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To some, the only games that matter this summer will be the Olympics in Beijing. To others, Scranton, Pennsylvania will be the place to be for the real games.

On Saturday, July 19, The Office's number one on-screen enthusiast, spunky Kelly Kapoor -- played by actress/writer/co-executive producer Mindy Kaling -- will host a series of games to promote the release of two new The Office products. NBC and Pressman Toy have created The Office DVD Board Game and The Office Trivia Game.

Back on the night that Stephen Colbert announced that he'd be hitting Philadelphia, taking the show on the road for the first time, I had decided to go to bed early and just catch the rerun in the morning. My friend called me just as I began to doze off and immediately told me that she had gotten tickets for us to see Colbert in Philadelphia. I had no idea what the hell she was talking about, so when I hung up, I just shrugged it off as a late-night half-dream. The next morning, I watched the episode and it finally made sense: We were about to go on another Colbert Report adventure.

You knew this was going to happen eventually; one of the rejected contestants from The Apprentice is now running for Congress. Raj Peter Bhakta, a "fired" season two participant, is the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania's 13th district, and he's using some grandiose methods to discuss his platform. For instance, this article mentions that earlier this week he marched an elephant and a six-piece mariachi band across the Rio Grande in Texas to demonstrate how easy it is for illegal immigrants to come into the country (suffice to say, Bhakta wants a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border).

Those of you who remember the bow-tie-clad Bhakta from the Tump-fest already know he had a bit of the showman in him; he wore colorful suits and walked around with a cane on the show, and in one episode tried to get a date from tennis babe Anna Kournikova (he lost the challenge she proposed, and he had to run around Arthur Ashe Stadium in his underwear with his team firing tennis balls at him).

Oh, and because I'm nothing but fair, here's the website for Raj's opponent, incumbent Democrat Allyson Schwartz.

Jeez alou, everyone's blogging these days. And it seems like NBC News is at the forefront of making sure all their to stars blog about the "inside scoop" on their shows. It started with "The Daily Nightly", where Brian Williams and others blog about the machinations of putting together a nightly newscast. Now, NBC-owned site iVillage has started a blog written by none other than new Today anchor Meredith Vieira, which they're calling "Meredith Today" (clever, huh?). Right now, there's only two entries: an intro entry where she talks about the Pennsylvania school shooting earlier this week, and there's a new piece about her first reporting assignment in years (she went to Colorado to talk to the family of the girl killed in a school shooting last week).

Not sure if I'll ever read this (I don't read "The Daily Nightly," even though I think I should), but at least we know Meredith will not be shy about holding back in this blog, judging by her nine years on The View. It might be a great read, or it might be a train wreck; either way, it'll be pretty fascinating to keep track of.

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Here's an interesting little tidbit about Prison Break's Wentworth Miller. When he was 19 and majoring in English at Princeton, he and his father (also named Wentworth) worked together on a comic book of sorts called Sewickleyness that poked fun at the residents of the Sewickley neighborhood in Pennsylvania. You can check out some excerpts here. I'm not sure how to describe Miller's cartooning style. It kind of reminds me of George Gately, who drew Heathcliff, or very early Doonesbury. I guess if his television career ever fizzles out he can always fall back on cartooning. Or maybe not.

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