Every time I put on Three Mile Pilot a friend of mine would say, “Now I want to kill myself.” My own reaction was that of a ridiculous teenager: I wanted to lock myself in my room, or get high with my friends and talk about how its awesomeness, or get tossed and rock out […]
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Mad Men Monday – Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Here’s an article from the Chicago Magazine about Draper Daniels, one of the models for Don’s characters, written by his wife. They’re not as pretty as the TV versions. Also check out these bad ass Mad Men posters created by designer Christina Perry. There’s also another set for the men. Via Natasha VC. Recap of […]
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Sci Fi For Socialists, Weird Book Previews, And Future Tense
Future Tense Books, one of Portland’s premiere small presses, celebrates its twentieth anniversary tonight at Disjecta. Read Ned Lannamann’s interview with founder and editor Kevin Sampsell here. In the wider world of books, China Mieville has some science fiction suggestions for socialists. With 50 picks, the list is exhaustive, so there’s a few questionable choices. […]
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Publicity Mastermind or Literary Genius?
The Enigmatic Tao Lin’s Richard Yates Has Nothing to Do with Richard Yates
Tao Lin’s Richard Yates fails to connect with its reader, even as it explores human connection in the digital age.
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Mad Men Monday – The Beautiful Girls
With the release of The Town, Jon Hamm went through the media wringer this week. Here he is on The Daily Show and here he is with Terry Gross. Also January Jones guest judged on Project Runway, in case you missed Marjorie’s post. AMC After an episode about Don trying to define himself we get […]
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Radical(s)
In this week’s New Yorker author Lawrence Wright tackles the Park51 controversy. Though the issue has been wrung dry by legions of pundits and politicians, Wright’s perspective is worth a read. He’s the historian and journalist behind The Looming Tower, an intensely interesting history of al-qaeda and radical Islam in general. Also it won the […]
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RE: Mad Men Rewatch
AMC Appreciation of Mad Men benefits a lot from rewatching. Even the most banal episodes reveal something startling or amusing about the characters. Here’s some extra observations I had reviewing last week’s episode, The Summer Man. The social hierarchy of the suburbs is one of Mad Men’s most interesting topics for me (the main reason […]
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Mad Men Sober Monday
First off, an interview with Miss Blankenship, AKA Randee Heller. How come nobody told me she’s the mom from The Karate Kid? Moving into summer 1965, this season seems to be covering a lot of time, with the plots hinging more on character development than a core conflict. It’s natural then to have this sort […]
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Late Summer Reading
It is still summer, I assure you, but the buzz is all about the big important books of the fall. Well I’m still not done reading my summer trash, and now that a bunch of books on the to-read list are in paperback there’s no excuse. Here’s some shit I saw wandering around the bookstores… […]
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Mad Men Monday
If you can tear yourself away from the barbecue today check out this month’s Rolling Stone which has a nice Mad Men photo spread and article that you can’t read online unless you pay for Rolling Stone (what is this a joke?). AMC You’ve got something on your…oh never mind. But we have more serious […]
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Virginia Quarterly Review Cancels Winter Issue After Editor’s Suicide
Celebrated and award winning literary magazine the Virginia Quarterly Review has suspended publication of its winter issue in light of the July 30th suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey. Morrissey’s suicide has been the subject of scrutiny as his family accused Ted Genoways, Morrissey’s boss, of bullying the depressed Morrissey. Genoways denies the accusation. […]
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Mad Men Monday – Don’s Lost Weekend
Mad Women I struggled to watch the Emmy’s last night and made it through enough to watch Matt Weiner win an award for Outstanding Writing. Then Jimmy Fallon’s musical tribute to canceled shows got muted, and later Ricky Gervais saved the entire telecast, but Mad Men also won Outstanding Drama Series for the third year […]