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"Publicity images often use sculptures or paintings to lend allure or authority to their own messages" - John Berger

The Last Supper  by Leonardo da Vinci

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True Story

 

* Nate is just as dashing and warm in real life as he is on TV. (I'm pretty sure I spent my entire time in front of the camera staring a little too intensely into his eyes.)

* So are his producers and production assistants. (See above picture for evidence.)

* The "Green Room" is in fact white, but comes fully stocked with snacks, cable, and oddly, a sink. (Again, see above image.)

*  Nine hundred thousand hours of prep work +  a team of a trillion and six people = two minutes of television entertainment.

* Actually, if real live famous people are scheduled for the same show, you better make that one minute.

* That one minute was quite possibly the most thrilling and terrifying minute of my existence thus far. (Too much?)

Look, Mom! I'm on TV!

Friends, tomorrow is the day! I will be appearing on the Nate Berkus Show on Thursday, September 8th (NBC 4 at 2:00 p.m. for all my DC area friends). BIG-TIME BUTTERFLIES. (O.K., now who wants to DVR it for me?!)

(We will be, oh you know, just having a casual chat like he's doing here with his bestie, Oprah.)