Remember this post that I did in September, 2008 called A Man's World? In which I confessed to my "fanatical obsession with Don Draper and his confidence and smoldering good looks" and also included a picture because I think he's just so damn hot?

That was over a year ago. And today, the rest of the world seems to agree.

"According to over 500,000 voters on AskMen.com, "Mad Men" character Don Draper - played by Jon Hamm - is the Most Influential Man of 2009." The article is here. (And there's another article here)

Not Hamm the actor, but Don Draper the character.

He smokes, he drinks, he drives his car WHILE drinking (anyone see the episode where he throws the empty glass out the car window?), he has a temper, he cheats on his wife and yet, he's considered to be the Most Influential Man of 2009. I don't blame men for wanting to BE him, I would want to be him if I wasn't in love with him.

Don Draper is ALL OVER my Friends Five list. Not Jon Hamm (I saw him on 30 rock and Saturday Night Live and oh so not the same person) but Don Draper. With the hat and the suspenders and the drinking and the smoking. In fact, right now, he can have spots 1 to 5. But you'd need to put me in a 60's style dress and heels with red lipstick and transport me to the Mad Men era for this to really work.



(As an aside: I've been conscious of the fact that I haven't blogged in what feels like a super long time, mostly because everything the past couple of weeks has been related to being pregnant. But at some point, I'll do a post on here about some of the stuff that I'm struggling with in the past week or so - and while it's pregnancy related, it's kind of not, because it's not about the baby, but more about me. It's a post that's coming but for now? The Don Draper buzz that's all over the net today? It's sufficiently and enjoyably distracting.)