Mad Men: Get the skinny on Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and the rest of the crowd, straight from the horse's mouth. AMC
by Linda Holmes
• If you are among the Mad Men faithful and crave a thoughtful dissection of the show's second season and of last night's season finale, don't miss the lengthy and fascinating Q&A that the New Jersey Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall conducted with showrunner Matthew Weiner. Weiner dissects individual scenes and the season as a whole, answers a number of burning questions hotly debated by fans, and generally goes full-on wonk about his own characters.
The nature of humor, the fate of irony, and how Facebook can get you in trouble, after the jump...
• High School Musical made $42 million this weekend. America still loves irony!
• The Wall Street Journal has a rundown of assorted intersections between pop music and the upcoming election, including a combination of politics, bikinis, and the band Hinder that would make anyone lose faith in the democratic process.
• Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times believes that there isn't enough Broadway theater about the recession. Okay, I'm oversimplifying. But when was the last time you read a piece about Broadway with the word "stagflation" in it?
• Leave it to The Guardian to run a piece about the nature of humor that includes references sexual, scatological, and blasphemous, and still feels so dry it should, and could, be read aloud by an economics professor.
• One of my favorite "you can't make up anything weirder than what people actually do" places on the entire Internet is passiveaggressivenotes.com, which is...exactly what it sounds like, except that many of the notes are not passive-aggressive so much as they are plain old aggressive. Notes between roommates, notes left in office cafeterias, and -- as in the example in that link -- Facebook status updates...it's all there. (Warning: Language is as found in the wild.)
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