Archives for 2012

Mad Men

July 3, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

John and I are the last two people on board, but we made it. We’re slow. We know it. This week we watched our first episode of Mad Men.

I was hooked right off by the opening sequence, haunting music, Hitchcock visuals. Cool.

It’s a spot on study of the 1960s. I’m so into the fashion and sexism and cigarette smoking, I can barely concentrate on the plot.

I love the banter from the secretarial pool. The men actually say honey and darling and you should wear shorter skirts, show more leg. The good ole days before sexual harassment and diversity training and computers ruined everything.

It’s really not that different from working at the bank… but somehow it is.

Got a light?

talya

Musical Pairings:

You Only Live Twice, Nancy Sinatra

When God closes a door, he opens a dress. – Mad Men, Season 1

Soon!

July 2, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

fun yay

dock boat

cliffs happy love cabin

cicadas picnic swimming

mourning doves sandy island

laughing napping

hammock sunning reading

the bridge Fred’s Catfish

wet bathing suits

damp towels

hot dogs

soon

talya

Musical Pairings:

Summertime, Kenny Chesney

Tate and Taylor

Seeing and Being Seen

July 1, 2012 By Talya Tate Boerner

Friday night.

John: Do you think we see ourselves as others do? John had just returned from an afternoon of 105 degree golfing…

Me: Absolutely not.

John: That’s what I was afraid of.

Me: Why do you ask?

John: Today at lunch I saw a guy having his 50th birthday party, and he looked so OLD! Then I thought that’s probably how I look too…

Me: No you still look good…

John: Well, you don’t look 50 either.

Me: Well I’m not. Not for 10 more days….

John: True.

I just finished reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog for book club. LOVED IT. It made me think about each person’s invisible side. That hidden part no one really sees. That part we automatically tuck away deep inside, out of fear or pain or some other reason.

Is there any other reason?

And we aren’t capable of seeing others clearly due to our own limitations. The stereotypes we buy into. Our prejudices and preconceived notions. We inadvertently assign roles to individuals based on job titles or skin color or neighborhoods.

This book was not a light, sinful 50ShadesofGrey beachy pina colada read. It is meant to be savored and read slowly, and re-read to really get it. The language pulled me in, made me think. It made me see.

I laughed out loud. But it was sad. And profound.

There was a two-and-half-page RANT about a misplaced comma. What’s not to love!?

It was about seeing and being seen.

talya

Musical Pairings:

Mozart’s Confutatis

“… they have never seen you … I would recognize you anywhere. ”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog