I was one martini or old fashioned away from the perfect Mad Men dinner on Sunday night. My friend, his girlfriend and I went for the New York steakhouse experience at a place called Keen's. I had the iceberg wedges with blue cheese dressing to start and we had the porterhouse for three. The food was fantastic and I alternated between being nostalgic for my Dad, who was all about that kind of place, and excited at the Mad Men lifestyle porn. I'm bummed I didn't pack my vintage dress for the weekend, but we didn't plan the evening in advance and it would have looked out of place with their jeans anyway.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I can't believe that article tried to make it out like all Christina Hendricks had done was some stupid music video. She already had a serious cult following from her role on Firefly.
On another note, I'm not coping well with lost weekend/making-a-fool-of-himself Don. He worked so hard for his cool and now he's picking up homely waitresses named Doris who call him Dick. Also, I couldn't help but notice that Don kicked off that atrocious drunken Life cereal pitch with a reference to nostalgia just like he did in that beautiful, amazing, deeply moving pitch for the Kodak Carousel. He's cannibalizing himself.
Drunk as he was, I thought the Life cereal pitch was not all that pathetic. When you're brainstorming and spit-balling like that, 99% of what you produce is garbage. The trick is sifting through all of it to find the gem. Granted you don't usually want to do it right in front of your clients, especially drunk, but given that he only had like six or seven stinkers before they settled on what they liked, that's a pretty good average, even for a creative genius like Don. And the clients understood that he was celebrating and they liked what they got, so they went home happy. I don't think he's fucking up his work life nearly as badly as his home life, which was already so fucked up that it barely even matters.
Started watching a few weeks ago because of this thread. Good stuff, so thanks. I liked that President Bartlet's daughter from the West Wing is in a key role and that all male depictions are pricks.
Okay, just watched last week's episode again. Wow. Just wow. John Hamm rocks my world. And Elizabeth Moss is no slouch either! It's great to see two actors play off each other like that.
I will be SO PISSED if they sleep together.
Did anyone else notice the hand dryer in the bathroom? I didn't think those were around until the 1970s or so.
I was geekily excited when Roger mentioned that he had snuck out of Keen's for a drink. I felt totally vindicated in telling everyone how much that place reminded me of the show.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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