Tonight I plan to soak in a show, the Mates of State have returned to SF and will be playing Cafe Du Nord tonight. Fantastic.

But tomorrow? Tomorrow is the beginning of the LOST-pocalypse. So first, a statement of principles regarding LOST season 6, and my intent to liveblog each episode. Yes, you read that correctly. I’m getting back on the horse for this final season, and we may as well go out with a bang.

Alas, I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone, so I’m going about this carefully. You see, it’s not my intent to destroy the bounty for anyone else. In the age of DVR technology, appointment viewing means less and less to many with each growing day, but in the rare case of a serial such as LOST it’s my humble opinion that the show is best consumed and dissected fresh.

Basically, I’m impatient. This is my one exception to the “meh, that’s what a DVR is for,” so take that at face value.

For those uninterested in the immediacy angle, I would like to respect your decision and keep Twitter free of potential spoilers, with a few caveats. So I’m setting up a few tiny promises to help these things along. If we all follow the rules below and re-input the numbers every 108 minutes we should all make it out of this alive.

1. The minute details, revelations, and reactions from this season will be liveblogged, not tweeted. This means revelatory, “ZOMG! Vincent is smokies mom!!” statements will be kept off of Twitter, and instead posted to the liveblog for the hardcore to enjoy in real time. You’re welcome, Bill.
2. Tweets will happen, deal with it. I will use Twitter to inform others of the liveblog. I want to stoke some participation in this wherever possible, and Twitter is good for this purpose. That said, these tweets will be less revealing in nature. An example: “Not sure if the season 6 narrative device is working for me. You? Check out the live blog” or “Oh, Claire…where have you been? Check out the yadda yadda.” The latter is a free pass, as you know Claire has been away, and you know she’s coming back.
3. The liveblog will be spoilerish as all get out, so steer clear until after viewing. Unless, of course, you’d like some of your commentary to appear in my Fanboy Planet recaps and reviews. That’s right, incentivized participation.
4. East Coast viewing is off limits. Even I have limits. I’m staying away from Twitter and any other social media spoil boxes on Tuesdays, specifically during and following the East Coast airings. I’m liveblogging the West Coast feed, so don’t worry.

Simple right? That said, I think it would be fun to go through this final season with an open dialogue, so I hope some of you are interested in partaking/nerding out with me. Until tomorrow then, but tonight I’ll be unraveling “the edge of time, where proofs and postulations rise.”