Commuter paper Metafilter shoutout September 28, 2007 6:15 AM Subscribe
Metafilter's work on this "Mad Men" AskMe has not gone unnoticed. Across Canada, commuters are asking "what's a metafilter?"
Meanwhile, across Metafilter, members ask "who cares?".
"Metro" is a free daily newspaper that is available on public transit in Toronto and other big cities and gives millions of commuters a way to ignore their fellow travellers each morning.
Meanwhile, across Metafilter, members ask "who cares?".
"Metro" is a free daily newspaper that is available on public transit in Toronto and other big cities and gives millions of commuters a way to ignore their fellow travellers each morning.
Yeah, my friend was in Amsterdam recently and he was laughing about how their edition looks exactly the same except for the language!
posted by sevenyearlurk at 6:36 AM on September 28, 2007
posted by sevenyearlurk at 6:36 AM on September 28, 2007
"what's a metafilter?"
$20, same as in town.*
* Offer now good in Canada AND the US.
posted by piratebowling at 7:15 AM on September 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
$20, same as in town.*
* Offer now good in Canada AND the US.
posted by piratebowling at 7:15 AM on September 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
This is not the first article I've seen stating that Mad Men is "AMC's first shot at original dramatic programming," or something similar.
I don't believe that's correct.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:21 AM on September 28, 2007
I don't believe that's correct.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:21 AM on September 28, 2007
I just realized (via the wikipedia entry about metro international) that I have happened to live in the places where the Metro is published (Boston, Philly, NY)....so when I move to Seattle next year, I will no longer have a Metro...so sad.
posted by nursegracer at 7:23 AM on September 28, 2007
posted by nursegracer at 7:23 AM on September 28, 2007
In Manchester UK, the Metro is exactly the same as London's except that there's a shoddy two-page "regional" insert which, my London friends gleefully point out, is another reason why Manchester sucks.
Sadly none of them realise that both papers are simply yesterday's Daily Express, marginally re-written by mouth-breathing journalism graduates.
posted by Jofus at 7:43 AM on September 28, 2007
Sadly none of them realise that both papers are simply yesterday's Daily Express, marginally re-written by mouth-breathing journalism graduates.
posted by Jofus at 7:43 AM on September 28, 2007
I believe they are in fact asking, "What's this MetaFilter all aboot?"
posted by brain_drain at 7:43 AM on September 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by brain_drain at 7:43 AM on September 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
Mad Men started out really promising but lost me around the long-lost brother episode (ooh, a big past-life mystery!), and by not following up very well on the potentially rich storyline about the main wife's unhappiness. Also, not enough about advertising and the larger society as they introduced subplots that had no weight at all to them (wife meets old bf to get new hubby's story placed in a magazine? wtf? that's interesting?).
If someone tells me it's picked up since the 6th episode, I'll try to catch up, but mostly the pleasure of watching 1960 recreated wore off and nothing much stepped up to fill the gap.
posted by mediareport at 7:47 AM on September 28, 2007
If someone tells me it's picked up since the 6th episode, I'll try to catch up, but mostly the pleasure of watching 1960 recreated wore off and nothing much stepped up to fill the gap.
posted by mediareport at 7:47 AM on September 28, 2007
what I like about Metro is that everyone thinks their city/country/area's edition is somehow the "original"
Except that if you live in Stockholm, your edition is the original. :)
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:50 AM on September 28, 2007
Except that if you live in Stockholm, your edition is the original. :)
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:50 AM on September 28, 2007
What's a Canada?
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:01 AM on September 28, 2007
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:01 AM on September 28, 2007
20 loonies, same as in town.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:13 AM on September 28, 2007 [5 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:13 AM on September 28, 2007 [5 favorites]
Canada thinks they're so great with their transit and socialized medicine and rising currency. Well, we get the season premiere of Degrassi first!
Oh crap, was I talking out loud?
posted by ALongDecember at 8:43 AM on September 28, 2007
Oh crap, was I talking out loud?
posted by ALongDecember at 8:43 AM on September 28, 2007
I enjoy Mad Men, because they tend to drop sub-plots without having to tie everything up nicely. It is a trick from the Sopranos playbook, and makes everything seem more releastic than a complete resolution.
They do have a great canvas with the era being the overarching plot. They better exploit the fact they can portray early 60s NYC high society or I go back to Gossip Girl.
posted by geoff. at 9:02 AM on September 28, 2007
They do have a great canvas with the era being the overarching plot. They better exploit the fact they can portray early 60s NYC high society or I go back to Gossip Girl.
posted by geoff. at 9:02 AM on September 28, 2007
"what's a metafilter?"
"Free. Same as in the men's room at the Minneapolis airport." Err ... wait.
posted by ericb at 9:21 AM on September 28, 2007
"Free. Same as in the men's room at the Minneapolis airport." Err ... wait.
posted by ericb at 9:21 AM on September 28, 2007
I don't believe that's correct.
Well, that was created by the Pina Coloda Song guy, so maybe it doesn't really count.
wife meets old bf to get new hubby's story placed in a magazine? wtf? that's interesting?
I thought it was more like husband tries to whore wife out to her old boyfriend to get husband's story published, so, yeah, it was interesting (and disturbing, which was the point).
But then I thought the lost-borther episode was kind of a letdown after the very suspenseful hints in earlier episodes. I thought it was going to be something much more sinister.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:42 AM on September 28, 2007
what I like about Metro is that everyone thinks their city/country/area's edition is somehow the "original"
Except that if you live in Stockholm, your edition is the original. :)
Actually, if you live in San Jose, your edition is the original Metro weekly. (Metro Newspapers not actually affiliated with Metro International, which started ten years later.)
Fun Fact: The San Jose Metro was one of the first newspapers in the country to publish Life In Hell.
posted by oneirodynia at 10:23 AM on September 28, 2007
Except that if you live in Stockholm, your edition is the original. :)
Actually, if you live in San Jose, your edition is the original Metro weekly. (Metro Newspapers not actually affiliated with Metro International, which started ten years later.)
Fun Fact: The San Jose Metro was one of the first newspapers in the country to publish Life In Hell.
posted by oneirodynia at 10:23 AM on September 28, 2007
oneirodynia: Well, I hope that the San Jose Metro got a nice fat cheque from Metro International. They probably didn't, if you consider the business practice employed by Metro International. But here's hoping!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 10:51 AM on September 28, 2007
posted by soundofsuburbia at 10:51 AM on September 28, 2007
"Metro International is a Swedish media company based in Luxembourg"^
What? A swedish company based in Lux? Huh?
yeah, that's right, I used a caret, I live on the edge.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:58 AM on September 28, 2007
What? A swedish company based in Lux? Huh?
yeah, that's right, I used a caret, I live on the edge.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:58 AM on September 28, 2007
Tax reasons, I bet.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2007
posted by soundofsuburbia at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2007
What's a Toronto?
LOL! Peg city rules, suckahs!
*Goes outside, gets shot and stabbed a couple of times by a group of 12 year olds, dies in a pile of empty slurpee cups, body gets rifled by a panhandler and some cops*
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:34 PM on September 28, 2007
LOL! Peg city rules, suckahs!
*Goes outside, gets shot and stabbed a couple of times by a group of 12 year olds, dies in a pile of empty slurpee cups, body gets rifled by a panhandler and some cops*
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:34 PM on September 28, 2007
Kingston doesn't have Metro, which pisses me off. Main thing I miss about Ottawa. Er, main thing after parents. Um. Yeees...
posted by Phire at 3:47 PM on September 28, 2007
posted by Phire at 3:47 PM on September 28, 2007
I just realized (via the wikipedia entry about metro international) that I have happened to live in the places where the Metro is published (Boston, Philly, NY)....so when I move to Seattle next year, I will no longer have a Metro...so sad.
That's because you will no longer have viable mass transit and will be driving.
posted by blacklite at 4:27 AM on September 29, 2007
That's because you will no longer have viable mass transit and will be driving.
posted by blacklite at 4:27 AM on September 29, 2007
Thanks for the thread. Just downloaded the show. Hadn't heard of it before. Very sharp writing.
posted by dobbs at 6:39 AM on September 29, 2007
posted by dobbs at 6:39 AM on September 29, 2007
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