Okay. So this has got to stop. I love Lost. I watch it religiously. But everyone once in a while (read: everytime I happen to mention the word “LOST”), I get people who think they are oh-so-smart (read: every person on the planet that doesn’t watch Lost.) making the following comments:

“Durrrr, are they still on that island?”

Hey, newsflash? The show is called Lost. No, of course they’re not on the island. Cuh-learly the whole show takes place in a crawling metropolis in the heart of the US of A. The person will then follow up my spiteful response with a question regarding why they have been on the island for 5 seasons. While it may not seem like it to casual observers who have seen maybe 1 minute of the pilot, this show has not just one, but several intertwining plots. The island is as much a character in the show as the actual characters, and until you actually watch Lost, I don’t think you’ll ever truly understand. And the characters… Oh the characters. There’s the loveable ones, like Charlie and Hurley (I remember almost crying in one of the season finales for Charlie), there are the ones you just detest, like Ben or the Others, and the ones you just can’t let go, like Faraday or even Boone. And even the characters I hate, like Ben, I can’t help but love.

“Durrr, so they’re still LOST?”

Go get on an airplane. Make sure it’s Oceanic. Flight 815, if you can. Have fun. :)

Other than that, people, there’s just one more question I just cannot stand.

“OMG you guys, what’s the point of Twitter?”

If you don’t understand basic social networking, maybe you should be online.

Rant over.

-Maryam

Hey y’all! (I can’t promise that I’ll never say that again.)

So you might notice that in the sidebar (on the left) there’s a bunch of “tags”. Now, I’ve been editing your posts to add tags so we can go through the archives easily. If you want to do this yourself, click on “Advanced Options” to the right of the screen when you’re editing or adding a post. One of the boxes will have the heading “Tag this post”. Click in the box and begin typing your tag. Once you’ve finished your tag, press enter. Then you can type the next tag and so on.

Don’t tag your posts randomly with stuff like “haha oh em gee that one time” or “lyk s0 kewl”. Keep it neat and awesome! Tag your name (no caps, it’s easier that way) and the subject of your post. For example, my tags are “maryam”, “features”, and “rant”.

If you guys just want me to keep doing this, though, I can go through each post and tag it. It only takes me a few seconds.

-Maryam