"Big Block of Cheese Day" is back again

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White House blog

Ah, happy days

I saw Michelle Obama had tweeted about this yesterday and meant to investigate. Not sure I can cope with the number of cheese-based puns in that blog post but I like the idea.

However, the proper Big Block of Cheese Day (by which I refer of course to the one in The West Wing, not the actual one in real life, which this event is modelled after) isn't just about the citizenry engaging with the White House but with small (professional) lobbyist groups who wouldn't ordinarily be able to get face-to-face access to senior White House staffers. Worthy causes, not lunatics on Twitter.

That said, I share the nostalgia, particularly for the second Big Block of Cheese Day when Margaret vehemently denies having carefully matched anyone up to their guests (still looking for a YouTube clip, from BBoCD1, where Toby correctly dubs this 'Throw open our office doors to people who want to discuss things we could care less about .. Day').

- Margaret's classic moment is at 1:02

also at Toby and CJ. Any time I read about the Peters Projection map I think about Josh saying, "These guys find Brigadoon on that map you'll call me, right?"

I haven't re-watched in a while. My box set has dust on it - it used to be of the few things in my house that didn't.

So that's my Sunday night viewing sorted.

Oh CJ and the wolf... Happy Days. I started working my way through it in German for a rewatch but could only get the first series, very annoying, I've got a load of work travel coming up in the next month and suspect all my English versions will be getting a rewatch...

We finally managed to lay our hands on Sportsnight and have watched about 5 episodes of the first series so far. You can see so many of the ideas/themes that have been in the subsequent stuff taking shape but not quite fully formed. The biggest shocker though is the canned laughter - they ditched it for s.2 and it's absolutely dreadful - the whole Sorkin 'rhythm' in the speech is there and adding in laughter tracks just doesn't fit.