Going to try and do a mostly daily update for once though no one is reading this. Just to get some writing chops together. or see if they are still there. By using the form of a daily accounting of my own and the cultures odds and ends hopefully it won’t be a strain to have a few things to say at least almost every day. THe big test will be if I can get to here on my cell (I haven’t been able to so far), because that will allow for posts from work or other locations since I don’t always have the opportunity after work and at home if I want to get some other things done.

So here goes:

We are two weeks from Baseball starting for real and I feel the usual sense of anticipation though mixed with dread. I truly think the Mets will suck, the Red Sox be mediocre and the Yankees run away with things. And I’m usually pretty good with this stuff. But not perfect so i hold out hope for my imperfections to do me some good for once. I have tickets for my first Citifield game May 29th. Looking forward to scoping out the new digs. Hope to get there early and just explore the structure, the stores, and the eateries. I’ll see if there’s any truth to the rumor the Mets will feature The Heimlich Club, as the parks spotlight new Mets themed restaurant.

Actually I started the rumor so it’s unlikely unless I can project things like a Cylon.

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Speaking of which, Battlestar Galactica is gone. sad to see the show go. THe finale will need time to formulate itself into something worthy of a more coherent judgement. Right now my feelings towards it are vague. ANd the show is at least partially to blame because they were vague in their denoument. Looks like ROn Moore and Dave Eick tried to please everyone from the ultra religious to atheists and all the majority of tweeners. Judging from internet reactions they didn’t do a great job of this though there are plenty of opinions covering the spectrum.

One thing I think they are all missing was the religious sentiment or lack thereof. Everyone seems to think it posed a clear god figure who is the Oz behind the curtain of the shows events. While I agree with those that say this was a cop out and the ultimate deux ex machina to explain so much by not explaining and instead attributing so much to some invisible being who sent us post death Starbuck and In-Head Baltar and Six, as well as sending Hera and all the coordinates to a new home through the gift of song.

When i look at it this way, well, it makes me want to unwatch 4 years of BSG. But as Futurama tells us, “you’ve watched it! You can’t unwatch it!”

But there is another angle not many are looking at. One that gives that vagueness for even those not into the religious p.o.v., which seems to be the greater part of BSG’s internet community who are not happy about resolving a science fiction show with religious constructs.

But at the end, in Times Square, Baltar does tell 6 (In Heads) that IT doesn’t like being called God. Six also makes a face clearly showing her somewhat at odds with the being, entity, or what have you, that Baltar is referring to. Considering her monotheistic background these two moments at the end seem to point to something else being Oz besides any normal views of God. So once you go there you’re back to enough vagueness for everyone to come away with a happy feeling unless they, you know, wanted some clear answers for their hours of viewership invested over 4 years.

For me, that vagueness allows me to wonder if Head Baltar’s God is a machine. Remember this has happened before and will happen again. It happened even before the BSG universe we know of. Maybe before the Final Five. What if we go back far enough and think they were seeded by a species just as our Earth was by Hera and hers? ANd so on and so on. THrow in Six’s speech about complex systems and all the technology warnings, and consider the idea of In-Head Angels, demons, ghosts, or whatever we think of them as within the context of a universe where that technology and complexity has led to uploading and downloading of consciousness into brand new bodies, and I start to wonder if these projections sent to aid some of the Fleet (or all of it in Starbucks case) are possible due to a shared wiring that humans and Cylons have going back hundreds of thousands or even millions of years with these other progenitors. And if at some point in all this evolution of technology and the working of complex systems the system that put it into being and stands behind the curtain on BSG’s journey, is an actual machine.

Call it the machine in the ghost of Jung’s collective consciousness.

Maybe a stretch, but I bet when Moore and Eik come out with their podcasts and interviews they will not explicitly state that God is behind it all. As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure I read one of them, Moore I think, say they were an atheist in an interview a couple of years ago.

Anyway, the finale could have been more clear, more bold in its assertions, braver in its resolutions, and provided closure that felt more organic to what has come before. I think there is little doubt they’ve made mistakes and had to juggle things down the stretch. Some things felt forced, other things, as I’ve said, were just left to imagination. I think at least part of this was because they could offer no satisfying answers themselves. But I’m certainly not opposed to having to ponder intent in fiction and discuss alternative explanations. It’s one of the things that make it fun. Sometimes it’s a quality that makes it great. I don’t think that was the case here because there is too much of a sense of much unresolved and deliberately avoided.

And man those sci fi cliches. THe bad technology allegory being the central one of course. Does anyone ever get tired of this or think its original? Even the idea of seeding Earth and we are all Cylons was both foreseeable 4 seasons ago and derivative. I hoped it wouldn’t be that obvious or silly but grew more accepting of the fact that we weren’t getting a tremendously breathtaking or original ending to all this.

But hey there is little new under the Sun, and maybe I need to reset expectations.

THere’s more to be said another time.  But I miss the show and shout a “So say we all!” to all its characters.

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I have all but decided to get a new face. At least partly.  New lives are even harder to come by. If you know a good face store let me know. Or life store for that matter.

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I really wonder what the hell I am doing living in Kingston NY.

So I’ll express it in Haiku:

kingston is not me                                                                                                                                                                                                    hive of scum and villiany                                                                                                                                                                                    these droids are not mine

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I don’t get the NIT tournament. You have the 64 teams in the NCAA tourney culminating in the almost religiously thought of Final Four. And let me say that any final four without Cylon University is no final four. But then you have this NIT thing going on which ostensibly seems to me to be a competition with televised games, paid crowds, etc to determine the 65th best team in the country.

Am I wrong here?

How is this allowed to go on? Does Obama know? Because you know, he seems way too interested in the goings on of college Basketball.

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Has he healed the economy yet? Because a lot of idiots seemed to think we’d see good things happening in the first 100 days.

We really are a stupid people.

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Are young women better looking today or am I just noticing more? I’m not the only one noticing this so I think something is up and I aim to get to the bottom of it. Right now I’m working on the hairstyle theory. i think throughout most of our history in which pictures and video are available women hadn’t yet figured out what I knew a long time ago: fancy hairstyles make them look crappy. Just long straight and framing the face is hot. Since Jennifer Aniston made that look of hers imitatable I think more women are going that way and it works for most.

Not sure yet. And that still doesn’t explain the way they look in jeans. But this could just be a wonder of modern engineering at its finest.

I’ll get back to you when I get more answers. If I suddenly disappear, well, you should look to the sexual-frustration- entertainment-cultural-genetics-industrial complex for answers.

Until then i soldier on for webslingers everywhere.

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