Wednesday, March 11, 2009

50 words? Who the hell are You?

Amazing. You, Zach, of all people would presume to limit me to fifty words on why you should watch Lost? You of the twelve page blog post and the 10 minute voice mail messages?

Nonetheless here is an attempt.

You will appreciate the litany of literary references ranging from C.S. Lewis to Stephen King. You will also like the intentional lack of clarity. It is a show worth THINKING about while still being very entertaining. Finally, it is WAY better then NCIS.

There, 42 words. I also wanted to quibble with you about Studio 60. I really liked it but I think all of the criticisms of it were completely valid. Having a sketch comedy show without funny sketches was a big problem. Like I said I enjoyed it, but it was no where near as great as Sports Night and the first four seasons of the West Wing (though it was better then the last three).

I have to get back to work, so on the matter at hand i will only say that I would definitely be open to a conversation about the pluses and minuses of unionization. It seems to me that they have become as much a part of the structure of enforcing the status quo as any other unwieldy bureaucratic organization. This is not to say that they can not be positive or necessary but I would be careful about criticizing the powers that be without criticizing many of the big unions because in some cases they have become completely integrated into the powers that be.

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