Biographies
Basket of Kisses is a group effort, founded by Deborah and Roberta Lipp.
Deborah Lipp is the author of five books: The Study of Witchcraft, Elements of Ritual, The Way of Four, The Way of Four Spellbook and The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book. One of these things is not like the other.
Deborah also blogs at Property of a Lady and The Ultimate James Bond Fan Blog.
Roberta Lipp got her blogging feet wet at Roberta’s Voice, an languid document of personal trials and tribulations, which has often been compared with ‘that Sex and the City column’. With a strong background in theatre as well as television viewing, she offers a unique insight into the human experience through a deeply personal lens. Also, she’s funny.
Roberta is or has at some point been: a singer, songwriter, guitar player, voiceover artist, rock radio disc jockey, actor, and improv performer. She plans to produce her one-woman show, Not Available in My Size, once she finishes writing it. Roberta also has a day job.
Roberta’s music is housed safely on myspace, untouched by human hands.
MarlyK, the commenter formerly known as Eme Kah, is coming out of hiding to indulge in one of her favorite past-times: pontificating about one of her favorite shows. As a native-born Venezuelan, she grew up on a steady diet of telenovelas and old b&w Hollywood flicks. Upon her arrival on North American shores at the age of nine, her biggest shock was learning that Pedro Picapiedra was going by the moniker Fred Flinstone. She is an after-hours scribbler who hopes her efforts will lead to something more than carpal tunnel syndrome. She lives in NYC.
Ms. Darkly, a.k.a. Glass Darkly, says:
My “name,” Glass Darkly, comes from the Bible (1 Corinthians 13:11-12). It’s a passage about imperfect knowledge, and our inability to fully understand much of anything. It’s also ironic, given how much time I spend analyzing Mad Men, My other interests include reading, writing, pets, singing off-key to anything from Big Band to Eighties Pop, and”of course”all things Joss Whedon and now Matthew Weiner. I don’t think I would really want to meet either of them though, because I would make an utter ass out of myself”there might be fainting, screaming, crying, repeated breaking of the third commandment, and a futile effort to appear clever and memorable, rather than scary and memorable. I’ll just admire from afar, thank you very much!
hullaballoo is a Mad Men obsessed small business owner who lives, works, and plays in the Los Angeles area”right around the corner from the house that doubles as the Draper’s place (exterior shots). What excitement.
B. Cooper: New York City is a marvelous machine filled with a mesh of levers and gears and springs, like a fine watch, wound tight. Always ticking.
Karl keeps a watercooler cribsheet covering music, gossip, showbiz and animal stories for fans of Claude Pate (a defunct band of which he was not a member) and thousands of strangers. His day job is in the law. He has a special practice with only one client, but is not like Tom Hagen.
Anne B is married to fellow Basketcase White T Jim B; they and the two B daughters (the gay one and the straight one) live in San Francisco. Three of the B’s watch Mad Men; the fourth is fifteen going on Hey, cute shoes!
Anne’s day job is in training and communications. When she’s not writing for work, the Basket, or her own blog, she is the sand in the oyster of health insurance reform, the wacko on the five-hour urban hike, the Bad Santa, the Bad Bunny, the good friend, the art-supply auntie, or the one person updating the countdown calendar outside The Man’s gilded office door.
Or, she’s asleep.
Meowser is a Brooklyn-born, NYU-educated resident of Portland, OR. She still loves the Mets, remembers (parts of) the sixties better than she’d like to admit, and would like to get involved with another television series, but is afraid to.
Mad Chick is an actor/writer/temp assistant. (She’s worked for “Don” types - or at least, modern-day excutives who have his type of personality, though not his looks.) She lives in NYC (Brooklyn) and loves it. Besides Mad Men, other favorite shows include Shameless, Nurse Jackie, and The United States of Tara. She is a big movie buff – especially Woody Allen films and a lot of indies and romantic comedies.
