With -17 degree temperatures we have to operate our garage doors manually. That means the inconvenience of getting out of the car each time we leave or return home. I can just hear the chorus of pity responding with "Oooh, you poor thing"!
We have begun to use our Christmas presents. I have rented several DVD's with my gift card from Hollywood Video. We have the Miesfeld Meat gift card poised and ready to go (steaks). The car wash certificates haven't been used because of it is too cold.
The first season of "Mad Men" on DVD's was also a Christmas present. We are half way through the series and it does return the viewer to another time. I wasn't sure I'd like the series but with all the lying, backstabbing, sexual infidelity and greed, what's "not to like"?
I know Grasshopper No.4 and Grasshopper No.5 (she gave us the DVD's) have seen the series. It is set in the late 1950's. Unscrupulous advertising executives scrape and claw their way to fame and fortune.
I have to admit that the smoking habit overwhelms the script. That is the way it was in the late 1950's. It was cool to light up a "cig" and talk smart. I remember business meetings where the room was so filled with smoke, you could hardly see the other side of the room. When my mother (Alice), brother Jack and brother Jerry got together, it was a "smokefest". I can't believe I would be present at their gathering and totally ignor the smoke. Talk about being stupid. The City Club was always filled with smoke. What is a tavern without liquor and cigarettes. Mad Men captures the "haze" of life very well. The cigarettes of the time were Lucky Strike and Old Golds. Yet to come; the Marlboro Man. A carton (with 10 packs of cigarettes) back then cost $2.00. Today one pack of cigarettes costs $4.00.
The Mad Men series also captures the "good old boy" business environment very well. Women were strangers to management ranks and gossip ruled the office.
The cars are vintage 1950's. Oldsmobiles. Buicks. Chryslers. I haven't seen too many Cadillacs. Nope, no Camrys or Nissans.
The music of the 50's is stil the best!
I met your Mom in the 50's.
So the Mad Men series is a trip to yesteryear. It is nostalgic. Interestingly enough, I don't have a lot of desire to go back to "that other time".
Love,
Dad