What’s Kathy G. going to do once she is a billionairess. Can she maintain her underdog act once she can buy and sell Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and (if they were alive) Merv Griffin and Aaron Spelling added together ten times over?

This is indeed something I’m concerned about. Stay tuned to this blog.

i like this comment from the article about kathy and the woz…

“I love Kathy. She’s got the balls to tell it the way it is. If you can’t take that, you can suck it. Although not literally because I’m kinda picky about who does that and you are probably really gross.”

And not to change the subject (which, I realize, always precedes a change of subject), those who know me, know that I am obsessed with my iPhone and I’m very disturbed by NBC’s attack on Apple (iTunes, to be specific). Under their new plan, I will not be able to watch their shows on my little wide screen beauty. So far I have caught up on Heroes, and am 2 and 2/3 of the way up to speed on Lost (from a standing start) by using my lunch hour time. I would think TV reviewers would also benefit from this. Battlestar Gallactica next…

By the way(a little more direct than ‘not to change the subject’), has anyone else commented on the name references in Lost? Desmond, the ‘out of time’ experiencer of past and future is actually named ‘Desmond David Hume’. Are there any philosophy students out there that can connect the 18th Century Philosopher’s relevance to the Lost mystery? Also I just met the Russian inhabitant of the last Dharma communication outpost, who identifies himself as ‘Mikhail Bakunin’. Maggie should be able to explain to everyone who he was.

I believe the use of actual names for characters was pioneered by Mr. A. Sorkin. There is a more common tendency to use one name of a well known person to suggest a backstory or attitude for a character. Can’t think of any at the moment but I believe this was a technique not unknown to Madam Palladino. Anyone remember one?

Well, there was the well-regarded humanist philosopher Barbarino, but I’m not sure how relevant that is.

“I would think TV reviewers would also benefit from this.”

…does this mean you’re sending iPhones to your four favorite TV bloggers, Dad?

Can I call you Dad?

I suggest you look into the new Nano’s, son.

Maggie’s Dad, I’m sure everyone is happy to welcome you to the Battlestar fold (oh, you will suffer with us soon!) but I, for one, wouldn’t want to watch the show for the first time on an iPhone. The design elements of the show and the special effects are pretty spectacular (they got their only Emmy this year for the latter) and definitely benefit from at least a full-sized TV.

That said, Roommate and I were quite happy watching the early episodes of season 3 on press preview discs that didn’t have finished effects, since we were catching up on the whole series last fall. One extremely important action element happened and there was literally a card saying “insert Galactica here.” Eh.

At least I’m not as bad off as Dan with his little Nano…

But more importantly…

OMG! I’m sitting here at lunch hour in my little hideaway watching the intrepid Losters make their way from the destroyed communications outpost to the Others when Bakunin explains that he ‘knows You, John Locke’. And I think, “of course, he’s John Locke! Locke and Hume, whose next, Rousseau?” OMG, then she pipes up!!! What is up with this???

Edits: ‘Who’s next” and strike the second OMG.

Oh, if Dan ever gets around to Battlestar he’ll want a big TV as soon as he meets the dreamboats we like to call Helo, Apollo, and Anders.

I’m not buying Dan a big TV either…

You’re a mean dad.

Now I’m going to join a gang.

It’s Tough Love. But OK, I’ll send you a switch blade.