*Explore work and make it count- work toward a career, don't just far around
Class-based. And wrong. The freedom to faf off is a wonderful thing and often limited to how much of a safety net you have.
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In the extended version of this episode that lives in my head we smash cut to Bob and Joan in a diner in the middle of the night.
Joan:
This is good pie.
Bob:
And damn fine coffee.
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EVERYTHING WAS FUCKED UP AND BULLSHIT AND CRAZY.
Mad Men! It's like life, nothing happens for weeks and then a single weekend makes EVERYTHING HAPPENS OMG ALL THE TIME.
I mean I seriously thought Grandma Ida was actually related to Don until... [
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I often wonder how much vitriol directed at Betty is just cause we're not used to seeing realistic depictions of shittyish suburban parenting. [
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I made this point about betty a while back, comparing her to Pete in that they have legit greivences most of the time but have awful ways of expressing it cause they don't know any better.
*goes back to holding two cups of coffee just outside the... [
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Also, I want to marry Ken Cosgrove. I want to live with him in Queens and bake him pies. He can write social justice Sci-Fi short stories in the den while I dust the plastic covering on the couch.... [
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One day, I'll come to your house and make snide comments about your auto-correct mistakes. [
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I love Ken. He is completely unappreciated in that office. He should marry Bob Benson and have perfectly preppy dancing kids.
*smashes champagne bottle christening the new ship... [
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If I was Sally I'd go and join a farming commune like, in an instant. [
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New feature! pay 5 dollars for the ability to edit other people's comments! [
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Metafilter Treehouse Level has chocolate milk and comic books however. [
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It was an extended joke about productivity; about all the hours of procrastination and fucking around that go into creating any usable work, the 665 useless ideas that get sacrificed to produce one viable one. Last year we saw Roger have a... [
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And all this talk of singing and dancing, remember when The Cast And Crew Of Mad Men Sang Bye Bye Birdie? [
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Okay if I don't get a musical episode by the end of this series I'm going to be so hurt. Yer gonna pull Lynchian dream logic on me show, you'd better be prepared to back that shit up.... [
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Enigmatic Hippie Sex is, of course, the best sex. [
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cause it's the best science fiction film of the 21st century so far [
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I feel like we're seeing the backside to The Suitcase, sometimes locking yourself in the office doesn't produce moments of somber reflective creativity, sometimes you just get pages of gibberish and stab Stan in the arm.... [
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Kenny walks outta the house near the corner of 32nd Ave and 77th Street. His wife says to call a cab but he doesn't want to, Doc said it'd be better he put weight on it, he walks the blocks to the Jackson Hills subway stop. From there it's a good 30... [
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WELCOME TO MAD MEN THE SPECIAL TONIGHT IS DON DRAOERS PYSCHOSEXUAL TURMOIL, WOULD YOU LIKE SOME BEATING WITH YOUR MEAL YES [
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Don Draper, just gonna confuse sex and motherhood forever. [
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WHO THE HELL IS IDA OH MY FUCKING GOD WAHT THE HELL IS GOING ON OH GOD SALLY [
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I'm just now watching this episode oh god oh god
TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DON DRAPER'S PERSONAL APOCALYPSE
I am available to Chevy.
LET ME SHOOT YOU FULL OF METH.... [
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If there's something that Don Draper is not so good at, yeah, it's the thing where he tried his best to throw away his marriage while simultaneously destroying the one downstairs. What's an emotionally desolate aspiring home-wrecker gotta do to end a... [
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Meanwhile Peggy is having a confusing sexual adventure of her own and her DAD is like, GOING FUCKING CRAZY in the office talking about soup and seriously no, nothing makes sense anymore just kiss Stan and then watch him fuck Wendy sure it's fine it... [
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also Joel has a lot of the qualities that Manic Pixie Dream Girls have in other, lesser, movies and it's heavily implied he and Clementine just KEEP HAVING THIS FIGHT FOREVER AND EVER and that Lacuna Technology doesn't actually help anyone it just... [
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I kinda think, once it sinks in, that being married to Don Draper the perfect farm-team prep for being married to a politician. [
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Peaches hate is just us having Protagonist Identification issues, we're meant to identify with the characters we've spent so much time with, Don, Megan and Marie and not with the established boorish Herb and his vaudeville comedy wife. But as the... [
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I forget the name of it, but it was basically "washer woman stories" where said terribly artistic young male would be totally changed by a washer woman who would show him how to REALLY LIVE LIFE and then DIE or VANISH and that was SO... [
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Tumblr is resonsible for 75% of teen wolf watchings [
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Or, tl;dr. shallow one dimensional characters are awful and subtly perpetuate biases. [
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Except that if Rose was a dude, he would be in a much stronger position and not nearly as controlled and monitored. Rich guys can always fuck lower class women, I have an entire shelf of dairies to that effect, if Dude-Rose wanted to fuck men, well... [
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I have a simpler method, I've been 27 for a few years now and I don't plan on changing that soon. [
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(reading further, yes it would be hilarious if cop shows had to explain how a gun worked every single time they used one. In fact I kinda want an entire cop show written like it was bad science fiction)... [
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Yeah, when Don got all sad watching her reel, I thought " oh god he's realizing she's not a very good actress." and then I spent a while thinking if it even matters if she's not a good actress cause like, performing for the camera and... [
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Peggy's outfit I can't even
It's totally son I bought yu this car.
Oh god this episode is insane. [
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