From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Hot Topic: Multiples

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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This week, a woman gave birth to octuplets, eight healthy preemies, the eighth was a surprise. And the media said, “Ah, what a sweet story! We wish them well.” And then the media uncovered that the woman already has six kids and she may be a young, single mother still living with her parents. And [...]

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Happy New Year, Again!

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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First order of business, Last night’s SAG Awards fashion report. Most everyone looked fantastic, which is really quite something. Tina Fey was probably worst dressed in a short, bland, cocktail waitress-y get-up, and that’s rare (and I hope she doesn’t read this and tell me to “Suck it!”) but she did win Best Actress in [...]

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Oscar Noms

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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Yes, it’s that time again. Academy Award nominations came out this morning and the media is abuzz with surprise nominations or slights. Slights? Kate Winslet was nominated in the Best Actress category for The Reader, but not for Revolutionary Road. She won a Supporting Actress Golden Globe for The Reader, but the scoop is that [...]

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Gorgeous

by Julia London

Historical significance aside, we whiners all know what we waited for all day:  the ballgown.  I thought she was gorgeous.  I thought they were just the cutest couple.  I tried to imagine me and Hubot up there.  Having spent the entire day together, and probably exhausted, I am sure we’d be irritated with each other [...]

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Today is the Big Day

by Julia London

Love him, hate him, today is the day we set off in a new direction as a nation.  Some people have already set off.  They estimate 2 million people will be on the mall today for the inaguartion.  Last night, on one of the endless news channels, they showed what that meant—people would have about [...]

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Glass Half Full

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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It seems the world is cooperating. A plane loses both engines, and thanks to the pilot’s sound judgment and superior skills, lands safely in the Hudson River with no major injuries or loss of life. Sure, it was inconvenient for the passengers to have to exit into the frigid Hudson and they may have lost [...]

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If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

by Kathleen Givens
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La, la, la!  I can’t hear the bad economic news.  La, la, la, I don’t know that the stock market is in free fall once again.  La, la, la, I can’t hear that most of the country is fighting dangerously cold temperatures.  La, la, la, I can’t hear that we’re soon going to be rationing [...]

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More Globes, Why Not?

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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Eva Mendes could have been one of the best dressed, if only she’d left the short skirt she planned to change into for the after-parties behind waiting in the limo instead of attaching it to her belt. Just because the designer hung it that way in the showroom to highlight all the options doesn’t mean [...]

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More Golden Globes

by Kathleen Givens
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Here’s Christina Applegate for you, Sherri.  I thought she looked great, very elegant and movie star.  And Laura Linney, who I thought also looked wonderful.  And ditto Glenn Close, athough she got some jabs made at her.  Last is Rumor Willis (why would you name your girl Rumor?), whose mother embarrassed her in front of [...]

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Golden Globe Fashion Report

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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Subtitle: What are they smoking over at Entertainment Weekly? My best dressed of the evening? The runners-up: Kate Winslet had an incredible night. She positively glowed, even in black, and she won Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress. TV actress Melissa George chose something odd, a little different, but the color was nice on her [...]

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Goodbye Old Friend

by Julia London

I had to say goodbye to my dog Hugo yesterday.  He would have been 14 on Thursday, but his mind had started to go and he was barking at ghosts, and this week, his hind legs gave out and wouldn’t hold him.  We spent two days dragging/carrying him outside and holding him up to do [...]

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Here’s another creep who deserved the WS Person of the Year Award

by Kathleen Givens
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Good old Bernard Madoff, suffering house arrest as he is in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment, still found time to send a $1 million in jewelry to friends and family.  Gee, I’ll bet the thousand of people he bilked out of their life savings and retirement are thinking about him today.  I say throw [...]

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The Optimist Sisters

by Sherri Browning Erwin
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We’ve turned over a new leaf in 2009. Don’t worry– we’ll still have plenty to whine about, and we’re still the Whine Sisters. But we’ve decided to embrace a new positive outlook. Join us, won’t you? It’s easy. Look at the above pic. Do you see a glass half full? Hooray, you’re with us. I’m [...]

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And the winner is . . .

by Kathleen Givens
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Yes, it’s true.  By popular acclaim, we have designated the governor of Illinois as the Whine Sisters Person of the Year for 2008.  The running was tough this year, but Rod Blagojevich took the prize.  He embodies all of the characteristics of a classic Whine Sisters Person of the Year, arrogance, publicity-seeking, is of questionable [...]

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The Whine Sisters Person of the Year is Awarded to . . .

by Kathleen Givens
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No, wait, not yet.  We are still tallying the votes (and we’re not even in Minnesota!) and cannot yet reveal the Person of the Year.  But we can tell you one of our runners up was . . .  No, wait again.  let’s see if you can figure it out.  He jumps on couches.  Rips [...]

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A Woman of Her Word

by Kathleen Givens
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KC is a class act.  The celebrations out here in California are still going on – and probably people are still trying to get off the golf course that serves as a parking lot for the Rose Bowl – and she has already sent me this picture.  We agreed that the hat was superfluous.  I [...]

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