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I'm a 5'4" woman who once worked in a store where all my coworkers were also female. For some reason, I was always the designated high-shelf-reacher, because other women weirdly tend to read me as being tall even though I am objectively not.

They're drowning their sorrows with the "Ginsberg is going to murder Megan with an axe" crowd from seasons past.

I think the only other campaign that was actually real was "It's toasted" from way back in the pilot. Weiner understandably didn't like to attribute a real person's work to his fictional characters, but it would make some poetic sense if the only two times it was ever done were in the very first and very last episodes.

It certainly can be interpreted that he created the ad, but it doesn't have to be. Honestly, I think it's even more cynical an ending if he didn't create it. Showing the commercial at the end does bring up the ultimate meaninglessness of his epiphany and the ruthlessness of consumer culture, but not necessarily in

It's not that I don't think there's a ton of support for the idea that Don created the ad, or that it's not a totally valid interpretation—even more valid than the thought that he didn't. It's more that because there is ambiguity, because it was left open-ended, I like the idea of imagining the other path. It's a

I dunno, man. I see where the "it's so obvious!" people are getting it, don't get me wrong, but I'd rather take the ambiguity and roll with it.

I don't think it was. I mean, it's going to be the "did Tony Soprano die" of Mad Men; one group is going to think it's unambiguously obvious that he created the ad, but others are going to disagree and have room to do so. I have my ideas about it, but I'll save them for the main review when it's up.

That was the best thing about the foreshadowing of Lane's suicide. It wasn't subtle, and wasn't supposed to be. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. It was plain what was coming—the horror was in seeing all the pieces of the lead-up fall into place and knowing how inevitable it was, like—by the time you

"The Summer Man" just works for me on a lot of different levels. It sounds kind of subtly haunting, just kind of working with the broader series theme of all the good things in Don's life being ephemeral and him being very much of an era that is ending, and IIRC the episode itself was kind of doing a "The Swimmer"

There was a weird formatting thing on the front page that made me read this as "Australia threatens to kill Johnny Depp," so I was really excited, and then disappointed.

I've always had this weird affection for Adrian Grenier, not because of any work he's actually done, but because eleven-year-old me had a huge thing for young Michael York when we had to watch Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet in English class, and Adrian Grenier always kind of reminded me of him.

And then five different people punch Seth Green in the face at once.

My eighth-grade class begged our teachers to let us use that song at our little miniature middle-school graduation ceremony in 2002, but they refused and made us sing "In My Life." It was the principle of the thing that bothered me, really.

The Eye of the Future sees them: Five clever space cadets snuck aboard an alien ship, flung through a weird hole in space, thousands of lightyears from the Academy. Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time, but will they ever get home? Or are they forever destined to be…Space Cases?

Who is junglejim4322@yahoo.com?

That's how I feel. It's terrible for everyone who knew him, but my heart just breaks for his brother most of all. Losing a twin. Jesus.

Buttisface?

This post possessed me to go fish the leftover mac and cheese out of my fridge and eat it while weeping and saying goodbye.

It's the lack of the Fran Drescher accent. Turns him into a completely different person.

It was bang-head-on-wall stupid, no doubt, but he went out on such a high note that I forgive him anything and everything.