Ahhhh - my FAVORITE time of year. I never tire of the angles you can take from thinking about death, and ghosts, and gore etc..

But have you thought about using it for your CHRISTMAS CARD?



Here's the front alone:


Well, what kinda Christmas cards do you think Morticians send anyway????

I think if I use these this year, NO ONE will forget I sent them a Christmas card!!

and doesn't it just beat the hell outta the STUPID KID PICTURES you get from 'friends'????

....only about 62 Shopping Days Until Christmas!!

(insert creepy ghoulish laugh here)

Last night while everyone else in my house watched the Red Sox beat the Indians (sorry Cleveland - you still rock!), I watched the season finale of "Mad Men." The game went on so long that I actually made a batch of chocolate chip cookies and an apple pie too, but I digress.

Mad Men is one of those shows that looks and sounds different from anything else on TV. It's about advertising in 1960 in New York, so it's very styled. It is quiet, and strong, and gorgeous. I think someone's smoking in every scene, and drinking in at least every other scene. I love taking the step back in time every week, and I love how it looks and how they talk. I even pulled my copy of The Fountainhead off the shelf to reread!

Amazing slide show of the costumes are here - the chicks definitely get the better wardrobe! It's worth watching the show just to see what they're wearing!

The first season ended with a couple of crazy plot twists. One was that a 20-something single girl delivered a baby - but didn't know she was pregnant until she went to the hospital with a stomach ache. A lot of people say the show is over because it's just too unbelievable that Peggy would not know she was preggers for 9 (10) months...but I don't care. This is not a reality show, fantasy is a huge part of it!

Anyone else into Mad Men?

Now I'm down a show - any recommendations?? There's a whole World Series coming up, am I going to have to read a book?

It's October - and time for ChickChat's annual "ASK THE MORTICIAN"



Yes folks, that's right- - line up your questions here in comments OR send them privately to at our email.

We're interviewing our REAL. LIVE. MORTICIAN. friend again next week.

EXCEPT - he's more BRAD PITT than Lurch!!

Lara's brother went to college with him. (the mortician, not brad!! we just don't have a picture of Jay our mortician friend!)

Get this girls, he's:
1. Young
2. Blonde
3. Fun
4. CUTE
5. Normal
6. and SINGLE

7. he also has coached the little league...

and he's now PRESIDENT of the 4th generation Czelusniak Funeral Home in western Massachussetts.

ASK ANYTHING....

Make sure you catch our first interview via Friday's podcast.....we'll be adding on even more questions we get now to next week's podcast!!

About a week ago I was in a Costa Rican rain forest fighting off large mosquitos, and hiking up active volcanoes, and braving wetlands to check out wild monkeys. I returned with no injuries. Here in Boston, it took one trip to a barn in the suburbs to require EMT attention.

Sunday afternoon we (me, husband (!) Boston Guy and stepdaughters) went out to a residential farm for a huge party. One of the attractions was a barn full of swaddled baby animals - pigs, puppies, goats, kittens, and cute little bunny wabbits. Young kids were supposed to get to pet the animals but I couldn't resist! I had to hold a baby bunny!!

My cute, blue-eyed bunny broke free of its swaddling and scratched up my arm a little. Several people noticed the swelling and bleeding and suggested I get an EMT check it out. There were ambulances all over the grounds, so it wasn't like an emergency call or anything!

The girls and Boston Guy thought it was HILARIOUS that I needed medical attention from a bunny attack. It was so funny that Boston Guy insisted on taking pictures of me with the EMT, which he could barely do because he was laughing so hard.

The joke, friends, is on them. Check out how smokin' hot the EMT dude is!!



Want a better look? How's this?



So to all my friends and family who have hurt themselves laughing at my stupid wild bunny attack, HA! The Chippendale's dancer who moonlights as an EMT irrigated my arm, stared deeply into my eyes to make sure I wasn't in too much pain, and tenderly wrapped band-aids around my arm to protect me. It was awesome.

Ok, this was at Foxnews.com today...

EMBATTLED CALIF. DENTIST SAYS BREAST RUBS NECESSARY
Monday , October 15, 2007

WOODLAND, Calif. —

A dentist accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients is trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson's lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem.

Police say Anderson said during recorded phone calls that he routinely massaged patients' chests to treat temporo-mandibular joint disorder, or TMJ, which causes neck and head pain.

Attorney Robert Zaro told administrative law judge Jonathan Lew at a hearing Thursday that he should let Anderson keep his dental license while disciplinary appeals proceed. Anderson would be supervised by two assistants and would no longer do the chest rubs, Zaro said.

Zaro said Anderson, 48, of Woodland, needs to keep seeing patients so he can feed his seven children and pay for his defense.


Lew suspended Anderson's dental license last month. He was charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery and sexual battery. Yolo County prosecutors are investigating complaints from more than two dozen women who say they also were groped in the examining chair in the last five years.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Phillips gave Lew three new complaints, including one from a 31-year-old woman who said Anderson fondled her at least six times over two years.

She took to wearing tight shirts with high necklines, "and Anderson would still get in under her shirt and bra," according to a police report.



.........Um, ok, CREEPY - but would you ever GO BACK if it happened once? Maybe she enjoyed it????? (hey, was he cute???).

But dudes, if you have to have a woman in the room just like at the "Girl Doctor" -- that's just WAAAAY too creepy....

So this performance artist, Stelios Arcadious, feels that art "should be more than simply illustrating ideas," and he wanted to implant an ear into his arm. I can't connect the dots yet either, but that's ok - if he thinks it's art, I think it's (weird, but still) art.

It took him a few years, but the ear on his arm was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into his left forearm:



Want a better look? Here 'tis:



He wants to fit the ear with a microphone so we can hear what the ear hears. Personally, I'm glad it's not on his thigh!! More info on this dude is here.

What do you think: Is this art?

Halloween creativity is not my stong point -- but it is for some other folks!








and at some point I'm gonna get it that Halloween is supposed to be for the kids....

So....I'm married! Yay! Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes (and last minute escape route offers). I hear the wedding was fun, but I was in that bridal bubble you may have experienced. Alls I know is that the weather was great and the cupcakes were yummy. I think I got to say 3 words to Heidi the entire weekend, which was the downside of having everyone you love in one place - you simply cannot talk with any of them! So, shout out to Heidi, who looked smokin' hot on the wedding day!!

Anyway - so we went on a fabulous honeymoon, and people kept calling me "Mrs C" - I've decided to change my name, but every time someone calls me "Mrs C" I turn around and start looking for my mother-in-law (who I love). I'm usually pretty excited to see her, and I'm disappointed when she isn't there, and then I'm a little shocked that I went from being a young, fun "Miss" to an old, possibly frumpy "Mrs."

Did you go thru this? How long is the recovery period??

Also - I promise to post pictures as soon as possible!!!

And some people think this is not appropriate....but really, doesn't it get the point across?????????????????????



Get yours at Save 2nd Base.


Wait - isn't that really 1st base? Hey, what ARE the bases?

1st BASE: ??? Kissing? can that really be a base??? seems so old fashioned....
2nd BASE: Booby Feel
3rd BASE: Gettin' in the Pants
4th BASE: SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let the debate begin...

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So Lara is officially married!

And I have the first public picutres from 'the wedding.'

And the most important picture is of course of the most important part of the wedding...

The Cake!

Or perhaps more correctly, the CupCakes!

mmmmmmmmmmm



They, or it, was DELISSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH

Lara is getting MARRIED!

(lara likes birds.....)

The "M" word! It only took a short 38 1/2 years - but gosh darn it, she DID it.

And people, do you know how hard it is for a good Lutheran girl to find the spelling of Mazal Tov on the internets? Sheesh....

By Sunday night, Lara will join the ranks of old married people like me and RockStarmommy and tesco!

And when she's back from her honeymoon - we'll pump her for all her BRIDEZILLA moments!!



Oh, and SSSSHHHHHHHHHH I got an advance picture of her dress from their wedding portrait sitting. CLICK HERE!

In all seriousness! My BABY is getting married and I am going to bring an ENTIRE BOX OF KLEENEX because, sniff, we're finally marrying her off! She's found true love and there ain't nothin' more wonderful in this entire world than that....

We talked about this on the show a bit ago - but I thought it was important enough to reiterate.

We are all familiar with the issue of "Cat Ladies." Usually old unmarried women with a large heaping of displaced maternal instincts. Or is it???

Scientific proof has been found for the "Cat Lady" syndrome.

They have found a parasite common to cats and it has been linked to Human Psychosis. a.k.a CRAZY CAT LADY!

MEOOOOOWW



The parasite found in the stomach of cats, might alter human behavior and lead to psychotic symptoms similar to -- ya ready? those displayed by folks with schizophrenia.

So your old Aunt Edna might have started out sane....but after just one cat it can all go downhill.....and lead to more cats. Must. Have. More. Cats.

The mug might be an 'early sign'


Just make sure you catch it before it's too late!



P.S. If you dont' have one in YOUR family - well, you can always buy one (who said money doesn't buy everything??)

Marcel Marceau has died.

Why do people hate mimes so much? I think they're HILARIOUS. And entertaining.

Circus clowns freak me out though. Anything with the traditional red-nose (except this guy) gives me the heebie-jeebies and sometimes nightmares.

What's your pick, Mime or Circus Clown?