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Here’s the song that thumped in background as Don described ‘holstering up his guns’. via madmenfootnotes

Every super hero needs their theme music. This is Don Draper’s.

Who’s ready for Joan and Mad Men?

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Diary of a Mad Man →

Some Mad Men homework in preparation for season four (5 days away).

Don Draper Mad Men poster by Christina Perry.

Mad Men’s Guide to Managing Creative People →

“People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself, not by external pressures.” - Theresa Amabile

You came here because we do this better than you, and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

— Don Draper

madmenfootnotes:

In the number “A Secretary is Not a Toy”  you can see an uncanny resemblance to the Sterling Cooper floor plan as the men in gray suits stroll up and down the rows of steno machines reminding one another that

A secretary is not to be
Used for play therapy.
Be good to the girl you employ, boy.
Remember no matter what
Neurotic trouble you’ve got
A secretary is not a toy. 

She’s a highly specialized key component
Of operational unity,
A fine and sensitive mechanism
To serve the office community.
With a mother at home she supports;
And you’ll find nothing like her at FAO Schwarz.

These play was produced in 1961.  The Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Book; Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Drama Critics Circle Award were all snagged by it before the movie version came out in 1967. Aspirational lyricism!

Who’s ready for season 4?

madmenfootnotes:

“A friend suggested I watch the series, “Mad Men”. It feels like deja vu….this photo was taken in 1960 in Manhattan (the series takes place in the same year and place)….my mother and stepfather (a television executive) look a lot like the main characters Don Draper and his wife Betty. It all feels so familiar…the hair styles, the thin ties, the smoky air, the cocktails…….the extra-martial affairs……”

This photoset of childhood in Manhattan is delicious. Give it a click through, you will enjoy.

I promise.

I seconded that notion.

For fans who were holding out hope that we might see the show drag on into the ’70s or even ’80s — giving Don Draper a chance to try out key parties, double-knit polyester, muttonchops, and eventually cocaine and yuppie amorality in Reagan’s America — it’s probably a little disappointing. But for everyone else, it’s reassuring to know that Weiner is working with a specific endpoint in mind.

— Sean O’Neal on the six seasons of Mad Men. via Kottke

dannygarcia:

meet Don Draper (via Christina_Perry_87)