Just to catch you up…

Folks, we have been busy, and I want to make sure you haven’t missed anything.

Over the weekend two exclusive Basket of Kisses interviews went up”one with Rich Sommer, and the other with Jon Hamm.

Hamm on Don’s rationalization for his affairs:

When you look at Don’s life and you look at his upbringing, this is a man who has, as you say, no vocabulary or tools equipped to be satisfied, to be happy. This is a man who very much lives his life from day-to-day. And so when these opportunities are put in front of you to see something different or to live another life, this is a man who has lived many lives. It’s a little easier for Don to rationalize that or compartmentalize that then it is for most people who have had examples of a happy mother and a happy father living a happy husband and wife existence. And that’s what they can base their married lives or their coupledom on that. Don didn’t have that, so I think he’s still kind of reaching for this happiness that is undefined in his world.

So in the meantime, Deb and I were running around doing last minute preparations for our 2nd annual BoK Mad Men season finale party. We even got a mention in the Daily News (see the sixth item).

A brief description of the party
The party was a wonderful success. Legends was such a great location”the room was perfect, the food was delicious, they did Man Men drink specials for us, and the staff was entirely accommodating.

B. Cooper gave us a Jeopardy game, and hullaballoo and Anne B. (both from California) as well as Marly K. were all in the house. AMC gave us Mad Men swag that we gave out all evening. So there we were, six Basketwriters and as many as 150 Mad Men fans/Basketcases, many in period clothing, all there for the main event, the airing of the finale.

So we didn’t even need no stinkin’ Michael Gladis to surprise us with a visit, which made it that much sweeter when he did.

It was what, 9:40? 9:45? I was pulling raffle tickets, and, even with my microphone, was having a hard time being heard. So I grabbed a chair, kicked off my shoes and climbed up. And there I am, addressing this noisy crowd on a chair in my fishnet stocking feet, when I see, at the other end of the bar, a very tall, handsome, clean-shaven man smiling up at me.

I heart Michael Gladis. We’ve spoken on the phone, we’ve emailed, we’ve even text messaged (I love annoying him on the way to an awards ceremony) so it didn’t even make sense that we’d never met. And it did in fact make perfect sense that he came to our party. Michael is very huggy.

Then of course, the show. The group experience. The screams and cheers. Michael in the house.

But from your perspective, those that were not with us but were following along at home, we want to thank you for coming out in droves to the Basket”the sheer volume of you broke our blog! Now, while we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and are doing everything we can to ensure that it does not happen again, at the same time please know that it’s kind of a special geek status symbol to break your blog. So thanks for helping Basket of Kisses break the internet.

Don’t forget to stick with us in the long dark downtime between seasons. We’ll bring you continuing discussions, more interviews, news and updates and an eye on season four.

Oh, don’t it feel so good to say season four?!!