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January 21, 2006
Things I've Learned About The Office While Searching the Web Hungover in My Pajamas
- They're all on MySpace (probably old news to many): Dwight Schrute, Pam (Jenna Fischer), B.J. Novak (Ryan the Temp), Angela, Kevin, Toby, Meredith [via]
- Rainn Wilson (who plays Dwight) writes the SchruteSpace blog.
- Jenna Fischer has a "blog" on TV Guide's site.
- B.J. Novak also writes for the show and wrote the "blog" on TV Guide before Pam took it over.
- I learned lots of good tidbits from Novak's blog, including that the guy who started the Saab Bumper Katrina Fund blog that raised about $30,000 was Michael Schur, another writer for The Office.
- Chili's was happy to allow The Office producers to use its name and build a replica of its restaurant for the Dundee's episode until they found out a woman would be puking in the episode [via].
- Novak upped his geek cred when he felt guilty about knowing that his "blog" wasn't a real blog ("I'll reintroduce this then. This is a weekly article about what it's like to work at The Office. I can't tell if people have been bothered by this — after all, there's not a space for comments, since it's not a real blog — but I've been self-conscious about it.").
- In the same "blog," (see above) he tells that a lot of the actors are also writers ("One unique thing about our show is that we have a lot of writer-actors, including me, Paul Lieberstein (Toby) and Mindy Kaling (Kelly). And a lot of our main cast members are writers in "real life," including Steve, who cowrote his movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin; and John, who just adapted a novel. Jenna [Fischer, Pam] and Rainn are both married to successful writers. Rainn also writes poetry, but I read it and it sucked.").
- Paul Feig of Freaks and Geeks directed the Halloween episode.
- John Krasinski (Jim) is writing the screenplay for a David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men."
- There are no Hooters Restaurants in Scranton, Pa.
Posted by timothompson at January 21, 2006 02:51 PM