Finally, something worth blogging about! This trailer is perfection, it’s really more of a teaser than a trailer and it’s delicious. No big storyline revelations but it kind of lets you know that everything you love about Sex And the City will be on the big screen. So excited to see this movie! Gotta hand it to the SATC PR machine, they have done a phenomenal job of allowing photo ops for would be spoilers (or are they dream sequences) during shooting, generating tons of buzz for the movie. As if the film’s shoe wardrobe alone wouldn’t generate enough buzz!

We decided to take Yahoo’s new Celeb popularity game cleverly titled Celebrity Popularity Game. for a little spin. We’re guessing Clint Eastwood is secure enough in his masculinity not to take this personally but Beverly might be a bit miffed.

Ooh, once more with feeling.

The real Beverly D’Angelo in the National Lampoon classic, Christmas Vacation:

We love cereal, like a lot. If were were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one food, cereal would be our desert island delicacy. What’s that you ask, if we love it so much why don’t we marry it? Well, we tried but Gavin Newsom hasn’t been able to get the council members to sign off on same cereal marriage rights. So for now, we will have to settle for dressing up as our favorite cereal characters for Halloween.

Seven delicious not just for breakfast anymore cereal Halloween costumes.

#1- Channel your inner Captain Crunch without shredding the roof of your mouth. Loving how this guy is cereously in character.

#2- Count Chocula whom we always mistook for The Count on Sesame Street.

#3- It’s the pinktastic Frankenberry with his signature serving of strawberry Quik in the bottom of every bowl. A certified Matthew Caverhill favorite.

#4- Why be a plain old sheet wearing ghost when you can be BooBerry? What if BooBerry could sing really well, you know like the sexy, soul-filled kind of singing? Would he be BooBerry White?

#5 Lucky Charms, now with iPhone shaped Marshmallows.

#6 Where’s your English to Snap Crackle Pop dictionary when you need it?

#7- Wheaties. Yawn. It’s last for a reason. Who dresses up as an orange box filled with boring brown flakes suffering from a serious lack of sugar, artificial color and flavoring?

What puts the crunch in your bowl?

In case you missed this sketch on Kimmel a couple of weeks ago, here it is for your buttery bionic viewing pleasure. Spread some of this on your toast.

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This is HUGE! Starbuck’s founder Howard Schultz’s VC firm just kicked down a frosty $27.5 million to frozen yogurt darling Pinkberry! Does this mean that Northern California will be seeing their first Pinkberry locations popping up soon? We can only dream.

Here’s Matthew Boyle’s Fortune article with all of the details but no mention of a time frame for expansion. A quick check of the Pinkberry site reveals a new message under the “franchise” information link that says: watch this page for future updates. For now we can only continue to hit refresh for updates on the new store locations page. Drool.

(Fortune) — Red-hot frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry has received a $27.5 million infusion of cash from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz’s venture capital firm, Fortune has learned.

The deal, which will be announced later today, confirms long-held speculation that Seattle-based Maveron – whose prior investments include eBay, drugstore.com, and Good Technology, now owned by Motorola – sees a bright future for Pinkberry, which was launched two years ago by a failed restaurateur and a former nightclub bouncer. (See story here.)

Schultz was not available to comment, but in a press release touting the deal he called Pinkberry founders Shelly Hwang and Young Lee “visionary entrepreneurs” and labeled their brand “a cultural phenomenon.”

The burgeoning chain now has 32 stores in New York and Los Angeles, and plans to grow by expanding its roster of company-owned stores and franchises. Hwang and Lee told Fortune earlier this year that they hope to have 50 locations by year-end. Stores in Las Vegas and London are also on tap.

Over the weekend we caught the late show of the movie Feast of Love and it was good, definitely some standout performances and a sweet story that doles out tiny bits of hope for the human condition. But the most memorable thing about our cinematic journey that evening was watching the preview for Lars and the Real Girl. We can’t wait ’till Friday so we can see the entire movie. And bonis points for casting our personal favorite, Patricia Clarkson who is one of the best actresses ever. Can someone please give this woman her Oscar? If you haven’t seen the trailer for Lars, here it is, prepare to laugh.

There’s a great interview in the NYT with Lars’ writer Six Feet Under) Nancy Oliver, you’ve seen her mad skills in episodes of HBO’s Six Feet Under. We love her and her spiky hair.

NYT Excerpt:

If “Lars and the Real Girl” were an episode of “Six Feet Under,” the twisty HBO series for which Ms. Oliver worked as a writer and co-producer for three years, the rest of the tale might have gotten its laughs and winces by showing what goes on in the bedroom between a troubled guy and a curvy, pouty-lipped woman who just happens to be made of flesh-toned silicone rubber. Instead the movie, directed by Craig Gillespie, takes an almost Capraesque turn: Everyone in Lars’s gray, wintry town makes an “It’s a Wonderful Life”-style group decision to support him by going along with his fantasy. More

Patrica Clarkson on set with Director Craig Gillespie

Lars, played by Ryan Gosling and his real girl have dinner. The expression on Emily Mortimer’s face is priceless.

What if non-celebrities, like us, had their own Emmy Awards? We’d get dressed in our finest ready to wear, roll out some resemblance of a red carpet and step in as self appointed paparazzi snapping who wore it better photos of one another. And then, in the most important contest of our non-celebretary (totally a word) lives: we would vote for each other in the categories of our choosing. Most Comical Parallel Parking Performance. Best Writing of a Grocery List in a Reality Show. Best Dramatic Performance in a Guest Starring Carpool role. An of course, Cutest Shoes. Essentially that’s what the Emmy’s are. Just some people who happen to be good at what they do and so they decided to sit around and tell one another how fabulous they all truly are. Oh and they’re ridiculously good-looking and you won’t find much ready to wear.

Except for this, the worst dress of the night:

Here are the winners from last night’s festivities. With commentary of course.

Drama: “The Sopranos,” HBO.~~Not surpising. In fact they should change the category name to Best Freakin’ Drama Evah.

Comedy: “30 Rock,” NBC.~~Tina Fey really knocked this outta the ballpark but Alec Baldwin is the frosting.

Miniseries: “Broken Trail,” AMC.~~ Never saw it but AMC rocks if for no other reason then the smoketasticly realistic Mad Men.

Variety, Music or Comedy Series: “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” Comedy Central.~~Colbert should have owned this.

Variety, Music or Comedy Special: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.~~ Saw him live once. He is the master performer.

Made-for-TV Movie: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” HBO.~~In addition, should have won for Saddest Title of a Film. Ever.

Reality-Competition Program: “The Amazing Race,” CBS.~~ Note to Big Brother: Sitting on couches crying about how much longer you’ll get to stay in the house to sit on the couch is not Emmy award winining. So what! Big Brother rules!!!

Creative Achievement in Interactive TV: Current.

Actor, Comedy Series: Steve Carell, “The Office,” NBC.~~Duh.

Actor, Drama Series: James Spader, “Boston Legal,” ABC.~~Uh yeah, can we get a recount? Fughettaboutit, this award belongs to James Gandolfini.
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Robert Duvall, “Broken Trail,” AMC.~~He seemed so kind and humble during his acceptance speech which made his win even more sweet.

Actress, Drama Series: Sally Field, “Brothers & Sisters,” ABC.~~Two words: Edie. Falco.

Actress, Comedy Series: America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty,” ABC.~~Delish!

Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Helen Mirren, “Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Masterpiece Theatre),” PBS. She’s in our top five best actresses of all time so you know how we feel about this. Second place would have to go to Gena Rowlands.

Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Terry O’Quinn, “Lost,” ABC.~~ Meh.

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Jeremy Piven, “Entourage,” HBO.~~How can we even write a pop-culture blog when we’ve never seen an episode of Entourage? Sacrilege, really.

Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Thomas Haden Church, “Broken Trail,” AMC~~Wings!!!!

Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Katherine Heigl, “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC.~~Unlike 90% of the rest of the Country, we are luke warm when it comes to Ms. Heigl. What’s with the Big Love cast snub here?

Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Jaime Pressly, “My Name Is Earl,” NBC.~~Uh negative, ghost rider. Elizabeth Perkins or Jenna Fischer should be holding that statue.

Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Judy Davis, “The Starter Wife,” USA~~The writing in this show kinda bugs us so we would have gone with Toni Collette.

Individual Performance, Variety or Music Program: Tony Bennett, “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.~~Genius.

Directing, Drama Series: “The Sopranos: Kennedy and Heidi,” HBO.~~Reasons why this win rules: It’s the Sopranos, duh. And one of the writers is named Heidi. Plus the name Kennedy reminds of MTV circa 1985, you know, when it was still Music Television.

Directing, Comedy Series: “Ugly Betty: Pilot,” ABC.~~ Delish!!

Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: “Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Masterpiece Theatre),” PBS~~Does Hellen Mirren even need directing?

Directing, Variety, Music or Comedy Program: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.~~What did you guys think of the Christina Aguilara Tony Bennett duet?

Writing for a Drama Series: “The Sopranos: Made in America,” HBO.~~ Maybe all of these Emmy wins will help spur the sparks of spin off. One can dream.

Writing, Comedy Series: “The Office: Gay Witch Hunt,” NBC.~~ Top 5 funniest episodes ever. Well done.

Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: “Prime Suspect: The Final Act,” PBS~~What if the Prime Suspect writers contracted out to help revive some of the dead weight out there? CSI: Miami anyone? An audience can only stomach so much poolside perishing.

Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” NBC. Our hearts belong to Letterman.

What did you guys think? 

In other words, how we spent our Summer vacation.

Ice Cream is the quintessential summer time treat and our own extensive research indicates that hot summer nights increase cone consumption significantly. All of this conesumption, if you will, has the think tanks filled with designers of creamy confections working hard to keep up with the Coneses. Consumers demand variety and in today’s snacktastic market where ice cream isn’t just a scoop on a cone, it’s 11 scoops in a deep fried waffle bowl with couple of candy bars mixed in then expertly garnished with several chocolate dipped baked goods. Here is the ultimate blow your daily caloric intake in one sitting list of evil summer treats to end all lists of ultimate blow your daily caloric intake in one sitting evil summer treats.

# 7 Giant Chocolate Dipped Cone

This layercake favorite comes in at lucky number 7, and it just doesn’t get better than this. It’s simply divine. Dark chocolate carefully envelopes deep vanilla soft serve and sit sits meltily atop the classic cake cone. Why do they call it a cake cone? It’s not made from cake, doesn’t look like a cake and still it gets cake credit. Let’s get a real cake cone. Remember when cones had names on them? Yeah, we got jacked, our names were never on cones. Maybe we didn’t get jacked, maybe the real bummer is having a name that would appear a cone. Like Suzy or Sally. No offense. Calories in the large version of this precious classic: 670 with 31 grams of fatty fatterson. Nicely done.

#6 – Starbuck’s Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino® Blended Crème

Summer treats aren’t just for licking, raising your summer calorie count is even easier when you use a straw. While this adorable pink Summer offering from Starbucks contains no caffeine buzz, it does pack a giant jolt of calories and fat. When sized as a vente it packs a not so bathing suit friendly 750 calories and an abs of steel crushing 15 grams of fat.

# 5 Klondike’s Choco Taco

Yeah it’s a taco and yeah it’s ice cream-tastic. This venture into dinner time menu items reinterpreted as ice cream has us yearning for Choco raviolis, Chocolli or Mashed Choctatoes. Wait, wouldn’t that just be chocolate mousse? Whatever, bring it on. Choco Taco packs 300 calories and 15 grams a fat. Now that may seem like a drop in the proverbial calorie bucket but let’s be realistic, at just 4 ounces there is no way that just one Choco Taco would satisfy your craving for yum. Besides, who eats just one taco? So for the Choco Taco we are going with an obnoxious serving size of 2 which brings the calorie count to a far more list worthy 600 with 30 grams of fat.

# 4 Funnel Cake

Sometimes Summer treats aren’t frozen at all. Such is the case with the carnival and boardwalk favorite the funnel cake. The act of breathing in the scent of a funnel cake baking frying is so delicious that it should technically count as calories consumed. Now fill that golden brown fried cake with fruit, chocolate and whipped cream and you’ve got some serious calories, 760 to be exact. And accompanying those calories, they hate to travel alone, is a ginormous 40 grams of fat. Delish!

# 3 Dairy Queen Chocolate Malt

Calories weren’t invented yesterday. Even old-fashioned treats with their innocent names and lack of candy bar mix ins can be loaded with calories. Case in point, the classic chocolate malt. You know the one you sip while sitting on a barstool at the soda fountain. You could order a chocolate malt at 1300 calories and 31 grams of fat, but check out that soda jerk, he’s the hotness! Hmm better order the seltzer water with vanilla.

# 2 Baskin Robbin’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Sundae

The fastest way to increase the calorie and fat content of any dish is to simply add Peanut Butter. 31 Flavors knows this and they are fearless in their implementation. Not only is this dish loaded with peanut butter sauce and a layer of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, it’s also sporting a hefty three scoop serving of chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream. Topped with whipped cream and peanut butter cup chunks this dish weighs in at 1400 calories and 90 grams of fat. Yeah, that’s right, 90 grams of fat. What?

# 1 Chilli’s Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie

Prefer to consume your sinful summer time treats from the comfort of a tufted vinyl booth? Have a thing for plastic coated menus? Welcome to Chilli’s home of all kinds of stuff that no self respecting human should ever eat. Loaded with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and lots of pie-like ingredients, this self proclaimed piece of paradise is practically a lobbyist for obesity at 1600 calories and 78 grams of fat.

What’s your favorite?

Ok, so we were just maxin’ and relaxin’ reading the latest issue of Self magazine when suddenly there it was, shining brightly in pretty shades of pink, staring us right in the face, bringing with it a rush of hormones and horniness happiness, an advertisement for the Today Sponge. That’s right, the Today Sponge is back. Not sure how long it’s been back on the market in the US, but all that matters is that it has returned to us, like a long lost friend.. with benefits. If you love something, have the FDA pull it off the market, if it returns to the shelves, it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was.

Here it is in all of its old school glory:

Here she is all snazzed up with a cute avatar and some fancy new typeface, what’s with the Y? Looks like a U with a tail.:

And here is the classic Seinfeld episode where George begs Elaine for a Sponge to use for make-up sex with Susan. “You’ve heard of make-up sex right?” And Elaine gauges her date’s Spongeworthiness…”and you’ll lose the sideburns?”

As for us, we’re breaking out the Barry White, but only after a quick trip to Target to fill our carts! Bow chicka chikca boawww..