Are you going to watch The Mindy Project tonight?  I read the pilot a few months ago, liked it fine, it didn’t bowl me over. When I watched the premiere, I thought the show did a great job of cycling the Mindy character through a million outfits, more amused than I thought I’d be by the romantic-comedy construct, didn’t really care for the best-friend character. Full Story

Sometimes I wonder how it is that John Mayer and Ashton Kutcher aren’t best friends. Or could they be? Do we reject that which repulses us in our ourselves? Anyway, now that Katy Perry doesn’t want to be dealing with him anymore, John’s all fresh again with a haircut. He showed up at Mindy Kaling’s party the other night and may have been flirting with her. Full Story

This is Mindy Kaling in LA pretending to be NY shooting her pilot. And great timing too after Vanity Fair’s ridiculous cover yesterday featuring women in television but only under the covers. Click here to revisit that post. It’s enough to make Lee Aronsohn hire another stripper to star in the season finale of Two And A Half Men. Full Story

Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling With this, it becomes official.   It has been whispered in the hallways of your work or school, you have remarked on it over drinks.   But with the publication of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns) the zeitgeist has officially rolled over, such that … Being able to say you were some brand of geek is now essential for future success. Full Story

It’s an ongoing discussion we’ve examined on my site and it could be a very interesting liveblog debate between Duana who loves television and Sarah from Cinesnark who also loves television but who supports the notion that the television star is still a second class citizen compared to the Movie Star, even though there is SO MUCH MORE QUALITY on television these days. Full Story

Duana sent over the link yesterday with an excerpt from Mindy Kaling’s upcoming book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Duana’s note with the message read as follows: Funny, not revolutionary, but funny. Very true. It is funny. At times very funny. And smart but not smug and honest and adorable and I want to read more. Full Story