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Mad Men: Of Hair and Sex

August 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Apologies for getting this out so late. My internet connection has been finicky and odious and not only did it take approximately two hours for the episode to download from iTunes this morning, but as I write this I have no connection at all. I have a feeling that last night’s Mad Men episode, “The [...]

Mad Men: The Beauty Myth

August 16th, 2010 · View Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Last night’s episode of Mad Men, “The Rejected,” was directed by John Slattery (Roger Sterling), and a damn fine episode it was, too. It’s splendid (or rather, SWELLIGANT) on its own, but is also masterfully linked to events that happen all the way back in Season 1. The focus group for Ponds, for example, begs [...]

Mad Men: Bad News Always Follows Good

August 9th, 2010 · View Comments · mad men, reviews, television

We’ve had two episodes of Mad Men that focused on characters separately, and the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce business as a whole, but last night’s episode, “The Good News,” focused on relationships. I love when it does that. When I saw the episode title I wasn’t sure whether it would be a Christian reference, [...]

Put Out or Get Out (aka MOAR MAD MEN)

August 4th, 2010 · View Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Hey kids! So that spiel I gave you on Monday about blogging about this show elsewhere? Forget I said that. Bygones. Here is a slightly (re)edited version of the post I wrote for them — I feel compelled to reblog it here since I reference it a few times in my first Mad Men post [...]

Mad Men: I don’t hate Christmas, I just hate THIS Christmas

August 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · mad men, reviews, television

So here’s how things are going to work for the foreseeable future: I’m blogging about Mad Men over at a new progressive magazine called Imagined, but in less recappy, more thematic way, which forces me to leave out a lot of stuff I still want to discuss about the show (and in a more personal [...]

When smoking was classy

July 25th, 2010 · View Comments · flashbacks, photo essays, stuff

Next month will mark my five-year anniversary as a non-smoker. I’m happy to say that I don’t miss it at all — which surprised me at first, since all I’d ever heard from ex-smokers was how much they still craved cigarettes. Once, during one of the eleventy thousand times I tried to quit, someone who [...]

Year of living sluggishly

June 11th, 2010 · View Comments · writing

Hey kids, you know what today is? Besides the World Cup kickoff. 1 Today marks my one-year anniversary with unemployment. Well, technically, it’s tomorrow. June 12th, 2009 was my last day of full-time work — and it wasn’t even a full day’s worth, since I’d normally spend Friday afternoons preparing for Monday’s newsletters. But I’m [...]

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