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"Fortunately for Jack, a Thai woman comes to help him. Unfortunately for all of us, that woman is the Bai Ling. "Before I go any further, Bai Ling. What is a Bai Ling, and why should we care, many of you will ask. The answer to both questions, I'm afraid, is I don't know. "From what I can gather, a Bai Ling is a mysterious and powerful creature who manages to get herself invited to any event in Hollywood that has a red carpet and phalanx of paparazzi. No one is sure what it is that she has actually done to warrant being invited to these events. Some suspect that she just shows up, and no one wants to be rude and tell her to go home and put on some pants. I'm beginning to fear that she has the power of mind control, and has been wielding it on an unsuspecting entertainment industry. Her latest victims would seem to be the casting department of Lost. That, or she just showed up on the set, and no one wanted to hurt her feelings and tell her to go home and put on a shirt." -Therese Odell, Tubular Lost Blog, Houston Chronicle Reviewing s3e09 "Stranger in a Strange Land" |
Some of the funniest Lost content on the internet involves actually reading,
and I don't mean fanfic.
For example I love Therese Odell's "Tubular" Lost blog for the Houston Chronicle, and this entry from last year (with the above quote) made me a permanent fan.
Her nicknames remind me of episode recaps for some shows at Television without Pity, like when Keamy turns into Steamy. In Season 1, she had a blog entry called "All the Best Episodes of Lost Have Shorter Titles". She peppers her entries with appropriate YouTube linkage, multiple puns ("The operating room is empty now except for snarling Shephards"), inappropriate jokes, and even 1337ness in ORLYs and the recent entry "Michael at the PWN shop". But don't turn off your brain because she also throws in references from 17th century philosophers and Jungian mythology.
Just go to the Tubular archives, become a fan like us, and tell her we sent you. And by the way, if you don't know what a Bai Ling is, and her acute difficulty preventing wardrobe malfunctions, just do a safe-search-disabled Google Image search on her. I mean this woman finagled herself into Star Wars Episode 3, so in comparison Lost must have been easy prey.