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Jan.06.2013 NRA, Slavery, Cigarettes, Guns, Lincoln, Mad Men, Cloud Atlas & the Evil of the Assault Weapon Industry My new piece on guns. The Good Life	Jun.17.2012 A Pause in the Madness [SPOILERS AHEAD!] As you may know, the fifth season of the AMC series Mad Men has ended on one of those summarizing, meditative melodies often played on these programs. I sighed with mild relief, as I do at the end of every episode. I resisted Mad Men at first, not adding it to our Netflix...
Apr.15.2012 Day 106: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- THE BORGIAS and Other MAD MEN Up early for a workaday Sunday. Things were going well. My leg was in good shape. I finished my Emails. Guy was still asleep. I lay down for a nap a little after noon -- and slept for nearly four hours. Doodled a little more on the computer, then settled down to Sunday...	Apr.09.2012 Day 99: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- A Suitably Muted Easter The rain held off the Easter Parades here, and the weather was quite pleasant. All of my brood were on their feet for the occasion, but each was suffering from his own ill. Among my immediate group, Son Guy was struggling out of a cold and his bronchitis. Son Jason was...
Mar.25.2012 "Mad Men:" A Proustian madeleine back to my childhood My father and my godfather, best friends from childhood who died within weeks of each other last year, were mad men who weren’t wild about “Mad Men.” They had watched the AMC-network phenomenon about 1960s-era ad executives – an adulterous, amoral, hard-drinking lot in the TV drama – and could not...	Mar.23.2012 Day 83: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- Of Sane Pups and Mad Men Bud E. Pup seemed to have taken over our lives, sleeping under my couch, sleeping cuddled up with Son Guy, last night. This afternoon, following a couple of runs out, he was returned to his mistress, who generously rewarded us with a couple of roast beef sandwiches and accompanying snacks....
Dec.15.2008 These Digital Mad Men can talk, but do they understand? I love the way Don Draper and his band of merry Mad Men talk the talk. But, were they part of this current digital branding world, would their talk cut it? Probably not. One of the things I write about in BrandDigital is that talking the digital talk, being able to throw around digital terms with...