Let it Rainn

Schrute, as he was meant to be captured: made from 100% office supplies.

Graham and I go through phases of entertainment. If he and I like something, we want to see it all. When it makes us LAUGH, we want to consume it with a fervor that borders on impassioned obsession. Past flavors have included Margaret Cho, Freaks N' Geeks, Project Runway, and many others.

We are currently totally engrossed in the American version of The Office. I decided to rent the first season after I heard an in interview with Steve Carell, and became so SMITTEN with his modest, funny, sweet self. (I mean, who doesn't love a man who has a tradition of leaving every Hollywood event he attends with his wife to go to an In-n-Out burger for a burger and a shake?) After the first season, we rented the second season, and now we are on the third. I have to admit that while I came for Carell, what made me stay was Rainn Wilson, who plays the over the top paper warrior, Dwight Schrute. The man KILLS me. He is so FRICKN' FUNNY, I can't take it. He's a 6 foot three man child.

Naturally, anything that gets me like that, I get a little obsessed with. So I've discovered that Wilson keeps a blog as his character. Dwight Schrute is the perfect blog personality: opinionated, over the top, and deeply entertaining.

Not every episode of The Office is perfect, (in fact Carell's character can DRIVE ME to palpitations) but when it hits it, it HITS it. We're coming to the end soon and that will be that until the next season comes out on DVD, but man, what a great ride.