberry, Facebook, and Google Maps as of right now. I seem to be a lot worse than everybody else. I am going to probably exchange it for a new one if the backup feature in Blackberry Desktop allows me to easily transfer all my stuff from one to another.

TV Shows

We have been treated to a lot of new shows in the past two or three weeks. Below is what I am watching.

Tudors – I am watching this show just because there is not much else on Sundays lately. I gave up on it last year. It is okay but I am not sure how a show like this could get renewed when Rome, Deadwood, and Carnivale can not.

Unusuals and Southland – The thing that upsets me about these two cop shows is that both main characters have a rich past. We haven’t got the full details in Southland but it sounds like his daddy is rich too. So basically the only difference is that one is based in LA and the other New York … imagine that. Unusuals has more of an interesting storyline and I prefer ABC shows so this is my favorite so far. I also have branded the OC guy in Southland with his image from OC so I have a hard time taking him seriously.

Better of Ted – I did not like the first episode but I have grown to love this show. It really is funny. I like their fake commercials. With that said, I do not expect this show to make it.

Surviving Suburbia – I watch this show only because of Bob Saget. It has its funny moments but this show will not make it past the first season.

Kings – By far the best new show on TV. It has everything I like. I also like “Al Swearengen” in this role.

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Matt putting on his shoes