The Many Adventures of a Thede

Tonight I was watching one of my new favorite shows, Samantha Who, and there was a pretty funny flashback to Samantha's childhood when she played Annie in the school play. The girl playing young Samantha looked awfully familiar to me, but I couldn't quite place her with the big curly wig. I was trying to think...what show have I seen that girl in? Was it on TV? Was it a movie? Then it hit me. I KNOW that girl. We shared the stage at La Jolla Playhouse in the show Zhivago.

That's her on the right...Kelsey Smith. Or...young Christina Applegate. You decide.

It's weird seeing people you know randomly on TV, and I'm not quite used to it. It also happened a few weeks ago while I was watching 30 Rock, I saw this guy I also happened to work with on Zhivago, Chris Hoch, who was also hard to recognize at first because he was wearing glasses. He played a guy that worked in the accounting department at NBC. And all accountants wear glasses.

Oh! Here, I found a picture I had of Chris and Kelsey together. And I've modified it to be an artistic representation of what they looked like on TV.

Yeah. They looked just like that.

This week I discovered a blog dedicated entirely to cookies! It's probably a good thing that I don't have an oven or I would be wanting to make cookies all the time! Maybe I'll have to make just a batch or two at Bo's apartment. But this woman actually DOES make cookies all the time. But she's still skinny. Don't you hate people like that? (Note: I don't believe there's actually a picture of her on the blog, but I saw her on the Food Network when she won the Pillsbury Bake-Off. Ironically, her winning dish was chicken and stuffing.)

Is it lame that I just blogged about another blog? Well, too bad if it is!

Has anyone else seen the commercial letting us know that there are "live and active cultures" in Yoplait yogurt? I think that's one of those facts I've always known, but choose to try and forget, like what's in a hotdog. But seriously, isn't it not appetizing at all to hear that you're eating something live and active?

And when they dance around with little faces, it's even worse:



And now I'd like to make an update to my previous post about the TV shows I'm watching this fall. Yeah, Cavemen is not funny. Not at all. So, that one is off the schedule. But I have started watching Samantha Who, which is hilarious. It stars a few people who I'm already a fan of. Christina Applegate (who I've thought was funny for a while), Melissa McCarthy (who's character name I haven't learned yet, so I just call her Sookie, which was her name on Gilmore Girls), Jennifer Esposito (who was on the short lived, but pretty good show, Related...but she's much funnier on this), and Tim Russ (who was on one of my favorite shows in my youth, Star Trek Voyager.) I'm fairly certain this will be cleaning up at the Emmy's next year, so you may want to start watching now.