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“Mad Men” Eulogies: Betty Draper
Vince Navy waves a dull goodbye to Betty Draper, and the end of the “Mad Men” series. _____ By Vince Navy Possibly the dullest major character on a successful show in the history of television, Betty...
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“Mad Men” Eulogies: Megan Draper
Sean Beaudoin deconstructs Jessica Pare, Megan Calvet, and Megan Draper. ____ By Sean Beaudoin The overbite that launched a thousand irrelevant subplots. Plus some ships. Despite my aesthetic...
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“Mad Men” Eulogies: Don Draper
Kurt Baumeister says farewell to “Mad Men” and to Dick Whitman. _____ By Kurt Baumeister Symbols. Cast in metal, spun in cloth, or graven in stone; raised in the names of gods and prophecies and...
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“Mad Men” Eulogies: Peggy Olsen
Peggy Olson is smarter. _____ By Stephanie St. John I once had to hide this girl in my Facebook feed because she wrote the most asinine status update I’ve ever seen. Her status was: “I wish I lived in...
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“Mad Men” Eulogies: The Jaguar E-Type
Matthew Norman remembers his own love for something beautiful you can truly own. _____ By Matthew Norman She was beautiful once. Probably the most beautiful car anyone had ever seen at the time. In...
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“Mad Men” Endings We Don’t Want To See
Greg Olear speculates the closing of the series “Mad Men”. _____ With just two episodes left before Mad Men goes dark, speculation is rampant on how Matthew Weiner will wrap his iconic series. Here...
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Don Draper: Lessons for the Modern Man
How does Don Draper reflect the changing roles of men in the 21st century? Adam Garone, CEO and Co-Founder of the Movember foundation, gives his insights. — Disclaimer: I’m a fan of Mad Men. I can...
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No Coke for Don Draper
Don Draper would not buy the world a coke…but not for the reasons you think. Don Draper would not buy the world a Coke. The Don Draper I saw on the bluffs of Big Sur is a new man, one who has shed...
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Don Draper and the Dark Corridor: A Mad Man’s 10 Year Journey Home
Dan Gordon can relate to Don Draper’s journey. Oh, how he can relate. And he wonders if we will all have our “Don Draper moments”? — If you haven’t yet watched the series finale of Mad Men you really...
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Mad Men Of The Future Will Be Brain Scientists And Dream Experts
Don Draper will be manipulating your brain before too long. _____ By Leslie Hallam It’s been 60 years since the first TV ad was broadcast in the UK. In that time, we’ve moved from the innocent grainy...
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5 Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Goals
A life lesson from the tortoise and the hare. — One of Aesop’s best-known fables is The Tortoise and the Hare. The hare challenges the tortoise to a race, confident he will win by a long shot. The...
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How Men Can Free Themselves from the Big Box Store Mentality
Have we branded every item in every niche of our lives from diaper wipes to gravestones? Jeremy McKeen chronicles a lifetime of purchasing power. — Your loyalty starts with the comfort of the basic...
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How ‘Mad Men’ and Don Draper Helped Us Understand Trauma and Shame
A mental health consultant for the hit AMC series probes the psychology of the flawed protagonist. — “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau Don Draper was a survivor...
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Comment of the Day: ‘There is a point where you quit whining’
Embed from Getty Images Get help, be kind, grow up. — This comment was by Mike in reference to the post – How Fear and Shame Are Killing The Modern Man My wife and I are older Gen X parents and we...
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Dinner Time
Dinner time at our house means no television. It means we all sit at the table to eat and talk about the day. That’s the hope, however, with a three and one-year-old, we’re not having much in the way...
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I Am Straight, Male, and a Victim of Sexual Harassment
Embed from Getty Images — In the spring of 1999, as I was nearing the end of my junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, I began to think about how I would spend my summer. Having burned out the...
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Don’t Apologize for Wanting to Embrace Bromance and Intimacy
American men are in a state of crisis when it comes to male companionship. There has been no shortage of articles and literature chronicling the supposed crisis in male relationships. Websites and...
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Be The Man
Portraits of the Patriarchy Father Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhood Part 6 My father had this notion that dinner should be on the table at the same time each night. He’d often...
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Cruise Control
The Present of Presence Those downloaded Disney soundtracks get little play now that the children have since learned to buckle their own shoes and wipe their own behinds. They don’t need you to stay in...
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Scary Daddies Part 2: Don Draper
The Bad Man Within At face value, Don Draper was the perfect man: a strong, silent, high-powered Madison Avenue ad agency executive with a beautiful wife and two doting children. How could there be...
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