Category: Reading List

Mad Men Recap

April 14, 2014 - David Feldman Show, Reading List

Mad Men Recap: Welcome to the Beginning of the End

Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of  Mad Men  through the lens of the latest media campaign of advertising agency Sterling Cooper & Partners. Image: AMC “Are you ready? Because I want you to pay attention. This is the beginning of something. Do you have time to improve your life? Do you have precisely 30 seconds for a word from AccuTron watches? The watch appears, bottom third. The second hand moves with a fluid sweep, and above it? ‘AccuTron Time.’ You go into a business meeting. Is there food in your teeth?

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Bush’s Post-Presidential Painting Career

April 14, 2014 - David Feldman Show, Reading List, The News From Around The World

Simple Kind of Man: George W. Bush's Post-Presidential Painting Career

The George W. Bush Presidential Center sits idly on the campus of Southern Methodist University, overlooking a deeply rutted practice field, a few tennis courts and a boulevard lined with frat houses.Like its namesake, the building seems to pride itself in being almost aggressively average; a stack of bricks and square windows periodically interrupted by the occasional column. It appears – for lack of a better term – bored, kind of like W. must be these days, five years removed from the White House and well on his way to becoming a very fortuitous footnote.

Mr. Bush isn’t as good of a painter as Hitler, but the one thing they do have in common is a love of the arts.

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New York Times On French Standups

April 8, 2014 - Reading List

Pamela Druckerman is living in France and wrote this for the New York Times about the current state of French comedy.

I watched French comics dabble in self-mockery, then switch back to mocking others. Often these attacks aren’t politically correct. At one show, two comedians in a row made fun of dwarves (one joke involved using a Smart car as a hearse). A comic with Chinese roots got a big laugh with his line about the Holocaust: “Six million?” he asks. “In China, that’s a bus accident.”

via Not Yet Rolling in the Aisles – NYTimes.com.

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