Welcome to Portlandia

Down there in some of the comments, Olive posted a link to IFC's just-launched Portlandia.

Why would this be of interest, you ask?

The 6-part IFC Original short-based comedy series PORTLANDIA, created, written by and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (vocalist/guitarist, WILD FLAG, Sleater-Kinney), premieres on IFC Friday, January 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM ET/PT. Each episode's character-based shorts draw viewers into "Portlandia," the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon.

Happily, the preview clips are embeddable, too, so we can look at it even from here: