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Hi.

Been busy. Moved. Back at work.

I am keeping pretty regular with Twitter (as you can see from the last many posts). That's the best place to find me these days. I'm ceasing the Twitter updates here, now that you have the gist of what it is.

I am still hoping to post here from time to time, but there will be many fewer family-type posts. Had a weird run-in. Not worth it.

Hope all is well with you guys. Season Three is shaping up to be lovely. Hope you guys like it. P.S. I think you will.

06:43 No! Bob can't read

• 06:43 No! Bob can't read The 3 Bears, cuz Goldilocks is gone on vacation! You guys do watch Sesame Street, right? I'm not talking to myself here. #
• 07:43 SHUT UP ABOUT LAST NIGHT'S BREAKING BAD. I haven't seen it yet. #
• 11:41 Back to Backgammon with Michael. We are already furious with each other. Nothing has changed during the offseason. He's still an idiot. #
• 13:20 Hell, yeah! Watch this show! RT @azizansari: Parks and Recreation officially picked up for Season 2. Let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! #
• 13:21 Watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" in my trailer. Please tell me you're watching it so we can talk about how awesome it is. #
• 15:41 I'm partway through season 3 of "It's Always Sunny." So awesome. MM inanity: There is someone in the office wearing glasses. Besides me. #
• 19:47 Almost at the end of day one. Bryan Batt looks goooood. Tomorrow night, I'm going to Comedy Death Ray. Yay funny! #
• 22:46 I asked The Lovely Virginia to turn up "The Hills." I must be really tired. Please tell me it's because I'm tired. Hoo, boy. #

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12:14 Thanks for the grammar

• 12:14 Thanks for the grammar advice, Twitterville! P.S. That's not sarcastic! But exclamation points make it seem so! #
• 13:58 Ian Roberts on Reno 911 = awesome. Also, a show I saw for the first time last night: Free Radio on VH1. @thebrianhuskey also = awesome. #
• 17:25 Another sweet day of sitting here while the plumber does his thing. F'ing unbelievable. Today is stupid. Now must eat. #
• 19:00 Tomorrow is Day 1 of Mad Men. For those who have asked, I will never, ever tell you anything you care about. I can only give you inanities. #
• 19:05 AMC is reairing MM Season 2 right now, and tonight's one of my favorite episodes, Six Month Leave. Joel Murray is so, so good in it. 12am EP #
• 19:29 You consider Harry wearing bow ties to be an inanity? How dare you. @socosoco well in that case will you still be rocking the bow ties? #

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08:12 Recording commentary today for

• 08:12 Recording commentary today for the Mad Men Season 2 DVD. I promise 1) very little insight, 2) long silences, and 3) inside jokes. Enjoy! #
• 18:04 Still unpacking. Still finding stuff we will never use again. Still wondering why we paid the movers to move things we will never use again. #
• 18:06 Oh, boy... You should. It's really, really good. So good. @WillHines doesn't know what Breaking Bad is. #
• 21:30 I have no problem with "Not Another Teen Movie". Also, is the period inside the quotation marks if it's a title? Not sure. #
• 23:07 Started setting up my podcast area today. World's tiniest studio. None of my guests can be claustrophobic. Might call it "On Rich's Lap." #

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08:30 Is it bad if

• 08:30 Is it bad if you take a shower upstairs, and the water drains into the kitchen sink downstairs? #moneypit #
• 09:17 At my old digs, waiting for the guy who moves our fridge. Empty, you can really see how much we destroyed the place. Babies, right? Babies. #
• 14:04 Walking with The Kid to the park. She is delighted. #
• 15:10 Could someone please come over and unpack all this shit for me? Moving is stupid. P.S. Follow @eugcordero @andrewzilch @ucbtla #followfriday #
• 18:09 At the @funnyordie party. I know few people. I am scared and alone. #
• 20:18 Finally settling in. Chatted with @jackmcbrayer, who always puts me at ease. These things are like high school: I am consistently terrified. #
• 23:40 Party was fun. @charredcat, @scottaukerman and @rejectedjokes make me happy. There are good, funny people in this town. Now to sleepyville. #

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10:15 Just had bfast with

• 10:15 Just had bfast with the Case Western Reserve University dean of arts/sci (my alma mater). Good times. I will never give up eggs benedict. #
• 14:42 No internet at new digs yet + I use the internet a lot = I wish we had internet here NOW #
• 19:50 At the Mad Men kickoff party. Everyone is very excited. This will be fun. #

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05:32 Can't sleep. Hafta get

• 05:32 Can't sleep. Hafta get up for hair/makeup test soon. And it's moving day. We picked the best time to move. Really good timing. Just kidding. #
• 09:29 I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVEN'T MENTIONED THIS. Watch my shoutout in the 1st 3 mins. of the 2nd half of the latest #KPCS! Thanks, @kevinpollak! #
• 09:53 Hoo boy. Movers are here. Here we go. I will now be freaking out for the next... 36 hours or so. PS Did film test for MM today. WE'RE BACK! #
• 10:57 I read the script for the 1st ep. of Season 3. You will not be disappointed. I left a rambling msg. on my boss's VM about how good it is. #
• 11:09 @chorl Mad Men will be back on sometime late summer. I hear AMC will be making an announcement soon. Glad you guys are as excited as we are! #
• 12:38 Confirmed that @jonhamm is a fakey mcfakenstein. I was duped! That again: @jonhamm is NOT Jon Hamm. I thought his last tweet seemed fishy. #
• 12:53 @erockappel directed a great @funnyordie video with Adam West (and cameo by Charlie Sanders). I love it. Check it: tinyurl.com/c4krdf #
• 13:03 Yep. RT @_iheartzombies: that kinda bums me out. at least you're real.....riiiiight? #
• 15:08 @charlietodd wrote a book about Improv Everywhere (frozen grand central, no pants subway rides)! Go preorder it! tinyurl.com/cvzuzq #
• 17:34 Phase Two of the move. We're unloading at the new place. Then begins Phase Three: Living Out Of Boxes. #
• 19:50 Movers are done. We are sitting on our couches amidst boxes and boxes. Sighs of relief. And glasses of wine. #
• 22:55 Long day's journey. Soooo sleepy. #

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07:42 Did I really hit

• 07:42 Did I really hit 400 followers the day after I did my history of Uno? May have to do it all over again. That's too many uneducated people. #
• 08:30 The Kid has learned the "e-i-e-i-o" part. Without any coaching. Child development freaks. me. out. #
• 15:34 Why are rugs so expensive? #
• 17:40 @jgarlin Now we need to get the whole Curb cast on Mad Men. You need to work Matt W. a little harder. #
• 17:43 The one day I don't go to Habit. RT @NeverNotFunny: Big meeting ft. Jimmy, Matt and Pat today @ Habit. New ideas are afoot in NNF-land... #
• 18:08 Moving, even out of a shitty apartment, can be a little emotional. #
• 18:40 No, no. That'd be awesome, yes. But I work in what's called "basic cable." RT @dandunford Did you guys get a house? If so, that's awesome. #
• 19:51 I have funny friends. @charredcat is one of them. tinyurl.com/56omoa #
• 21:11 Just got into a discussion with The Lovely Virginia about whether baggies used for board game pieces should be packed with kitchen baggies. #
• 22:38 Got the ol' Mad Men haircut today. Much less Hitlerian than last year. This does not make me sad. #
• 23:03 oh my god adam lambert needs to go away forever PLEASE #

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01:57 Home. Sleepy. Long day

• 01:57 Home. Sleepy. Long day of Uno facts tomorrow. Must get some sleep. #
• 08:48 Here we go, folks. It's 1971. Merle Robbins, wife Marie, and son Ray, loved playing cards. They decided to design a game of their own. #Uno #
• 09:15 Merle was a barber in Cincinnatti, so spending a lot on production was not easy, but they got together $8K to make the first 5K decks. #Uno #
• 09:19 I am already being accused of not knowing this off the top of my head. Ask anyone who knows me in real life. I know #Uno. Defense ended. #
• 10:20 The original print run was on sub-par cardstock, and the back of the cards had a green tint. I've seen photos. They weren't pretty. #Uno #
• 10:31 Via friends and local businesses, the decks sold throughout Cincinnati. One guy in particular, Robert Tezak, took a shine to the game. #Uno #
• 10:52 Tezak was a funeral parlor owner in Joliet, IL. He offered to buy the game from Merle. IIRC, the sale was $20K + 10 cents/deck sold. #Uno #
• 10:54 Might have been $10K. Memory's a little fuzzy on the number. But what matters is the 10 cents per deck sold. That = a shit ton of cash. #Uno #
• 11:21 So Tezak took the game back to IL and founded International Games. #Uno #
• 11:54 Chances are, if you own any Uno product from before '91, it bears the IG logo. #Uno #
• 12:11 So here's my favorite part. Uno blows up. Boatloads of cash. So Tezak's next logical step, a few years into the 80's? #Uno #
• 12:32 Why, (allegedly) smuggle drugs to China in between decks, of course! #Uno #
• 13:17 So, once the word starts to get out about the drugs, several things happen. The timeline is tough to suss out, but here goes. #Uno #
• 13:18 And this is all ca. '92, I think. #
• 13:22 Tezak sells International Games to Mattel for a buhjillion dollars. #
• 13:28 Tezak completely drops off the map. #Uno #
• 13:31 "Somehow," the building housing the incriminating evidence burns to the ground. #Uno #
• 13:34 Tezak is found and charged with arson. He served, I think, 11 years. He was released in '03 or '04. #Uno #
• 13:36 He has some crazy conspiracy theory, and still maintains his innocence. #Uno #
• 13:58 Unfortunately, it's a fairly bland story once Tezak is behind bars. #Uno #
• 14:38 Mattel went on coming up with shitty variations on the theme and making lots and lots of money. #Uno #
• 14:39 They brought in Sababa Toys, who have created a ton of licensed decks with special cards (Simpsons, MLB teams, Nat'l Parks (yep), etc.) #Uno #
• 14:41 And the Robbins' (RIP, Merle) keep on raking in the dough, I do believe, at about 10 cents per item sold. #Uno #
• 14:42 (Should that have been Robbinses?) #Uno #
• 14:51 So, that's everything I know about Uno. I'm sure I made some date or money errors, but you get the gist. Hope you were enraptured. Bye. #Uno #
• 16:47 @andrewzilch There will be photos. Eventually. #
• 16:58 Oh my god! Black Sheep is a terrible movie! #
• 19:42 Just met Shelly Berman. He's a Mad Men fan. RIDICULOUS. #
• 20:52 twitpic.com/453ui - Mad Men panel at ATAS for the Emmy folk. #
• 21:21 Just heard we're getting scripts for 3.1 tomorrow. I am, ahem, quite excited. #
• 21:56 I am asleep on my feet and I have to socialize. This is the part of my job that I'm really, really bad at. #
• 23:53 Man, I really let you guys have it with Uno facts today. Thanks for not coming to my home and ripping the phone from my hands. #

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I've been working, okay?

Sorry for no blogs, ever. I've been working. I'm shooting a mini-series with James Van Der Beek and Treat Williams. It's long days and we're cranking along. It's going to be the next Mad Men. Just kidding. But it's still fun to do, and those guys are making the long days easier.

Also, I've barely seen my kid awake in the last week. So I hope that makes you feel better about me not blogging.

(I like imagining that you are enraged at my lack of blogging, you six readers. Makes me feel powerful and important.)

I am ashamed to admit that I have signed on for Twitter. It's a much quicker outlet, and it's a jillion times easier to post to than Vox when I'm away from the computer. @richsommer, if you're looking to hear from me a little more often during the busy times.

Anyway, hope all is well. Please enjoy Jon Hamm on Jimmy Pardo's podcast as a parting gift. It's awesome. Go to the 4/6/09 post at pardcast.com.