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If you are part of the majority, you’ve fallen in love with AMC’s Mad Men.  Mad Men is a show about an advertising agency in Manhattan on Madison Avenue, thus the moniker Mad (Madison Avenue) Men.  The crazy vintage style makes you swoon!  It was a time where women were extremely sheltered, yet they smoked cigarettes and drank scotch from rocks glasses all day long….while pregnant.   Boozing and smoking are also commonplace in the work environment.  The blatant sexual harassment and gross neglect to identify women as equals to men is surreal.  It’s ironic to look at that era of time.  It was a time when politically correct or dysfunctional never crossed their minds.  The retro decor and fashions are delicious, with the main character, Don Draper, always in an impeccable suit.  Joan Holloway is the resident sex-kitten with pin-up girl looks and curves.  This is definitely one to Tivo!

 

  

   Loving Sam The Cooking Guy!  I found him by chance on FitTVs line up while I was TIVOing workouts.  He’s also on Discovery Health.  He’s claims to be a regular guy who whips up healthy and quick meals.   One of those….if I can do it, anyone can do it-type of things.  Heavy on the charm, easy on the eyes, and good for the belly (and thighs…remember, he’s all about healthy cooking.)  The recipes are healthy meets deliciousness!   Check out Sam’s website for channel line up.   You’ll love him immediately.  He’s so fun! 

Update:  Okay, now I really, really love Sam…and he knows why!   Sam rocks!  xoxo

                                 

If you know me, you know I love the Real Housewives of the OC on Bravo TV.   But if you thought the New York Housewives were hard to stomach, you haven’t seen anything yet, sister.  Have you seen the Real Housewives of Atlanta? 

Mid season through the New York Housewives, I stopped my Tivo recording.  To me, they just brought nothing to the table.  Absolutely delusional, they were.  The casting was dreadful.  I wanted to see interesting, cool New York Housewives.  Instead, we got people who constantly tried to out-Jones the other, and none were inherently unique/trendy/cool/fun/original, etc. 

The Atlanta Housewives are a complete train wreck.  By the end of the season opener, they were ready to fist fight.  That’s right, grown women ready to fist fight.  Classy!   There are absolutely no words to describe Bravo’s newest addition to the Housewives series other than train wreck.  See for yourself, follow this link. 

http://video.bravotv.com/player/?id=722219

Don’t you feel like you need a sedative after that?  Sheesh!  Drama.  This reality show is about the furthest thing away from reality in actuality; it would be great to see real wives, and in this economic time, they are working wives, not housewives, for the most part.  It would be great to see real reality TV. The Atlanta wives are on Bravo tonight at 9:00.   I’ll Tivo this just in the spirit of the Housewives series.  I mean, I really wanted to like NYC and Atlanta, but let me tell you, they make it hard to do so. In summary, the Real Housewives series ranks in this order:  OC:  Excessive.  NYC:  Pretentious.  Atlanta:  Trashy.   We’ll see if the Atlanta ladies can  redeem themselves with tonight’s episode.    * Update:  I watched the show.  The prognosis:  Trashy!  Drama!  Fighting!  Delusional!  It was taken off the Tivo line up.  I’ll stick with the OC  ladies in November. 

*Update, update:  It stayed on the Tivo lineup, and yes, I’m watching every minute of it.  It’s sort of like Dlisted or Perez Hilton.  You really don’t want to go “there”, but you can’t help yourself.   We love NeNe’s husband, Gregg, around here.  He is one smooth cat!  And I’m sure I’ll watch every future episode.  Who was I kidding?  I can’t stay away from this.