Everyone here is very gruntled

Okay, so it's no secret that I love The Office. After Arrested Development got cancelled (damn you Rupert Murdoch! Yet I still love flickr . . .) it is definitely the best comedy on television. So of course when there was an interview with Mindy Kaling--the woman who plays the truly irritating Kelly Kapoor and who also has written some of my favorite episodes (see The Injury)--on the A.V. Club I read it. It's actually a really good interview and gives a lot insight as to how they write characters, particularly Michael who I imagine is really hard to write just because you have to find a certain level with him so that he's not TOO stupid but he's also still pretty damn stupid. I think that this season they've done an especially good job because while Michael is still a moron, he's getting a bit better. Well, except for in the episode "Phyllis's Wedding". That was just an irritating episode overall, though. Stupid Pam hooking back up with Roy . . .

Anyhoo, you can read the interview here: Mindy Kaling Interview

I also have been looking at The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire again. I read them way back in 2002 when the Lord of the Rings movies were coming out and they were hilarious then and they're still hilarious. They're just the very secret diaries of the characters of The Lord of the Rings, and they're exactly as you would expect their diaries to be. Here is an excerpt from the diary of Legolas, son of Weenus:


Day Eleven: Bumped into Gandalf who is all sparkly white now. Asked him, "Who do you have to blow to get last bottle of bleach in Middle Earth anyway?" Gandalf said, "The Balrog." So not worth it.

Am rethinking, though. Roots are showing.

Still prettiest although at this rate for how long?

Day Twelve: Asked Gandalf for Balrog's number. Gandalf said I couldn't call him. I told him not to be jealous and posessive. He said he wasn't, it was just that he killed Balrog last week.

Note to self: never date Gandalf.

Day Fifteen: Arrived in Edoras. V. upset. Suspect Eowyn may be prettier than me. Most unexpected as always thought shield-maidens were more hefty, pear-shaped types.

Not the prettiest! V. bitter.


Everyone's a gay pervy hobbit fancier, obviously. They don't make a whole lot of sense unless you've seen the movies, but if you haven't seen LOTR yet you're pretty much a loser anyway.

listening to: Spoon--Gimme Fiction