"Pay no attention to that blogger behind the curtain!"
When I started here, it was freeing to blog under a pseudonym, but it's time to come out and blog under my real name, so here I am. Call me Nelle, or call me TBFKAS (if you can pronounce it better than Prince's glyph), but just please don't call me Nellie!
I also wanted to answer all those who have been emailing and asking me if I'm going to write episode commentaries for Mad Men when the new season starts up again this Sunday. Yes, I fully plan to -- as long as AT&T doesn't foil me! (We just moved and AT&T thoroughly messed up our service order so install of phone/DSL/TV is days behind schedule -- but I'm unleashing all my powers to get things up and running well before Sunday night.)
I'm also scheduled to be interviewed again on blog radio about the show by the delightful Maddict Shelley Ackerman.
Hope to see you all here at my blog on Monday with your comments on the big premiere!
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Nelle is a beautiful name, Silkstone.
Start the bonfire.
Rated with hugs
Can't wait for Sunday night, but I really can't wait for Monday morning!
Love you name, nice to meet you Nelle.
And even Don Draper but not Pete Campbell, not one iota ...
looking forward
Second, congratulations on coming out.
Third, I love Mad Men, but have no tv, so have to watch it all one year behind on dvd.
Fourth, can I brag a little and say I already know you as Nelle, even though I am still an OS newbie fluffmusket?!
(R)ated for bursting out of the bushes naked
My official name on Open Salon is "Nobody Important," because that's who I am.
You all are writing books, doing appearances on radio shows, showing off your work at art galleries ... and here I am ... crying. All alone. Again.
Glad to hear the MM fans will be back in force on Monday -- I'll look forward to our dialogue. (I have cable again! And internet! So I feel connected to the world once more.)
And completed and posted in a day -- Impressive to say the least!
Considering all that Weiner & Co. gave themselves to work with by how they ended things in Season 3 -- and dovetailing it all with the real start of the 60s -- Season 4 has the potential to be the very best yet. I'll be looking forward to reading your take on it.
VA, thanks so much! And I'm eager to see where the show goes, too.
I highly recommend renting the DVD's and watching the show from the start. Will make a lot more sense that way.
for some reason I'm probably the only human in america that finds it hard to get into mad men. I feel trapped when I watch it. maybe because I grew up in a super conservative america where all of that seemed common place and those attitudes still existed in the 1980s and 1990s...(maybe today too...I don't know since I moved out of that community). I find my shock mechanisms stopped being sufficiently triggered after about a third of the first season.
but still I like the way you write so maybe I'll still catch a few of your writeups...
No wonder you understand Mad Men. You are living Mad Men. You are Don Draper/Dick Whitman.
Now, I feel like Betty/Bess/Bets. I am taking the kids and flying to Reno.
As Mott The Hoople said many, many years ago, "You are never alone when you are schizophrenic."
Welcome back ... it's been a long dry summer without Mad Men and your amazing recaps!
signed, sandra-not-sandy