Harold Camping and the May 21st Rapture

Obviously we aren’t all catching up on the news thanks to the awesome wifi in the heavens. Harold Camping predicted the end of the world using numbers he “calculated” from the Bible. He managed to convince a following that on May 21st, 2011 that the end of the world would take place. People reportedly quit their jobs and lived it up the past week and waved good-bye to their life savings to live up their remaining time pre-rapture by watching a Frasier marathon and attending box socials or whatever the faithful do these days.

Alas, the end of the world starting with a “big earthquake that will make the one in Japan seem like a Sunday school picnic” failed to get the memo and the most action we have seen is a volcano erupting in Iceland. The Grimsvotn volcano, which is Iceland’s most active volcano, erupted and didn’t even interrupt air traffic.

Camping previously claimed the world would end in September of *1994. After that prediction proved BS he claimed he simply miscalculated. May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the correct calculated rapture date. Most Bible wielding religious folk gave him a Christianly gurl please and pointed to Matthew 24:36 which states that, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

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Johnny Depp Names a Beach After Heath Ledger

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It’s no secret that sex-on-a-stick, Johnny Depp, has a special place in his heart for Heath Ledger. Depp was one of the 3 actors to finish Heath’s last project, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” He, Jude Law and Colin Ferrell each took a role in finishing the film and then donated their paychecks to Matilda Ledger.

Johnny also a special place dedicated to the memory of Heath on his 45-acre private Bahamian island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay. It’s his sanctuary and calm from the media storm that follows Depp.

Via Vanity Fair:

“Little Hall’s Pond has six different beaches–named after Depp’s partner, Vanessa Paradis, and their children, Lily Rose and Jack, as well as his mentors Hunter S. Thompson and Marlon Brando–each with a personality and cove of its own, and one patch of water deemed “Heath’s Place” after the late actor Heath Ledger. There are several small residences, all solar-powered, and transportation consists of a fleet of green golf carts.

“I don’t think I’d ever seen any place so pure and beautiful,” Depp tells Brinkley of the island. “You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It’s instant freedom. And that rare beast–simplicity–can be had. And a little morsel of anonymity…. Whenever I was getting frustrated about being ‘novelty boy’ and making movies, I told myself, Calm down. I can come down here and disappear.”

That settles it. I want my own island.

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Completely ‘Lost’ Recap: “Follow the Leader”

First and foremost ‘Lost’ fans-this week’s episode, “Follow the Leader” was total old school, bad-ass ‘Lost’. It didn’t focus on one person, it made you think, it made you rewind your Tivo 10-12 times, but most importantly, it reminded you why ‘Lost’ is currently the best show on television.

At the end of the show, I sat there with my jaw dropped. Once I composed myself, I started jumping up and down and squealing like I was a 13 year-old who just found out her dad scored Jonas Brothers tickets. It was beyond awesome. It was beyond amazing. It was vintage ‘Lost’.

Vintage ‘Lost’ is a surreal thing. It’s the kind of ‘Lost’ that makes your heart beat fast and keeps you awake for another hour (or two) after the show is over because you can’t stop thinking about it (Remember when Walt was taken? I didn’t sleep for days.). You know it’s vintage when you get to work in the morning and your inbox is already flooded with emails from your husband and your friend Lou speculating about what happened. I love Thursdays like this.

Back to the episode: The episode was titled “Follow the Leader”. It was a good title as we got to see what life is like if you follow each of the three leaders of the island: Jack, Locke, and that other guy who never should have been a leader…Sawyer. I will break this down by leader. It makes it easier.

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Completely Lost: Re-Cap

First off, I want to start with some thank-you’s. Thanks to all of you who read this and especially those of you who leave comments and tell me that you enjoy the write-ups. I enjoying writing this and I love hearing your theories about what is going on with Lost. Keep it up!

Another big thank you this week to Damon Lindleoff and Carlton Cuse, the writers of Lost, for bringing my man Jin back in full force! I honestly thought Daniel Dae Kim may have suffered the same fate as the other cast members who like to mix cocktails and a drive around the Hawaiian coast, but it appears all is forgiven on that front.

Now for the boos and hisses: What’s up with answering questions you just posed in this episode. What is this, Heroes? Stop answering the obvious (one of which I will get to later) and start telling me some things I have been wanting to know since ’04!!! What do the numbers mean? Why is Jack’s dad all over the island when he is supposed to be dead? Who was the real Henry Gale?

Let’s get to the recap now, shall we?

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We start off this week again, right where we left off the week before. Our dear “present day” friends are chillin’ on the docks in LA. Sun pulls a gun on Ben who tells her Jin isn’t dead. Even though we know he’s right this time, she stupidly believes him. Why do they believe Ben? Kate gets Aaron and splits (thanks, I am really tired of you as of lately). Sayid threatens to shank anyone from the group that bothers him again, a promise I hope he keeps; he chucks up the deuce and is off like a dirty shirt (thanks for that one, Duckie).

Ben gets Jack and Sun, and what we still assume to be Locke’s corpse, into the van and rolls out.

While in the Mystery Machine, Jack tells Sun he’ll shoot Ben himself if Ben is lying to them. Ben goes Kanye West on them and launches into a tirade about how he has gone to great lengths to keep them all safe. Give it up for Michael Emerson who is a phenomenal actor. Even I believed him at this point. Should we believe him though?

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