Today at Flavorpill HQ we read more Kindle 2 commentary. We got confused and thought that this was one of those charity supergroup videos. It’s not. We thought about nachos. We realized that there’s something oddly comforting about the fact that The Simpsons will live on forever. We liked the idea of Cate Blanchett playing Maid Marian. We were glad to hear that Jessica Capshaw is signing on to Grey’s — see, they’re not anti-gay! We cheered on the high school Rent production that almost wasn’t. And then tried to imagine what Rent would have looked like in our high school. Heh. We were fascinated by Paul Krugman’s taste in music. We checked out the Web site for Tetro. And finally, we had to hand it to MGMT; it takes some balls to sue President Sarkozy.

Today at Flavorpill we read this fantastic interview in The Believer with writer Mary Gaitskill. We wondered how long it will take for someone to make a movie about this girl who faked her way into Harvard. We checked out this catalog of Obama’s ties. We learned that we might be using our iPhone a little too much. We discovered that there’s a right wine to go with everything. We decided we’ll play Nikki Finke’s Academy Awards drinking game. We weren’t sure whether or not to believe Catherine Hardwicke, but if she’s fibbing the crepes are a nice touch. We flipped out over Roald Dahl’s “writing hut.” We found it funny that Izzie and George aren’t leaving Grey’s Anatomy — this is even more frustrating than waiting for them to hookup. We made some snap judgments based on people’s looks. We were grossed out by this boy Juno, and then we almost vomited thanks to this New York Times headline. And finally, we decided this might just be the funniest, most awesome Valentine a girl could receive.

Those of you who are still watching Grey’s Anatomy will be interested to know that Eric Stoltz — who has been busy at work behind the camera on the show — will be joining the cast for three episodes early next year. No stranger to taking on scary sociopath roles, he’ll play a crazy serial killer who has an accident and lands himself in Seattle Grace Hospital.

Since Izzie has been sharing the screen with a dead guy for the majority of the season, what we’re wondering is:

Our money’s on the redhead.

Does anyone else find it odd that ABC decided to announce that they are dropping Dr. Hahn — otherwise known as the woman who Buffalo Bill once planned to skin — from the cast of GREY’S ANATOMY on Election Day?

Talk about burying controversy in the news cycle. Hahn was both the least hetero and least annoying member of Seattle Grace’s staff — and one half of the only same-sex couple currently on prime time TV.

MICHAEL AUSIELLO reports that ABC execs were having issues with the idea of girl sex while BROOKE SMITH reveals that it all came crashing down very suddenly:

“I found out in mid-September soon after shooting the monologue that aired last week where Erica has the revelation that she’s gay. They even came down and told me it was a great scene — one of the best they ever shot on the show. So I was really, really shocked. I was floored when they told me [I was being let go]. It was the last thing I expected. In fact, when they told me I asked, ‘When is this happening?’ And they said, ‘The [next episode] is your last,’ which is the one that airs this Thursday. So it was very sudden.”

Here is what is even weirder: beginning on November 13th MELISSA GEORGE joins the cast as a bisexual intern/Meredith Grey’s lifelong BFF.

There has to be something we don’t know happening behind the scenes here. Does anyone out there have the scoop?