1/ Okay. @chaneyj’s @vulture piece sent me into a tailspin back to 2010. I’m literally digging through ye olde interwebs and finding stuff from finale time, 10 years hence. Join me, won’t you?

2/ My fave may be this appearance on @npratc where Jen and I talk about the finale like it is the stock market and Michelle Norris closes the segment by describing us as amongst “bloggers and podcasters who are still stuck on the island.” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127095918

3/ Even @johnbarth FINALLY thought I was cool.

4/ But in a futile (SO FAR, INTERWEBS!) search for actual photographic evidence of our kick-ass tony Adams-Morgan (that’s for all you OG @LloydGrove fans out there) Lost Finale Happy Hour, I came upon this sad fail from the @washingtonpost servers:

5/ Here’s one thing I do remember about that happy hour. I was ONE THOUSAND months pregnant and so was not able to get pleasantly buzzed with our core Lost/Celebritology gang. I also vaguely remember a costume contest. And prizes. And speechifying.

6/ Happy hour may be gone forever, but I did discover that at one time I had some setting enabled that turned EVERY SINGLE @celebritology post into a Facebook “memo.” LOL on the early attempt to be the one platform to rule them all, Zucky!

7/ Exhibit No. 1: The first graf or so of our finale analysis.

8/ But because we were multi-faceted bloggers, we also wrote about other important stuff. Like Exhibit No. 2, this Memorial Day 2010 Friday List of Hot Geeks. :::shakes head:::

9/ Still no Pulitzer for that. Butm in all, it makes me supremely happy that @chaneyj and I had that magical four years to write about what still remains one of the best shows ever made. It changed our lives.

10/ And to put life into Lost terms, the last decade has felt a bit like a flash forward. Just a month and a few days after the finale, my life changed in multiple ways. In June 2010, I gave birth to this guy: Desmond. Yes I did.

11/ Desmond is now 10 and hasn’t yet met his Penny, but we obviously keep our eyes peeled.

12/ And less than a year later I got all restless and left Celebritology and Jen and DC altogether and moved to the desert to get into community journalism with @gburton and the fine journalists at @MyDesert.

13/ I would smile to myself every time I met someone who loved Lost and remembered the blog and the little role in its cosmology that Jen and I had. Like @Sammy_Roth - one of the finest environmental journalists in the world who, along with @rozmurph, creates @TheHatchPodcast

14/ And of course, I am so FUCKING PROUD of @chaneyj and the work she continues to do in TV criticism and being my GenX constant and writing books and just generally making me smile and laugh.

15/ And because time is a flat circle and the world is small, we both work at @voxmedia now and that feels right. Especially because it means we share the same Slack galaxy and are back to DMing on the regular.

16/ But I would still like to find pictures of that happy hour, dammit.