Basket of Kisses

Entertainment Weekly looks at Mad Men’s props.

Jon Gosselin should learn from Don Draper.

Christina Hendricks is in the November issue of The Advocate. That’s the one on the newsstands—the current print edition online is October. (Thanks Basketcase Gina.)

In connection to the news that Kater Gordon has left Mad Men’s writing staff, here’s a homegirl article about her Emmy win. (h/t Basketcase Peggy Joan.)

Via Basketcase Jude, CNN posts one of those “women dig bad boys” articles with (who else?) Don Draper as the main example.

John Slattery is fighting a sanitation project in his NYC neighborhood (thanks Basketcase Scott M.)

Matt Weiner talks to TV Squad about Season 3 and more…

Abigail Spencer talks about Suzanne Farrell with the Jacksonville Observer.

Janie Bryant has teamed up with Brooks Brothers to create a Mad Men edition suit inspired by Draper and the other well-dressed cads at fictional ad firm Sterling Cooper. Here’s a cute article about the town where the shirts are manufactured: Garland, Texas North Carolina.

Blogger John Bogert has just started watching Mad Men and writes about his reactions to the series as a whole.

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In Wee Small Hours, Don meets up with a jogging Miss Farrell who is wearing a Bowdoin shirt. The shirt is quite prominent during the scene. Since Mad Men never arbitrarily puts anything out there, I looked up Bowdoin.

I was struck by the fact that the image on Bowdoin’s official seal is a sun. This is certainly no accident given the use of the sun as a major motif in Mad Men.

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