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― wk, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
My mom saw the Rolling Stones five years before Altamont and with only 199 others so it's not that. You didn't need to own a roach clip to hate Nixon.
Your yearbook picture is always taken in the first week back, and if you're a senior it's taken in the last August you will spend anticipating high school. The '60s as fashion culture were never gonna show up in a yearbook before that. My mom's public school had a dress code until 1970, when they also did away with capital punishment and making the boys swim naked in their single-sex lessons.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
one of my fave parts of nixonland is all the square rallies that nixon's crew would invite a few protestors and hippies to to crack down on
― balls, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my dad saw big brother & the holding company and bands like that play little free shows on the berkeley campus, was at the anti-war march from berkeley to oakland where the hells angels were beating up protesters at the border, etc. but he's always been a total preppie. it was funny watching that merry pranksters magic bus documentary and seeing what a bunch of preppy jocks they all were.
― wk, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost
um, suzy do you mean corporal punishment or did your mom go to the world's harshest high school?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
What the seventies were about imo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27096349@N07/4716137445
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
omg i love that photo
― balls, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol of course whoever's flickr stream that is would have a mad men avatar
― balls, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
corn on the cob with river pebbles for breakfast!
shag rug that blends with pooch!
truly a magnificent time
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, I can smell that photo from here
― wk, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
omg I love that so much, Alfred
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
virile beards and body hair loool
Barbarism imo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27096349@N07/5053346213
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
for people who fucking HATE everything about prawns except the taste
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn that bums me out
This makes me feel like pulling out and scanning pictures from the Betty Crocker recipe card library from 1971 that my mom gave me.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
we have a whole thread for discusting recipe cards, pleeeeease do that Nicole I will love you forever
I live for that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
When I get home I will work on it.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
except gaaaah I can't think what the thread was called, I'll see if I can find it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
aha! found it:
Completely disgusting foods our parents ate
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
ahahhahahhaha Corporal punishment, yeah. Very stuffy head today, this is the closest I'll get to thinking tonight.
Both my uncles had blond heinies and wore Oxford shirts with chinos straight through until '70; they're to the left of my mom's politics now. Her older peer group were like the kids in Hairspray who wanted to dance to rhythm and blues by black artistes, not Pat Boone covers of same. She believes James Brown, Tina Turner and The Supremes had more to do with desegregating America than various social-justice leaders. The situ with my mom and 'the counterculture' reminds me of the denouement of Absolute Beginners when the Notting Hill ted/mod-era types return to the jazz club, see hippies, and know in their bones that culture is moving along to the next thing.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i've heard 'sam cunningham did more to desegregate alabama than mlk or thurgood marshall'. which is bullshit obv but true enough in a certain way.
― balls, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thingx.tv/articles/mad-men-poetry-recap-to-have-and-to-hold-2352/
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
From Slate's episode review, a well written conclusion I think:
Television is eating Don’s world. He wants to sell white space above some french fries so that people will live with ketchup all day long. The man from Heinz wants the bottle. Both are selling something hollow, but it’s Don who believes. And the people around him just aren’t buying it any longer. Peggy is gone. Megan is furious. Dawn, a relative stranger, knows that the whole business is rotten; she sees the fear that holds the place together. And Sylvia does as well. She doesn’t pray for Don to visit. She prays for him to find peace.
Oh, and there is, indeed, this:
As for Sylvia going up in the elevator? Well, I don’t know. I want her to have pigeons on the roof.
What was that anyway?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
Full disclosure: I thought SCDP's ketchup pitch was far superior to Peggy's, which seemed way too unimaginative. Disregarding Don selling absence, I really liked it as a campaign.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
And from Vulture's review, this is indeed something that is recurring lately:
Yes, I’m growing a bit impatient with my beloved Mad Men — with Don, at least. Granted, this is a slow-burn show in the mode of the last big drama that creator Matthew Weiner worked on, The Sopranos, so I still hold out hope that the writers are arranging pieces that’ll all come together in the season’s back-half — something to do with abortion or a Don Draper health crisis, I’m betting. (During Megan and Don’s dinner with the swingers, Don was warned off cigarettes yet again; they’re averaging one anti-tobacco reference per episode now.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
I liked how the swinger wife advised Megan not to smoke, which was immediately followed by Don sparking her cig. Classic dick move.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIK8B0MjVc
― balls, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'd thought the anti-smoking thing in the first episode was just a sign of changing times and then after that just what you'd expect from a doctor but it coming up at the swingers dinner seems to mean there's something deliberate to it.
― balls, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
Not relevant, but best Great Shakes ad: http://youtu.be/b3qbUQ9oPYw
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Don tried to watch those Great Shakes ads, but turned them off because he didn't "get" it.
Then Stan got him high.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
wondering what the results of a sal vs stan poll would be
― balls, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
that would be a good poll. i love them both. poor sal.
― Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/04/22/stanfinger.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
A+
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeeeeeessssss
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Great episode, things are really shaking up for everyone. Good for Peggy! Out-selling the Big Guys.
This was like the first episode where I sort of hoped everything just came crashing down for Don.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
It is coming crashing down for Don. His adulteress tells him she prays he will find peace...
*smash cut to summer of love*
First decent joke for a season and a half.
― Popture, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
And it's pretty obvious she's step-step-stepping out on him.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
I will never understand ILX's hatred of Harry. all the scumbags on this show and Harry's the monster?
― sons of plutarchy (will), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
he's just a schmuck.
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i could see why rog and bert tried to assuage him but i wish they had just called his bluff, he's always seemed a lightweight who got his position by sheer circumstance and whose job could almost certainly be done as well if not better by someone else (by joan for example).
― balls, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khozde8d2zI
sneak preview of new daft punk track at 1:55
― balls, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
Posting this again in higher quality...because it deserves it.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/5f4b6b738573bd9a1c50257f10881c2c/tumblr_mlodze2mS61qfk4jio1_500.gif
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
daaaamh Tilda Swinton lost weight!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account. Thank u for clarifying, blogs!
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
thought there'd be a big deal that Stan leaked it and there'd be reckoning. He lucked out there.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
Totally didn't get that Ted & Peggy also didn't get the Heinz Ketchup account
Really?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like that was a common misconception. J.Walter Thompson got the account.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't Peggy say "they bought it in the room" or something? Or was the JWT bombshell later?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link