Chris

Chris

This is the hallowed hall of posts from the past. Though ye may sift and sort, there's no guarantee of treasure.

Archived posts from 2010

Lost: The Outsider’s Investigative Report

Like most of you out there in this god-forsaken world, I too have seen many of today’s sharpest minds held captive by the unending story arc of Lost, ABC’s nearly six-year-old tale of plane-wrecked survivors living on (escaping from?) some haunted isle in the middle of a nameless sea. As you might have gathered from [...]

Posted on February 1st, 2010

The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode One

Breaking bread and drinking from Lost’s cup. I’m two hours into Lost’s final season and I already feel as though I’m trifling with a world of which I know too little. I have stumbled upon an ancient book of spells in the forgotten wing of the library and conjured the road to hell with a [...]

Posted on February 3rd, 2010

One Year Later and a Father’s Day Memory

I winked out of existence more than two months ago, consumed by a fever dream brought on by the LOST craze and personal pressure to finish a side project long in the making, and now I’m back in time to observe the anniversary post of this humble blog. Look! I made it a year and [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2010

The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode Five

Sayid wants to be good, but boy can he be so bad. I’m standing and looking out my window now, hardly watching the TV turned on beside me. The gray ceiling of Chicago winter feels exceptionally oppressive this evening. It reflects the sallow glow of street lamps, turning dirty piles of snow into diseased scoops [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2010