I'm surprised no one written about it until now, but let's chat about the season premiere of The Office, shall we?  

In bullet form?  Certainly.  Some thoughts…

• First off, Jim and Pam. We all knew it wouldn't work out, right?  That's for the series finale.  But how would it not work out? That was the question.  For the most part, I think they got it right.  The reaction of both of them admitting that they had wanted to kiss for a long time was exactly what they should have said.  Pam wussing out was predictable and in character.  But the abruptness of Jim leaving seemed unnatural — like he wasn't even game for a little bit of a fight.
• The idea of having Jim start out at a new office full of wacky people is an ambitious, but exciting prospect.  Ed Helms is a promising addition to the cast.  And I don't know who the woman is, but I loved it when she mocked Jim's patented shrug to the camera.
• Was it me or was this one of the roughest episodes to get through in terms of the Oscar storyline.  Just in terms of cringes per minute.  And the intensity of those cringes.  I guess I just got excessive cringe-age for obvious reasons.
• In this episode a lot of the characters teetered on the verge of being horrible (Angela, Dwight, Kevin).  They've always been flawed and wildly eccentric, which is why they're funny, but even Kevin was acting like a jackass with his 5th grade giggling.
• Oscar's hot.  That's all.

This past weekend I was in Burlington, Vermont, being the best man in my friend Matt's wedding.  My layover on the way back was in Laguardia (which, in case you didn't know, is basically as close to hell as you can get.  Unless you're counting the set of Tony Danza's talk show) and I had a brush with fame on the way there.

Here's the question: which famous TV gay was on my flight from Burlington, Vt. to NYC?  Guess in the comments.  The winner gets, eh, a shout out on TiFaux.

I'm not buying you something.