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Random Acts of Ali Larter: Subversive

Ali Larter pretending to be Allegra Coleman

Today, in our first reader-submitted Random Act of Ali Larter (thanks Stu!), Ali Larter is being subversive. Is it because being a “straight from the hip” kind of gal, there’s probably a few things she’d like to say about the producers of Heroes right now but can’t?

Maybe.

Is it because, while still a jobbing stage actress, she colluded with one of the writers of Esquire to satirise the reporting of celebrities – by pretending to be rising starlet and alleged girlfriend of David Schwimmer, Allegra Coleman, something only revealed to be a hoax by a later press release from the magazine? And despite that all being a hoax, it launched her career, inspired a book and even got a mention in Hitch?

I don’t think so. That was a while ago.

Or is it because she’s secretly siding with the Republicans who want to vote against Obama’s $825bn economic stimulus plan and destroy the world economy from within?

No. Actually, the first one seems more likely, so let’s go with that. What do you think?

Moving locations

The observant may have noticed that I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved the blog over to www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com from its old address – we’ve even got a shiny new favicon to celebrate. Fingers crossed, everything’s still working, but what probably won’t be working is that if you used “Remember personal information” , you’ll have to re-enter your name, etc, again. Sorry about that, but that’s cookies for you, but you should only need to enter the information once.

Let me know (by email if necessary) if anything more serious occurs. You might need to press refresh once as well, just to make sure everything’s updated. Sorry again, for that.

PS Links to the old URLs will still work, but if you want to update your links, that would be spiffy. Thanks!

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Review: Lost 5×1-5×2

Lost 5x1

In the US: Wednesdays, 9/8c, ABC
In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, Sky One. Starts 25th January 2009

Ah, don’t we all remember those glorious days when Lost was simple and easy to understand?

No? Just me? Oh wait, it was always a bit tricky, wasn’t it? Now I remember.

However, relative to season five, season one was a breeze where everything was clear, well understood and you wondered where all the mystery was. Ever since then, we’ve been getting flashforwards, flashbacks, time travel, ghosts, Jacob, the others, the Dharma Initiative, Jim from Neighbours, mysterious not-French women and smoke monsters.

Season five carries on directly from where season four left off. Except three years later. And in the 70s. And the 40s. And possibly in the year umtidllyumptious as well. The dead walk the earth and maybe come back to life. Yes, it’s the fabled zombie season, here at last.

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