Monthly Archives: September 2009

Here in LA, it’s 100 degrees and the heats not letting up anytime soon. And that can mean only one thing: the Fall TV season is just around the corner. With summer winding to its explosive close, what shows am I most jazzed to see come back on the air?

Gaiam, the company that brings us such wonders as Yoga master Rodney Yee and his ridiculous bod via DVD, has now given us the Balance Ball Chair, designed to help you sit with better posture and strengthen your core.

It’s been far too long since Whitney Houston has been the glamorous star she once was. I blame Bobby Brown. Now, the ultimate diva is back with a new album out now…which hopefully means she’ll be back to her glamorous self! Here’s a look back at some of Whitney’s hottest and most memorable style moments from throughout her career.

As with any good deconstruction, as a whole, it added up to another delicious episode.

As a non-medical professional, I usually get to enjoy the show in pleasantly ignorant bliss. But I think my bubble may have just been burst.

Model-of-the-moment Lara Stone has her fans in a huff. Apparently, she thinks shes fat. And she’s tired of it. So, she’s on a mission to slim down and fit in with her bony counterparts in the modeling industry. But, why? Why, Lara? Why?

The funniest new comedy this year is definitely ABC’s “Modern Family,” which premiered last night on ABC. It follows three different families: Phil and Claire are the “traditional” mom and dad, with two daughters and a son; Cameron and Mitchell are a gay couple that has just adopted a baby girl from Vietnam; and hot Colombian mom Gloria has married the much-older Jay.

Oh, this is way better than a Baby Sitters Club movie!

Millburn High, the top-ranked school in New Jersey, is under fire for its senior girls’ annual hazing rituals. The juiciest of them is the “Slut List,” which ranks and crassly describes a dozen or more of the incoming freshman girls. This year, “hundreds” of copies were passed out to the student body.

It could be a huge victory in the fight against HIV and AIDS: The New York Times reports that an AIDS vaccine tested on more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection. It’s the first time that any vaccine against the disease has even partly succeeded in a clinical trial.

Today we all learn a new word: superfetation. It’s a rare condition in which a woman who is pregnant gets pregnant AGAIN. Not twins, but a completely different fetus conceived at a different time. Julia Grovenburg of Arkansas is experiencing one of only about ten reported cases of this condition; next to Julia’s and her husband Todd’s growing baby girl, doctors discovered a smaller, male fetus that was conceived about two and a half weeks later.

Man, it’s like baby season! Yesterday we heard about Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr, and now there’s a little Jude Law on the planet too. Actress-model Samantha Burke gave birth to a baby girl named Sophia on Tuesday night, just two months after Jude Law confirmed that he is indeed the kid’s father.

Another mind-clearing day at the data farm. Ahhh. Some people hate their jobs, but I find my job the only aspect of my life I have any control over. It’s stifling. The walls are beige, the carpet is gray, but the responsibilities are easily dealt with. There’s something nice about finding a semi-dead-end job that doesn’t make you tear your hair out at night. you don’t leave frazzled, you don’t taket he work home with you. In some strange ways, work is a paradise for me.

I finally had a chance to watch “The September Issue,” and for all of you latecomers who haven’t had a chance to see the film, I highly recommend it! P.S. It’s not a real-life version of “Devil Wears Prada,” though I was hoping we’d get to meet the new “Emily.”

It took me a long time to accept that there was a difference between eye cream and regular facial moisturizers. Even longer to accept that you do indeed need to use both for younger looking skin. For a long time I felt that your daily moisturizer was fine for around the eyes and that skin care lines were just using eye creams as a way to get you to buy an extra product. Alas, I was wrong and I have since come to learn through trial, error, education and my own first signs of aging that there is a difference between an eye cream and a moisturizer and I am now a very big advocate for eye creams.