I've been bidding on oldskool
Wayfarer Ray Ban sunglasses on eBay for the past month to no avail. I commandeered Dadmac's a few years back, but then Sismac got a hold of them and now they are nowhere. Such is life. But every time I seem to find one that's decently priced, some fucker bumps it up to 60 bucks or more and I headdesk and start searching for another auction. So when the other day between studio and rehearsal some friends and I were walking around the East Village in search of Thai food and I saw a cheapo tourist vendor with knockoff Wayfarers, I was tempted to buy them right then. But as I am stubborn, and kind of a name whore (in some ways), decided to wait for eBay to make me happy. This may take a very, very long time.
I got tonight's Office so fast I may have done a little dance. (Have I mentioned I have a Life on Mars themesong dance? Haven't had that since Alias, I think!)
"DWIGHT, YOU IGNORANT SLUT!"
And then they did it twice. Oh, love love love.
"He's gonna kill himself pretending to kill himself."
Shun! Un-shun! Re-shun!
I just have this wonderful little backstory in my head of how BJ Novak and Mindy Kaling are total BFF in their little writers' corner and each time one of them writes an episode they go further and further in parodying the other and making each other's character seem like a total ditz/asshole. And they get a kick out of writing the most idiotic things for the other to say. And they crack up all the time on set.
Oh, Creed. Eating a potato. And Dwight's got plenty of watermelons in his trunk!
I loved the gambling b-plot, and I loved how it totally brought Jim and Pam back together in a completely honest and simple way, and through that whole group effort they fell back into their pattern.
It just hit me that this was the 20th episode, which means, I bet, something big's gonna happen two weeks from now.
"I Braveheart." Oh, you.
STILL haven't made myself an icon for this show. And it's been ...what, just over two years?
ETA: Regarding tonight's Daily Show -- Sequoias are fucking awesome. Come and visit me at home some time, we'll drive 20 minutes and camp out in an old sequoia stump the size of my apartment here.
EATA: Oh, the moment of Zen. "So it goes." I'll never forget that interview he did.