Mad Men: Would You Work With These People?
on Oct 30, 2008A little bit of fun eye candy for you from the good people at Television Without Pity. http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/mad_men/mad_men_is_sterling_cooper_a_t.phpTomorrow is Halloween. My son is going trick-or-treating as Boba Fett and I am...

Apres aujourd'hui, le deluge
on Oct 20, 2008 in teaching Mad Men writing Basically after this afternoon, I am going to be very busy with grading midterm exams and assignments. I have annotated bibliographies coming in from three of my classes, midterm exams from two of them, and a hot batch of poems coming tomorrow. I'l

Reading Slumps--What do you do when you don't feel like reading?
on Oct 8, 2008 in reviews blogs books readers Sassymonkey over at BlogHer.com has a great post on "reader's slump." What do you do when you self-identify as a voracious reader, you have a pile of books to read, and yet, you don't feel like reading them?I have felt this way at time

Mad Men: The Inheritance.
on Oct 6, 2008 in inheritance Television Mad Men Elisabeth Moss Vincent Kartheiser January Jones Nada. Nothing. Or not what you expected. Pete and his brother get nothing instead of the anticipated fortune. Pete is threatened by his ice-cold motherwith being disowned if he and Trudy consider adoption. Pete has the pleasure of telling her that he...

Mad Men: WWJD, What Would Joan Do?
on Oct 1, 2008 in women classroom Christina Hendricks teaching management Mad Men Joan Holloway Earlier this week, I almost lost it in the world literature class I was teaching. I wanted to give my students advice on how to improve their oral presentations. The first thing I told them was that they needed to give me a written version of their r...

National Sewing Month Ends; Coat Progress Continues
on Sep 30, 2008 in Soho Coat National Sewing Month sewing Halloween Today, we bid adieu to National Sewing Month, but I have just barely begun work on the Soho Coat. I have cut out the pattern pieces and have marked all but the front and the sleeves. I might be able to squeeze in a couple of hours of work on it thi...

Mad Men: Six Month Leave
on Sep 29, 2008 in Marilyn Monroe Television Mad Men Elisabeth Moss "Six Month Leave" seemed to me like a pause to take a breath after the dynamic past two episodes, "A Night to Remember" and "The Golden Violin." But it's not only a release of tension; it's also gathering up the ene