Collection Basket“a roundup of recent BoK posts
Don’t miss brandy new Basket of Kisses exclusive interviews, with Donielle Artese (with more to come), Elisabeth Moss and Rich Sommer!
Things we threw out to the Basketcases: We had ourselves a little fun thinking of period cultural references we want to see on Mad Men. We also discussed how Mad Men characters have character-specific dialogue styles, and opened it up for more examples. Who knew the Basket would give homework over the break?
Deborah wrote one little thing about the Mad Men and their suit-buttoning habits, and it spawned shit tons of conversation!
We had a great discussion about the representation of black women on the show.
We totally hugged Rich Sommer. Here, here, and here.
My sister, as it turns out, relates to Betty Draper. Which, who’d have seen that coming?
Marly K took a great look at the significance of the Betty/Birdie naming, and depression turning into anger:
It takes Betty a while to learn to cope with her anger productively. In a frightening and still weirdly controlled display of rage, she destroys a chair, spooking her children. She kicks Don out but at first she is also lost, verging on depressed. That depression is useful too. As overindulgent as it may be, this might be the first time in her life in which Betty allows her feelings to dictate her life. Once her kids go to school, there’s nothing else in that house but Betty and her disappointment, her sadness, her grievance, her futility, her numbness In a way, Betty is sitting a kind of shiva, the Jewish mourning period in which mourners don’t leave the house, cook, clean or even change out of their clothing for seven days.
I took a look back on the S2 opener, For Those Who Think Young, in the new light of having viewed the full season.
Deborah figured out that the key to Pete Campbell’s transformation is well, his mighty vibrant sperm.
Kisses on the Lipps–BoK Mentions and props & nods from the vast interwebs
Rich Sommer, over at his blog, posted about our interview on our blog. Once again, it’s a whole blog thing.
Joe Bua at I Am A TV Junkie talks about off-season Mad Men happenings and, as always, gives Basket of Kisses the maddest of props, and the proppest of mads. If you think he only acts like a fan because we’re friends, know this”we became BFFs because we are mutual fans.
Other BFF (we collect them) Nathaniel at Film Experience Blog gave us linky love over our Lizzie Moss interview.
Mo Ryan, ˜The Watcher’ (ChicagoTribune.com) (and Lipp Sister BFF-in-training) once again threw us some super linkage over the same super interview..
Meredith O’Brien had the genius notion to interview Deborah and me. Which, y’know–cool!
Back In The Kitchen Where The Sausage Is Made (BoK behind the scenes)
We changed up our header post-season, because we felt that this visual is in brilliant contrast to the opening credits silhouette, and that it’s emblematic of Don Draper’s journey in Season Two as his life is once again turned backwards, heading towards Dick Whitman but also to himself blah blah blah MY GOD HE’SNAKED.
Our ever-morphy ˜About‘ section has some updates, including a link to our ˜Basket of Interviews‘ (also available one-by-one on the right-hand sidebar).
We’ve got a few Season Two full recaps up. More every minute. And you understand that when I say ˜we’ I mean ˜Deborah’. Also Quotations are being updated at the same rapidfire speed thing.
Oh, also remember that time when everyone started saying how the Google ads were all annoying with some funky messagey pop-up? Deb fixed it like weeks ago. Let us know if there are still issues.
Okay that’s it for now. Kisses!
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