Some light googling for The Turn Of The Screw (prompted by last night's episode of Lost) turned up a pleasant surprise: free ghost story ebooks from Amazon. Yeah, these are all out of copyright and therefore already available via Project Gutenberg. But it's still nice to have it packaged as an ebook — the format almost makes reading on a PDA pleasant.

Oh, and after dragging my uncultured ass through some plot synopses, it seems like the book probably doesn't have many implications for Lost other than a rededication to spooky ambiguity — which we already have plenty of, thanks.

But hell, I'll read it anyway, breaking my longstanding rule of avoiding all literature that isn't directly related to contemporary television shows.

The torrent for this week's episode of Lost can be found here.

The torrent for this week's episode of Veronica Mars isn't up yet, but I'll post it here when it becomes available.

And if you prefer your Lost catching-up to come in text form, head over to DCeiver's place for a full and hilarious recap. Catch it now before TWoP snatches him up and forces him to expand each of these summaries to 20,000 in-joke-ridden words.

UPDATE: Catherine found an S2E02 Veronica Mars torrent here.

Wolfson posted this link in a thread over at unfogged, and it seemed interesting enough to pass along. The gist of it: Tom Cruise may carry a genetic defect that could/has affected his ability to give his wives viable pregnancies. Don't follow the link to the photos on that metafilter post if you're easily upset.

If this is true, it's sad. It kind of takes the wind out of the sails of my Cruise-hatred, delicately balanced as it is between intense loathing for a Scientology advocate and sympathy for a guy who appears to have had a pretty tough first act.

Here's hoping that Cruise isn't the father, and that Holmes was artificially inseminated with L. Ron Hubbard's frozen sperm in an elaborate church ceremony. Not only would this be entirely plausible, it'd also go a long way to bringing moral clarity back to my homicidal hatred of celebrity culture.