We here at the hippie love-commune we call home at Haight and Ashbury missed the debut of the US version of the TV sitcom the Office, because:

We don't have cable, and we don't get NBC through our wack antenna.

It's pathetic that the crap NBC station in the area can't penetrate it's signal to the middle of the freakin' city. This means that I also miss Pumpkinhead's show when I (infrequently) really want to watch it.

The comic talent on the Office US actually looked promising to me, too, what with some Daily Show funnyman playing the boss (and he was v. good as "Brick" in Anchorman) and the genius Rainn Wilson (sp?) from Six Feet Under playing the Gareth character.

But I'm still glad, on balance, that we don't have cable. Fuck that.