Oh My God!

Holy crap! We're so sorry it's been so long! Exciting life things do tend to get in the way of blogging, but we promise to try and make it up to you.

So much has happened, though, that we feel the need to acknowledge a couple of pop culture-related items (in no particular order) so you know we haven't totally slipped:

• All hail Prince George! (But we actually we mean this Prince George. Oh, Canadian humour!) Hopefully the little one will inherit his mother's shining head of hair and not his namesake's speech impediment. Fingers crossed...
• Angry, horny Kanye = love from Pitchfork
• Mad Men, what exactly was this last season? We're still puzzled.
• Catching Fire trailer omg Katniss + Peeta 4-eva11!!

More to come from us in the days to come. Until then:

Happy Father's Day, Don Draper

As a special treat for Father's Day, Vulture has given us The Mad Men Guide to Being a Father. It includes this little gem (spoiler alert):

Do leave the back door to your apartment unlocked at all times. That way if a random woman who calls herself Grandma Ida shows up, she can just walk right in while your kids are alone and unsupervised, then make a nice plate of scrambled eggs before she steals a bunch of your stuff. Remember: A nutritious breakfast is important for young bodies, even when it’s served late at night by a home invader.

A father like Don, however, begets a daughter like Sally, who most definitely has some issues of her own. Like what, you ask? Well, let's ask a qualified mental health professional. Actually. This guy is a real psychiatrist who spends his spare time analyzing the problems of television characters. But what the hell, why not? At least it's not fanfiction.

Ready for Mad Men Season 6?

Well folks, a new season of Mad Men is about to grace our television screens. Are you ready? Perhaps. But is the internet ready? Perhaps not.

This is the promo poster for Season 6, released just the other day:

We think the Onion A.V. club sums up the internet frenzy it caused with the following article:

"It's time to look at the new Mad Men poster and pretend we know what's going to happen."

But before we let ourselves get carried away with wild speculation, take a minute to just check out that poster. Pretty sweet art, right? Get this: the artist who drew it, Brian Sanders, is 75 years old, and he was working right in the thick of the advertising industry in the 1960's. He was even a fan of Mad Men before he was approached to do the art, because it took him "right back" to his early days as an illustrator. The proof?

 "I almost wanted to reach for a cigarette, and I haven’t had one for 30-odd years.”

That's authenticity for you!