And so we beat on, bloggers against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past of 1960 and a cartoonish (but strangely addictive) New York of consumers, mixed drinks, smoke-filled rooms, child abuse, faux beatniks and vintage underwear. MA Peel has the rudder tonight, broken ankle and all, over at newcritics. You know the drill: Mad Men at 10 PM EDT on AMC and in our little silk pajama-clad clan (TM Jim Wolcott, All Rights Reserved). And while your over there, check out the fast-and-furious argument over Jack Kerouac's On The Road. (Lance and Jason have posts). Fifty years on, and still culturally controversial.
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- Tom Watson is a journalist, author, media critic, entrepreneur and consultant who has worked at the confluence of media technology and social change for more than 20 years. This long-running blog is my personal outlet - an idiosyncratic view of the world. "My dirty life and times" is a nod to the late, great Warren Zevon because some days I feel like my shadow's casting me.
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