Bros Watch Forever: Religion and TV

From American Public Media's Speaking of Faith, an hour-long radio show about religion and television:

Diane Winston appreciates good television, studies it, and brings many of its creators into her religion and media classes at the University of Southern California. In what some have called a renaissance in television drama, we examine how TV is helping us tell our story and work through great confusions in contemporary life. And, we play clips from The Wire, House, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica.

Let me tell you, this Diane Winston loves Battlestar Galactica. And for that I love her. That she also loves The Sopranos, Dexter, Lost, makes me like her even more. I think my real job calling is a television studies professor.

Speaking of Faith: Link

Goodbye America!

While I was talking to my family about flying to China, they said they hoped that I wouldn't crash and that I would get there safely. So great, my family loves me, but their well wishes made me start thinking about LOST. Cause you know, flying from Chicago to Shanghai, I must fly over some exotic Pacific islands that could be magical. And if I did, I would sure hope that I would have the good luck of the magnetic field of the island causing my plane to crash but for me to magically survive.

Turns out my hoped for flight path was the opposite of where I will actually be flying above. As you can see by the map below, I won't be flying over the Pacific at all. More likely, when I look out my window, if I see any body of water it will be the Arctic Ocean. Now, at first I was rather dejected, no LOST LARP for Alex. But then I thought, "Alex, it's the Arctic Ocean!"

So, what does the Arctic Ocean hold in store? Will there be a crash? Other's? Perhaps they are they legend Eskimos!? I will report what I see in the arctic once I'm in Shanghai.