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I think that it is Dr. Drew talks about celebrities being emotionally stuck at the age you were when you became famous. For child stars, that can be really damaging because you're stuck at an emotional level that is not really capable of reasonable and rational thought or decision-making. On a slightly different topic on What Not to Wear, they talk about how a lot of women get stuck dressing in the style/time period when they felt sexiest. I think this is why Lisa VdP dresses like Joan Collins in Dynasty.

Usually Dame Moylan likes to contrast Sonja's delusional pretensions with her sad reality. He might call her Sonja Tremont Morgan of the Goodwill bargain bin Morgans or of the Piggly Wiggly double coupon day Morgans. Sonja once said that she was married to J. P. Morgan. She was not. She was married to John A. Morgan, but I think she's so caught up with status that she misspoke. She partied with John John and Madonna and P Diddy comes on her yacht.

It's a joke. The Instagram post even shows a surgeon general warning. She calls them the infamous pink cigarettes. She doesn't think that the pink ones are safe anymore than she thinks that the green ones reverse gravity. It was a joke, just not a funny one.

I don't want Carole or everyone to break to let me know that they are making a joke. And actually Carole does often break and crack up at her own jokes. The problem is that only half of Carole's jokes are funny (I'm being kind). And if her original pink cigarette joke is as I suspect it was " I only smoke pink cigarettes because the money goes to cancer research" that is far too dark, nuanced, and absurd a joke for this show. It's a joke that is more at home on It's Always Sunny, Curb Your Enthusiasm, You're the Worst, or other darkly comedic shows. Even RHoAtlanta, which is the funniest and shadiest of the shows, couldn't pull off a joke like that. The jokes on these shows tend to be vulgar, punny, silly, and sometimes a little slapstick. They can't pull off dark, cynical, or sarcastic jokes. That darkness fights the aspirational and escapist aspects of the housewives franchise. It's why Bethenny's lame toes before hos joke worked: it is silly, a little mean, but not overly so. It was a pun and then had a secondary laugh as it played up Ramona's cluelessness.

Literally there is very little Kim's family can do to force Kim into treatment. I remember a pamphlet that Dorothea Dix put together to catalogue the reasons for a admission to state mental hospitals. A solid one quarter to one third were for alcoholism. This was in the mid to late 1800s. Today half of individuals admitted for mental health treatment also have a substance use disorder. You used to be able to do involuntary substance abuse commitments all the way up the late 80s and early 90s, but they fell out of favor as a best practice. Many states still have them on the books, but by the time most addicted folks get in front of a judge for the commitment hearing they've sobered up. Typically for a judge to order that commitment, he or she needs tons of information about how chronic the addiction is. The person who needs a commitment will either overdose or be arrested for public intoxication within 48 hours to 5 days after discharge from the 5150. These are individuals who police and EMS get 20 - 60 calls a month about this person. Kim is just not that person. She's sick, but just not sick enough. However, she's getting there. She's used for so long that I'm sure she has some level of acquired brain injury. And I'm pretty sure that she's using some combo of uppers and downers. Alcohol is clearly her depressant. At this point the only way to force her into treatment is as a result of her criminal justice problems.

She did, but I assumed she was being facetious. If she had said organic or fair trade in place of pink, then I'd worry because I've heard people say that about organic doughnuts and organic fair trade sugar. But there is no stereotype about pink things being inherently healthier. I also suspect that her joke about them being healthier was her attempt to retool a joke that didn't quite work about only smoking the pink ones because the money goes to breast cancer research. For clarification she never made the breast cancer research joke that we know of, but that's where my mind goes first if you are setting up a joke that starts with: I only smoke the pink cigarettes because ________.

They do. I heard a segment on public radio this week that 98% of their methane gas is from cow burps, not farts. There are researchers working on it. http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/heres-a-new-climate-friendly-way-to-burp-cows/

Hooray more Kindzi and war with the Votanis Collective! Said no one ever. I don't think that the show runners know that Defiance works best when it's Deadwood with aliens and humans. These grand world changing stories don't really work and aren't doing anything for me.

The problem with the Blood, Sweat, and Heels girls is that they aren't rich. The most successful of them are at Bethenny pre-Skinny Girl success. They're doing aight, but they have to hustle like she did. The other thing is that they are so much younger than the RHoNY women. Heather, Kristen, and Bethenny are they only wives under 50 and Heather and Kristen are gone next season.

Far too kind to Edmond. It was apparently well sewn, but beyond basic. When Heidi called his name, I assumed that was it was the safe group because his was aggressively mediocre. I then thought they had him there to remind him to step it up next time. Ashley's was great. I thought it looked like Lily Pulitzer with an edge. The more that I think about Duncan's, the more I think they were right to cut him. He's just finished design school. He's referencing Madame Gres with no modernization or updating while not understanding that Madame Gres draped, but also took care to display a woman's figure in the best light. He's a baby designer who doesn't know what he likes and how to do it.

I thought this was a spectacularly unfunny episode. Though I love many of the actors, I'm giving myself one more episode to decide if I want to stick with this show.

Ramona's book launch party. http://review.gawker.com/a-wine-fueled-ride-on-the-ramona-coaster-ramona-singer-1722209203#_ga=1.94092318.2032482022.1419225938

Oh Pennsylvania, how I hate your stupid liquor laws. Why on earth does a state agency own and operate all of the liquor stores? When I was a kid they didn't have weekend hours. When my oldest brother was 12, he and his best friend ran a clearly illegal state store delivery service to deal with the lack of weekend hours. People would call the state store with their orders. My brother and his friend would stop by the store on the way home from school on Friday to get their orders. His friend would ride his bike to the various offices to pick up the cash and checks and bring them back to store. My brother would ride his bike with cart attached to the back to the state store and make his deliveries to peoples' homes. Back to Kim. I can't figure out if Kim had the toys because she delusionally thought her kids were that young or if she's staying with someone who has young kids and she's trying to ingratiate herself.

Terry Crews you embarrassed me by asking me questions that I didn't know the answer to when I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

So that's where Pickles has been this season.

And they needed to know what the aesthetic of the Sonja Morgan line to pick the models. She couldn't show them the clothes. She didn't show them the sketches. Without articulating the aesthetics of the line, Heather and Bethenny could have chosen models who were too punk, rock n roll, or androgynous for the line. To me, it's not an arbitrary bitchy question intended to embarrass Sonja. It's a question to help Heather and Bethenny be useful. What if a model walked in there who looked like Tilda Swinton or Grace Jones or Kate Moss during her heroin chic days? All striking women, but would any of them look good in Sonja's clothes. Do they look like her customer?

I wonder if the people who have been asking them that question are buyers who didn't come to the show.

I think Heather asked it exactly the right way because she was speaking with folks who allegedly had experience in the industry, including Sonja who has a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in fashion marketing and/or merchandising. BTW not criticizing anything you said. I just think that Sonja and her folks are largely frauds.

These were not amorphous ephemeral questions. Every couple of months, the blogs I read have demographic surveys to understand their readers. That is what Heather was getting at. She asked both who is your woman and who do you imagine your clothes hanging next to. It was to get an understanding of the Sonja Morgan woman. What are the demographics of a Sonja Morgan woman? College degree? What is her salary? Married? Single? Kids? Does she buy all designer? Or does she mix and match high and low? What kind of car does she drive? How old is she? 21- 30? 30-40? Over 40? And honestly, that all helps with model casting. If a model doesn't fit with how you've articulated your brand and woman, you don't cast her. For example, Dolce and Gabana have gone with this modern Sophia Loren look and every girl they cast fits within their stated identity.

The buyers will want to know where to place the clothing. If it goes in the junior or misses (adult women) sections. Additionally, they would want to know if it is ready to wear, bridge, or diffusion. Ralph Lauren is a good example. He has the following labels: Collection, Black Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, RLX, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Denim & Supply and Golf and Tennis sportswear. Most people never see Collection or Black Label because they only pop up in Saks, Neimans, and Ralph Lauren stores. These are their ready to wear clothing lines. Polo, RLX, and Lauren Ralph Lauren will be found in most misses departments at Macy's and like stores. Denim & Supply would likely would be found in the juniors in most of those same stores. Sonja as a designer needs to be able to articulate if her clothing should be hanging with the ready to wear and if it should it be next to Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors or Prada or Alexander McQueen or Elie Tahari or Donna Karan or Elizabeth and James or Dries Van Noten. It's not an arbitrary or BS housewife question. It's a question that a real designer with a vision should be able to answer. If they were to stick her clothing next to McQueen, Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens, Comme de Garcons, and the like, the stores would find that they made a huge mistake because Sonja's clothing is much more conventional, not nearly as avant garde, and unlikely to sell in that section. A person who wants to buy Comme de Garcons isn't buying Sonja's knock off Michael Kors clothing.

Sonja's too short to do runway or editorial, especially given her age because in the 80s and 90s editorial work pretty much exclusively hired runway girls. She's not "curvy" enough for swim suit. And if she was catalogue and commercial, there should a lot more photos of her wearing boring basic clothing, not holding Chanel boxes. Sonja's pictures look like the type of pictures that a struggling hustler, like Sonja, would pay for as she's hoping that one of her many opportunities (restaurant hostess, potential trophy wife, actress) bears fruit. Before she joined RHoA, you could find a ton of pictures of Cynthia Bailey doing runway, catalogue, commercial, and editorial all over the internet. I didn't know her name, but I certainly knew her face.

Kito's drawing was terrible and his tattoo worse, but his canvas was awful. She had a bad case of hot girl syndrome, meaning she's used to getting her way because she's hot. However, the editors made it sound like she was delusional for wanting a koi fish with flowers. When we saw the completed tattoos there were quite a few flowers. I want St. Marq's next tattoo to be a cube just to figure out how he'll pull that off without lines.

I think Sonja, like Carole, was a fit model, which is someone that designers use to check produced clothing on a regular person. Quite literally, a fit model could be anyone. I guess kadooz to Sonja for actually producing a runway show. But clearly Sonja Morgan Industries International couldn't get their act together to invite buyers. I do love that the editors also showed Elie Tahari's to contrast the level of professionalism. You know who could have answered this question? The buyers she didn't invite. To all of those who voted Ramona as their least favorite, I agree. She is awful and unfortunately she has had her reprehensible behavior reinforced for nearly 60 years. The woman is over half a century old. There is no new her. No renewal. That's not to say that people can't change. They can, but Ramona can't.

Someone needs to court order Kim into rehab, order periodic drug testing for when she completes rehab, and a breathalyzer to start her car. She's not capable of staying sober on her own and her family is not capable of holding her accountable. My coworker and I were joking that the toys were for all of the Mexican kids she met after the wedding when she was on her own.

Slightly off topic, but the show made this point that the Dowager Duchess of Sandwich was the only one of Adam's family who would participate in the farce that was Everlasting. The real life Earl and Countess of Sandwich appeared on Ladies of London on Bravo. His son the Luke Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke and his daughter-in-law Lady Yoga Teacher starred on the show. Lady Yoga Teacher was in the friend of housewife role.