Well, looks like Maryland lost to Clemson while I was in a meeting, all but ending their hopes for an NCAA bid. Keep this page open, and your eyes peeled for flames!

Charles says that ACC tourney tickets are going for about $50 a pop outside of the MCI Center. That's a little rich for my blood, but it's sad that I'll be missing Pete Gillen's last game coaching for Virginia tonight. Uncle Pete, we used to call him. Well, I did, anyway.

good lord. i just happened to look down the sidebar of my gmail inbox, and noticed i have 50 invites! i know these things are about as common as iPods, but if you happen to be in need one of, shoot me an email.

i haven't done any "Lost" blogging in a while, and with the show in reruns until mid-april or so, i won't be doing any for the forseeable future. but i received a comment yesterday evening on some show theories that i think deserves some really serious consideration, so here it is. discuss.

Name: Taodallan

Comments:

I can't beleive none of you have thought about the possibility thats its aliens. let me give some reasons why i think its aliens.

- 1. the mystery numbers that were found on a transmition 16 or so years ago that the french lady changed. the numbers make weird things happen.

-2. the radio tower that was on the island before the shipwreck

-3. The weird bunker( Spaceship?) that has the numbers on it.

-4. Ethan not being on the plane in the first place and being extremely agile and strong

-5. Walts mysterious ability to make weird things happen (possibly a later connection with him and the numbers)

-6. the cable going into the ocean definatly spells out some sort of underground facility or spaceship

-7. the voices Saheed and Sawyer heard

-8. Saheed saying when he got back from the frech lady "were not alone" a common alien cliche.

-9. The dead bodies from 60 or so years ago...possible dead aliens or original inhabitants of the island.

-10. the polar bears and the compass..both impling a normally cold climate....(aliens changed the climate to fit there liking)

thats about it but i would say that aliens are a BIG possibility.

but who really knows all we can do is wait. And ...unfortuantly because of its success we probably wont find out the full story for another 2 or 3 seasons. oh well more to watch and hypothesis about than.

schedule of events for the next few days:

thursday: ash/the bravery concert at the black cat. i am prepared to be overwhelmed at the number of hipsters.

friday: DCist happy hour from 5-8 p.m. at biddy mulligan's. if it's anything like last time, it should be fun. a little too fun.

saturday AM: i'm running, along with julie, naomi, and brian, the saint patrick's day 10k. yes, i'm looking forward to my first race since the marathon in october. i've done minimal training, and should be able to pull it off without my lungs collapsing.

saturday PM: you tell me!

remember my post a while back about bush speech set designers going for that inspiring "nazi high school of doom" look during a talk on education?

well, they're back! via lowculture, check out the happy go-lucky look bush has chosen for a speech about the national energy policy.

Catherine posted a link to Ted Leo doing a "Since U Been Gone / Maps" medley yesterday, but it was just a streaming video with a badly compressed audio track. Stereogum's got an at-least-better quality mp3 up today, though -- go have a look.

Second, that Kidz Bop version of "Float On" that had been pulled from the internet before my lame ass heard about it? You can find it here, but who knows for how long. It's mostly just "eh", but if you're like much of the rest of the blogosphere and hearing kids sing about hitting cop cars TOTALLY BLOWS YOUR MIND, MAN then you might enjoy it.

a lot of bloggers have been linking to this auto-generating HTML list, which bolds the states you've been to, underlines the states you've lived in, and italicizes the one you're in right now.

but i think something that leaves a bigger impact is the states visited map generator, which, while it doesn't show where you've lived or how long you've visited a place, therefore giving equal importance to states you've just been to briefly, is kind of a striking visual.

here's my states visited map:

it seems i've cut two huge swaths through the country, and also, that for a life-long liberal east coaster, i've been to my fair share of the red states. actually, growing up, i probably spent the most time in the two most disparate states you could think of: massachusetts and wyoming. i had a set of grandparents in each place, so my summer vacations consisted of eating clam chowder and beaching it up in beautiful rockport, ma., and going horseback riding and rodeo-watching in laramie/cheyenne wyoming. seriously, it's like dick cheney and john kerry had a love child. shudder.