“What are you guys doing there? Writing episode two, huh?”

“Hey, guy that plays Peter and was also in Gilmore girls for like one episode.”

“So. I don’t want to step on any writer toes or anything, let me know if I’m out of line. But I had this awesome idea for season 2.”

He rips off his shirt.

“Check out these guns, guys! Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re all like ‘how will we write wussy story lines for Peter when he has all these awesome muscles?’ But that’s what’s so great about it.”

“Really.”

“No, I’m serious! Hear me out. Peter shows up in season 2 shirtless, chained to a wall or something, just sort of bulging at the chains. They can hardly contain him, of course, but here’s the rub: he doesn’t even know he’s powerful! That lets us, you, write him as this brand new badass character. No more moping. I was thinking maybe he could get a haircut or something. You know, a whole new Peter.”

“So you want us to write him as a whole new character just because you got buff over the summer? What about the brooding? We loved the brooding.”

“Oh yeah, he can totally do the brooding thing, but now he does all his brooding shirtless, which makes it less mopey. For instance, maybe he’s tied up or something.”

“Wait, wasn’t he just chained up?”

“Yeah, but this time it’s with rope. Try and keep up guys. So yeah, he’s brooding when he’s tied up. Or maybe he’s trying to remember how to use his powers or something. He would totally do that shirtless.”

“…”

“Oh, and Sylar should lose his powers too, just to make it fair. And Hiro could fall in love again or something, that guy really hasn’t seen enough heartache.”

“That it?”

“Yeah, that’s really all I had to say.”

“Alrighty, we’ll see.”

“Oh, and Peter should get a tattoo. And a woman, with a cute accent or something. That’s it really, I’m leaving now.”

“Um, OK man, enjoy the rest of your summer!”

“Thanks, guys, I knew you’d understand.”

He turns to leave.

“Wait, you want your shirt back?”

“Nah, I’m cool.”

Happy Anniversary! That’s right, at some indeterminate date in September, L-ame turned 1 year old. You’d think we’d celebrate this fact by launching a new wave of exciting content for you to consume. But you’d be wrong. Instead, Josiah is on an occucation, and Rochelle’s fairly busy figuring out this whole “IRL” thing, so yeah, we haven’t got time for you. The good news is we’re slavishly (read: sort-of-kind-of-thinking-about) working away at the greatest project known to man, that may or may not include singing and dancing. So stay tuned. We’re thinking 2010 or so. But just to be safe, let’s say this century. It will be awesome.

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The whole entire L-ame staff

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows… could it BE any more exciting?! Absolutely not.

JK Rowling announced on her site this morning when the final installment of her “Harry Potter” series would be released, and a few moments later amazon.com made available pre-orders, and a few moments after that we purchased our copies.

Our conversation on this joyous morning went a little something like this:

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For fans of The Office out there, the next few episodes should be pretty good.

Next week’s title is “Ben Franklin” (Feb. 1st) and it’s Bob Vance’s bachelor party, then the week after is “Phyllis’ Wedding” (Feb. 8th), Michael behaves inappropriately (of course!), and then the week after that is titled “Business School” (Feb. 15) where Ryan invites Michael to be the guest speaker for his class one evening. The next episode we know of is titled “Cocktails” (Feb. 22), however there is no synopsis as of yet. We’re supposed to see some pretty good Jim/Pam stuff too, which goes without saying, and we can expect to see more MAN (Michael and Jan), which is always awkward and fun. Thanks NBC, we love you too.
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She gives Christians a bad name — so what’s new?

Sure, there are plenty of characters to loathe on The Office, but most of them have some sort of special charm. Dwight is sort of cute in his nerdy enthusiasm, Michael really means well, and Andy is almost dumb enough to love. But Angela? She’s just pure evil. And we’re sure it’s no little coincidence that she’s the only Christian on the show.

So what does this say for our faith? How do we ever stand a chance at winning the masses if this is what TV has to say about us?
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Hi. How are you. Welcome to new corner of the web called L-ame.com — get it? It’s like d-ang. Luh-ayme. Yeah? We thought it was pretty clever.

Anyways, here is where the magic happens. The hope of this site is to guide you trough the travails of modern culture as we encounter it ourselves — the blind leading the blind. We plan to grab onto pieces of pop culture and distill them until we find the hate, love, truth, lies, art and tripe — essentially what’s l-ame and what’s not. Hopefully we won’t end up being entirely l-ame ourselves, but if we are we entirely encourage you to change the channel, because only you, Smokey the Bear and Chuck Norris can prevent forest fires l-ameness.

Enjoy!

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