this life for rent

Not going to lie, I am pretty proud of this softie. She's not much to look at, but considering my sewing skills are squat and I am terrified of sewing machines I think she is pretty decent for a prototype.

This time next week, I will be at Dragon*Con. Add 4 hours and I will be dressed up as a Dharma Initiative member at the LOST meetup photo shoot with my equally obsessed fan brothers and sisters.

I don't know why I thought designing and sewing by hand a four foot fish biscuit softie would be a good idea.

Oh wait, I think it went a little something like this:

Ooh, I could cosplay as a giant Dharma Fish Biscuit. Nah, that's too much work. I know! I will sew a four foot long Dharma Fish Biscuit softie!

I made the body using fleece, the letters using felt, and she's stuffed with an uber light poly-fil stuffing.

Dear LOST,

I need to apologize. I was young and impatient, wanting to know the answers NOW, and not savoring the delicious mystery of your storytelling. So you must understand, when your creator announced near the beginning of your second season that there was no master plan and they were going to ride this out until it tired out, my faith was shaken.

But now I see that it was a test. A test to weed out the bandwagoners only watching LOST because it was the hip new show from the truly faithful.

I have watched season one again, it is good.

I have watched season two and it is awesome.

I have watched season three, and ZOMGWTFBBQ! MADE OF WIN!

I am so sorry, I should have had more patience. I should have known that the creator was testing us, for there are episodes in season three that match up perfectly with subtle clues from season one that can no way be a matter of chance.

And if it was the truth, who am I to judge? How many television series know how the show will unfold?

I beg your forgiveness. For now that the writer's are striking and you appear to be the only show premiering with a new season in the spring, I will come into the fold with the rest of the bandwagoners, itching for something new, tired of reality shows and divorce inducing game shows.

But I will prove myself true. Once shows go back into production and the next hip show catches everyone's attention, I will forever remain yours, faithfully.


But I must make my intentions clear, while ever awesome and made of win, you will be second banana to The X-Files for me. That's a given, you know that right?


Stay awesome!


-christin