Annoying Gap commercials invade more than just your living room.

The newest slew of Gap commercials [link] are a sure sign that flannel is alive and no longer a hipster-only fashion. But unlike the TV spots that you can avoid, Gap is giving you no choice but to stare at their smiling faces while you wait an eternity for the bus. These maniacal characters will surely not allow you to fall asleep like beer.

While on the subject of commercials, this one for Sony's Play Station 3 is one of my favs. With a stick. Stick.

Noted - beer makes old men drowsy.

This week's weather is lined up to be a doozey- hot, humid, and very August-like. This month looks ready to make up lost ground after a cooler than usual July.

Any straphanger will tell you that standing on a subway platform in this kind of heat is borderline insane. Sure, the six train is ice cold when it pulls up - it should be for $2.25 a ride. So instead of waiting in the underground sweat box for an indeterminable amount of time, I decided to take the bus home. Same great A/C available, but the weather above ground was marginally better. And by marginally, I mean I'm still sweating.

This older gent' must have been waiting at the stop for some time, because he was passed out cold on the bench. He was thankful I woke him when the bus promptly finally arrived.

Three weeks until things get Mad.

Unless you've been walking around with blinders on, it's been hard to miss the advertising blitz currently under way for Mad Men's season three premiere (exactly three weeks from today). The AMC home run of a show is spectacular, depicting American materialism and the advertising tyranny of Madison Avenue in the early 1960's through the life of New York's best (fictional) ad man, Don Draper. I'll let AMC explain the rest:

The Premise: The series revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the biggest ad man (and ladies man) in the business, and his colleagues at the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. As Don makes the plays in the boardroom and the bedroom, he struggles to stay a step ahead of the rapidly changing times and the young executives nipping at his heels. The series also depicts authentically the roles of men and women in this era while exploring the true human nature beneath the guise of 1960s traditional family values.
Smart, witty, sexy, and realistic (or as real as I can remember the 60's being),
the show is fantastic. Smart story lines pull from one episode to the next unlike many shows that struggle to progress. I highly recommend it if your Sunday night TV lineup has a vacant opening. If you want to preview the show before the new season, know that I recently snagged the first two seasons off of Amazon for laughably cheap prices. How I'll follow the show come 8/16 is still Tee Bee Dee since AMC is nonexistent in my nonexistent cable world.

Go here for everything else you need to know about the show.