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Supports Peterson for reelection to San Juan County Council, North San Juan
I came away from the San Juan Builders Association Candidates Forum at Mullis Community Senior Center for the two District 2 candidates with several impressions. There is a clear choice for District 2 voters in this council-seat election.
One impression is that Rich Peterson is not a politician ... which is a compliment.
He comes across as a man who has both feet planted firmly on the ground and a clear understanding of where to draw a line between the proper role of government versus what needs to be left to individual responsibility. He clearly respects the non-partisan intent of the county's charter form of government.
My impression of Laura Jo Severson, in contrast to Rich Peterson, is that she is a classic politician, straight from central casting. She is good at getting her talking points across and, like the classic politician, she is skilled at morphing answers to questions in a direction she believes will be beneficial to her campaign — but not necessarily answering the question.
As a politician, she knows county voters generally lean toward Democrats in elections. She is campaigning as a "progressive Democrat," highlighting her active participation in the Democrat Party politics.
At first, this seemed to be an honest mistake by a new candidate who didn't understand the County Charter requires council races be non-partisan. Laura Jo's continued insertion of partisan party politics into her campaign, complete with off-the-cuff comments, shows an obvious election strategy, and not a novice's mistake. One wonders what other aspects of the charter Laura Jo Severson would ignore.
Councilman Rich Peterson's answers to forum questions clearly showed he cares about the future for island residents, has a healthy respect for a citizen's right to succeed and sometimes fail, without over-reaching government intervention. I do not sense that he sees county government routinely involved in citizens' private decisions.
Peterson seems to be generally supportive of our local businesses, working families and personal liberty, all part of the foundation of the American success story.
Rich's answers to questions would indicate that he wants to see our local government do a good job of providing the basic government services the law requires, before pioneering off into other areas.
Laura Jo leaves the impression she sees a very significant and involved role for county government and county employees in overseeing the daily activities of private citizens. With good intentions I am sure, she seems to believe that there isn't much that local government should not be involved in.
She said in her travels around the district she has seen homes that, in her mind, are not safe ... the implication being that county officials should be going out doing inspections of existing homes and evaluating home safety? She has seen homes that are too close together ... in her mind, these homes don't exhibit the rural image and should not be allowed? She is a proponent of a county public transportation system which can not survive without taxpayer subsidies. She is in favor of increased county involvement in mental health, with no suggestions of how to pay for her expanded program.
I don't agree with every position Councilman Peterson has put forward, but I appreciate the fact he is not doctrinaire. If a citizen does a solid job of putting forward a well-reasoned solution to a problem, I think Rich will give it serious consideration. It is my impression that he is an Independent politically, not wedded to any local advocate group's philosophy; he truly listens.
Laura Jo repeatedly claimed she wants input from everyone and will listen to everyone. Experience shows that sometimes when a politician has been drumming their commitment to openness, it quickly fades after the election. As a candidate who is promoting a "progressive Democrat" philosophy in the face of what county voters intended to be a non-partisan charter government, I am left with the impression that with her partisan approach, she may not be an equal opportunity listener. In her eyes, some San Juan County voters may be more equal than others.
Councilman Peterson's answers to question indicate that he gets the importance of the public process in decision making. I did not get that same reference to the importance of an inclusive public process from Laura Jo Severson.
From her answers at the forum, she appears less concerned with how decisions are reached (or protections for the rights of individuals), as long as what was achieved in the end was what she has in mind in the first place.
I hope the voters of District 2 re-elect Rich Peterson. He has proven that he is a thoughtful and competent elected official. Richard's balanced common sense approach to local issues is welcome and necessary if our local government is to serve the broad interests of our citizens.
John Evans
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- In November 1994, George Plimpton interviewed Garrison Keillor at 92Y as part of a collaboration with The Paris Review. You can listen to a recording of their interview here—and now the PBS series Blank on Blank has animated part of it. "I think that you're only obliged to be a humorist from maybe the age of eighteen until you turn thirty," Keillor tells Plimpton. "Past the age of thirty, I don't think there's any obligation to be clever at all. After that, you, I think, are supposed to settle down, be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been when you were very clever, and try to atone for your cleverness. Humor has to surprise us. Otherwise it isn't funny, and, it's a death knell for a writer to be labeled humorous, because then, of course, it's not a surprise anymore, it's what expected of him. And when you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it."
- Last month, Oxford Dictionaries named the "tears of joy" emoji its Word of the Year; now Merriam-Webster has followed suit, choosing a suffix, -ism, as its Word of the Year. Now, before you get all exercised and sit down to write an indignant op-ed about all these nonword words the dictionaries insist on force-feeding us, be advised that "Merriam-Webster notes that the version of -ism without the hyphen actually is a word, specifically a noun meaning 'a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory' or 'an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or belief' … Last week, Dictionary.com bravely bucked this year's trend by naming a word as their word of the year. They selected identity, citing increased conversation this year over gender and sexual identity, in large part because of former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner's decision to come out as a transgender woman."
- Fact: Frank Lloyd Wright designed a gas station. It was but one element in a vast, unrealized utopia he'd planned to erect in Buffalo, New York, which remains, alas, a largely dystopian place. But in 1958, when Wright was ninety, one part of his idyllic vision found its way to Cloquet, Minnesota, and an historic gas station was born: "Wright had designed a house for a resident of Cloquet named R. W. Lindholm, who happened to be in the petroleum business. Wright never gave up on his utopian city, and knowing what his client did for a living, he convinced Lindholm to build a gas station that was similar in design to the Buffalo station … Wright saw the car as a way to personal freedom for Americans, so he gave the drivers of Cloquet what he thought that future needed in a gas station, including an observation deck where the attendants could watch for cars in warmth and comfort." Forget Fallingwater. This is Tricklinggasoline.
- "I have in fact only once corresponded with anyone … who was as good at writing letters as I am," Iris Murdoch once told the philosopher Philippa Foot. So this new book of her correspondence must be a veritable tour de force of jocularity and fluent intellect, yes? Well. John Mullan hates to break it to you, but "the brilliant thinker, witty conversationalist and powerfully idiosyncratic novelist are hardly here at all … Some have responded to the publication of these letters by depicting Murdoch as a rather shocking sexual adventuress, but this is not quite right. Really, she seems more interested in writing letters to people she found attractive than in having sex with them."
- What was the deal with Hawthorne and Melville? The heat that emanated from the hearth of their friendship was … well, hot. Melville once wrote, for example, that Hawthorne "shoots his strong New-England roots into the hot soil of my Southern soul." But, as Jordan Alexander Stein notes, anyone wishing to prove some erotic intent on either writer's part has a heavy burden: "Writers of the mid-nineteenth century did not have available to them the same expressive concision as those of us today who might speak glibly of topping and bottoming … Melville wrote of Hawthorne with undeniably sexy language. What proves more elusive are the feelings to which, with any precision, this language can be said to refer … The issue, then, is whether serious scholars writing about famous authors can reasonably deign to take dick jokes as evidence. And if we are indeed willing to take them as evidence, just how do we go about determining what kind of evidence they are?"
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October 25, 2011 | by Mark Van de Walle
A story in three parts. Previously: Part 1, The Amanuensis.
I met Steve the first time I stayed at the Lautner Motel, in August of 2000. I was in California to do research for a book about trailer parks, and there was an anarchist trailer park, a place called Slab City, in an abandoned military base about sixty miles south of Desert Hot Springs. I'd brought my girlfriend and wanted to stay somewhere nice to make up for the 120-degree temperatures, so we wound up at the Lautner. It was late when we finally arrived, but almost as soon as we'd gone inside and put our luggage down, Steve knocked on the door. Read More »
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October 24, 2011 | by Mark Van de Walle
A story in three parts.
Karl, the Beat Hotel's ex-meth-addict handyman, stood at the top of a thirty-foot ladder, squirting a translucent goo with the brand name "Tanglefoot" onto one of the Hotel's air-conditioner units. I held the ladder so that Karl did not pitch off into the sand and gravel below. The goo represented a new phase in our boss's war with the pigeon population of Desert Hot Springs, California.
Our boss was Steve Lowe. Before starting the Beat Hotel, he'd performed with Laurie Anderson and read poetry with Allen Ginsberg. His gallery showed the best work Keith Haring ever did, and he made art with Richard Tuttle. Steve had also been William Burroughs's amanuensis, a position that combined the duties of researcher, artist's assistant, gallerist, and Official Writer's-Block Breaker. Steve could tell stories about hanging out with William and Kurt Cobain and Patti Smith. He also recalled that, at Burroughs's wake, he and Grant Hart, who was the drummer for Hüsker Dü, were the only people sober enough to be horrified when somebody threw up in the swimming pool. Read More »
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September 14, 2011 | by Ian Volner
Readers of Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities will recall the "Collateral Campaign," a fictional initiative to commemorate the seventieth anniversary, in 1918, of the ascent of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef to the throne. As the novel progresses, so too does the campaign: it will be a whole year of festivities, it will be The Austrian Year, The Austrian Peace Year. The planning draws in prominent personages who introduce more and more ambitious proposals; it launches scores of dinner evenings, plenipotentiary committees, and public debates.
Musil's subject, and the admixture of sympathy and satire he brought to it, seems awfully familiar in 2011. Nowadays, we are fairly encircled by Collateral Campaigns—by artistic enterprises whose intentions, intellectual and social, are unimpeachable, yet which seem always to hover between event and discourse, between process and product. Example: the new BMW Guggenehim Lab in the East Village, which opened last month.


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Execution of a Chinese prisoner by beheading
In China, over many, many centuries, dating back more than two thousand years, two philosophies known as Confucianism and Legalism have played out an extended battle in the public realm as to the nature of human beings. Confucianism, which is fairly well known in the West, emphasizes virtue as the key to a healthy society—its counterpoint, Legalism, argues that human beings, motivated entirely by self-interest, are more inclined to do wrong than right. In a general way, the Western analogues for Legalism are Machiavelli and Hobbes, although those two men lived many centuries after the original Legalist writers such as Han Fei and Li Si.
For reasons I don't fully understand, the pessimism of Legalism led to Chinese dynasties practicing punitive measure of torture that were almost comically exaggerated, including the practice of lingchi or "death by 1000 cuts," which actually meant anywhere from 100 to 3,000 cuts depending on what century it was happening. Yikes!!
Here's Li Si arguing in favor of extraordinarily harsh punishments for even very lenient crimes:
Only an intelligent ruler is capable of applying harsh punishments to light offences. If light offences carry heavy punishments, one can imagine what will be done against a serious offence. Thus, the people will not dare to break the laws.
Amusingly, the two great Legalists Han Fei and Li Si knew each other, and their relationship ended in a manner reminiscent of a Tarantino movie: Han Fei was poisoned by his envious former classmate Li Si, who in turn was killed, according to the law that he had introduced, by the aggressive and violent Second Qin Emperor that he had helped to take the throne. Oh well!
The remarkable thing about these incredibly severe punishments is that they lasted for centuries. The bizarre images found here all date from the 1850s, but they document practices that had scarcely changed over the previous thousand years.
A Chinese torturer disembowels a decapitated man
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Guy you have been bashing this stock back when it was in the 1.80's and are still bashing it at $3.44 why dont you keep bashing it all the way upto $5. Go ahead short it buddy and lose your lunch..The worse thing you can try to do is short a stock when its momo is going upward,so others on this board stay away from shorting stocks that are taking off its like playing with fire..
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Now that autumn has finally arrived, along with its cooler nights and shorter days, I'm already thinking about Halloween and Thanksgiving and all of the pumpkin and apple spice recipes that accompany them.
Last year, around this time, I had begun playing with making different types of soaps, and had a great idea for making a pumpkin spice soap, but couldn't find the ingredients that I wanted to use anywhere nearby. I figured that if I ordered them online, pumpkin spice soap time would have already passed by the time that I could actually use the soap. You see, you should wait at least a few weeks for the saponification process to complete, and for your soap to harden, before you actually use it.
This year, I'm better prepared. I bought the oils that I wanted to use to spice up my soap, and made a lovely soap with pumpkin and goat milk to bring in autumn.
Pumpkin and goat milk both add a little color to the soap, and they also add some hydration and richness. As for the spices, I chose to use both the dried spices themselves and the essential oils. The spices add a dark color to the soap, along with a beautiful aroma, and also add a very mild exfoliation. While I love this soap, and the way it smells, it is worth mentioning that the spices and their oils may be irritating for some people with sensitive skin.
If you have never made soap before, don't worry. This soap is very simple to make. It's a little more complicated than the beginner soap recipe I posted, though. So, if you are nervous about it, begin with the other recipe. If you are adventurous, though, give this one a try!
As with all soap recipes, be very careful when working with lye and solutions using it!
Use protective eyewear and gloves, and mix your lye into your water, and not the other way around! It's also a good idea to mix the ingredients outside.
OK, with all of that said, let's make some easy pumpkin spice soap!!
Easy Pumpkin Spice Soap
- 100 g sweet almond oil 3.5 oz.
- 100 g coconut oil 3.5 oz.
- 400 g olive oil 14.1 oz.
- 80 g lye 2.8 oz.
- 100 ml goat milk either fresh or reconstituted from powdered
- 100 ml water
- 45 g pumpkin 1.6 oz., I made my own puree
- 1 tsp. coconut sugar or any brown sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 tsp. ground cloves
- clove essential oil & cinnamon and ginger essential oils
- First make your lye solution by adding your lye into the mixture of water and goat milk. Because adding lye causes the temperature to rise quickly, to prevent the milk from scalding, mix them together over a pan of ice and water. I also froze my milk, just to be sure, but if you are careful about mixing over ice, that shouldn't be necessary. Your solution will probably turn slightly yellow; that is a normal reaction of goat milk and lye.
- Mix together your almond, coconut, and olive oil in a large bowl. If you don't have almond oil, you can substitute it for 100g of one of the other oils.
- Prepare your molds by oiling them. You don't need to use professional soap molds. My favorite mold is a silicone loaf pan, but I have also successfully used plastic food containers.
- Add the sugar and salt to the lye solution.
- Once you have the lye solution incorporated into the oils, you can begin to carefully mix them together with a hand blender. While you can do this part by hand, it would take much longer. We are looking to have the mixture thicken up like mayonnaise. If your lye mixture is cold when you begin mixing them, it will take a little longer to get the mixture to thicken. That will give you a little extra working time, too, if you are new to soap making.
- You can also add in your essential oils or fragrance oils. Certain essential oils, like clove oil, will cause your soap to thicken much more quickly, so be prepared. The amount of oil you add will depend a lot upon the oils you use, and your personal taste for how fragrant you want your soap to be. I added in somewhere between 5-10ml of oils overall, using mostly clove essential oil, a little less cinnamon, and a little less ginger, because that is my order of preference for those oils. You can experiment here, and use your nose to help guide you. 😉 If you are using a pumpkin spice blend, it may have vanilla, which will darken your soap, so you may choose to add it to only the half of your soap with the spice mixture.
- Using a spoon or some other utensil, poke into the soaps, reaching for the bottom layer and pulling the soap out over top, trying to gently swirl the soaps in certain places. You can also zigzag your way through the soap in places, to have the soaps gently swirl together, without mixing them into each other.
- Once you are happy with your swirling, allow the soap to rest for at least 24 hours. Your soap will heat up during this time.
- After 24 hours, you can begin to gently unmold your soap, and cut your bars into your desired shapes.
- Let your soap continue to set, dry out and harden for about a month. To help the process, turn your soap every couple of days.
- Enjoy using it! It smells wonderful!!
Don't want to use goat milk? Just switch it for another 100ml of water.
I love this soap, and think it would make a great present for someone this fall, especially given in a beautiful soap saver exfoliating bag. You could buy one, or maybe we'll just have to make one someday soon. 😉
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They're going to be facing off in France this season, but you don't need to fly across the pond to get a taste of this matchup. Tonight we matchup Alex Franklin (2) and Ryan Rossiter (3). Here's a look at the matchup.
Alex Franklin (2) played for Siena from 2006-2010. His class of 2010 along with Ronald Moore and Edwin Ubiles was the winningest class in program history. Alex ranks 5th al time in scoring with 1,730 points and 4th all time in rebounds with 923 over his career. He also ranks 9th all time in blocks with 99. He played on teams which won three consecutive MAAC regular season and post season tournament championships. Included in those 3 NCAA appearances are wins over Vanderbilt in 2008 and Ohio State in 2009. He was twice all MAAC second team in 2008 and 2009, and voted the MAAC player of the year in 2010 as well as MAAC tourney MVP. Alex was also named to the NABC District 1 2nd team in 2009 and it's first team in 2010. Last season he played professionally in Spain where he led his team in scoring and will be headed to play professionally this season in France.
Ryan Rossiter (3): Rossiter played for the Saints from 2007-2011. He was a three time MAAC champion, participated in 2 NCAA tournament wins over Vanderbilt and Ohio State, and won MAAC Player of the Year for his Senior season. His senior season was among the best in the nation. His 13.2 rebounds per game average was second in the nation while his 18.7 point per game average was tops in the MAAC. For his efforts Ryan was named to the AP All-American Honorable Mention team. His strong scoring and rebounding abilities led Ryan to an impressive 47 double-doubles over the course of his Junior and Senior seasons. Ryan finished his career with the best career (1151) and single season (408) rebounding marks in Siena history. Ryan also ranks 10th all-time in points with 1,457 on his career. Rossiter will certainly be remembered as an all-time great Saint.
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Review: 'Mad Men' same as it ever was in season 6
Midway through the "Mad Men" sixth season premiere (Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC), Don Draper and Pete Campbell have a conversation that is not only like every conversation they've ever had, but about every conversation they've ever had, and how they are all the same. The show has been on for so long that everyone — Don, Pete, "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner, the viewers at home — knows exactly how it works.
On many an aging series, that level of familiarity might become a problem. Even a classic series like Weiner's previous show, "The Sopranos," struggled at time with formula in its later seasons, to the point where the actors (who were often just as in the dark as their audience) would start guessing which one of their new co-stars would turn out to be, as James Gandolfini once put it, "the new Richie Aprile: the guy we yell at for nine months."
But the familiarity of "Mad Men" at this point only enhances the experience, because it's always been a show driven more by character and theme than by plot. What's going to happen next is never remotely as important as how and why it happens, which is why I've always felt that Weiner's handwringing over spoilers does a disservice to his own creation. There are at times surprises — Don's true identity, Peggy's baby — but the most interesting aspects of them are rarely the surprises themselves, but what they tell us about these people. Lane Pryce's suicide last season, for instance, would have been considered a shock before the season began, but by the time we got there, we'd witnessed the disintegration of this lonely man's life to the point where it would have been surprising if he hadn't hanged himself in the office.
Instead, "Mad Men" focuses on change, sometimes big (the rise of the counterculture, or how far Peggy's career has come), sometimes smaller (Harry Crane turning out to be a lazy pig), and sometimes unsuccessful (Don's attempt last year to throw himself into a happy, monogamous marriage to Megan). Don and Pete may say roughly the same words to each other over and over again, but they're not the same men each time, which makes the same conversation feel very different.
The premiere, called "The Doorway" is another two-hour affair checking in on the emotional state of Don Draper, but it doesn't feel in any way like a rehash of last season's "A Little Kiss." And as the series gets closer to its ending (barring something unexpected, next season will be the last), it's become ever more aware of how much the times, and the characters, have changed — and how hard it is in those who don't want to change.
Without giving away the exact date (last season ended in April of 1967), we're now deep enough into the '60s that when Don has a meeting with the twentysomething writers and artists on his team, they appear to be from different species. They work in the same office, doing the same work, but they have nothing else in common. It's not just the clothes and hair that have transformed, but entire states of mind.
("Mad Men" has always distinguished itself from most '60s period pieces by taking the side of the straights. When we see beatniks or hippies, it's almost always from the perspective of an establishment character like Don or Peggy or Betty.)
When we see Peggy, it's clear she's absorbed an awful lot from Don; other than context and Elisabeth Moss's usual great performance, there's virtually no resemblance between this Peggy and Don's mousey secretary from season 1.
Again and again throughout the premiere, we see characters who have adapted to the changing times, and their own changed circumstances, and others who are trying to carry on as they always have, even as that position becomes less and less tenable with each passing year.
One of the show's most entrenched — and funniest, thanks to the way John Slattery delivers every brilliant one-liner he's given — characters is Roger Sterling, who at one point in the premiere tries to suggest that change is pointless. He compares the journey of life to going through doorways that are supposed to take you to new places, but inevitably leave you exactly where you were before.
Given what we've seen of Roger over the previous five seasons, it's not surprising he would feel this way. But the world around him is changing, as are many of the people. The show that portrays them, on the other hand, both has and hasn't changed. It's arguably a richer, deeper, more experimental work than it was at the start, and it's been willing to transform its characters with the time. (And the performances by people like Moss, Slattery, Jon Hamm, Vincent Kartheiser and others have only gotten better the more we and they have grown to understand these people.)
But it is, fundamentally, still "Mad Men" — which means it continues to be one of the most satisfying dramas in the history of the medium. It's great to have it back.
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steve_weintraubI have to think writing a review like this—free of specifics—must be really hard. Well done. Can't wait to see it.April 2, 2013 at 9:22AM ESTReply to Comment
SomeGuy (guest)Love this show. Probably the best writing on TV for the past few years.
My only worry with shows like this is: "how long can they sustain this quality?" I wouldn't mind if the next season was the last one, because eventually they all go down in qualityApril 2, 2013 at 9:35AM ESTReply to Comment
DefRefThe actor that's always blown my mind on this show has been Vincent Kartheiser. I didn't watch Mad Men until I picked up the first couple of seasons on Blu-ray - I think Season 5 was the first I watched as it aired, not on BD/DVD - but whenever I saw articles I was always taken aback that the lousy sullen punk who played Connor on Angel was on this critically acclaimed show. He was TERRIBLE playing a contemporary teenager - we're talking sub-Pretty Little Liars grade acting - so to see him handle the period mannerisms is stunning.
If you go back and watch Jennifer Lawrence's work as a teenager on the Bill Engvel show or when she was the murder victim of the week on an episode of Medium, you can see the outlines of her career-making roles in Winter's Bone, etc. but nothing in Kartheiser's Angel work indicates future quality.April 2, 2013 at 10:15AM ESTReply to Comment
wingster55I would really have to disagree. Kartheiser was fantastic in 'Angel'April 2, 2013 at 10:19AM EST
sedeyusHe wasn't playing a contemporary teenager. He was playing a teenager raised in a hell dimension by an nineteenth-century vampire hunter. I thought he was fine at that.April 2, 2013 at 11:51AM EST
DefRefNaw, he was just sullen and mopey.April 2, 2013 at 12:59PM EST
sdhbI really enjoyed Jennifer Lawrence on The Bill Engvall show. I've been re-watching her performance on youtube with my kids recently (since they are Hunger Games fans)April 3, 2013 at 10:11PM EST
Viscount monteforte"A thing like that." The way Pete Campbell talks is anything but contemporary. Have to agree he's excellent as a period actor. I've never seen Angel...or anything else he's ever been in so it's hard for me to imagine him any other way.April 4, 2013 at 9:07PM EST
Jaynesideburn extensions??April 7, 2013 at 9:51PM EST
marc (guest)Glad to her that, Alan. Looking forward to these 13 episodes like nothing else. At this point it's easy to take Mad Men for granted, I don't. Wat an amazing show.April 2, 2013 at 10:35AM ESTReply to Comment
JP (guest)I like that Slattery is given that "doorway" metaphor since he was in the Adjustment Bureau which featured that very notion.April 2, 2013 at 10:59AM ESTReply to Comment
John (guest)I would argue that Hamm was at his best in season three.April 2, 2013 at 11:34AM ESTReply to Comment
BrettPokerHopefully this season is better than last season. Just about everything that involved Don's new wife was slumber inducing.April 2, 2013 at 11:48AM ESTReply to Comment
JohnI still maintain that season four was the show at its lowest. It felt aimless and cliche, and the final few episodes of the season were fairly crappy. Season five wasn't on the level of the first couple of years, but at least Don became somewhat interesting again, there was legitimate focus and other characters had nice arc.April 2, 2013 at 12:07PM EST
saulocclThe only complain I have about the show is the number of scenes with Ken. After "Signal 30" (by far the best episode of the last season, in my opinion), I hope we'll see a lot more of him and his wife (whose name is Cynthia, by the way) this year.April 2, 2013 at 1:54PM EST
madmemeMaintain all you want - but you're wrong.April 3, 2013 at 5:44AM EST
Shawn (guest)I hope Mad Men does not recycle character arcs just to keep the doom and gloom going. Pete Campbell was a prime example of re-visiting a well they had already been down, just so that they could ring more drama out of his character.
At the end of season 4 his character had a nice linear progression, he went from being a sleezbag in season 1 (who thought that he a promotion he did not and cheated on his wife a ton) to a genuinely ok character at the end of season 4 (where he deserved his status at work and enjoyed his life with Trudy). Come season 5 and they threw all that out of the window....
I hope they can keep focus a little better.April 2, 2013 at 11:51AM ESTReply to Comment
MorganEdge (guest)It always cracks me up when Alan's thoughtful articles on intelligent dramas is followed up by links to "Hollywood's Hottest Racks".April 2, 2013 at 12:22PM ESTReply to Comment
Drod (guest)I dunno, I feel like the characters in Mad Men and the show itself has changed a lot more than say the Sopranos ever did, I am not sure Mad Men is as committed to the idea that people just don't change.
Also why is the reader's rating F? lol.April 2, 2013 at 12:26PM ESTReply to Comment
Sara (guest)The problem I have with Mad Men is pretty much exemplified in the title: "same as it ever was." I don't deny that this show has superior writing, acting, and directing. It is a fine show and very well-made.
Unfortunately, I've felt, especially in S5, that this show has become stagnant, in particular Don. For as much as the other characters have evolved--Peggy, Pete, Joan, even Betty to an extent--he remains frustratingly stalled. Maybe that's the point, but I've grown rather tired of him, especially the ways in which he treats his relationships at home and at work. Unlike many, I really enjoyed Megan because she seemed to put Don in his place and wasn't the same as the women he'd been with in the past (that is, they seemed to be on the same level intellectually, and their relationship seemed reciprocal). Add to that my feelings that Don is just not very likable -- he's a misogynist jerk. At this point I'm rooting for Peggy to rise in the ranks and overtake everyone at SCDP just to put them all in their place.
Some others here also seem to think that the show is in danger of double-dipping in terms of character arcs and themes. How many times must we be shown that Pete is a miserable human being, or that, despite doing everything "right", Betty is as unhappy as ever?April 2, 2013 at 12:29PM ESTReply to Comment
madmemeSara - I'm not sure if you realize it, but you contradicted yourself a bit.
You mention Pete and Betty evolving, then later complain that the show keeps portraying the same aspects of their characters over and over.
You also mention Don as having not evolved; of being stalled - then go on to describe a way in which he's evolved: vis-à-vis his marriage/partnership with Megan.
But I think the general point that Weiner has been making (about change/evolution) is that we CAN change ourselves - a certain amount - but we will always carry our baggage with us. A part of Pete will always be the angry kid whose father didn't show him affection - a part of Don will always be the scared boy who grew up without a mother. These things are immutable - and occasionally they rear their heads in unexpected ways in the present. This is just part and parcel of the human condition - as is getting what you 'wanted' and still being miserable.April 3, 2013 at 9:58AM EST
Dan (guest)Good review. But I think Weiner is being a little crazy with the spoilers. How is the month and year a spoiler? It's ridiculous. I say this as someone who has watched Mad Men for a long time and actively tried to avoid the year before the last season came out. The start year does not matter at all.April 2, 2013 at 1:05PM ESTReply to Comment
Eiganvalue (guest)Spoilers - My thoughts are that everyone on the net that writes about television would love to have the spoilers out there for their columns to make some eyeball income. But it also makes the reviewer lazy. As we have seen over the years from Alan, that a good reviewer just doesn't rehash plot points. Weiner is just going with a no tolerance type rule about spoilers so that there is no grey area.
I see this season as an interesting choice as to what to do with Joan. She does not have the obvious path that Peggy has by being an all in modern woman. Joan has a baby to consider. She is not jumping into the drug culture of the 60's or even the fashion culture. Yet, she is now Lane's replacement. A partner. A manager. How can she keep the 1960's style and be a 1970's feminist too?
Hopefully this show does not run past next season or we could get episodes where Don meets Elizabeth from The Americans during one of her early missions.
Also, what is with all of the Mad Men hate? A D- rating? Must be all of those poor NBC execs with nothing to do.April 2, 2013 at 1:18PM ESTReply to Comment
SaraI think the real question with Joan is how does the way in which she procured the partner position affect the way she is treated in the office? Will it matter? Will Pete, Roger, & Co. treat her differently because of it?
As much as Joan has remained fixed to traditional roles re: women at home and in the workplace, she is in great uncharted territory at this point: single mother and high up in the workplace.April 2, 2013 at 1:25PM EST
S. TarzanI'm really interested to see where Joan goes from here too. I don't know that she's terribly wedded to traditional gender roles (she was very supportive when Peggy moved in with Abe, for ex.), but she's in a position that she never anticipated, both as a single mother and as a partner in the firm. How does she adapt?April 2, 2013 at 2:04PM EST
DB CooperMattingly, shave those sideburns!April 2, 2013 at 1:29PM ESTReply to Comment
saulocclMadness again: how can people rate it D-? Six days before watching the episode, you guys already hate it?April 2, 2013 at 1:31PM ESTReply to Comment
night musingPeople are crazy.
It's now up to D+... and the episode still hasn't aired. I just voted A+, on the basis that I am rating the review, not the episode. But still.April 3, 2013 at 1:34AM EST
madmemePeople are childish. They're using the grade to reflect their displeasure that Mad Men gets so much attention, or that they don't like M. Weiner, or perhaps just the monotony of their lives.April 3, 2013 at 5:41AM EST
Art VandelayTrolls be trollin'....April 4, 2013 at 10:40AM EST
madmemeI posted below that my current thinking is that the low grade is from GOT fans who are pissed Alan ranked this premiere higher than Game of Thrones.April 4, 2013 at 10:45AM EST
Haden (guest)i have never seen so many critics drool over a show that less than 5% of the country actually watches. how about a rule that more than 5m viewers need to watch something before you talk about it every single week?April 2, 2013 at 1:36PM ESTReply to Comment
dan"Opinions and interest become valid at 5 million." Check! Seems arbitrary and snobby in its counter-snobbery, but I'll run it up the flagpole!
-DanielApril 2, 2013 at 2:05PM EST
S. TarzanMy understanding is that Mad Men's weekly audience is around 7 million once you add in later airings plus DVR & On Demand numbers. Or are critics only allowed to drool based on the traditional Nielsen ratings?April 2, 2013 at 2:11PM EST
HadenMy point was they should talk about shows that many people either have seen or don't know about. Even if we say 10m are watching, that is less than 5% of America. Everyone knows about Mad Men and 95% of America has gone, 'Eh, not interested'. There are other great things that no one is watching, how about talking about them once in a while. My fault, I thought you wanted readers to read your writing and discover new things. Very clever only writing about shows very few people watch so you don't have to worry about finding new fans. Just keep talking to the same 5m people every week.April 2, 2013 at 2:18PM EST
MarioDAs one of the five million people who Alan is apparently directing his writing to: Thank You. It sure seems the other 4,999,999 people and I are enough for you folks to make a fair wage, so I encourage you to continue pandering to us and we'll all continue reading.April 2, 2013 at 2:28PM EST
Haden5% of America and on to the future. There are no flaws in that business model at all.April 2, 2013 at 2:36PM EST
jwalterweathermanWhat exactly is your point? Do you really think that this website (and others) would continue to write about Mad Men if it wasn't drawing enough readers/advertisers to sustain their business model?April 2, 2013 at 2:47PM EST
saulocclTelevision critics are the group of people who study, research, analyze and form opinions about the content of the productions, without being influenced by public opinion, thus valuing the object of study / work. It's not like other media vehicles that are intended only to promote the production and encourage the public to watch whatever it is, valuing the entertainment more than the content that is displayed. Unlike the critics who study the content, media studies the public. By analyzing the interests of the public, they seek to serve them with stories about the productions that most people prefer, thus ensuring a good reception.
Despite all the praise he gets for what he writes, "What's Alan Watching?" is not intended to please you by writing about "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" or whatever crap TV show that you and other 5 million people watch every week, my friend.April 2, 2013 at 2:58PM EST
HadenI thought as a TV critic his job is to review new shows and tell his reading audience about what is coming up on television not to just play with himself. I have no problem with the occasional article about Mad Men or Breaking Bad or Girls or any other show that he watches but every week you can count on: 'AMC's sunday review (BB, MM or WD), how good Justified is, another joke about Smash (another show no one watched). I just wish he would mix it up and talk about other shows too.
Like how about a blog about "Happy Endings" and how it is getting cancelled b/c it keep moving times. That is another show that not many watch but getting publicity could actually help save it instead of just talking about a show everyone knows already. I enjoy almost all of his writings; i just want more diversity (which of course is an old, old wooden ship used during the civil war) of topics/shows. :)April 2, 2013 at 3:09PM EST
Hadenthis seems to be my biggest problem - I read Alan to find out what is on television. he doesn't really do that anymore. he has become a scribe talking about the same shows that he likes. but that is my problem not his.April 2, 2013 at 3:13PM EST
JjI think the animosity sometimes comes from the fact that Matt Weiner comes off as a douche. The way he tells fans to go f*** themselves or eat bacon and kill themselves or how this is his story and show and they should get their own and stop bothering him.
Well, way back when theatre was just people travelling around the country trying to entertain people and make them happy...it was an audience thing. Tv is an audience thing, since you need viewers to sell ads to, so Matt Weiner telling fans that it is his show is insulting and pretentious to say the least. It is not his show, it is also AMC and Liongates, also they need fans, he needs fans otherwise....you got it, no show!
Secondly, if anyone who has watched Archer, specifically Live and Let Dine....Wiener comes across like Bourdan....telling ISIS that his restaurant is not for Joe Six Pack and how he has no respect for anyone but the hoy ploy and is just an abusive ass....
It is no wonder a lot of people who are "those" people do not rate Mad Men or Weiner himself...he should show some dignity and class and perhaps a hint of humility and stop being a giant ass.
Ugh...April 2, 2013 at 3:16PM EST
CaseyPyou must really hate when he reviews Bunheads then, eh?April 2, 2013 at 3:22PM EST
colbyIs it really such a crime that Alan posts about something that only has a niche audience*? That's still 5 million people who might want to read more about the show and talk about it, they oughtta get a chance to do. It's not like we're running out of internet.
*- And is the audience so niche when you factor in DVDs/Netflix? And- does it matter, when you consider that every other television creator has obviously been watching the show, and taking copious notes? The influence of the show is huge, and reducing it to simply a ratings figure distorts what's really going on.April 2, 2013 at 3:43PM EST
HadenIt is no crime at all. I know it doesn't sound like but I like Alan and want more people to read him. Talking about the same shows each week is not a way to increase readership IMO. That is my point. I was beyond obsessed with "LOST" but I knew that I couldn't talk about it all the time. Most people don't care and tune you out. Same as "Mad Men except twice as many people watched "LOST".April 2, 2013 at 3:52PM EST
Ben KabakEnjoy watching American Idol, NCIS and Big Bang. Leave the Mad men and Breaking Bad to the adults, son.April 2, 2013 at 3:54PM EST
Haden@ Colby. yes they audience is still VERY VERY small even considering DVR / Netflix. Most estimates are about 3-5m live, another 2-3m on DVR. Not anywhere close to even 5% of America (300m). I would argue that it doesn't have culture significance since most of America doesn't watch it. I can argue that Honey Boo Boo has more influence than Man Men.April 2, 2013 at 3:57PM EST
Haden@ Ben. i have never watched any of those shows. Are they good? I wouldn't know since Alan never writes about them :)April 2, 2013 at 4:01PM EST
colby"I know it doesn't sound like but I like Alan and want more people to read him. Talking about the same shows each week is not a way to increase readership IMO."
Meh, let Hitfix' sales department worry about that. I'm sure they'd be plenty happy with 5 million dedicated readers, though.
"Not anywhere close to even 5% of America (300m)."
And 100 million viewers only equals one third of America, but man, that Super Bowl still does okay. The TV business isn't measured in Percent of the Whole Population.
"I would argue that it doesn't have culture significance since most of America doesn't watch it. I can argue that Honey Boo Boo has more influence than Man Men."
I can, too, but I'd look really stupid doing it. pick a night of scripted TV anywhere on the dial and you're gonna be awash in direct mad Men influences, from parodies and homages to thematic resonance to outright knockoffs. It's like a Velvet Underground thing, maybe only 100 people bought the record, but they all went out and formed a band. That's still worth covering.
Anyway, it sounds like your problem is the fundamental format Alan has chosen to write in. You sound like you'd rather he cover more shows with less detail. That's fine (David Simon doesn't like Alan's format, either), but it's just not the medium he's working in. That's kinda like arguing McDonald's should serve more pizza. There's nothing wrong with pizza, but McDonald's doesn't need to be the one to give it to you. There's plenty of TV journalism out there, see if someone else covers the industry that way. If not? Hell with it, start your own blog.April 2, 2013 at 4:22PM EST
Haden@ Colby. Thanks for the serious discussion. I agree with almost everything you said expect the influence part. Just like Mad Men has gotten shows to copy them but Honey Boo Boo probably isn't the origin but the wave of ignorant-based TV is more substantial IMO that Man Men (gator hunters, pawn shop shows, repo shows, duggars, etc) but is never talked about here.
My problem is I feel like Alan is writing about fewer shows than when I started reading him. But he probably writes the same numbers, it just feels like less since I don't watch them with him anymore. But you are right, it is unfair to expect him to write for me alone; I probably should just read other people but I tend to agree with Alan's take usually so keep coming back.
As for the Super Bowl, yes, 'only' 100m watch but it is by far the most watched show at the time it airs. Has MM or BB won even one week of ratings since they started let alone every week? And no I am not saying it has to be popular to write about but this 'review' was nothing. It was just another reason to write about MM. He could have just waited for Sunday and wrote a real review about a different show.April 2, 2013 at 4:40PM EST
colby"the wave of ignorant-based TV is more substantial IMO that Man Men"
Hard to judge; I think there's probably more Reality Shows like that on TV than scripted shows (when you factor in all the cable channels), but at the same time, it's kind of apples and oranges to compare scripted shows to reality shows.
"As for the Super Bowl, yes, 'only' 100m watch but it is by far the most watched show at the time it airs."
That's actually exactly my point. The Super Bowl is THE gold standard of television ratings, but when you put its viewers in terms of a percentage of the whole, it doesn't look that impressive. But that's INCREDIBLY misleading; TV ratings simply aren't measured that way, and never have been. And it's the same way with Mad Men's 7 million viewers, or whatever. Its one of those facts that distorts more than it illuminates.
"this 'review' was nothing. It was just another reason to write about MM."
That's a fair criticism- but I would suggest that it's a different one than you were initially making. Perhaps your problem isn't with covering Mad Men writ large, but rather with how this particular coverage was done.April 2, 2013 at 4:50PM EST
Haden@ Colby.
Re: Super Bowl. Yes, the raw viewership is misleading. But what is not misleading is that over 50% of Americans watching TV are watching the super bowl. At 900p on Sundays, there are more people watching ABC, CBS and even NBC that watch 'MM' but all of those channels get 1/10th the coverage MM gets. Now the 7m that watch MM are the gold standard for advertisers so it can cover the costs and they don't need more viewers, but lets not pretend that everyone is watching; it remains a very niche show.
Re: BB/MM vs Redneck TV. It is apples and oranges for sure. But would you agree that "Chelsea" has more in common with 'Jersey Shore' than 'MM'. I would argue that have way more 'apples' on TV now but Alan only writes about 'oranges'. And the same 5 'oranges' every time? How about an 'apple' recipe every once in a while? Even if just talking about how horrible the 'apples' are, which they mostly are.April 2, 2013 at 5:08PM EST
colby"but all of those channels get 1/10th the coverage MM gets"
Are you sure? I just glanced through the first five pages, and I could 3 MM posts versus 11 posts about network television.
"but lets not pretend that everyone is watching"
We're not.
"I would argue that have way more 'apples' on TV now but Alan only writes about 'oranges'."
And again, I fail to see the problem in that. Alan has chosen to write in the format of dissecting scripted television. He's covered reality TV before, and will do so again, but it's not what his sight is about, and I don't know why it should be. If reality shows are so omnipresent and popular, surely someone else can fill the demand of covering them (though in general, there's usually a lot less to analyze in those shows, and they generate weaker discussions). I mean, it's not just plain not Alan's job to review a representative sample of television shows.April 2, 2013 at 5:20PM EST
MehWow, someone really threw a hissy fit, didn't they?April 2, 2013 at 5:21PM EST
Haden@Colby. You are right. Alan is free to write about anything. i am just re-arguing my point that he should write about more shows. 3 posts for one show and 11 about all other network shows is what I mean by too much coverage. how about 1 post about MM and then 2 others about different shows? especially since MM hasn't premiered yet. Your point about the lack of topics to discuss about the 'crap-TV' is a very good one too. Alan is a writer first and probably enjoys the depth these shows offer.April 2, 2013 at 5:30PM EST
colby"3 posts for one show and 11 about all other network shows is what I mean by too much coverage. how about 1 post about MM and then 2 others about different shows?"
Uh, isn't that what he's doing? In fact, I count >3 posts on network shows for each Mad Men post, right? And that, btw, doesn't count posts on any other cable shows, BBC shows, general television news, the podcast, etc. It's about 3/50 posts on MM for the last few weeks.April 2, 2013 at 5:38PM EST
JimAnd Haden, Alan frequently mentions about how a new show/s may be good/well made but either doesn't interest him or lend itself to the type of reviews/columns he writes and then just checks in on them occasionaly through the year. He and Dan seem to watch almost any scripted show that they receive screeners. Usually you have to listen to the podcast for that info though.April 2, 2013 at 5:43PM EST
HadenI'm sorry I am taking cold medicine today so my reading comprehension might not be great. But you understand the difference between one cable TV show and ALL network shows? I will rephrase. Alan has written 3 blogs about MM in the last few weeks. Has any other show gotten 3 or more posts since those three? If he has, I was wrong and am sorry. But I feel like the answer is no. He writes about MM more than any other show now. That seems wrong since MM hasn't even aired since last year. But as you point out, it is Alan's blog. He can write about MM everyday if he wants.
To be fair, I am totally blaming Alan (unfairly) b/c it seems like this is the trend with all TV critics I read now. Fewer shows, but more depth. Plenty of talk about 'MM', 'BB', 'Homeland' and 'Girls' but now much else. I'm sure I just need to expand my reading. They have to be out there somewhere, right?April 2, 2013 at 5:50PM EST
Haden@ Jim. I have seen him mention 'X' show is good but I won't be reviewing it. Or 'Y' episode it great. I like those; he should do it more IMO. I think they would make a good blog post for him instead of just MM again. I don't need 1000 words about it; how about just a sentence or two on the best 10 shows not being watched.
I have never listed to the podcast. Fire and Ice? Maybe i should check it out since it leads to multiple topics better.April 2, 2013 at 5:56PM EST
HadenI also just noticed - his blog is called "What Alan is Watching". Not "What Haden wants Alan to watch". I am surprised no one threw that in my face. does anyone else recommend the podcast too?April 2, 2013 at 6:08PM EST
colby"Has any other show gotten 3 or more posts since those three?"
Yeah, lots actually. GOT, Justified- even Veronica Mars! And of course, HIMYM, New Girl, Community, Cougar Town, etc. are all guaranteed posts every week they air.April 2, 2013 at 6:12PM EST
colbyI highly recommend the podcast, the spend some time talking about shows that can't generate whole posts, and Dan watches some shows that Alan doesn't.April 2, 2013 at 6:13PM EST
Jahn GhaltSepinwall writes about other shows????
Good to know, Haden - Thanks.
At this blog:
Three posts per episode is seriously deficient.
I found out about Sepinwall at that site. It's pretty clear that Mad Men is on his short list (along with Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire).
(whoops I just slayed my own joke - dog gone it!)
April 2, 2013 at 6:15PM EST
Haden@ colby. you are right. I was wrong. he does post about those each week too. However, I would add that those shows aired new episodes though (or raised money for a movie), which is why he wrote about them. MM hasn't aired yet. Thanks for the info about the Podcast. I'll check it out.April 2, 2013 at 6:18PM EST
colby"However, I would add that those shows aired new episodes though (or raised money for a movie), which is why he wrote about them."
Sorta, but this post here is essentially a "season preview"- and he did the same thing for GoT, Walking Dead, Justified- anything he got a good number of screeners for. I'll say that I found posting the MM production stills to be a little sui generis, but then he basically was just posting pictures- and hey, they generated a lot of comments.April 2, 2013 at 6:33PM EST
Alan Daniel@JJ
Archer is a great example, but what about when Frasier and Niles open their own restaurant and they try and make it EXCLUSIVE...then the dad basically said why don't you just put gunman on the roof to stop people coming in, lol.
I think Weiner only makes this show for himself and to be honest he does not want anyone else to see it. I mean they way he refuses to agree with anyone's interpretations of the material (especially critics) tells you he only wants to see what he wants to see.
The spoiler thing is basically him putting gunman on the roof outside a theatre...he does not want riff raff like us watching his work.April 2, 2013 at 7:36PM EST
CaseyPremind me to never comment on this site again. my email has been getting blown up all day with each response after I commented. it didn't used to be like this after commenting, although I'll admit its been a while since I last left a comment. but yeah, I don't think I'll be commenting anymore on hitfix.
Alan, you rock. never change.April 2, 2013 at 9:02PM EST
danCasey P - I'm gonna make it worse very quickly: The "check" box underneath comments with the "Notify" link... Just uncheck it next time you comment and you won't get any emails. That won't help you with this particular comment thread, which happens to have generated an exceptionally large number of responses, unfortunately.
But we definitely don't want you to feel like you can't comment again here. So comment away! Just be sure to "uncheck" that box.
And sorry for THIS email.
-DanielApril 2, 2013 at 9:17PM EST
CaseyPthanks for the feedback Dan, I won't let it keep me from posting in the future. I'll admit there was a bit of snark in my previous comment.April 3, 2013 at 1:49AM EST
RicardoThats ridiculous. Since when do tv ratings translate to internet traffic?
And with that kinda mentality there wouldn't be anything for niche audiences.
Just ridiculous.April 3, 2013 at 11:23AM EST
madmeme@Haden - there are just so many incorrect assumptions in many of your statements that it would require an essay to rebut them all - but I have just one question for you. When you write:
"Everyone knows about Mad Men and 95% of America has gone, 'Eh, not interested'."
do you think that implies that 5% of us are deluding ourselves - or that 95% of us have a hard time recognizing quality content?
@Alan Daniel: "The spoiler thing is basically him putting gunman on the roof outside a theatre...he does not want riff raff like us watching his work."
This has got to be one of the silliest things I've read recently. Personally, as a viewer, I like Weiner's stringent anti-spoiler policies. As I wrote in another post below, I take great pleasure in approaching every episode without an inkling of whats to come. YMMV, but some of us appreciate Weiner's position.
Also: "I mean they way he refuses to agree with anyone's interpretations of the material (especially critics) tells you he only wants to see what he wants to see."
This is a typical attitude of some creators concerning their work - and I think it's understandable - given the amount of blood, sweat, and tears poured into the creation. Of course, in the end, the audience will create a consensus about the meaning of a work of art - that is their function in the process - and I'm sure Weiner is smart enough to realize that. But that doesn't have to keep him from trying to steer that opinion a little bit if he can.April 3, 2013 at 6:59PM EST
guest (guest)Never watched the Superbowl--always watch Mad MenApril 2, 2013 at 5:14PM ESTReply to Comment
Brendan Noel"Interesting" discussion going on up there...anyway, I like The Mad Men.April 2, 2013 at 5:57PM ESTReply to Comment
madmeme"...which is why I've always felt that Weiner's handwringing over spoilers does a disservice to his own creation."
@Alan, I'm not clear about what kind of disservice you feel the anti-spoiler rules do to the show. Is it because it doesn't allow critics to reveal items in reviews done before the show airs?
If that's your meaning, then I would just point out that without Weiner's rules - you would still be seeing the show unspoiled - but I (and other audience members) would not :)
And while I agree with your premise that big plot moments are less important than what is revealed by them, I feel Mad Men is still currently the best writing in television (by a wide margin) - and it gives me great pleasure to approach every episode without an inkling of when I am, where I am, and where I'm going.April 3, 2013 at 9:11AM ESTReply to Comment
RicardoWhy is Mad Men with a D+ rating for an episode that hasn't even aired yet?April 3, 2013 at 11:25AM ESTReply to Comment
BDUBI had the same question. I saw the grade, read the blog and then saw 70 something comments. I skimmed every comment to see why it was given such a low rating. Instead I see a bunch of comments from a dude complaining about what Alan is watching. Anyway, if you find out let me know.April 3, 2013 at 11:55AM EST
madmemeI mentioned above that I think some people are using the grade to reflect their displeasure that Mad Men gets so much positive attention, or that they think the show is overrated, or that they don't personally like M. Weiner, etc. You know, childish things.April 3, 2013 at 6:22PM EST
madmemeOr, most likely explanation: that Alan rated it higher than Game of Thrones.April 3, 2013 at 6:24PM EST
BDUBThanks. I think you're on to something here. I forgot about the ire of GOT fans.April 3, 2013 at 7:17PM EST
madmemeSpeaking of these ratings, why is it that HitFix even allows ratings of unaired content by viewers? Or is that just an automatic attachment when the article is classified as a review?April 3, 2013 at 8:45PM ESTReply to Comment
Art VandelayProbably the latter, but I agree it is silly to allow a "readers' rating" when no reader/viewer could have seen the show to actually give it a rating. So instead you have trolls and various other ax-grinders propping up or downgrading shows based on nothing but preconceived notions. That's one of the reasons I don't bother with that rating and look only at Alan's, and even more so the write-up.April 4, 2013 at 10:48AM EST


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Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into instanceof, it looks like it will do what I need for the type, though I'll still face the same problem for other pieces of data (Such as UUID).
... if you expand your explanation and tell us why are you trying to do that ( compare the object types ) maybe we could help you to come with a better approach to your problem...
To be honest, I don't know quite yet, the id will probably be used as keys in a HashMap, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Partly I'm just trying to understand the language itself.
class Item { abstract string getId(); } class ItemA extends Item { static string getId() { return "ITEM_A"; } string getId() { return ItemA.getId(); } }
Tried this, but I got the error "Duplicate Function"
For now I'll go with this; not as clean as I'd like, but functional
class ItemA extends Item { public static final String id = "ITEM_A"; @Override public String getId() { return id; } }
then call ItemA.id or i.getId()