Basket of Kisses

This one is a classic Don Draper pose, rendered by César Moreno. It’s big, so click through for the whole experience.

It is 1918 and evidently everyone’s gotten into the swing of running a convalescent home, because there’s no more kvetching or eye-rolling coming from the Crawley gang. Lady Edith has found her stride. She’s putting on a concert and wants archenemy Mary to participate. This is a little like Michele Bachman and Obama doing a [...]

Swedish Auto (2006) 5/10 Lonely, isolated auto mechanic Carter (Lukas Haas) meets lonely, isolated diner waitress Darla (January Jones). One time, Arthur and I sat down to watch The Gay Divorcee. Arthur and I love Fred and Ginger, but it became increasingly intolerable to realize the “romantic” plot had to do with Fred stalking Ginger [...]

I took down the post I had scheduled for this morning because I thought we’d all prefer this! Jump in! Best Picture Nominees: “The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer “The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer “The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, [...]

Smart Pop Books have provided us with three copies of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook for our readers. I’m especially pleased to tell you that this giveaway is open to U.S. and Canada residents! I know you Canadians often get left out of these things, so yay. That’s the triple part. The double part is, [...]

Today’s episodes are The Mountain King, Meditations in an Emergency, and Out of Town. I find a common thread of eroticism: Sarah Beth’s longing for a younger man, Betty’s fling in a bar, Sal’s bellhop. Discuss eroticism and sexuality in Mad Men (or anything else): The floor is wide open.

In today’s Slate, Katie Roiphe discusses the paradoxical popularity of Downton Abbey given the current economic meltdown and the subsequent discontent of the 99%: One might wonder why, at the precise moment that we are condemning class divides in this country, so many of us would develop a passion for a show like Downton Abbey; why suddenly [...]

Matthew Weiner talked to Alan Sepinwall about Season 5, with more nuggets at Collider and some extra flourishes at THR.  That got Jon Hamm to open up a bit at Vulture, including more on his directorial debut. The Mad Men cast toasted the upcoming season at an event with an interesting tagline. The MM Season [...]

I am simply overwhelmed by the cuteness of Chibi Joan (by ChibiCelina).

Now that season 5 of Mad Men is finally within our sights (whew!), the question that keeps popping up in my mind is, “Whither Joan?” Yeah, I made a complete clown-nose of myself before Tomorrowland, insisting that Joan went through with the abortion because nothing else made sense for her. After all, this was Roger’s [...]

Mary and Matthew have run away for a romantic sojourn on the shores of the Bosphorus—oh, wait. That’s just a Viking River cruise commercial. Seriously, who wants to travel with Vikings? The pressure to rape and plunder must be overwhelming. SPOILERS AFTER THE CUT!!

Brother! Choose hate. The Season 1 finale of Hell on Wheels packed a wallop. Maybe it wasn’t as shocking as the “mid-season finale” of The Walking Dead but, of the nine major players listed on AMC’s cast page, four are in a very different place than I expected them to be at the beginning of [...]