Programming note: Mad Man live-blogging Mad Men

No, not here.  Here.

For those of you who miss the Studio 60 live-blogging and those who can't wait for Heroes live-blogging to begin in the fall, Tom Watson will be live-blogging AMC's Mad Men over at newcritics tonight at 10 PM EDT, 9 Central.

Tom, a semi-regular at our Studio 60 parties and the man after whom we named The Tom Watson Memorial Award for Most Egregiously Out of Date Pop Culture Reference, because he was the one who first noticed that all of Aaron Sorkin's TV allusions and in-jokes seemed to be drawn from the list of regular guests on the Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas shows, is begging for...ahem...inviting you to join him:

You people - yes you: the few, the proud, the media-addicted, the verbose - the TV-watchers and comment-leavers. Yes you.

I need you tonight for a little live-blogging experiment at newcritics.  We're going to be following the fine tradition of Studio 60 at Lance Mannion's - an inspiration to all - and taking on Mad Men at 10 pm EDT...

I'll do a short post before game-time - some airy little thing about Darren Stevens or Roger O. Thornhill and then we'll have at it. 

Will you be there? Can you get others there? Will overly cute Elisabeth Moss succomb to the advances of the agency's young whiz-kid/predator?  (Oh wait, she did - that was rather fast for 1960, or so the geezers tell me).

Anyway, see you at 10.

So, gentlemen, tie your ties and put on your gray flannel suits; ladies, grab the pearls and high heels; everybody, mix up a batch of martinis, light up your Lucky Strikes, and head on over to newcritics for a fun-filled nostalgia trip to the end of the Eisenhower era we've all been missing.

As they used to say back in the coffee houses, be there or be square.

Comments

[Tom W.]

Sort of the midsummer replacement series of television live-blogging...but you know, sometimes hits are made there, ladies and gentlemen.

[marjo]

great post, great point about writers being outsiders, and I LUV Mad Men.

But I have to say, I'm one of the crackpots that have come to believe that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare.

And if anything, this post bolsters the case. One of the favorite alternates for Shakespeare is Edward de Vere, a likely gay, talented misfit in Elizabeth's Court.

just sayin'