I was just browsing through the Secret Lives of First Ladies and was a little surprised (though I shouldn't have been) at how many smoked.

When Laura met the Bush family, Barbara asked her what she did. Laura replied: "I read. I drink. I smoke."

(This made me think of certain Buffistas, actually.)

I thought Don and Pete both looked horrified at the blackface routine, but for different reasons. I think Don appears to have a burgeoning social conscience of sorts, which is sorta uncomfortable because he's not exactly hero material. But I do think he understands the desire to be treated as an equal. Pete, on the other hand, probably thought that the whole display was the gauche sensibility of the nouveau riche.

This was my interpretation as well. So many delightful details in this one.

My favorite moment had to be Roger talking about people being jealous of his happiness. He sounded exactly like the obnoxious "pretty girls" on Survivor and it was nice to see Don correct his misinterpretation.

I don't think I've ever seen that picture of Jackie. Huh.

Jackie smoking, and reading. [link]

eta: My memory was that she was pretty much a chain smoker 2-3 packs a day. Not in public of course.

Perhaps I'm odd, but that's honestly the most attractive photo I've ever seen of Jackie. Not the prettiest, but the most appealing.

AMC already renewed Mad Men for a fourth season and Matt Weiner's already on board for it!

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Whoot!

Nothing like a crowd-pleasing rendition of "My Old Kentucky Home" to bring in the advertising dollars!

Prop anachronism discovered in Mad Men! ZOMG!!!!

Not only that, it's the SECOND anachronism in two weeks!

Zimmer noticed yesterday that on Sunday's episode of Mad Men, sitting on a shelf behind Sterling Cooper's CFO Lane Pryce was the three-volume edition of The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which, as everyone knows, was first published in 1987 — 24 years after the show's current season supposedly takes place. Explaining the egregious anachronism on his fake Twitter feed, Pryce says, "Regarding my office library, I was asked to hold on to those books by a nervous young man named McFly."