Spitball Army

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Lists! And none of them are in ranked order. Also, none of the lists include the couple of handfuls of things that I forgot. Here goes: My favorite music of 2010 (the source material for this coming Sunday’s playlist): Mandelring Quartett / Schumann: Piano Quintet Josh Rouse / El Turista I disliked this album at first, […]

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“Is this not the whitest TV show you’ve ever seen?”

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Jon Hamm reprising his TV role in “Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women” on the 1 November 2008 Saturday Night Live. Familiarity with AMC’s Mad Men may be necessary for the fullest appreciation.

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K. Cortez sent me a link to the flickr page of one Dyna Moe who, apparently, is a graphic artist-genius-magician. The picture above, of Mr. Cooper in his office with the mysterious Rothko painting, is just one example of the witty and vibrant interpretations Dyna Moe has created.

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He lay in his bed of sweetgrass telling over the touch of her bare arm that rubbed along his when she handed him back the nozzle of the sprayer for the fruittrees, or was helping him pile up the pruned twigs to burn, and the roundness of her breasts and her breath sweet as a cow’s on his neck when they romped and played tricks on each other evenings after supper.

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It is a rare series that can pull a viewer into its own universe as well as Mad Men does. The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, two examples from recent years, did this by holding a prism up to the world, placing the audience within a specific cultural pocket (New Jersey mob families and Southern California undertakers, respectively) and looking outward.

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