I'm watching an episode or two pretty of each much every day. For those of you keeping track, I'm in season 4 of BSG and JUST starting season 2 of Mad Men.

Please, with that in mind, no spoilers in the comments, please.

OMG, I Figured it OUT! Don Draper Is the Fifth Cylon!

With the similarities (stressed, unhappy people doing crazy things and drinking a lot,) I'm afraid I'm going to merge the two in my mind. The smoking and the booze especially tie the two shows together.

Great characters in each, which is why I?'m such a fan of both. I probably like BSG better, being a science fiction fan and all, but really all Mad Men needs is this guy to push it over the top:

Not the best likeness, but it's all about the effort anyway.

Conservation, FTW.

Punk singer Jim Carroll, author of `The Basketball Diaries,' dead at 60

We (meaning the wonderful band of lunatics I ran with back in the day*) were blown away by The Basketball Diaries and the sequel, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries. Carroll's life was obviously insane, it was page turner for that reason, but the telling of the stories was what made our hair stand on end. His words were everything. Authentic, honest, wild. It was raw, powerful stuff, unlike anything I've read- before or since. They had a great impact on me then and they've remained an integral part of my culture even as far as my life has strayed from the path I was on when I first encountered them. If you find yourself with the ability to do something with half the power, half the passion that Carroll brought to those books, consider yourself blessed.

He certainly was.

*most of whom I still run with, thankfully.

This entry in my anniversary series actually pulls directly from the site and focuses on, well, me. It's an easy one to understand, what follows are 10 paintings/drawings/whatevers, that I've done over the past ten years that I really like. I hope you like them too.

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Messing around, I came up with this.

And the real deal:
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