Okloyal readers sorry for the delay in this post but let’s not waste any time and get right to my thoughts from the swing (you thought I was going to say bouncy seat..that’s so last month):
TV #1: Mad Men: Holy cow, Don goes to LA with Pete, meets some rich, young honey and ditches Pete to go hang out in Palm Springs with her dad, a “count,” and a whole other band of what appear to be wealthy jet setters. Meanwhile back in NYC, Peggy wants to go to the Dylan show with that weird german dude who works at the agency…until he announces he’s homosexual, then she asks him why she always picks the wrong men and the guy replies that it’s due to her haircut and he proceeds to cut her hair. Weird. In the first LA scene we learn that TWA has lost Don’s luggage and that all of his stuff is gone. Could this be the most perfect set-up/foreshadow of the fact that he is going to drop off the face of the map again. Recall that last season Don begs Rachel the department store heiress to run away withhim to…you guessed it…LA. Then two things happen at the end of the episode, first Don makes a call from Palm Springs to someone unknown, but presumably in California, and says “Hello, this is DICK WHITMAN.” Are you kidding me, now he’s going back to his old life?!? Then in the last scene, TWA delivers Don’s bag back to his house in NY, yet when the deliveryman knocks and rings the bell, no one is home and bag gets left outside in front of the door. Where is Betty? Gone back to the Main Line withthe kids to be withher dad? Glad today is Sunday and we’ll hopefully get some answers. Meanwhile, don’t forget about Roger’s proposal to the 21 year old secretary and Duck Phillips’ attempt to take over the firm. I know some have said this wasn’t a great episode, but I disagree. Its just what the show needed at this point in the season. Weiner’s story arc is, of course, genius. The only bad Mad Men news this week was that although AMC formally picked up the show for a third season, Weiner is playing hard-to-get and hasn’t yet committed. Of course he’ll be back and of course its all about the money.
TV #2: Gossip Girl: The Yale episode. Ok I haven’t even applied for pre-school yet and I know that college admissions is nothing like what they showed. I mean really, Blair writes an essay called something like: “On being Blair.” Not to stuck-up. Serena goes to her interview looking like a total Hoochie and Chuck Bass gets kidnapped by Skull & Bones even before he’s admitted and accepted. Really?!? Dan is told he needs more references for his applications and the dean tells him to go find an English Prof on campus to read his stuff and get one of them to write for him, no way. Finally, back in NYC Lil’ J convinces Rufus to home school her so that she can continue to be exploited child labor on behalf of the fashion industry. You may think from this synopsis that I can’t stand the show. To the contrary, I can’t wait for the next episode.
TV #3/Politics #1: The Last Great Debate: Are you kidding me. McCain is like your grumpy old grandpa at Thanksgiving dinner who’s really angry and pissed off at you because you want to follow you heart to a career as an artist. By the time dessert rolls around he’s probably made some nasty comment about artists and sexual orientation and maybe even called you a fairy. I mean this guy is clueless, how about just denouncing his supporters at rallies who call for Obama’s death instead of saying that he gets slurred at Obama rallies. I’m thinking no one has posters of McCain and a noose at Obama rallies. Then the coup de grace, McCain jumps all over Obama when he says he didn’t support a partial birth abortion ban because it didn’t contain an exception for the life and health of the mother. McCain then says oh yeah that old “health of the mother thing” that can be stretched into whatever you want so that the exception swallows the rule. OK Senator McCain, let me get this straight you are against partial birth abortions even if the mother will die or be seriously harmed. Great way to pick-up some of those undecided Hillary voters.
TV #4/ Politics #2: SNL: Attack of Palin: Alright look, she was loose, in some situations funny, didn’t take herself seriously and played along. She was generally a good sport. The material they wrote for her was horrible, but she played along well. I still don’t think she’s qualified to be VP and I still think putting her on the ticket was a stunt, but SNL ought pick her up as a regular, she could do Weekend Update when Poehler leaves to have her baby.
Sports #1: The Phillies: Someone gave me my first Phillies hat, it is too big, but man I’m glad I had it. During the 9th inning of Game 6 in LA, I turned it inside out, wore it as a rally cap, and Lidge finished off the Dodgers. Glad I didn’t have to wait 15 years to see them make the Series. I’ve never seen the Series or a Series and I’m not sure what it is, but people tell me I’m lucky, born in August, get to see my team in the Series in October. (Don’t tell anyone I’m really a Tigers fan).
Sports #2: The Red Sox: I mean really are you kidding me. I looked it up, they came back last year from being down 3 games to 1 to win the ALCS and then the Series. Now they are knocking on the door again. Will experience win out over youth? We’ll know by tomorrow.
Finally what would a post be without some videos. I ran out of e*trade baby commercials (note to e*trade: make some more if you have the money), but I did come across this kid imitating Bill O’Reilley from Fox News and he is a riot:
Here is one more. I mean seriously this kid is better than Colbert:
That is all for now loyal readers. Check back this week for some more thoughts from the swing (I seem to be more creative in there, plus I no longer get a bath in the sink, I’m in the shower now and it is A LOT less humiliating and I think better in there). PEACE!
