New to Mad Men? Or a longtime fan who enjoys neat graphic design? Then check out this nifty periodic table, designed by Emily Miethner:
Originally posted at Flavorwire.
The Mad Men Periodic Table
A Brief Update on Mad Men Recaps
The season premiere of Mad Men was last night (hooray!) and I just wanted to let you know that I’m changing the format of the recaps. As much as I love the show, I just don’t have it in me to do the “full blown” recaps I’ve done in the past.
When I first started with the recaps, I decided to make them as comprehensive as possible, so that if you missed an episode you could read my recap and know everything that happened in that episode. This often led to episode “summaries” of 7,000 words (or more). This is something I just can’t do any more.
So, starting this season, I’m drastically cutting down on the “summary” part, making it more like the recaps you see at other websites. However, I’m keeping the “Other Stuff” section (the part of the recaps I enjoyed doing the most) as well as the “My Thoughts” section.
I have a couple of errands to run just now, but hope to start on the season opener some time later this afternoon.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25
- failed at being a plumber today… 🙁 #
- AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHH! Giant black snake under the deck! I wanted to scream like a little girl! #
- Question: Which golf club is best for killing a snake? I like the compactness of a 9 iron, but think the heft of a 5 iron might do better. #
- Anyone up for a game of Mornington Crescent? I'll start: Parsons Green #
- "Adobe Reader Protected Mode… is a new mitigation feature scheduled for the next major version release of Adobe Reader." AMEN!!!! #
- is starting season 2 of "Underbelly"! #
- "The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” – Sowell #
- has entirely too many remote desktops and virtual machines going on at once! #
- Apple the new world leader in software insecurity: http://tinyurl.com/26t2ceh #
- "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." – Reed #
- @rlaw1971 Because Twitter is pointless fun! #
- Thoughts and prayers to the Cowher family on the loss of Kaye! 🙁 #
- Ice cold Diet Dr Pepper? Check! Hawaiian pizza? Check! "Mad Men" season premiere tonight? HELL YEAH! #
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FRIDAY FUN: The Women of Mad Men
Mad Men returns this Sunday, and I’m so excited I could almost pee in my pants! Let’s hope that doesn’t happen… and in the meantime, enjoy this new promo picture of January Jones, Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks:
Wow… They’re all so pretty!
Don’t forget folks… THIS SUNDAY at 10pm on AMC! Squeeeeeeeeee!
FRIDAY FUN: Katy Perry
Yeah, it’s photoshopped to hell and back, but still… WOW!
A Vacation Story
I’ve told this story on the website before, but the original version is tucked away inside a long post in the Old Site Archive, so I thought I’d share it again.
Lisa and I were in London from December 26, 2005 to January 2, 2006. We had a lot of fun the first few days, going to the V&A, Hampton Court Palace, Borough Market, and several other historic or interesting sites. But on New Year’s Eve we joined the throng of 450,000+ people to watch the fireworks near the London Eye. As you might guess, we had a few drinks. OK, more than a few. Quite a bit, actually. But we weren’t stumbling around, out of control drunk or anything.
The next day we were feeling less than 100%. We both agreed that we wanted something greasy and familiar to eat, and lots of it. One of us (I don’t remember who) suggested a Chinese buffet we had seen a few days prior. So off we went to Mr Wu’s Chinese Buffet at 58 Shaftesbury Avenue.
SONGS I LIKE: “It Doesn’t Take A Whole Week”
I dunno if I “love” this song just yet, but I spent the past hour listening to it over and over and over again, so that’s a good sign. It’s by the French band Karaocake (MySpace page here) and it’s amazingly hypnotic. Have a listen:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcTOu3R0OA
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
- Congrats Spain – a nation that made millions off the backs of African and South American slaves! #
- Since when does anyone care about @ebertchicago's opinion on anything other than movies? #
- You replaced Jesus with Jenny McCarthy and Kevin Trudeau… and you're HAPPY about it? Seriously? Sorry if you can't hear over my laughter! #
- People somehow take Keith Olbermann seriously as a talking head, even though he's not much smarter than Terry Bradshaw. #
- "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." – Friedman #
- 9 beers + a shot of rye + sunshine = sleepy #
- #antivax parents are the lowest form of life on Earth. Yes, even child molesters are better than you. #
- "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism" – Sowell #
- "Naked man running on highway, his prosthetic leg on fire"! Story here: http://tinyurl.com/2ftv77y #
- "Every socialist is a disguised dictator." – von Mises #
- Yaaaa! Go NL! #
- I just realized that Sandra Oh looks like Scottie Pippen! #
- Another UK Headline: "Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend at gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers bar" #
- "Right you are, Ken!" #
- Heads-up: Roxy Music will be performing on tonight's final "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross"! #
- A band you haven't thought of in 15 years: Combustible Edison #
- Half price burgers and fries at Catawba Grill – YUM!!!! #
- made Lisa proud by doing an air guitar solo (with tremolo action!) to Heart's "What About Love"… in the middle of Lowe's! #
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Coupla Changes…
I don’t even remember how it happened. Last night I was sitting at the computer, and somehow or the other I started messing around with the headers on this blog. I can’t remember if I found a cool image I wanted to use for a header, or if I found a plug-in that randomized the header or what… but one or the other set me off on a stream of consciousness search for headers that somehow related to my life.
So now the header graphic is randomized. Each time you load a page here, you’ll see a new one. Here are the header subjects so far:
Saint Etienne (2 headers of one of my favorite bands)
Emiliana Torrini (Love in the Time of Science is one of my favorite albums)
Duran Duran (my first favorite band)
This Mortal Coil (It’ll End in Tears was my teen angst album)
Madonna (from the Like a Virgin era, just because)
Beethoven (musical revolutionary)
Thomas Cranmer (religious revolutionary)
Ludwig von Mises (economic revolutionary)
Hunter S. Thompson (counterculture icon)
T.S. Eliot (my favorite poet)
Flannery O’Connor (one of my favorite authors)
Don Draper (Mad Men badass)
St. Paul’s Cathedral (home of Anglicanism)
The Tech Tower (best university in the US)
More headers will follow. I haven’t found a good Steelers image yet, and the one good (large) pic I found of The Jam was taken at an angle, so I couldn’t get all the guys in the 940×198 space needed for the header. But the search will continue.
Also, I updated the Links page this afternoon. I added one new link, deleted few dead ones, and updated a few others.
FRIDAY FUN: “Driver 8”
Here’s a rare acoustic performance of R.E.M.’s “Driver 8”. What makes this particular performance so interesting is that it’s supposedly from a July 1984 episode of the show “The Cutting Edge”… which was almost a year before Fables of the Reconstruction was released.
Have a watch and tell us what you think:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjX7udu1SxE&feature=related