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A new viewer's impression of a typical Mad Men episode, based on watching episodes 1-3

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:53:37 -0400

New York, 1960s

Elevator, Madison Avenue

Man: Work is the most important thing we do!

[smoke]

Other Man: It makes us each important.

Other Man: We may be married but we’ll never grow up!

[smoke]

Other Man: Women! Always going to the bathroom together, watching the kids, and nagging! They’re so different!

Other Man: Haha, yes, it’s true! Let’s leer at the secretaries on our way in!

[smoke]

Other Man: Typical tuesday! Scotch, strippers, and infidelity around three? Fellas?

Man: You betcha! See you guys at the bathroom.

Office Hallway, Ad Agency

Joan “Everything I do is Sultry” Holloway: This is your desk. We’re going to be great frenemies.

Peggy “I’m new, naive, and eager to please but will never give up my soul and inner character” Olson: Thanks Joan, this is so overwhelming! I don’t know why you think I’m a threat.

[smoke]

Joan Holloway: Everything you’re doing is wrong.

Peggy Olson: I think I can take it from here.

Draper’s Office, pitch meeting

[smoke]

Don “Everything I do is Sexy” Draper: Listen, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m the main character and I’m incredibly elusive and badass, but every so often you’ll see just enough of my soft side to keep liking me. I’m just as trapped as you are.

Salvatore “I’m so gay I’m straight” Romano: I’d like to see a naked man trapped like you! Hahaha, I meant woman, god I’m just so damn hetero!

[smoke]

Man: So Don, [some reference to a successful ad campaign that wasn’t realized until much after the time frame of the show, cue dramatic irony], whatdayathink?

Don Draper: That’s the worst ad pitch I’ve ever heard. And I’ve worked with Sal for several years! [laughter, smoke] I’d like to fire you, but that’s not how we work here. Meeting over, my terms.

Pete “I want Draper’s job” Campbell: Don, I want your job.

Don Draper: Try to figure me out. But I will crush you.

Apartment, daytime, two naked characters

[smoke]

Woman: That was lovely.

Man: You realize, I’m married. Bye forever.

[smoke]

Home, New York suburbs, picket fences

Man: I’m [grits teeth] really happy.

Wife: So [mashes mouth] am I.

Man: Really, really [lits cigarette] happy.

Wife: [drinks bottle of wine] Truly.

Man: Why would we need to have sex? We already have kids.

Woman: Yes, the kids. They’re my only friends and I hate them.

Man: Wonderful. Night honey.

[smoke]

[I can’t stop watching this show]

"Overwhelmed is not due to lack of time - it’s due to lack of priorities"

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:42:04 -0400

“Overwhelmed is not due to lack of time - it’s due to lack of priorities”

- Tim Ferriss (via didyouevernotice)

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma -..."

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:11:06 -0400

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Steve Jobs (via biancarocksout) (via soupsoup) (via unicornology) (via align)

"Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily,..."

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:07:57 -0400

“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”

- J.D. Salinger (via align)

"The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or..."

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:20:09 -0400

“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or desire for more.”

- Gabriel Zaid (via scout)

via tylerwillis

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:26:00 -0400

via tylerwillis

kareem: Percentage of income spent on food and fuel, by country

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:40:15 -0400

kareem:

Percentage of income spent on food and fuel, by country

President BUSH PARDON’s HIMSELF via congress for POTENTIAL...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:25:46 -0400

President BUSH PARDON’s HIMSELF via congress for POTENTIAL WARCRIMES

"It’s the state of America now that is the most gripping source of anxiety for Americans, not Al..."

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:08:00 -0400

“It’s the state of America now that is the most gripping source of anxiety for Americans, not Al Qaeda or Iraq. Anyone who thinks they are going to win this election playing the Iraq or the terrorism card — one way or another — is, in my view, seriously deluded. Things have changed.”

- Thomas Friedman - Anxious in America - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Prediction: twitter about to be huge, once stable

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:34:00 -0400

Rahmin Sarabi : you twitter?
SirPado: not yet

(via digitalsnacker)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:03:14 -0400

(via digitalsnacker)

best drama currently on TV - no question

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:38:00 -0400

best drama currently on TV - no question

A truly exceptional thing.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:37:00 -0400

via (tylerhwillis:fred-wilson:supernice)

Tim Russert’s son, Luke, asked Barack Obama and John McCain to sit next to one another at his father’s funeral Wednesday. And they did. From the NYT -

“Then, in remarks from the pulpit, he exhorted them and other politicians to “engage in spirited debate but disavow the low tactics that distract Americans from the most important issues facing our country.” At the end of the service, the two candidates embraced.

“Five months from now,” Luke Russert said a few hours later, “I wanted them to remember that this occasion brought them together.””

I just think that’s extraordinary. Such a simple request. A profound gesture. Really kind of amazing. I have chills. Wow.

superamit: REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San...

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:36:41 -0400

superamit:

REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San Francisco!

"‘The Love Guru’ is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh..."

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:30:35 -0400

“‘The Love Guru’ is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.”

- from A.O. Scott’s review in the NY Times (via anthonyking)

"It’s lonely at the top. 99% of the world is convinced they are incapable of achieving great things,..."

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:28:45 -0400

“It’s lonely at the top. 99% of the world is convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre middle-ground. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.”

- Tim Ferriss in Why Bigger Goals = Less Competition (via tmblg)

calling it for what it is. (via digitalsnacker)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:44:00 -0400

calling it for what it is.

(via digitalsnacker)

digitalsnacker: new media douchebags in plain english (via...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:07 -0400

digitalsnacker:

new media douchebags in plain english (via kelstew2)

"Lately, I’ve noticed that writers of action and suspense films and TV shows are encountering an..."

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:19:13 -0400

“Lately, I’ve noticed that writers of action and suspense films and TV shows are encountering an amusing new storytelling problem: How to explain why their protagonist doesn’t just use his cell phone to get himself out of a predicament.”

- CHTV screenwriter Dan Gurewich (full post) (via jakoblodwick)