Basket of Kisses

This just can’t wait for the news. This Friday, October 17, Jeopardy will have a Mad Men category. Check local listings. SO COOL! As a tie-in, there’s a Mad Men online game at the same link.

Yeah. And none of them are me. Here they be. That’s okay, now we’re down to the fun. Some of my very favorites made it (Josh Weinstein, Valerie Long and Nathaniel Lawlor), and a few of them I haven’t seen. I will check them all out tonight once I’m home and select carefully. Go have [...]

Way back at the beginning of this blog, I quoted George Packer bitching about the IBM anachronism; the show uses the IBM Selectric introduced in 1961. Now, I have always thought it was minor, because let’s face it, “Anachronisms” is our least-used category. On the other hand, Matt Weiner is always saying what a persnickity “fetishist” [...]

It’s like AMC day here. My contact at AMC tells me that after The Wheel airs, the next two episodes that air will be #1 and 2. He’s not sure if the full season will continue in order, but as soon as I know, I’ll post it here.

Advertising and television insiders are buzzing about AMC’s new advertising deal, which, frankly, I barely understand. AMC has said it will guarantee a portion of its upfront deals based on two new metrics designed to measure viewer receptiveness to behavioral-targeted spots. Charlie Collier, AMC general manager and executive vp, said the central premise behind the [...]

Otherwise known colloquially as quotation of the day: “I hate to break it to you but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent” ”Don Draper

So, I’m pretty much lifting from a brilliant comment left on the AMC blog (the DVD contest). In his (?) comments, “grinandbearit” talks about all the birds in Mad Men… Several characters have bird names–Harry Crane, Trudy Vogel, Duck Phillips. Roger presents Joan with some caged birds after suggesting that he’d like to keep her [...]

I kinda don’t want to share, because it’s a DVD giveaway, and I wanna win. Maybe I’ll win, and AMC can stop stinking my sweet. Also, it indicates that there’s like, a DVD set coming.

(Really I just wanted to use that line.) But I am sitting here watching the brilliant and pivotal episode six; Babylon (from whence the brilliant and pivotal line ‘basket of kisses’ was extracted) and they are just chopping it to shit with the commercial breaks. Commercial/one tiny scene (the ‘basket of kisses scene)/more commercials! Ridiculous. [...]

It’s not airing tonight. I can’t even talk about it.