Mad Men Season 5 Epi 1 Wrap Up

Oh My! We finally have our Mad Men back.

So let's see what we got.

First Joan: We get to see her new baby boy, Kevin and her somewhat challenging mother who starts right out with a reference to breathing fumes. Telling Joan she doesn't want Kevin out in it but then telling Joan to close the door when she takes the baby out. I am dying to find out what this is all about????
Beyond this we hear that Joan's husband is still alive and that she really misses work. Like all new mothers she feels isolated and the lack of fuss the office seems to have made hasn't helped.
Roger says all the perfect things when she visits the office. That no one notices the baby with her holding it, etc... Love that he sent a bicycle???
There's also a line at Don's birthday where Roger thanks Don for not inviting Joan or he'd have to wear earplugs all the way home. Guess Jane has twigged to Rogers feelings and doesn't like it.

Don and Megan: Things looked pretty good to start, Megan seems to know about Dick but like their apartment that is still being put together so is their relationship and it looks like the white carpet shows everything and they'll have to change it. Megan has learn her first Mrs Don Draper lesson. Don will let you make it look however you want to the outside world but know it is all an illusion.
They do seem to have a bit of the S&M to their sex life, Don does like that. It's a little pervy the way she keeps calling him an old man. The Zoobi Zoobi Zoo (or maybe it's bisoux??) song was funny by the way the chorus translation is Zoobi Zoobi Zoo means I want you, there was something about birds in there too. I was a bit to distracted by the floor show to pay close enough attention to the lyrics. It did remind me of when Joan sang and played the song for her husbands colleques.

Peggy and Abe: I love these two together. Abe will really allow Peggy to grow and be the independant person she wants to be. My heart went out to Peggy when they handed her Joan's baby. The adoption of her child with Pete has really left a scar on her heart when it comes to children. I'm wondering if we will see a heart to heart with Abe about this???

Pete and Roger: These two seem like they are going to come to blows at any moment. Roger is being pretty awful trying to poach Pete's clients.Pete seems like he has found himself living in the suburbs and the American dream. He still is fighting for that respect but he seems like he's coming at it in a better way. We'll see if he manages a whole season without raping anyone.

Betty: So even though we didn't actually get to see Betty and Henry we do see the reflection of their house in the car window when Don drops the kids off. It looks like the mansion Betty mentioned last season. Three stories and stone from what I could make out. (Correction: they actually showed the house and Don says give Morticia and Lurch my love. Because the house looks like the Adams Family house.) Based on scenes from next week we'll find out more soon.

This and That:

"I've got tickets to the Bean ballet and the curtain is going up."

Don has 6 phone number for Duck (AKA Herman Phillips) Is he still keeping an eye on him in case he pulls it together?

"It a steinway walking stick" "you could stick it up your ass and have concert"

Roger has switched from Lucky Strikes to Camels. I wonder why????

Zoo Bee Zoo Be Zoo Lyrics (as best I can Make out)

Zoo be---
My God it's hard
Zoo Be ------
The ---Kiss
In The-----
The Lovers----
Like the birds the rendez vous
Zoo bee-----
My God it's hard
Tell me do you understand
What's going on between us
What does Zoobe Zoo mean
It means I want you
But of course I love only you
Zoo be

This is as close as I can get to translating this. I listened several times but there are serious limits to my french vocabulary. If you can make out missing part please fill in in comments.

Kathy Griffin is Back on Bravo

Looks like Kathy Griffin will be returning to Bravo with a one hour talk show. I loved her on The D List. So I'm very excited to see her return. If you want to sign up to be in a studio audience for Kathy Griffin's Talk Show follow the link and fill out the audience form.

Here's the press release:

'Kathy' is the all new one-hour weekly pop culture talk show hosted by two-time Emmy winner Kathy Griffin. Every Thursday night, the original gossip girl will have a whole hour to deflate the egos of everyone who is anyone and those who think they're someone. Kathy will showcase Griffin's unique take on celebrities, co-workers, friends, politicians, and yes, even her own boxed-wine swilling mother, Maggie. She'll be burning the last of her already very few bridges, all while enforcing a clothing optional work environment.

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Left Over Corned Beef And Potato Soup

If you have left over corned beef and potatoes like I do from St Paddy's day, here is a good soup recipe to use them up. My kid had three bowls so you know it's good.

1 medium onion diced
2 stalkes celery diced
2 good sized garlic cloves
32 oz chicken stock
3 large potatoes
1/2 cp milk
however much corned beef you have leftover.
Salt Pepper and Thyme to taste

Sautee celery, onion, and garlic add stock and potatoes. cook until all is soft.
Optional: use immersion blender to puree all for smooth soup
add corned beef and milk simmer for an hour to allow flavors to blend.

I served it with warm bread and they all gobbled it up.

Enjoy!

American Idiot at The Ahmanson

Center Theatre Group invited me to see the opening night of American Idiot. It's an amazing show with a Green Day score.

It reminded me quite a bit of Hair. With a group of young adults trying to figure out their way through the trials of growing up. It's definitely what I would classify as a Rock Opera with blaring guitars and pounding drums.

There are some extremely striking visuals. One aerial scene seemed like the actors were almost swimming. Another dance scene using one of those rubber cords to tie off the arm for injections, two dancers wrap it around one another in various ways. It falls somewhere between ballet and modern dance.

This is a great show to introduce tweens, teens, and young adults to theatre. It does have a copious amount of cursing, drugs, and sex; like any good rock opera should, but it's not too graphic. Still I wouldn't say it's appropriate for young children.

Mad Men Season 5 Premiere

Today marks the last Sunday till Mad Men returns to AMC. That's right kids Next Sunday the long wait will come to an end. I've just finished rewatching season 4 and I have some Mad Men Season 5 predictions.

At the end of season 4 I was disappointed that Don had thrown over Faye for Megan, but after rewatching it again I saw something new. Don is tired of perfection and the pursuit of it. Where Betty wants the children to behave all the time, Megan says don't cry over a spilled milk shake. She even has unusual teeth and is foreign (OK French Canadian). Megan allows Don to just be, it's true that she won't challenge him like Faye. But maybe now that he is entering mid life he is ready to relax, if not face up to reclaiming his former identity.

I'm guessing that we will finally get to find out about where Joan came from this year. I am dying to find out what the medical connection is for her. Christina confirmed that Joan's coughing in the John Deere foot amputation screen was in the script and that she was curios too why she was coughing and no one else was. Fingers crossed for that reveal. Now Joan's baby and marriage... I'm thinking Joan's baby will be born when we rejoin the show. I'm hoping her "lovely" husband will have been killed in Vietnam, but unfortunately I think that would be too neat. But I still hold out hope he'll get it eventually, hopefully killed by his own troops.

I would love to see Betty getting divorced and start out on a voyage of self discovery. But I doubt that will happen. She will probably just continue on her crabby, ostrich with her head in the sand way. I could definitely see her having a baby with Henry. Which would fit conveniently with January's real life pregnancy during the break.

I'm hoping we will find Peggy and Abe in one another's arms, probably living in sin and loving it. Pete is most likely continuing to climb the corporate ladder selling off pieces of his soul along the way.

Just one week till we find out how right or wrong I am. Until then you could join the #MomsLAChat Wed. the 21st at 10am PST for a fun Mad Men twitter party with great prizes from Bev Mo, Queen of Hearts and The Dead Celebrity Cookbook author Frank DeCaro. RSVP to win