MAD MEN

my many apologies for taking so long to get this entry out - i've been having some serious brainstorming sessions regarding the content matter of this wonderful little project. as for the news, i have a co-contributor, my lovely sister marisafari, so let's all give her a warm welcome.

and now for the post.

mad men.

when it comes to television and movies - my father is an ace. he tends to weed out the shit and find a good core of television and movies worth watching, which i will admit i am pretty indebted to him for. i'm not saying that we're snobs, i'm just saying, we know what we like. he has long had a netflix account and through it we have all enjoyed countless bizarre films, modern jazz documentaries, and some good ol' tv including his latest favorite, mad men.

i'm not sure how he found out about amc's mad men, but i do know that upon my return home for winter break, he:

a) loved mad men

b) loved january jones (who was on the cover of gq a few months back...)

and

c) really liked don draper

in fact, he loved it so much that he ordered and watched the entire first season in about a week and a half. though, i will admit, due to its mass popularity among the pretentious pricks at my school, i was a complete skeptic of this show. i mean really, why the hell is everyone into mad men?

so i gave it a whirl - and found myself just as engrossed if not more by the show. the costumes and props are completely spot on. the conflicts are amazing. everyone drinks and smokes all day in the office. the women are hot, and the men are hotter. there are a lot of extramarital affairs. don draper is a fox. betty draper is even more of a fox. and i find myself strangely enamored with pete campbell even if he is a huge asshole. as for peggy, i'm interested to see how she'll grow - maybe she'll get secretly knocked up again?

my father likes this show so much, that we find ourselves talking about the characters in this show as if they were real people. in fact, on a trip to manhattan last month, my dad asked if i'd seen don draper on madison avenue. i told him curtly, no. but if i had, i would have promptly gone with him to a bar to have an old fashioned. and we would have toasted to you, dad.

dad, i know you've watched the entire first and second season and are eagerly anticipating the release of the third to dvd - but little do you know, that you can watch it "illegally" online.

so dad, this one's for you.

http://www.yidio.com/show/mad-men

shit my dad likes: tomato dressing

so, to put it simply, my dad is quite popular amongst my friends in part for his humor and wit - but especially for his tendency towards trends and obsessions. he loves to follow the hipshit in gq and esquire - and reads his monthly issues like they're the fucking bible, in fact, he was reading quotes from gq at the dinner table this very evening as we noshed on one of his favorite obsessions of 2k9: tomato dressing. i mean "the best fucking tomato dressing". my dad doesn't fuck around.

so to commence the inaugural post of this fantastic blog idea i give you.....................


THE BEST FUCKING TOMATO DRESSING IN THE WORLD
(i.e. tom colicchio's roasted tomato dressing)

this current obsession stems from two previous obsessions worth mentioning those being
1) tom colicchio
2) tomatoes

he likes things starting with TOM apparently.

anyways this summer my dad grew tomatoes on our deck while simultaneously obsessing over how cool tom colicchio is and what a badass chef he can be, that he went out and bought tom colicchio's cook book.

in this cook book is a fantastic recipe for roasted tomato dressing that he not only made - but yes, obsessed over. he put it on everything. i'm talking salad. cheese. tomatoes. saladddddddddddd. salad. salad. etc. in fact, dad loves this shit so much that he makes it every week or two and keeps it stocked in the fridge so he can have his tomato salad EVERYDAY FOR LUNCH AND DINNER!!!!!!!!! he's even given it to my out-of-town friends starscream prefacing it as "the best fucking dressing in the world" because "i don't fuck around".

here's the latest batch, and as julia child likes to put it, bon appetite!

labeled salad dressing tupperware

mmm mm good.

contact me if you're interested in the recipe, it's quite good.