Have you seen it?:

But it looks like he could have been, doesn’t it?  It is Baltimore after all:

No, but this is real.  And so retro cool that it hurts:

OK, so I am slightly Mad Men obsessed.  Derby Day and the episode when the British guy loses his leg are my favorite episodes of all time.  And anything Roger Sterling utters is utterly brilliant.

Baltimore, spiritual home of my weird, plays a small role in the show.  Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, is from Balmer and Sal, Mad Men’s big beating heart, is from there.  On the first episode of the third season, Sal and Don stay at the following hotel, so I made these look slightly retro, surprise, surprise:

The story:

Baltimore, which I consider the spiritual source of my weirdness, is where I first saw these decorations.  They delighted and horrified me at the same time and this is a combination I am strangely comfortable with.  I think it is the overabundance that I find horrifying and wonderful at the same time:

George got a big head when he became president:

Big George kinda looks like an Easter Island statue here, doesn’t he?  Well, although big George would be memorialized in an incredibly weird way later, he was still one with the people:

This is just life:

Sometimes it fits together, sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it goes sideways.