Lunch Break

Obamabush: He's often much dumber than MSNBC is letting on.
Bushbama: President Hopeful has blocked legal challenges to government wiretapping.
Pea brains at war! Kos bird brain attacks the Code Pink brain dead!!!
Ruthless: Tarheels make my friend's mother Ruth very happy by dispatching Michigan State swiftly. Go Tarheels! Go Ruth! (did not care so much about March Madness after the second round-my brackets were busted early - but pulled for N.C. by default cuz i know some peeps from there...)
Music: After a year of harassing insistence that I watch Mad Men by a friend in the advertising business I finally turned the DVR toward AMC a few Sundays ago. Gotta say that MM had me by the half way point of the opening credits. Wow. It is some good television. Bitch about Hollywood all u like - when the talent here gets together to make something worthwhile no one can touch it.

The precision of M.M. is breathtaking. Season One opens during the 1960 presidential campaign. I am told the only fudging in the production design was in using IBM Selectric typewriters which would not show up until the mid sixties...there was not enough of the previous generation typewriters still around to fill the ad agency's office....

Oh my and don't start me on the acting... hmmm hmmm good... not a weak link anywhere.

Now I have a riff/post on why the lead character's name, "Don Draper", will soon enter the American lexicon as a short hand for an entire genre of American Maleness - the true antecedent to this tv character played by Jon Hamm is Jay Gatsby.

Okay enough! An Itunes gift card later I am working through season one with the same joy I felt upon my first read of Love In the Time of Cholera - too happy to stop and too happy to keep going for long without a pace about to work off the skittering pleasure of being alive...

A You Tuber put 2 Mad Men characters to music...