I don't watch House. Its one of those things I suspect I'll love (A lot of the people I worked with in Tennessee said that once they realized how much like House I was, they stopped hating me. So, you know, there's that), but want to watch it when I can start back from Season One on. Despite the fact, however, that I don't watch the show, I keep my ear to the ground on the internets, and was surprised the other day to here that Kal Penn's character was killed off very suddenly. Once I did a little reading on what was going on, I read the same story that everyone else at this point has also heard.
Kal Penn left the show to go work in the White House. Ok, not so much "IN" the White House as much as across the street at the OEOB, but still, how freaking cool is that? First there's the concept that this man is putting on hold what was turning out to be a successful career in acting. On a material level, I'm sure he's taking a massive pay cut. I'm sure, if the roles were reversed, that I would jump all over it too.
Penn is not, as you'd think, a Democrat. He considers himself an Independent, but worked on President Obama's campaign. Its also not what I would consider to be the splashiest of posts (Constituency relations are important, but its a little to "Big Block of Cheese Day" for me, to telegraph one analogy by using another). But at the end of the day, he's working for the White House... What are you doing?
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