I just MadMen’d Myself!  Pretty funny.  It’s like creating your Mii on the Wii… only to the accompaniment of cool, 60′s era-type lounge music.   You can pick out your face shape, eyes with or without glasses, clothes, what you hold, even down to the jewelry you wear.

I wanted to hold a drink and a cigarette since that seems to be all they do on the show, but alas, it was one or the other.  I could have had a cigarette in my mouth while holding a martini glass, but it reeked a bit of trailer trash so I passed.

As if you couldn’t tell… AMC’s MadMen is my Sunday Night Addiction… one of the few shows my husband and I both watch.  And every week, after some quiet scene comes to an inconclusive end, I invariably ask: “Now, WHY do we watch this?”

We started watching it for the styling.  They do such an incredible job with the details… and on a more personal note, my first job out of college was with Lintas: NY, at the time, the 9th largest ad agency in the world… so even though it was 1990, not the early 60′s… the same companies in play in their world were in play then.  Even in 1990, they smoked all over the office and lunch was quite often in liquid form…    It’s interesting to hear them talk about accounts and competitors.  But, just like the soaps, they’ve hooked us into the story… I mean, what will happen at Sterling Cooper now that the Brits’ management restructuring has gone awry with the loss of a man’s foot? And when will Betty Draper get a personality?   Stay tuned!

But I get this strange urge to chain smoke (I’ve heard they actually smoke some herbal stuff – no not the ‘herbage’ sort!- that the actors all hate) and drink scotch… but I can pass on those armor like undergarments… Thank God for women’s lib – and Spanx, don’t forget Spanx!

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