4th of July Flag Cake SMACKDOWN!

GAME ON SISTERS (and brothers)

WE CHALLENGE YOU

Bring your best game and enter to win the rude, crude, wild and unbridled
4th of JULY FLAG CAKE SMACKDOWN

Calling all Cake Hos. It's Mean. It's EXTREME

Yup, it’s official – we have three contestants so far:
Heidi a.k.a HARDCORE Heidi
Lara a.ka. LARA The ROCK
RockStarMommy a.k.a STONE COLD RSM

We challenge you to see how you stack up against the "PRO"cake hos.

Bake and set jello with a VENGENCE. Join the MANIA.

Its grueling, its ruling, and you’ve got a long weekend (maybe) to work on it.
Submit your photo of your White Trash to Martha Stewart PIECE DE RESISTANCE by midnight Wednesday to The Chicks at thechicks@chickchatradio.com. Thursday is JUDGEMENT DAY.

We’ll choose an outside 3rd party unbiased OFFICIAL from the culinary world (hmmm, any ideas?) to judge the outcome.

Official ChickChat Tip: you can’t see flavor! But your “loved ones” might turn you in!!

Need a little help? Here's the gold standard

It's FlagCake MANIA!!
Are you ready to RUUUUMMMMMBBBBLLLLE???

Cheers! Heidi

Bizarre Bazaar

Naked Brit-Brit on the cover of Harper's Bazaar? Who's idea was THAT? And the story "487 Best New Ideas" can't possibly make up for the one bad idea on the cover. I'm all for the naked pregnancy pictures. And I'm all for Brit-Brit. It's this particular photo that is stuck in my craw. It looks like an amatuer shot. She looks like a tween. And the holding of the boobies looks awkward, not artsy. Ugh.

The sad thing is that Harper's Bazaar is my go-to guilty pleasure. I read a lot of magazines for work, if I need to grab something off the rack in an airport or for the beach, this is what I go for. I usually love this magazine. Not this month though!!

Cheers, Lara

Remember the Coppertone Baby?

The woman who was the commercial artist who created this icon just died at age 88. Joyce Ballantyne Brand.

I did some looking around-- she used her 3 year old daughter 'Cheri' as the model for the famous ad.

But did you know Joyce also created pinup girls? Using her hot self as a model?? You Go Girl Joyce!!

A good story about her here.
Includes swearing, martinis and how to be sexy.

Joyce, you WON the War on Frumpiness. You are the Norman Rockwell of my memories....

Cheers! Heidi

I love being at the top of the food chain

I love lobster, and there's been a lot of lobster talk lately. Sadly, it's not about how best to cook the delicious little suckers or make the best lobster roll. Whole Foods isn't going to sell them anymore because of "animal welfare" concerns (Whole Foods sold lobsters? How did I miss that?!). One theory is that Whole Foods wasn't making any money off lobsters, since it's expensive to keep fancy food alive long enough to sell it. Note, they're still going to sell all kinds of meat and fish, all stuff that's already dead when it gets to the stores.

This photo appeared in Sunday's New York Times (Illustration by Ji Lee, photograph by Daniel Root), with a great intellectual article about how hard it is to live cruelty-free in this day and age, and how weird it is that lobster seems to be suddenly at the front of the debate. For most of us, we generally don't kill our dinner with our bare hands. Dropping a live lobster into a huge pot of boiling lobster is a rare exception. But it's not like us lobster-killers are the only example of animal cruelty!

We all make our own choices on what to eat/not eat. Sometimes it's rational, sometimes not. I eat veal and fois gras, but not lamb - that's just sad and mean. As the article points out, city-dwellers keep Great Danes in their tiny one-bedroom apartments. Some people wear leather shoes but don't eat steak. Others eat tuna fish from a can but wouldn't touch sushi.

I'm glad to be at the top of the food chain, making these choices. And I LOVE lobster - it's a special, decadent treat. Until we find a way to treat all living things humanely AND eat them, maybe we can cool it on the lobster-eating-hating?

What do you eat/not eat because of cruelty concerns?

Cheers, Lara

Here's What's Wrong with Us Chicks

Quick, answer this question.....Men Look Most Attractive Dressed In:

1. Jeans and a Tee Shirt
2. Uniform: firefighter, police officer, whatever!
3. Business Suit
4. Nothing at All!

In a recent poll 48% of you freaks chose jeans and a t-shirt!!!!! WHAT????? Brad Pitt is walking down the street and you want to see him CLOTHED??

A disappointing 12% of us chose "nothing at all." Now I ask you, which group is having more fun, huh???

Freaks I tell you, you all are FREAKS!!

I think its HIGH time us chicks learn to appreciate the male form. How would YOU feel if men picked seeing you in clothes vs naked???

Naked men are HOT.

(did you at least laugh????)

Cheers, Heidi

Mmmm....fluff!

In case you haven't heard, some Massachusetts state senator wants to BAN fluff from school lunches. Another state senator wants to make fluffernutter the official state sandwich since fluff is made there. All this talk about fluff is making me hungry!

Who doesn't love a fluffenutter?? Do they have fluff where you live?? In California I could only find one store in the entire state! Could that be true? What do you do out there when you need marshmallow spread?

Here's what it looks like:

Cheers, Lara

The Naked Sherpa

Ladies, I promise you I have been looking far and wide for a picture of the infamous Naked Sherpa ... the man who climbed to the top of Mount Everest and became the first person ever to 'feel the mountain breeze' ALL OVER.
Yes, he got naked at 29,035 feet (but who's counting?) and about 20 degrees below zero or so.... (give or take).

But when I google search "Naked Sherpa" for a picture..... this is all I find:

Now THAT'S a cool wedding photo to show the in-laws!! And hey, I'm now more than ever interested in this whole polygamy thang....how 'bout you guys?

(and yes, thanks for pointing it out, I do notice that they look like the type of guys who are not interested in women. But WORK WITH ME HERE! : )

Cheers! Heidi

How was your Father's Day?

I hope you had a good Father's Day, and that the fathers in your life had good father's days, too!

I was lucky enough to spend Father's Day with my boyfriend and his two daughters (almost 9 and 12 years old). We had a great day together - lots of laughing, lots of playing outside, good eating. Some of the day I felt like I was cheating because I opted to spend time with my boyfriend and his family instead of with my own Dad. Most of the day was really fun, but that's not the only way I cheated.

When you go out with a guy who has kids (and you want kids, too, like I do), you get to see what kind of father he is. A glimpse of what you hope your future holds. My boyfriend is a terrific father - his girls are fun and bright and thoughtful and wise beyond their years. We laugh together and paint and draw and bake - sometimes I want to get a film crew over here so that our Hallmark moments can be broadcast all over the world, you wouldn't believe me unless you saw it for yourself. Yesterday we were singing and dancing and there was tickling and even frolicking. It was as sweet as a spoonful of birthday cake icing. It was as cute as a litter of puppies. It was so adorable I almost gagged.

By Sunday night, I could feel it in every cell of my body - "I want me some of that!!" I saw what my friends with kids tell me - their husbands got tons hotter when they had kids. This happens almost every time we have the girls. So this Father's Day, I cheated. I pretended that we were a family all the time, and that my boyfriend was the father of my children, and I let myself pretend that just for Father's Day. It was a beautiful, fun day. I hope you enjoyed your Father's Day, too.

Cheers, Lara

Are YOU a Soccer Mom?

I'll readily admit - the term "Soccer Mom" scares me. I feel trapped into frumpiness by the term. And if you listen to ChickChat Radio - you KNOW we fight The War on Frumpiness every day!

But THIS is a soccer mom I can aspire to be:

I think it a perfect "pictorial testimony" to the combination of SOCCER MOM and MILF.

Speaking of MILF, the category just got a HUGE boost:

Thanks Gwen, thanks Angelina!

Cheers, Heidi

Are you crafty?

Our friends at www.cheap-chic-weddings.com are running their second annual Wedding Dress Contest - all you have to do is design and wear a wedding dress made entirely of toilet paper! Yay! Check out their site for more info...and check out these examples!

Last year's winner, Rebekah, made this masterpiece with WORKING TOILET PAPER BUTTONS:

My favorite runner up, Jaymie:

Could you make something like this?

Cheers,
Lara

Happy 60th Birthday Highlights!

If you were a kid over the last 60 years, and you went to the dentist, and you had to wait for your appointment, and you know who Goofus and Gallant are....then you know HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE! Yay!

I loved this magazine when I was a kid. I think my dentist had the same issue in his waiting room for the entire decade that I saw him as a patient -which made finding the hidden pictures and completing the other games really easy.

I used to love going to the dentist - me and my brother got to pick out a little plastic toy from a cardboard treasure chest at the end of our visits! And to me, Highlights Magazine will always = Dentist visits.

Anyone else a Highlights fan?

Cheers, Lara

How do YOU meet celebrities?

Hey, easy to run up to a celebrity and ask to take a picture with them, yes? NO! Not for me. See, I have this problem recognizing celebrities in 'real life.' I even lived in L.A. for two years....and shockingly enough was never starstruck because, well, I was never SURE.

So this picture with Jerry Springer is over a year in the making because when I first met him in 2005 at the R&R Talk Radio Seminar...

ME: "Hi there, my name is Heidi" (extending my hand and smiling)

JERRY SPRINGER: "Hi, my name is Jerry" (shaking my hand)

ME: "Nice to meet you Jerry. What do you do?"

JERRY SPRINGER: "oh, I have a new radio show"

ME: "Oh, great, isn't that nice."

ME: "Where do you live?"

JERRY SPRINGER: "Well, I'm in between cities for my home and radio show and taping my TV show"

ME: (blank stare....tv.....hmmmm)

JERRY SPRINGER: (staring back....hmmm...does this chick GET IT YET?)

ME: (turn to next person in group talking and the hamster is running furiously on the brain wheel -- Jerry....Jerry....oh...Jerry SPRINGER famous TV Show Personality Jerry)

ME: (I just introduced myself probably rather condescendingly to a National TV Personality.)

ME: (What a nice guy to just say "Jerry" to an obviously OBLIVIOUS chick.)

ME: (I'm an IDIOT)

ME: "Nice meeting you all -- I think I'll grab another drink!"

ME: (tail between legs slinking off stage right to bar.....)

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

SO, I was DARN sure who he was this past weekend in NYC for Talkers Magazine seminar for talk radio folks. I stalked him like a CHEETAH stalks their pray. And ran after him like a lunatic when he was done with his speech. "Pleeeeeease Mr. Springer?

NOW, if I could just have remembered to ask him to come on our RADIO SHOW!!!

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

They don't call me blonde for NOTHIN' !!!

Cheers, Heidi

Would this turn you green, too?

I know this is wrong. It's discrimination. It's sexism of the worst kind. But it creeped me out and I can't help it.

Yesterday I went to have a manicure/pedicure. I tried a new nail salon on the chi-chi street in downtown Boston (Newbury Street, if you're familiar with the area). I was excited to relax for a little while and walk out with pretty fingers and toes!

Instead of having a lovely lady help me out with my twinkle toes, I wound up with a lovely GUY. I found it really uncomfortable and a little creepy. I felt green about it. Is that wrong? Has anyone else been in that situation?

Note: He did a great job, but in the future...I think I'll stick to the ladies.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers, Lara

Five Years Ago

Five years ago, yesterday I lost every semblance of the life I used to have. It will be thirteen years, at least, before I can do whatever I'd like to do.

But when my little Boo Boo looks at me with those big Hazel eyes and says "Mom - this was the best birthday in my whole life -- thank you" I just melt into a puddle of motherhood that I sometimes so much detest.

He ASKED for chocolate. Chocolate Cake. Chocolate Icing. He is a true chip off the ol' momma block. Makin' me proud.

P.S. that is a HOMEMADE "Southern Chocolate Sheet cake" damn-it! No box cakes here sista!!

Dating Tip from The Sopranos

I was just as disappointed as the next girl by the mid-season finale of The Sopranos...the whole season (semi-season? demi-season?) has been disappointing. BUT - there was one fabulous moment last night that you might have missed.

AJ had the hots for some girl he met at his construction job, and even though they tried to make her out to be "beneath" the Sopranos, she pulled out the coolest move I've seen in ages.

The next time you're at a bar and a guy asks for your phone number, try this:

Write down 9 of the 10 digits of your phone number on a cocktail napkin.

Fold the napkin in half, and blot your lipstick on the fold - making what has to be the perfect kiss-print.

When the guy opens the napkin, if he has half a brain he'll say, "Hey - this is missing a digit!"

You'll say, "You think I'm that easy? If you want my number you're going to have to work for it!"

Now, this might be the oldest trick in the book, but I LOVED it. Anyone ever actually do this in real life?

Cheers, Lara

Worst Toilet Nightmare, Come True

No, not the mold girlfriend - the SPIDER! Eeeeeeeeeks!

Objects in Picture are BIGGER Than They Appear! I swear!

I rushed to our master bathroom toilet as to not miss a Today Show segment, and almost SAT on this!! ewwwwwwww.

It's really twice as scary if you have read this

I was so busy with the photo shoot and then trying to get the digital image.....I forgot to 'get rid' of the spider. Send him or her to the 'spider farm in the sky.' NOW I have no idea where the spider is, but I'm terrified of our toilet. Especially at night....

Next I'll have to document the jumpy crickets (cave crickets to some of you) in our Guest Bathroom. Won't you come over and visit sometime? Gee, you look thirsty, hows about another glass of water? juicebox? martini?

More on my toilet and my mold problem later.....I know you can't wait. Admit it. (RockStarMommy did)

Goldie likes a fresh bowl!

There's new research out this week that proves what I've known for months - goldfish have long memories, may feel pain, and might even "pine" for their owners. Now, I'll admit that I swallowed a live goldfish at a frat party in college. I'm taking a page from Earl's playbook and trying to set karma right. When Boston Guy's 8-year-old daughter wanted to get a fish, I was very supportive (even though I knew I'd be taking care of it - figured I dodged a bullet since she wasn't getting a puppy!).

Meet Goldie (see above - she is posing for you)!

Goldie is a city fish. Here's proof:

She likes to eat fish flakes and hang out in the kitchen. Last night we made dinner together and listened to reggae music for 4 hours - she was groovin' the whole time! I change Goldie's water once a week, make sure she's getting the right amount of food, and talk with her all day long. She's a great fish, you just can't help but smile at her.

It only took me about 3 weeks to let an african violet die, I hope I do better by sweet Goldie!

Cheers, Lara