The Life of Donald Draper-AMC’s Mad Men

Congrats to AMC and the entire employed staff at Sterling Cooper!
Mad Men made short work of House (which jumped the shark several years ago), Lost (name says it all) and Boston Legal (anything from Bean-town is suspect), to win the Outstanding Drama Series Statuette, while Bryan Cranston, best-known for his role in Malcolm in the Middle, won the [...]

A critical, but possibly lost-over-the-head theme in this episode is the reference to Frank O’Hara’s ‘Mayakovsky’ found in the collection, ‘Meditations in an Emergency’.  Not very much attention is paid, in this early season episode, to the significance of this recitation:
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
The country [...]

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