If I were Britney Spears, I too would be FED UP with all the paparazzi trailing me nonstop, everyone waiting for me to make the next screw up and scrutinizing my every move.  People need to lay off the Britster and let her live her life, however dysfunctional we all think it may be.  You see, the problem is, when you are as famous as she is, this type of constant hounding can make you go even crazier.

So, I think the public should rebel and stop eating up the dirt served on the former pop princess.  Her life really isn’t that exciting.  Let’s focus on other things and let Britney run her life the way she wants to! 

Ok, I’m done venting, I’m just really tired of seeing shots of her allover the news, never looking like she wants her pic taken…..

I love the show “Lost”, but was disappointed in a recent slump in the show, where the show’s producers didn’t seem to know what direction to put the show in, and so started adding useless characters that we don’t care about and don’t hang by the tv to see more of.  Also adding to the annoyance was a string of unrelated stories that seemed like filler.

But with this last episode, in which one of the show’s most beloved characters, John Locke, flashes back to his painful past of a con artist father who purposely crippled him by throwing him out of window, was definitely a good one with some quality content, that’s for sure.

Also, Kate goes back to get Jack, only to find him buddying up with the “others”.  She is perplexed by this, and the usually cool Jack just tells her he made a deal with them to go back home if he helped to get Ben, their leader, better, without even so much as a kiss goodbye (are these guys supposed to like eachother, or what, I’m confused by this Jack/Kate/Sawyer love triangle, if that’s even what you call it!_)

Anyways, we find out a little more about Ben, that he knows a lot, that he was born and grew up on the island, and that he is a big manipulator who plants thoughts into people’s heads without them even knowing he’s manipulating them.  The question now looming is, why was Locke able to walk again and Ben cannot, if he was born and raised on this mystical island? 

More questions, and I’m sure more to come.  Thoughts?  I’m leaning toward a new theory on Lost (at least it’s new to me).  I think it’s some sort of a parallel universe, an island lost in between dimensions - sort of a Bermuda Triangle thing, if you will.  Hmm…..

If you watch and love the Americanized version of the huge British originated TV hit, “The Office”, you’ll really love the original, where the British can actually swear and talk about lude things unlike the stricter US version of the show.  You’ll also wonder why they only did two seasons of the immensely popular show over in Britain, but apparently that was just because the show was too exhaustive for the writer and star, Ricky Gervais, and they decided to direct their efforts elsewhere. 

The British version is a slightly more politically incorrect version of the US version, and the characters are very similar.  For example, there is a love triangle, but the “Jim” character is obviously played by another messy haired guy, and the chemistry between him and the girl he’s in love with (her name in the British version is Dawn), isn’t as intense and Jim and Pam on the US version. 

Ricky Gervais, who plays the main character, the counterpart to Michael Scott, is HILARIOUS and utterly convincing as a wanna-be-liked-by-everyone guy who just goes about it all the wrong way, every time.  He also writes a lot of the material for the show, as well as stars in it and has the most dialogue, so I can see how this must have been an exhausting show for him to do.  The jokes are dirtier, they can swear and say words that we can’t say on television over here, so it kind of catches you off guard, but really in a pleasant “hey, why can’t we say that over here, that’s FUNNY” kind of way. 

You will definitely need to watch it with subtitles though, as some of the British accents will throw you off a bit, and you may miss a few laughs because you can’t understand what they are saying.  I highly recommend this show to anyone who appreciates the humor on the US version of the Office.  If you don’t find it funny, you just might be dead!