Sister Wives.

Have you guys started watching it again? 

ew. does cody's hair bug you so much?

Gots to have me some polygamy!

and now that big love is done and over with, I have settled for the TLC series.

Ok, fine. I included Nicky, happy? She was my least favorite sister wife so sometimes I like to leave her out. I mean, don't you agree? Always dragging the family back to the commune, bringing cult-ish drama into their more "regular" life? Ugh, Nicky. 

Nard Dog.

This is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth:

His name is.....

I'm not even kidding...

....Andrew B. Bernard....

Seriously.

Here's his CV.

Turns out, he went to high school with a guy named Greg Daniels....who went on to develop a little show in the United States called, wait for it....THE OFFICE!! Jim Halpert was another classmate.....how freaking awesome would it be if Jamie had Jim Halpert as his professor?

Y'all know my love for Jim. 

I would fall over myself to audit that class.

And for deeper Office trivia, Greg Daniels is married to the sister of Toby, the HR guy. And their brother used to be married to Angela, the blonde one, who was a Chi Omega at her college in Waco, Texas. AND Pam's mom used to be Kirk-from-Gilmore-Girls acting coach and Pam was married to Kirk's brother for eight years.

He's EVERYWHERE.

And that's ok by me. 

Sight for sore eyes.

In light of the tragedy surrounding the Vancouver Olympics luge track this weekend, it's nice to see an athlete bring some comedic relief to our television:

photo of our tv & tivo from last night.

Getting some work done around the office.

While in Southern California, we got a mess of wedding stuff taken care of, including a YUMMY cake tasting.  Obviously, ya'll know this "task" occupies the #1 spot on the fun-things-to-do-when-planing-a-wedding for me.  The fun baker had us taste four happiness-making flavors and I had a perma-grin on my face the rest of the day....mmmmm.....kinda want to go back.

Here are the four types we tried:

• Apple Crumble
  Burnt Sugar Cake with Roasted Apple Filling, Burnt Sugar Buttercream and Crumble.  The apple filling was shipped in from this little farm in Vermont and was ah-mazing.
  
• Chocolate Caramel
  Chocolate Cake with Housemade Caramel, Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate Frosting and Carmelized Rice Krispies.  Shut up, caramalized rice krispies??
  
• Bananas Banana Cake with layers of Housemade Toffee Crunch and Milk Chocolate Frosting. Duh, had to try the banana one, right?
  
• Vanilla Gorilla Vanilla Cake with Tahitian Vanilla Frosting and Sugar Sparkles.  So simple, so pretty.
  

She was so sweet!

We're hoping that our guests are already planning to demonstrate extreme wildness and a general lack of restraint, but we certainly don't need to set them up for out-and-out rioting behavior.  In order to quell the masses, we'll plan on limiting the cake options to two; hopefully this decision will create less of a logistical nightmare.

The cakes were SUPER DELISH.  Come wedding day, they'll look super homemade and be styled in a simple, old-fashioned manner.  Mostly because while our personal dessert palate is diverse and open to a mess of influences (fancy! mousse! french!) , our ultimate FAVE is a good old-fashioned layer cake with gooey frosting.  I'm hoping the cake will go with the laid-back approach to our wedding. 

Post-tasting, we were in a predictably massive sugar coma.  This state of being worked in my favor as I pretended to navigate Jamie (driving at the time) back to the freeway.  I totally took him a cockamamie way that first led us to a random residential area and its maze of cul-de-sacs.  Whoops.  Unintentionally hilarious.

L: It's ok, Jamie, I think I've got it now.  Hmmmm...whoops.  Dead end, again.  Let's see.  Try turning here.  Ya, here.  Go straight for like 3 miles.

J: (10 minutes go by) Uh....it's looking kinda industrial around here.

L: Crap.  Ummmmmm....turn around, NO!  Left!  Turn left here!  Damn.

J: (5 minutes later)  Are you taking me somewhere to kill me?

L: Yes.

L: (3 minutes later) Turn right.  STOP!!! STOP HERE!!! PULL OVER!!!

"Recognize this building?"

What about from this angle?

Nothing yet?

Will it help if you listen to a song hint? click here

 Jamie = so super stoked to have been surprised with a field trip to where they film the Office.
Stock cars under the blue tarps, complete with Pennsylvania plates!
We could see Phyllis's car from the locked gate!

• that's where michael scott was going to jump on the trampoline into the bounce house!
• this is where oscar tried to say jim was racist for thinking the cleaning people spoke spanish!
• and there's the spot michael totally hit meredith with his car and broke her hip!
• etc.
  

That's about when I stopped listening to him prattling on.
You see, I had arrived to this building with my own agenda.

If I keep my eyes shut really tight, will Jim be standing behind me?

-----

No?

-----

What if I peek juuussst a little?

Damn.

Nothing.

Now I have to stand here and pretend this is a worthwhile excursion.

Maybe Hudson will have better luck?

jim?!

JIIIIIM!

dude. JIM.

ji...

look crazy lady,  

that jim guy ain't here.

can we go now?

Next time you're in the Burbank area, holler at me and we can get you to the building where the cast of the Office does their magic.  It's a non google-mappable address, but the legwork is done for you and we can easily get you right in front of the building.  With one condition, of course... If you see Jim Halpert, slip him my number, ok?

En Espanol?? Ha!

More on Oprah...watch it today!

praaaaaaay....

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opeeeennnnnn...
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turn!!! bend down!!!!
(ripple effect)
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and point + hold!
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Check out who made the Chicago Tribune!

Stay in Chicago long enough and you too could end up in the Tribune:

Here's the story:

The almighty Oprah decided it'd be cool to shut down three solid blocks of the busiest street in the middle of downtown Chicago for the premier of her show's 24th season. Say what?? A BLOCK PARTY? How freaking awesome, right? Naysayers claimed it impossible, destructive to the week of business, and indicative of too much power given to the television hostess. "If allowed to do this, what will she try next?" they asked incessantly. I say "booooo" to the naysayers (v.loudly, i say booo).

Performers were booked, newscasters came out in throngs, and Chicagoans started lining up at midnight. Supporters enjoyed a level of anticipation and excitement that Harpo Productions created by setting up a HUMONGOUS stage spanning the thoroughfare. Thousands of metal gates were laid out at every street corner. Large screens were set up and speaker wires streamed down the center divide. The entire Chicago Police Department slowly took to their assigned positions. Although downtown was freakishly quiet the day before with curious whispers and silent pointing, the day of the party was simply buzzing.

Choreographers taught 21,000 people moves to "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas in what seemed like a logistical nightmare. The ultimate of all ultimate cool things came about with the announcement that the dance was going to be a surprise for Miss Winfrey! HOLY WHAT? Just because you're the richest woman in the world, doesn't mean you're immune to fun surprises?? Omg, like no other.

The end result was a Totally.Worth.It. guerrilla dance attack on Oprah's eyes.

Filming started, the BEPs began performing, but nobody in the audience moved a muscle. Then, one crazy looking chick and her wild arms started going nuts...all by her lonesome. We waited.waited.waited as the front section joined in, more and more people started dancing away, and then, section by section, the whole audience joined in the BEST DANCE CONCERT I'VE EVER BEEN TO:

farther-away-aerial-view
(music is hard-ish to hear)
-- filmed from an office building overlooking the mob --

doesn't that kick just SO.much.BUTT???

a closer-up-aerial-view
(music is louder + better detail of choreography)
--also filmed from an office building --

We're hoping to have make our television debut today, folks. More details to come soon. In the meantime, set your tivos to record or catch the Oprah's 24th Season KickOff Party episode airing TODAY. Watch it, watch it! Also, check out dev's blog!

xo,
the pink ladies.

Self-guided tour through Los Angeles.

Have you noticed that our household is universally obsessed with movies, television, commercials and all things film related? Then you can imagine how our self-guided tour through LA went last week, right?

me: "Oooh, this was filmed HERE."
Jamie: "Oh man, that was filmed THERE."
both: "Coooool..."

What's the deal with the line @ Pink's??

Mulholland Drive, Nip/Tuck, and Jackass filmed here.

Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Soloist, 24, Alvin+Chipmunks, and Ironman filmed here.

Beverly Hills City Hall.
90210, BH Cop 1-2-3, Chihuahua...all filmed here.

Picked up an application for marriage license in this building.
Woah. Woah. WOAH.

Los Angeles Superior Court.
Paris received her probation terms here in '07.
Destiny Hope Cyrus officially became MILEY Ray Cyrus here in '08.
Perez Hilton sued the Black Eyed Peas here in June '09.
And they just approved the Michael Jackson movie here a couple weeks ago.

Bradbury Building built in 1893.
Blade Runner, Pushing Daisies, Lethal Weapon 4 filmed here.
Aaaand (500) Days of Summer.

Park overlooking Continental Building - oldest skyscraper in LA.
(500) Days of Summer filmed here...lots.
Have I mentioned (500) Days of Summer yet? I loved that movie.

Jamie was escorted off the property for getting this shot-- NEVER prouder.
American Gigolo, Troop Beverly Hills, and Pretty Woman filmed here.
Anyone else singing: "Beverly Hills, what a thrill..."?
Heyyyy! Big metal door.
Don't know if anything has been filmed here yet.
Well, except for that guy.

Stuck-in-my-head Wednesday...

opinions?
i literally walk around singing this out loud for HOURS.

p.s. i love how many little sisters i just adopted from that last post. i'll bug amy to start a travel blog for ya'll. yay!

What is this MINCED??

Is everyone else CRACKING UP at this commercial?
I've been walking around asking everyone if things are MINCED.

Also, thanks so much for the general level of excitement about the Kantaharas! I've been lobbying for Jamie to either take my last name OR for both of us to legally change BOTH of our names to Kantahara. Things aren't looking in my favor, but don't think this means I'm going to cease my efforts. Ooh, that means we'll have to alter some of Hudson's paperwork as well. The vet is going to be mighty confused.

Are you watching this??

GLEE ON FOX.

(not available on Hulu @ press time...but keep checking)

It's hilarious to us.

30 Rock Rocked!

Are you guys all watching 30Rock with as much fervor as I am? Tina Fey has certainly had quite the run the past couple of years, but for whatever reason, I've been super delayed on catching this HILARIOUS programme. An error on my part, as it has quickly risen to the tops of my list. An error on my part for which I am slightly grateful; thanks to Netflix + earlier seasons being available on DVD!

We'll have something to do if Hollywood decides to strike again.

If you're watching this show, AWESOME for you. We should chat. If you're not, try it on for size tonight! The hilarities are simply terrific and priceless.

And now for some real, in-person, 30Rock photos of our own (most captured by JK):

i wanted to go to there.
so we did.

loving the architectural detail.

holla!!

all sorts of tv magic happens in this building.

"excuse me, have you seen tina fey??"

so. windy. lost my hat.
jamie had to run after my vest that the wind also tried to steal.

angle of the ice rink statue i hadn't noticed before.

JUMP!

JUMP!

90210 is rocking my world.

Should've taken a pic of my face when I opened the door to these two crazy kids!
They literally walked from their places to ours in the bright pink, Sculptra scrubs I gave them.
Might change the title of this post to "Jocelyn + Annie rock my world"

Our regular host of 90210 night in the neighborhood had to be in Arizona for a meeting last week, so Annie + Jocelyn came over last night for a rerun (thanks, tivo!). It was Monday Night Football and Jamie was more than happy to escape to the bedroom tv to watch the game. To top it off, they came over with BAGS of food to make dinner for us! The whole thing rocked and seriously might have changed the landscape of our regularly scheduled evening conversation.

I can just see it now....

Jamie: "What do you want to do for dinner tonight?"
Leslie: "Uh, I dunno. Order thai or mexican or pizza?"
Jamie: "We did thai last night."
Leslie: "Oh ya. Well, why don't I just have my friends come over to cook us dinner?"
Jamie: "Ok, that sounds like the best option."

Thanks guys!

Always do as the Walshes do.

The timing in which I found this article about Brandon Walsh + wine was impeccable. Found it through Amanda's publication and thought it enough to inspire a 90210 dedicated post. Can't wait for the fall schedule of television to return!!

And by "do as the Walshes do" I mean do as the Walshes did back in the earlier days when Cindy+Jim were still together and basically rocking the parental roles for Brandon/Brenda/Valerie/etc. Waaaay before they moved to Hong Kong (huh?), started having affairs, and let Steve keep living in their Beverly Hills ranch-style home without them. Seriously, how did Jim go from barely able to afford moving from Minnesota to swallowing that mortgage in b.hills? Share your investment secrets, Jim...share your secrets.

bleagh! acid wash!!

My eyes were GLUED to the screen back then and I learned many a teen lesson from Mr. and Mrs. Walsh during the first few seasons of 90210. Once college came around, my devotion certainly ran a bit more spotty, but definitely watched the series finale. Actually, I think I watched the finale in a makeshift PeachPit-like sunken living room and cried my eyes out with the girls of Arlington apts (college, holla!): Jocelyn, Annie, hmmm...can't remember who else was there.

We got together for a mini wine tasting (plus yummy snacks) @ Jocelyn's a couple of weekends ago and my mind definitely drifted to that night in their sunken living room and the 90210 finale. AND to the fact that the CW network is bringing the series back to life!

yes, that IS lori laughlin in yellow-
aka aunt becky from full house.

For the record, Annie* definitely took me to PANTS TWO on opening day!! She read my request RIGHT HERE and took it upon herself to look up times and to make sure I got there @ first availability. Love. her. Although I was slightly disappointed when coming out of the theater, the plotline has marinated in my brain and I'm still a fan of those crazy girls. I'm hoping to rely on some of my neighbors to encourage a 90210-redux tv night....anyone know when it's supposed to start??

*Haven't gotten to posting about fun-ness about Annie yet and am kicking myself for it! Soon, friends. Soon.

Can I borrow your baby?

Dude. I know that many of you are currently living the lives of REAL parenthood, but have any of you caught an episode of NBC's new show, Baby Borrowers?? Hil-ar-ious. Teen couples are left with infants for three days in a row while facing "real-life" factors such as jobs, rent, sickdays, etc. They come in aspiring to be young parents, but are totally clueless to the difficulties of raising children. Their supervision includes actual parents who watch 24/7 via little cams, professional nannies who live there with them, and...oh, that's right: millions of national viewers. Hellooooo, stress!!

And check it. If they survive this stage, they graduate to toddlers, grade-school kids, TEENS, and even elderly folks in walkers! What do you all think? Will you watch it with us?

Spotted on TV

Anyone recognize the background in this menopause commercial??


TOTALLY our scene in January '08