Mad Men Politiku Call for Submissions
After the penultimate episode of Mad Men’s Season 3 last week, I realized the show’s dramatic genius lay in the micro collisions, as opposed to the macro historical aspects. After tonight’s Season Three Finale, please Politiku on the subtleties of Mad Men.  I would especially like to read your 17 syllable observations on the fine line between persuasion & manipulation; attraction & repulsion; desire & delusion; reflection & representation. Please note that although the Western haiku movement has been deviating from 5-7-5, Politiku sticks to 5-7-5. This t

Mad Men Politiku Call for Submissions
So I wanna run this on Huffpo before the season finale which means another quickie.  Deadline is 11:00pm Friday, November 6th (yes, that’s tonight) and the topic is the TV Show: Mad Men. As we all know, AMC’s Mad Men deals explicitly with historic political events.  After blogging over Sunday’s sublime episode, however, I realized that it is actually the micro –rather than the macro– aspects of the Mad Men that make the show so compelling. Please send in Politiku on the subtle

Mad Men Season 3 - Episode 12 “The Grown Ups”
From Blog Archive The Fog of Chronology “What year was Kennedy assassinated?” I woke my boyfriend in the middle of the night to ask him. Having tossed and turned over the fog of chronology

Social Media 101: when in doubt, Vark
From Blog Archive It isn’t difficult to ‘get’ social media That is, so long as you avoid empty caloried, time sucking applications involving cupcakes, dog conversations and ‘Which 80s sitcom characters are you’ quizzes on Facebook.  Be aware that Linkedin, though a great business resource, is more of a supplementary research to

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic
From Blog Archive Watching Dudamel for the first time Never seen him before.  Whoa, he’s so flow-ey my cousins in LA see him all the time. Its like a religious pilgrimage for them.  Shameful I haven’t seen him live, yet.  (Watching on PBS) I