I just watched Episode 4 of “Mad Men,” and now I’ve got both feet on board the Roger love train. While some of my Woman Up colleagues are just now discovering the AMC hit, I had begun to worry that “Mad Men” was going down the same rabbit hole that eats up nearly all promising [...]
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Mad Men: Roger Sterling’s Love Train
Posted in Pop Culture, tagged mad men, roger sterling on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mad Men: We Married Joan
Posted in Pop Culture, tagged accordion, don draper, joan holloway, mad men, ooh-la-la, peggy olson on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we all wanted to when she sang a little French song with her little squeezebox – hey, that’s what the AMC blog is calling Joan Holloway’s gorgeous red-and-pearl accordion. Ooh-la-la indeed. AMC is offering an exclusive to iPhone users: A behind-the-scenes look at the singing and dancing on Episode 3 of Season 3 of [...]
Mad Men: I Want to Be All of Them
Posted in Pop Culture, tagged don draper, joan holloway, mad men, mad men season 1, mad men season 3 on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s “Mad Men” season again, and my Woman Up colleagues and I are all aflutter about this almost self-indulgent plunge into another era. Not to mention the characters. I want to be all of them. I want to be Joan Holloway, with her red hair and smart clothes. I’ll take a few head bumps on [...]
Mad Men Era Sexist and Cruel, and I Miss it
Posted in Pop Culture, tagged 1960s, mad men, secretary, stewardess on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it wrong to miss the stewardess? The bellhop? The secretary? I know they’re politically incorrect. But the hit show “Mad Men” on AMC – set in the early 1960s and arguably the best TV show since “The Sopranos” – has brought back dormant longings I didn’t know I had. I miss the boomerang shapes [...]


