September 2009
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Meet me at the hyphen. →
Psh, listen, Connie: You don’t have to tell me how confusing having a hyphen in your name can be.
The new structure was 17 stories with “perpendicular railways”; an indoor driveway on the 34th street side, the first in hotel history; a grand ballroom seating 1,500 and a roof garden. Between them the two hotels had 1,000 rooms, three floors of banquet and meeting rooms and common manage- man...
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"Decision time: do you watch Mad Men win awards or... →
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“She [Merry] watched in silence, as still as the monk at the center of the...”
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Reminds you a little bit of Sally in front of the burning monk on television, right?
• footnote - by Natasha Simons
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JOHN CHEEVER TAUGHT LITERATURE TO THE INMATES OF... →
How do you like that juxtaposition of soul tearing abundance (Don) and depravation (Shouty Prison guard)?!
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Always Be Smoking: Mad Men Footnotes The Book!
Well Dressed Readers!
A thousand apologies for my dereliction of footnoting duty this past Sunday. We had some big news over at Footing headquarters. Harper Collins will be adapting this blog into a book. And the book will be fantastic, dammit. It will be glossy with pictures and smart things written about the show’s historical and cultural context.
Had to sew things up yesterday so...
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What day do you watch Mad Men?
Sunday or Monday? Just trying to avoid spoilers, etc. We will post Sundays but nothing to plot related? Community building!
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Bill Bernbach is the one with the quote stuck up... →
from Mark, our man in Havana.
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