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It only lasts 3 to 6 months. The K's would have had dozens of re-injections over the years. Guess that proves none of them are scared of needles, right?

The family is delusional, living inside their financial bubble. Yes, it's certainly true that Kylie just licenses her name and does publicity for "her" products. The lip kit products were developed by another company. She doesn't have any hands-on experience in developing cosmetics. She has no chemistry background, and not even any experience as a make-up artist. I think the only thing she ever studied was how to take selfies. Any child star can make loads of money licensing their name and endorsing products. It doesn't make them mature beyond their years.

I think he'll be fooling around too. He doesn't seem to be ready to settle down. Kris must be rolling on the floor with delight -- three daughters expecting babies! Three times the publicity. She'll have the tabloid reporters working overtime. Now Kylie and Khloe can have a friendly (?) competition as to which one gets her post-baby body back the soonest. Kim gets left out of the body renovation contest. Poor thing, what a shame.

My gosh, Kody is so big! I can't believe how fast he is growing. About MeTV: I love so many of their shows. I'm addicted to Perry Mason! Love the plots, despite the fact that I know Perry will almost always win his case, and that something totally unrealistic will always happen, like the real killer suddenly standing up in the spectator section of the courtroom and confessing. Also I get a kick out of seeing all those beautiful old cars, elegant women's clothing and the old hairstyles. (Styled by Annabell! Who the heck was Annabell? I had to Google her. She was Annabell Levy, 1915-1975, a stylist who worked on many TV shows.) The Perry Mason theme music is so fantastic -- I never tire of hearing it. I enjoy the old Westerns too, such as Gunsmoke and Wagon Train. I remember watching them when I was a kid. My mother had a big crush on James Arness (Marshall Matt Dillon).

Sorry to hear this news. Kylie is too immature to be a parent, although, as others here have pointed out, the baby will have plenty of nannies and financial security. Since Kylie is so addicted to selfies, I guess we'll be seeing a few months of selfie baby bump pictures, followed after the birth by dozens of selfies of her "amazing" post-pregnancy body.

For HGTV fans: Vulture.com has a long, interesting critical article about the show. http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/the-ugliness-behind-hgtv-never-ending-fantasy-loop.html "Beware the Open-Plan Kitchen: There’s nothing more addictively soothing than watching someone flipping homes on HGTV. Until we end up in a real-life rerun of the housing bubble." The article has plenty of good snarky comments about the couples featured on the show: Bristol and Aubrey Marunde (Flip or Flop Vegas), Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott, Christina and Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop), Joanna and Chip Gaines (Fixer Upper),and others. The article also summarizes the history of HGTV programming and how much it has changed since 1994. It ties in the HGTV encouragement of house flipping with statistics on how much real estate speculation and house flipping contributed to the real estate crash: "A recent, worrisome working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research reported on the tinder of the last conflagration: the national sense that housing prices were going up every day and that there was no way that a buyer’s reach could exceed his grasp. It’s true that bankers made loans to Americans wildly unqualified for them — but the notion that buyers on the lower end of credit distribution began to default in unprecedented numbers isn’t accurate. In fact, the rate of default in the subprime market throughout the bubble and the bust remained steady compared with before the crisis. It was buyers from the top and middle top who account for the skyrocketing rate of default — and it wasn’t that they were buying bigger family homes that they couldn’t afford. It was that they were buying additional houses to flip for a profit, and when holding on to them stopped making financial sense, and with no personal and emotional connection to them, they began walking away in huge numbers. "And yet … the flippers on HGTV make it look so simple, so fun. At the end of each episode, they run the numbers and show how much the happy couples have pocketed. What could the network be quietly motivating its viewers to do?..." I haven't watched HGTV regularly in many years, because it got too reality show-ish for me, and as the article points out, they abandoned the idea of giving tips for frugal homeowners doing small projects. But I see HGTV whenever I'm in a doctor's waiting room. Usually the Property Brothers are on. Can't stand them, and don't like the looks of the renovations they do. When I need small project tips now, I Google the project, or look for videos on YouTube. YT has loads of useful videos from ordinary people.

Shoot, I didn't know they'd remade MP. I don't subscribe to HBO. Thanks to everyone for the heads up. I like the film noir Joan Crawford version better too. I bought Cain's MP novel and was surprised to see how much the screenplay diverged from the novel. Spoiler alert: in the novel, nobody was murdered, and the character of ungrateful daughter Vida was much more developed. The novel Vida was a complicated person with a rare musical talent, truly gifted, and she was forgiven for many of her faults because of her talent. She ended up being a success, not stuck working in a dive bar as in the movie. The novel was a good story, but not as satisfying to me as the film noir version.

I love it too! Every scene is great. There are a few movies that are perfect to me. The Women is one, also Mildred Pierce. I hope they don't try to remake MP.

Well, Metro Atlanta made it through the Irma storm. We didn't get flooding rain (thank goodness) but the whole area had a lot of wind damage, and power outages from trees falling on the lines. Many neighborhoods were out of electricity for three or more days, and many roads were closed because they were blocked by fallen trees. City and county government offices closed for two days. Several school systems had to close for most of the week because there was no power. An entire large shopping center near me had to close for two days due to power outage. Many trees fell on houses. One man was killed when a tree fell on his house. My neighborhood was not badly impacted (we kept our power on, although it flickered a few times), but a tree fell in my next door neighbor's yard. Luckily, there was no electrical damage because the tree was in his back yard where there were no power lines. Even luckier, the tree missed his house and cars by only a few feet. The tree is still out there on the ground. All the tree service companies are busy cutting up trees that fell on power lines, houses and roadways. It will take a while to clean everything up.

"#proudmama" ??!!!? Most moms would be appalled to see their daughters photographed in that pose. But this is Pimp Mama Kris we're taking about, mastermind of the marketing of Kim's porn tape. The sluttier her daughters look, the better she likes it.

imisspuddy, I'm so sorry your mother passed. But it sounds as if it was a peaceful passage. My mother had Alzheimer's and like your mom, she forgot how to chew and swallow food. She passed peacefully in her sleep. Ouch! Take care and get that thing healed up soon.

Going out in your underwear and pantyhose is supposed to be fashionable?

I think so too. Look at her face in this picture -- it looks really odd. I could hardly recognize her. Exactly what image is she going for with the endless facial surgery? Space alien? Maybe Space Alien from Planet No Smell? Her nose has almost disappeared. http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/08/kim-kardashian-shredded-black-dress-fashion-week/

imisspuddy -- I'm so sorry about your mom. Praying that she will have peace.

Beautiful rainbow, Cricket. I hope it's a good sign. You and Joe need some good luck. Dark humor: "If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all."

North is going to be very jealous when she sees her little sister getting dressed in designer baby outfits and paraded around in photo shoots with Mommy. I'll bet she won't share her toys.

Sorry this happened, Cricket. A lot of patients are hurt, or worse, by mistakes the medical people make. I hope Joe doesn't have to go to the ER.

I'm 68 and I don't pay much attention to these What Older Women Should/Should Not Do lists. (The advice I especially ignore and curse loudly at are the articles on what length hair older women should have. (Screw short hair!) The only thing I would agree with on this list is that lighter colored lipstick looks better on older women -- but not matching your gums. What a weird idea! Why would we want our lips to look like they're blending into our gums? 1. Nope. I always wear powder because my skin is still oily and shiny in the T-zone. Powder also sets your eye makeup and helps keep it from wearing off. 2. Maybe lighter colors of lipstick, but forget matching your gums and inner lips. That tip made me think of Lisa Robertson and her gummy smile, lol. 3. Nope. Your eyebrows frame your face. You'll look too different if you let them disappear. 4. Hell no. Eye shadow 4evah! And always IN THE CREASE! I like the deep-set eye look. I use medium dark brown eye shadow because it makes any above-eye puffiness in the crease area much less obvious. Hell no also to the "little bit" of mascara. Two coats of L'Oreal Voluminous for me. 5. Nope. I quit using foundation years ago. There is no foundation I've ever tried that "gives coverage and doesn't add texture." No matter how much the brand promises the foundation is so light and moist that it won't settle in your fine wrinkles, it always does. Your face looks all right as long as you stay still and have no expression. But as soon as you speak or smile, a whole bunch of little roadmaps appear. I would rather spend my money on a good sunscreen than keep wasting $$$ experimenting with unsatisfactory foundations. Facial features, skin types, amount of sun damage to the skin, and personal preferences are all too different for these Older Women lists to be very useful. I'd only put one thing on my list: Fix your face and hair to please yourself, not some random "beauty expert" who's never even met you.

Cricket, sending prayers for you and Joe. Praying hard for his chemo treatment to be successful, and for the tests to show he doesn't have the BRAF mutation. Pearlclutcher, I hope your cousin's son will turn up safe. I can see how he might be out of touch if he couldn't charge his phone, or couldn't get a signal. However, it's certainly cause for concern that he hasn't shown up for work for a few days and his truck was found abandoned.

Kim announced that her family (Kim, sisters and Kris) will donate $500,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief. They pledged $250K for the Red Cross and $250K for the Salvation Army. No snark here -- I sincerely hope that they follow through on those pledges. http://www.eonline.com/news/876533/kardashians-donate-500-000-to-hurricane-harvey-relief-efforts

Hoping to give y'all a laugh -- I'm thinking about clothes, now that fall is coming. Did you know that BIWOS is just about the most popular clothing in the country? With BIWOS, you can get great styles and great fit without spending much. Of course, things don't always turn out right with BIWOS. The styles can be a little outdated, the colors can be peculiar, and the fit can be a bit off. For example, suppose you see your frugal husband walking out the door in pants so loose and floppy they look like parachutes, or a shirt so baggy he could be wearing a flotation vest under it and nobody could tell. You ask him, "Why in the world are you wearing that thing?" He looks at you like you're crazy, and says "BIWOS!" Because It Was On Sale!

How cute! And they have a neat little playhouse.

Cleopatra. Kim loves Elizabeth Taylor (she even bought some of Taylor's jewelry at the estate action), so she'd probably make herself up as the Taylor version of Cleopatra. Kayne could be Caesar. He'd like that. It would also give Kim an opportunity to use Saint in a photo shoot, dressed up as Caesarion, Cleopatra's son with Caesar. But there'd be nothing for North to do. Hmm, who would be Marc Antony? Ray J?