List 4

A Mad Men and very-loosely-inspired-by Mad Men list:

Love: Our mid-century Draperesque desk, found at Klassiks by Lynne. Lynne is Danish, has a warehouse in Emeryville, and brings over several massive shipments from Denmark each year.

http://www.klassikbylynne.com/

Like: We have a pity subscription to The San Francisco Chronicle. Which means we rarely read it but feel the need to support a local newspaper. We're old school like that. But the Chronicle's TV critic, Tim Goodman, is really good. His blog, The Bastard Machine, has a good weekly analysis of each Mad Men episode. He will also be interviewing Matthew Weiner at the JCC in October.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=24

Discovery: Jonathan Lethem was interviewed in Esquire or GQ a couple of years ago about books that he'd recommend. And from that we found out about James Salter's "Light Years," a book published in the early 1970s that tracks a marriage in the post-war decades. It's a wonderful book that should be more widely known and read.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780679740735-5

Obsession: We are haunted by the one that got away: Josef Muller-Brockmann's Swiss Auto Club safety poster with the motorcycle wheel. We saw it at the Art Deco show many years ago and it sold in the few minutes we were thinking about it while looking at the adjacent booth. We do have the Muller-Brockmann poster one with the car and the bicycle, but hope to one day find its sibling again.

Complaint: I hate to say this because the actor who plays the character is the son of family friends, but the part of Dr. Greg Harris, Joan's husband, was miscast. Greg is supposed to be heading to 'Nam though, right? So, perhaps, problem solved.