Goodbye Glamor–Miss America Pulls Back the Curtain

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Butt glue. Duct taped toes. Hair teased "until it screams." Sound like some type of medieval torture? Guess again. It's just another day in the life of your average Miss America contestant. Like millions of others, I watched Sunday's Miss America pageant--me, for the first time in several years. I'm not sure whether it was the [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:15-04:00September 17th, 2013|0 Comments

Snowmen in September and Other Anomalies

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] A snowman smiles at Costco on SEPTEMBER 8th! Let the games begin. It's fall, so of course that means games like football and soccer--my personal nemesis as I've been a soccer [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:15-04:00September 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Hacked and Unhappy

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To head an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Don’t these people have anything better to do? Last week, NRFGP was hacked. As in, someone, somewhere, somehow, gained access to the site and inserted some code into the blog which was intended to do…I have no idea what, but I know it wasn’t good. The site was blacklisted by Google. No one could access it, [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:16-04:00September 3rd, 2013|1 Comment

Miley Cyrus Dirties Up the VMAs

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. It’s time to burn the Hannah Montana sheets. In case you missed it (lucky, lucky you), Miley Cyrus delivered a new low to television on Sunday night, during her performance on the Video Music Awards. Given that the VMAs aired on MTV, the king of low brow television (aside from the paid porn channels, that is), [...]

2018-10-30T09:46:17-04:00August 27th, 2013|1 Comment
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