A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

I just tried buying this woman's new ebook. Can't. Apparently I am of an inferior race.

Race or sex?

I'm guessing race. Australian :)

(ie impossible to get books etc at same time as US, etc)

Just downloaded the book and read the first 30 pages or so last night. It's a pretty fun, addictive read.

I was thinking it should be a good read, she's a pretty snappy writer and she has had an interesting life. The story of how she got that scar is O_O

Never heard that story!

I'm surprised she wrote about it; I don't think she's ever talked about it in public.

well I don't know if she talks about it in the book, but I read an interview a few years back where she talked about it.

I guess she was playing out in her front yard when she was 5, and this dude just came by and randomly slashed her face with a knife, and ran away. She thought he had drawn on her face, she didn't even know it had happened at first.

She doesn't talk about it hardly at all though, so yeah she may not even bring it up in the book

she goes into about that much detail in the book, talks more about how people treated her because of it.

In a way it's probably good she has kept a lid on it...I mean, it would be so easy to have THAT be your story from the time you're a kid.

Yeah, she does talk about it in the book. She doesn't really go into detail about the actual event, but provides funny theory involving how the scar transformed her personality by making adults give her extra attention/pity/inflated sense of self.

xp

I always thought the scar was kind of hot. I have had a major girl crush on her for like, ever

Baldwin:

Gosh.

I want to take the opportunity to state that although my days on network TV may be numbered, I hope 30 Rock goes on forever. Or at least as long as everyone involved desires.

Next year hopefully won't be the last. Kenneth can run the network. Jenna will get her own talk show. Tracy will become Mayor of New York. Then resign to go raise exotic reptiles. And Lemon will go do.... just about anything she sets her mind to.

Here's to five more seasons.

thought there would be an episode for me on hulu just now but no the show took yet another break. stupid vagaries of network television programming. Sometimes I wish I were watching television at the end of time and extensive poll aggregation had produced a list of things that I should watch in order to perfectly fill my projected lifespan with top-quality entertainment.

Oof I think I need to go to bed.

yeah it's pretty horrible the way they only have a great new episode of this awesome hilarious show on thursday night about 50% of the time instead of 100% of the time i mean what the hell

I KNOW, RIGHT?

I would actually love it if TV shows updated sporadically in the fashion of infrequently-used LJs/blogger blogs

"hi guys, forgot I had this thing! Things have been going well; here's another episode of 30 Rock than I made!

xoxo, Tina"

~the future~

The present, truth be told imo

I've barely started this book and already it's brilliant. In a rant about the perception of blondes:

If you put a blonde wig on a hot water heater some dude would try to fuck it.

omg lol

poor some dude, never catchin a break

Hey, some dudes on ILX would do be thrilled to be called out by Tina Fey in her comic memoir Bossypants, out now.

Also, Tina on Fresh Air today, with her thoughts on the "TGS Hates Women" brouhaha:

"It's just such a tangled-up issue, the way women present themselves — whether or not they choose to put their thumbs in their panties on the cover of Maxim and judge each other back and forth on it. It's a complicated issue, and we didn't go much further on saying anything other than to say, 'Yeah, it's a complicated issue and we're all kind of figuring it out as we go.'

"In the episode [of 30 Rock called "TGS Hates Women"], we have a fake website called Joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was ... I don't have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she's beautiful, and that's part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, 'That's amazing. Good for you.' But because she's very beautiful, people are like, 'You're using that.' It's a mess. We can't figure it out."

honored to be shouted out by t-fey but honestly i'm not into blondes much at all, compared to brunettes anyway

Definitely will be checking out that Fresh Air Ep....hurm, drive to work tomorrow morning just got more bearable

totally unfair, should have called out forks instead

Oh god, can't believe I completely missed the some dude reference AND didn't know wtf you all were talking about.

There's a really entertaining section of the book where she calls out individual writers on 30 Rock and attributes specific lines to them. Donald Glover (Community wrote this which is one of my all time favorite exchanges. Jenna is trying to teach Kenneth how to brag about himself in a passive-aggressive way:

JENNA: Not even a "back door" brag?
KENNETH: What's a "back door" brag?
JENNA: It's sneaking something wonderful about yourself into every day conversation. Like when I tell people, "It's hard for me to watch 'American Idol,' because I have perfect pitch."
KENNETH: Oh... ew.
JENNA: Now you try.
KENNETH: It's hard for me to watch "American Idol" 'cause there's a water bug on my channel changer.

<3

I am going to Borders and buying that book tomorrow goddammit

It's hard for me to buy books because I have photographic recall.

You read super fast?

Uh... what were we talking about?

lol

JENNA: Not even a "back door" brag?
KENNETH: What's a "back door" brag?

Hey, it's explainabrag! Excellent.

Donald Glover, the black hipster from Stone Mountain, Georgia

same place as kenneth :D

wonder if he performed underneath the chuckle hut

I learned that night that there are markers on these kinds of trails ... I also learned that sometimes, especially at night, these markers are hard to see.

the producers of this movie rented saw and watched it

Never before have I felt sorry for a man with a tattoo of a leprechaun vomiting on a book.

Edward James Almost!

Best of season.

Waitasec, the writers couldn't find a wizard cape or ham for Jane K. to hide her pregnancy behind? WORST EPISODE.

Ah, you're taking the delivery receipts exam!

oh yeah the fucking pizza academy thing cracked me up

"I'm going to go into the back and try to think of more ways to help you!"

So you've finally found me...

After I ordered Thai food and gave you my address!

believe I am obligated to lol extra hard at "Who Nose?"