This edition of Sunday Blessings is dedicated to Jon Hamm, star of the genius television series Mad Men. Everyone should be watching this show on Sunday nights on AMC at 10 o'clock. Do it? Anyway, I actually first took notice of Jon Hamm a few years prior to Mad Men, when he had a small guest role on Gilmore Girls ( I can even remember his character's name - Peyton Sanders), but it's his role as Don Draper on the fab AMC series that makes him worthy of a posting. He exudes sex appeal as the mysterious adman, whose background still remains mostly hidden from us, the viewers. The character of Don is a representation of the series time period, the early 60s, having an un-PC view of women, other races and religions, and even youth, but Hamm and the writers inbue him with a humanity that makes us still care for him, but it's also what makes him sexy. It's refreshing to find any male character with an adult masculinity, since pop culture in currently inundated with male protagonists who are all boy-like shlubs who never reach adulthood (we can all thank Judd Apatow for that current craze). Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Riley - I'm going to pass on all of them. Give me someone who acts like a man and wears a suit (and boy can Jon Hamm fill out a suit nicely!) So, let's all give thank to Jesus for gifting us with Jon Hamm. Praise Jesus!
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