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Holy frak …

Are we back up?

Looks like my web host’s main hard drive had a complete failure yesterday morning and OfficeTally was down for most of the day. OT is now restored, but only from a backup from Sunday. Which means we lost posts and comments from the past two days (mainly Monday).

If you were tearing your hair out yesterday, imagine how I was feeling. :)

I will attempt to manually restore what we lost, but please be patient. Thanks!

I missed you guys … it’s good to be back.

P.S. In the future, remember to check my MySpace page for updates about OfficeTally. (Not that we’ll ever have problems again, right?)

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Angela Kinsey on Conan

In her latest MySpace blog, Angela writes that she’ll be taping ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ today.

I don’t see her officially listed as a guest on Conan’s site, so I’m guessing this is a last-minute appearance.

Can’t hurt to set your DVRs/VCRs for it, just in case …

Update: Here is the video of the appearance. (Thanks Denise)

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Office nominated for Producers Guild awards

The Office’s Greg Daniels and Kent Zbornak have been nominated for 2007 Producers Guild of America awards.

The awards will be presented on January 20th in Century City.

Here’s the complete list of nominees for the Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television Comedy:

  • Arrested Development — Ron Howard & Brian Grazer, David Nevins, Mitchell Hurwitz, John Amodeo, Dean Lorey, Jim Vallely, Richard Day and Tom Saunders.
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm — Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Robert B. Weide, Larry Charles, Tim Gibbons and Erin O’Malley.
  • My Name is Earl — Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland and Henry Lange Jr.
  • The Office — Greg Daniels and Kent Zbornak.
  • Weeds — Jenji Kohan, Roberto Benabib and Mark Burley.

Read Producers Guild announces TV noms or go to the PGA site.

Congratulations to Greg and Kent for the nominations!

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The Paper Chase

The New Yorker’s Tad Friend offers a fascinating, if not somewhat ponderous analysis of The Office, both versions.

A few excerpts:

Steve Carell does wonderful work with his voice, going from strangled and squeaky when he’s wounded to orotund when he’s feeling statesmanlike, an effect routinely shattered by his penchant for cackling and blurting out “Fo’ shizzle!” or “What’s the dealio?” All the conversational lint that tumbles around the airwaves gets trapped on the blank mesh of his brain.

… Andy, a new guy from Stamford (Ed Helms, in a scene-stealing turn as a smarmy frat-boy type), tells us he’ll have the second-in-command job within six weeks, through “name repetition” and “personality mirroring.” Michael falls for the manipulation, of course, and his credulousness made us feel the sort of sadness we feel when a computer outplays Garry Kasparov.

Get out your big dictionary for this one.

Read The Paper Chase.

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The Weekend Tally

New blogs this week

Articles

TV and movie appearances

  • Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Dec. 6
    Rashida Jones
  • Unaccompanied Minors (opens Dec. 8)
    B.J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, David Koechner (“Todd Packer”)
  • The Holiday (opens in wide release Dec. 8)
    John Krasinski
    Tipster: Sarah
  • American Dad, Dec. 10
    John Krasinski
    Tipster: Dana
  • Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Dec. 18
    Jenna Fischer
    Tipster: Becky

And lastly, singing sensation Ed Helms

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Rainn Date

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Once again, JustJared has posted a nice scan of an Office cast article — this time it’s Rainn Wilson in the latest issue of People.

An excerpt:

How is dear Dwight handling the staff shake-up?

It’s a new opportunity for him to dominate even more people with his signature flair. There will be a lot of jostling among [the three deputies] and I think there are going to be some fireworks — like actual bottle rockets and M-80s.

Read Rainn Date here (click the photo to zoom in). Thanks JJ!

Tipster: SHK

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Andy sings ‘Rainbow Connection’ to Pam

Andy sings ‘The Rainbow Connection’ to Pam, pig latin style, accompanied by banjo.

Lyrics

So we’ve been told, and some choose to believe it
I know they’re wrong, wait and see,
‘Cause one day we’ll find it,
The ainbowray onnectionkay,
The lovers, the dreamers, and me…

From The Office Season 3 episode, The Convict.