Woman of a certain age

My mom loves the show Men of a Certain Age. I say love because she says love like she says love for all the 50-something shows taking up 110 hours on her DVR at this moment. Hence, it is really of no consequence that my mother "loves" this show and that is not what this post is about. It's not about me loving it either. I think it's OK.

This post is about the gorgeous woman to the left. Actually, it is more about the character she plays. Melissa, portrayed by Lisa Gay Hamilton (awesome that there is another actress besides Marcia Gay Harden with the middle name of Gay), is a stay-at-home mom of two and wife to a car salesman. Aside from her cuteness and her familiar face (I figured it out, she used to be on The Practice, which I MISS), I never really paid too much attention to the character, which is actually what was intended from what I've read of Hamilton's interviews. However, the last episode I saw brought her careening to the forefront, for me personally at least.

After ten years as a stay-at-home mom, Melissa is re-entering the workforce, a concept itself which deserves to be examined more in mainstream television. It's also a concept I often think of as a newlywed who is looking down the barrel of motherhood in the distant yet not-so-distant future. What really made me feel like the producers at TNT were spying my dreams/nightmares was that Melissa was a writer, one who felt she should just tell potential employers that she was in jail for the last decade since it would sound sexier than "just being a mom."

As Melissa reflected in disbelief that she spent six hours on Craig's List only to land a single interview for a vegetarian magazine, and was even EXCITED about it, it was like I was reliving the last two years of my life as a post-grad while getting a fast-forward view of my life in 13, 14, 15 years.

What I loved most about this episode was not the foray into the life of a writer/mom itself, but the way it made me feel, which was no longer scared. It made me understand that the struggle you go through to make your name after college can feel the most desperate and miserable because you have nothing yet to show for your life up to that point besides a piece of paper, which promised you a job that you can't find. But Melissa, she had two kids, a big house, a husband with a nice ass. The struggle the second time around will be just as hard, if not harder. Yet I don't think it will come as close to breaking me as the first time around did.

Anyway, I love this show now. But I'm still saying love like my mom says love. My DVR is full, too.

In other extremely late news: Stevie Ryan

If I'm not the last person in the Stevie-Ryan-knowing-world to get this, I deserve a pat on the back and a cup of red velvet frozen yogurt.

It's one of those commercials you hear a thousand times but don't actually watch until the millionth time it sneaks its way past your DVR fast forwarding. Cheetos aired this commercial during the Superbowl but it wasn't until this moment that I got a look at those choppers of her's (hauntingly straight and slightly over-sized) and knew it was Sceney Sceneable herself.



If you haven't met Sceney or her mother played by none other than Chris Crocker of Leave Brittany Alone fame, do yourself a favor. It is like looking up at the face of God and him saying back to you, "You are my most wondrous creation." And junk.

Chadwell gets some sun.

Why it took me all of ten seconds to realize that it was, in fact, Rock of Love's Heather Chadwell who guested as a prostitute on this week's It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is beyond me. She was sporting her usual garb, for one. Has she had work done? I remember her MONDO makeover from season one to season two of ROL as a vast improvement.

Chadwell did not have a speaking role, which I feel a little jipped on. As one of the most colorful skanks on ROL, the Heather we all know and love would have been right at home with Sunny's pack of scoundrels. Heather, you look good and we miss you. Now that Megan Wants a Millionaire is canceled, get your ass back to VH1 and slap a bitch while you're at it.

Dressed in the dark, and you're too lame. You give walking shorts a bad name.

So annoyed that I can't find a picture of this and if anyone can, help a girl out. WTF was Heidi wearing for the runway show on this last episode of Project Runway?

Now, Heidi's personal fashion for me has always been hit or...meh. Never really a miss anywhere in there, for sure. Yet last night, Klum thought, just for schitzengiggles, that it would be awesome to dress in a tuxedo jacket, a hot pink and white almost Hawaiian print blouse and, to top it off, silver walking shorts.


Let's dissect. For one, I have been coveting a women's tuxedo jacket for a few months now, so props. It's an edgy take on a men's wear classic. Talk about edgy, a metallic walking short is taking an age-appropriate, conservative piece and giving it a little youth. Not a bad in it of itself. However, I have never been a Roxy girl and I think unless you really are a surfer, you have no business dressing like one. Surfer chic was so ten years ago anyway. So really the only thing I despise about the entire outfit was the top but my god have I never seen a more hideous combination.

Oh oh and WHAT was the deal with that little remark about Althea's oversize coat "drawing inspiration" from Irina's giant cowl? A big coat is not exactly a completely original construction anyway. Besides, one was a COAT, the other as a SWEATER. A backless sweater at that! Heidi, you're just mixing it up on purpose, aren't you?

Now that's just wrong.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Nerdgasm.

I'm sorry but there still hasn't been a man to come along since Glenn Danzig in his heyday who has been hotter. FACT.

Stacy London Quote of the Week

*holding a hideous embroidered tunic* "I don't know who you think you are but Janis Joplin is dead!"



And we miss you already Swayze. :(