Morning in Red Sox Nation...

Would you believe I went to sleep last night tired enough that I forgot to check the current score? I ascribe it in part to my instinctive knowledge that the Sox could not possibly win the World Series.

I'm still not 100% sure that Derek Jeter won't fly around the Earth backwards and reverse the pennant win....

Mythological Lost?

Because the Globe only keeps these stories up for two days, I wanted to show this off here for a couple more (before I take it down) so that my friends who are getting into Lost can read and enjoy. Not spoilery at all that I can see, and it makes a few good points about why the show is attracting so much fannish interest:

Getting 'Lost'
Show pursues TV's most elusive genre -- mythology. Or maybe that's not it all.
By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | October 27, 2004

On "Lost," 46 plane-crash survivors are stuck on a remote Pacific island. Or at least they might be survivors; they might also be souls in purgatory, hovering between heaven and hell, defending their lives on the sands of judgment. Or at least they might be on a sandy island; they might also be inside a "Truman Show" --like zoo, or on a planet where polar bears thrive in tropical climates. If indeed those beasts in the "Lost" forest are bears, and not emissaries of God, or grotesque alien creatures, or Mulder, Scully, and the Log Lady on a journey to the Hellmouth.
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High Stakes 2004 Redux

And this just in, word that should be passed on for those who were intrigued by the idea of the Joss Whedon fundraiser for Kerry-Edwards --

Here is a special offer that I wanted to get out to all of you as party hosts. Can you also send this to all your High Stakes party attendees and those who just weren't able to make it and were bummed about it anywhere in the USA. Here is your (and their) opportunity to share in the fun. Just remember that image of a tiny closet with all these folks together (with me! gulp) when you hear the conversation. It was really, really small in there. And, Nathan Fillion took pictures which are hoping to put up on www.highstakes2004.com soon. So here is the information:
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