Bush on Madmen and Terrorists
Okay, I was reviewing the text of Bush's speech from Tuesday for a mass media class I teach--I showed Keith Olbermann's special commentary on the speech, and wanted to be sure of what was in it--when I...
View ArticleYes, McCain really did say "100 Years"
The Cons are trying to weasel out from under this, but take it from Dave Tiffany, the guy who asked John McCain the question back in January: I was the questioner at the January 3 Town Hall Meeting in...
View ArticleThey Might Be Right
In the lore of advertising right from the era of Madmen comes a reminder to me that the Blagojevich issue may surprise us in ways we never expected. Also Caylee Anthony. Because it comes with a lesson...
View ArticlePETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
(I'm reposting this because...Don Draper, Peggy, Joan, best show on TV, you and what army is gonna stop me?)AMC has hinted that they may not make room on their schedule for Season 5 of Mad Men until...
View ArticleMickey Mouse Pleads with the Wisconsin Children: Don't Revolt! Watch TV! Go...
There is a new sales campaign the Disney Company recently announced. Wall Street analysts talk excitedly about the “newborn market.” Disney representatives enter hospitals’ birth rooms with sales...
View ArticleACTION: Mad Men on Trains - this is no "Snakes on a Plane"
My wife and I recently started watching Mad Men on Netflix. It's been interesting to watch how so much of what we see in advertising got its start in the groundwork laid by ad men in the 50s and...
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Overnight News Digest: Poll - 69% Oppose US War in Afghanistan
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest (graphic by palantir)The OND is published each night around midnight, Eastern Time.The originator of OND was Magnifico.Current Contributors are ScottyUrb,...
View ArticleLittle House on the Prairie, Mad Men, Racism, and Television
I'm a big fan of the show Mad Men. Of its many strengths, one is how it depicts the bald, open bigotry that was so commonplace in the early 1960s, even among urbane white Northerners. It shows that...
View ArticleMad Men, Not Yard Signs and Volunteers
BEWARE OF MAD MEN SPOILER IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE ON YOUR VIEWING (AND CARE). On Mad Men, the AMC television series about a small advertising agency in the 1960s, the agency just landed the Jaguar...
View ArticleRomney's Mad Men Plan To Roll Out New Harder Hitting Ads Using Racial Themes,...
Mitt Romney has assembled a large, and eclectic group of advertising veterans, in a modern four room video production studio, and "massive video archive," in his Boston headquarters, with a $200...
View Article'Re-invention ' of Willard Mitt Romney is already in the can: Scott Brown's can
Just happened to catch the Rev Al Sharpton's show Politics Nation and the Rev Al just showed a clip of Mitt and Ann Romney by FAUXNEWS in which Chris Wallace was what appeared to be an 'observer' as...
View ArticleHoly Smokes! "It's Toasted"
Or, should I say, Mitt's toasted?So how does Mitt get sold to the American People, when he's come out arguably as toxic and lovable as cigarettes?Ok, look at this:(This is from the first season of the...
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Justified (not Mad Men or GoT) is the best show on television
Mad Men, NOT the best show on television.What do you tell yourself at night, when you lay your head down, that allows you to wake up in the morning pretending that you're not the bad guy? - Boyd...
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Mad Men: The Collaborators (6.3)
Courtesy AMCtv"Now I understand. You want to feel shitty, right until the point where I take your dress off. Because I'm going to do that."—Don DraperDon knows what he's going to do, because he's been...
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Mad Men: To Have and To Hold (6.4)
(Courtesy AMCtv) The Bechdel Test is usually failed in Hollywood—does your work have a scene with two named women, talking to each other, about something other than men?This week's Mad Men episode...
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The Daily Show/Colbert Report Late-night chat 04.22.13
Tonight on TDS, Christina Hendricks,Mad Men; and on TCR, Michael Pollan, Author, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. (And my link roundups focus on a) feminism and b)glowing reviews, some...
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Mad Men: The Flood (6.5)
(Courtesy AMCtv. OMG, that's totally Harry Hamlin as Cutler, Gleason and Chaough head of accounts Jim Cutler, the man who made the law look so cool that the author of this post became a lawyer.)Harry:...
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Mad Men: For Immediate Release (6.6)
(Courtesy AMCtv.) Close the door. Have a seat.We cannot discuss this episode, in which the ramifications of "The Other Woman" continue to affect our world as clients are gained and lost because of...
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Mad Men: Man With A Plan (6.6)
(Three people with plans. Courtesy AMCtv) Margarine. It's not the same thing as butter, it's not the real thing, and no one likes it as much.Don, in particular, doesn't realize that everyone is...
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Mad Men: The Crash (6.8)
Don Draper meets a new friend. (Courtesy AMCtv) Friends, I've seen some messed-up stuff on television in the past week: a Scandal finale with a jaw-dropper of a last line; leeches employed on Game of...
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