Nitpicking
Friday, July 30, 2010
Let us close out the week with an item for extremely, extremely obsessive people! We thought this article on linguistic anachronisms in the television show Mad Men was quite fascinating! despite being one of the three people in the English-speaking universe who finds Mad Men horrifying and unwatchable. Here's something else on this topic (language, not the horrifying unwatchability of Mad Men with regards to Rejectionists), from the New York Times. Via Good Morning Midnight (DUDE check out her DIY CHANEL HOODIE TOTAL FACEMELT). You may comment today. Heh, heh.
In other news! NEXT WEEK IS A SUPER AMAZING THEME WEEK AT THE REJECTIONIST!!!!! With SUPER AMAZING INTERVIEWS!!! and SUPER AMAZING GUEST POSTS!!! SO AREN'T YOU EXCITED!!!! YES YOU ARE!!!!! YOU CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT WHAT THE SUPER AMAZING THEME WEEK WILL BE!! !!! !!!!!!! HUZZAH! See you next week!
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Perched on the edge of my chairsy.. Can't wait!!
have a great weekend
I watched the first disc of the first season of Mad Men. It was a downer. I don't like watching shows/plays/movies about horrible people doing horrible things. It may the greatest show ever OMG but it's not for me.
I'm super amazingly pumped for next week.
I'm going to spend the next week-end doing push ups and re-typing "A farewell to arms"
Exactly. The characters are not redeemed by being attractive and quick-witted. Relentless inter-personal destruction quickly gets old for me. Even when wrapped in cigarette smoke and empire waists.
Thanks for making me feel less like a leper! (Though lepers are people too.)
@ Joseph and Madeline: Thank you. That's also my problem with a lot of lit fic. I get to watch people in my real life self-destruct. I turn to fiction in any form in the hopes that those people will be smarter.
Aaaand...Yay for theme week!
I have yet to get caught up in the Mad Men frenzy either. Though I do see them everywhere.
Can't wait for theme week!
I don't watch TV unless it's sports. Yes, I admit it, I was a half-breed Jock-Nerd.
And, on a serious note, may I say that the personal essay by Bao Phi was awesome? Because surely it was.
i'm too distracted by that hoodie to focus on anything else of note in your post.
WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!
i'm going to sharpie everything i own.
A second on Bao Phi. You can see him on HBO's Def Poetry here.
And I love Good Morning Midnight’s Braille tattoo (July 19). She didn’t say what it says, but wiki showed it’s the alphabet.
I DON'T CARE THAT DON DRAPER IS BAD, HE LOOKS LIKE A CARTOON PILOT AND I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HIM. I WANT HIM TO DO DISASTROUS THINGS TO MY PSYCHE AND MARVELOUS THINGS TO MY OTHER PARTS.
I love the style posts they do on the clothes of Mad Men over on Project Rungay (I know it has a new name, but it isn't as distinctive), but I can tell what they say about the episodes that I wouldn't be into them. Which is cool, I watch too much TV anyway.
BTW, I love you for the Dragon Tattoo post. I don't understand why more people don't see those books that way.
I love MAD MEN. I think it's pretty accurate except the names. Women in the early 60s were named Barbara and Carol, not Bethany! That's a big boo boo--some of the names they've chosen. But otherwise, the show is eerily accurate. After every show, I show my husband a picture of me as a kid wearing the same outfits as Sally (little girl) or pictures of my mother with same hairstyle as Betty Draper.
I think the fact that you use "Huzzah" as daily speech is awesome, and probably one of the reasons that I love you. At the very least it is indicative of the fact that you must be fantastic.
Keep it up.
Nitpicking: MJR, that is incorrect. Bethany was used as a name as early as the 19th century and came into popular usage in the 1950s. Having a person named Bethany in the show is perfectly reasonable.
Etymology of Bethany
I've never even seen Mad Men. I'm one of those hardcore motherfuckers without cable. Fear me.
But if it's about well-dressed Americans in self-destruct mode, I can't imagine I'm missing much.
I get to watch people in my real life self-destruct. I turn to fiction in any form in the hopes that those people will be smarter.
^ Laurel, I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for that. This is my exact problem with a lot of lit fic too.
I'm excited to see guest posts! Which reminds me, I need to kind of get up on writing one...
Here's a few stats on the usage of the name Bethany.
They support that the name didn't get common usage for babies until around 1980, at least in the US.
I don't watch TV much, so Mad Men is a rumor to me.
SO NOW THIS IS HAPPENING:
Nitpick all 3,127 mistakes in this picture!
Hint to get you started: The filing cabinet is named Tiffani with an "i." Now find 3,126 more!
I'm really, really sorry, Le R.
I don't watch modern TV, so I've never seen Mad Men either. It's set in the sixties? Is there Illya Kuryakinness? Is there snark and banter? Is there improbable psuedo-science and blowing stuff up for no apparent reason?
No? Not interested. :P
(Hey! My word ver is "blerfbot"!)
hehe - I'm one of the other 2 people in the universe who can't stand Mad Men. People keep telling me to give it a second chance. I say, why?
I've never seen MadMen. Why would I watch a highly stylized program glorifying a time of even greater patriarchal domination? Also, we cannot afford cable nor do we have a tv antenna. This is not, as it turns out, a tragedy at all.
I also abhor Mad Men. Other people don't understand, and then I tell them that it makes me want to punch everybody. And then they really don't understand. *sigh*
Yay Rejectionist! for saying such things better than I ever could.
DAMN RIGHT I MELT FACES.
thnx for linkage! redeeming quality of mad men: it always involves an excuse to wear fancy shoes and drink large amounts of semi-classy booze at the apartments of friends-who-have-fancy-electronics-like-televisions on sunday nights. and i am always down for fancy shoes and semi-classy booze.
mc // morningmidnightDOTcom
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