The Attack of the Lawnmower!

[The good stuff in the video starts at the 1:45 mark. From the episode of Mad Men "Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency"]

You know how when you were a kid, people would well meaningly tell you about dangerous household items in hopes that you would take care around them?

I was afraid of lawn mowers when I was six because a guest to the classroom told us a story of a little kid getting their foot chopped off by one. The child was running behind it.

I was frightened of the deep freezer, because I was told that if you let it close on you, you would suffocate. Anytime I got anything out of the deep freezer, before I would let the door close I would run to the opposite side of the room. You know, to prevent me somehow getting sucked into it.

I refused to swim when my parents weren't home because I might drown. They themselves warned me of this, and to this day refuse to believe I didn't once take a dip while they were at work while I was stuck home, alone, with no air conditioning. [Not to digress, or anything]

And the above video? I guess it was the sixties, so no one warned them as children that lawnmowers are DANGEROUS DANGEROUS RUN AWAY!!!! [unless you are the one on it, of course] That is the moral of the above video.

What's so American about competition?

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Yeah. I'd do anything for Jon Hamm. Or, you know, a public option.

OMG Mad Men. New. In August.

ACK! There was a point when it felt like there would never be a a new Madmen, ever ever ever. In fact, I was nearly complacent with seeing Jon Hamm on 30 Rock. And while there's not really anything new in the clip, its still great: shit is going to go down this season.

That clip is way more exciting than the new Twilight movie.

[From Basket of Kisses, one of the two Mad Men crazy blogs I follow]