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Monday, October 15, 2012

News from Mister Sister !!

Some of you may have noticed the absence of Mister Sister this past month.

She has been dealing with major health issues and wants you all to know that she will be back to SWB as soon as she can.

Let's all keep her in our thoughts and prayers for a rapid recovery!

CJ
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Friday, October 12, 2012

I Scour the Internet: The TGIF Edition 10/12/2012



All this talk about Honey Betty Boopsie has really tired me out. But I gotta say, it took me a while to figure out why HBB looks so different at home than when she's performing at a pageant. She uses a flipper so the judges can't see she doesn't have her permanent front teeth yet.

Like, duh!!

Anyway, let's see what the Browns have been up to since the last time we met...


As I reported last week, it was Robyn's turn to accompany Kody on a LIV business trip to the lovely city of Mesa Arizona.

Not only did Robyn get to spend a lot of quality time with Kody,  it was also her birthday. Looks like Kody has made sure that Robyn carries on the Brown tradition of tweeting where they've eaten.


Wait a minute, according to Google Map, there isn't a street named Stanley in Mesa. Are you sure, Robyn?

Well, the name of the street is STAPLEY, and the business is Niki's Restaurant, but that's close enough I suppose. 
Sol is also the basic monetary unit of Peru, worth about 100 centavos. Or, if Kody asked me to buy his plane fare back to Vegas, I would look at him and say "Kody, you are soooo SOL."

Awwww....isn't that nice. But isn't it strange for Robyn to mention her sister and not her sister wives? Hmmmmm.....

Let's see what's happening with Meri, shall we?

Good grief. What kind of tweet is this? And made exactly one month to premiere of the new season of Sister Wives? So what decision do you have to make? WE WANT TO KNOW!!!

Well, I guess we'll just have to wait until the show to find out for sure. In the meantime, it looks like Meri decided to heed my advice and work on her social skills by acknowledging fan tweets. When Stormin Steve tweeted some sound advice, Meri actually tweeted a response:
And to the fan who must have watched the old Mounds/Almond Joy commercial way too much, Meri tweeted her preference:

Yep, I'd go for the nuts, too! And for those of you out there who wondered where Meri placed in the 5K run a couple of weeks ago, Meri tweeted the scoop to her good friend, Rev. Danielle:


I suppose on the subject of running, Meri tweeted the following:
Call me cynical (Ms Jinx if you're nasty) but does this mean Meri's gonna wash that rascally Kody Brown right out of her hair and send him on his way?

Probably not, because earlier she tweeted this advice:


Then there's Kody, who only seems to tweet when it behooves him to tweet.


I wonder how many fans in the metropolitan Phoenix area actually flew out of their houses into their cars and drove all the way to Chandler for a chance to say "Hi". I wonder if Robyn brought samples of her jewelry with her to show off and take some orders! That's what Big Love's Margene would have done, and she didn't even have a sister to help her out. C'mon Robyn, step up and start hustling that jewelry, it's not going to sell itself, ya know!

Funny, from the way he ran out of Utah, I would think just the opposite!


And then we have Janelle. Sounds like she's got a crush on somebody!

That's OK Janelle. When you have the choice between fantasizing over Viggo or Kody....well, Viggo wins hands down every time!

Oh yes, I had to include this tweet from the Brown Family Trainer...you know, I think Sean is on to something...excuse me while I throw out my scales and look in the mirror!
You know, Christine rarely tweets, but when she does it's usually about her kids. Here's a cute shot of her girls:


And on the subject of kids, Christine's bonus child Mariah took this lovely picture of Christine doing what she does best, cooking!

I also found a couple of articles about Sister Wives and polygamy you may find interesting.


Talking with one of the Sister Wives

Hmmm.... the person who wrote this article about the UNLV event coming up must not be a regular viewer of the show (if she watched it at all). Also, you would think that she would at least have asked for the second wife's name at some point in the interview. How rude!

http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/talking-one-sister-wives.html


Polygamy may be hot, but in marriage three's still a crowd

This was a better article, but it's sort of a dry read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/polygamy-may-be-hot-but-in-marriage-threes-still-a-crowd/2012/10/05/daf41284-0e39-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story.html


Extra! Extra! Extra! Extra! Extra!

Here's more pictures of Christine cooking:

Christine (pregnant with Truely) in her Utah kitchen

Christine in her Vegas kitchen





Well, that's all for now. And remember, I scour the internet, so you don't have to !!

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Has Sister Wives Jumped the Shark?

From Wikipedia:
'Jumping the shark' is an idiom created by Jon Hein that is used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality that is beyond recovery. The phrase is also used to refer to a particular scene, episode or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of "gimmick" in a desperate attempt to keep viewers' interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark


We've had a lot of discussion lately about the possibility that TLC's reality show Sister Wives officially has jumped the shark.

So let's discuss how you feel about the topic. I'll go first....


The background as to why I watch Sister Wives:

My mother went to high school in a city that was predominately Mormon. When I was young, she told me about an incident that happened when she was in high school. Two girls, who everyone thought were cousins, were found out to actually be half-sisters. Their mothers were sisters, and married to the same man. The family was shunned, and left town shortly thereafter. As a child, I tried to grasp how a man could believe it was OK to marry 2 sisters. Weird, but my curiosity was piqued.

Much later, I watched a reality show called "My Husband's Three Wives". This show was about non religion based polygamy. The husband was horrible, the women were not happy (funny how he 'married' wife #2 while wife #1 was on active duty overseas) and when he decided to bring in wife #3 ( who it turned out had used her own money to prevent foreclosure of the family home as well as money for food and gas for the other wives and their children) the  2 wives had had enough and said NO. The husband then basically patted the devastated 3rd wife candidate on the head, and threw her out of the house. When the show was repeated (on TLC I think) we learned that wife #1 divorced him and remarried. Wife #2 also left, and the would be wife #3 refused any further contact with the man. The man got his doctorate in Psychology, wrote a book and married again, and no longer believes in polygamy. Now THAT show was a train wreck. So of course, when Sister Wives appeared on TLC, I had to watch it.

The most troubling scene for me was:

Right after Robyn gave birth to Solomon. For some unknown reason, Robyn, sitting on a throne-like rocking chair holding a newly born baby Sol, took aim and fired her shot directly at one of her bonus children for 'snubbing' her. According to Robyn, this disrespectful bonus teen refused to acknowledge her position as Kody's wife. He didn't even try to pick up baby Sol. Being that this bonus teen's 'storyline' had been he was not adjusting well to the sudden move to Vegas, it just seemed so cruel to see a supposedly mature adult try to strike down a teenager with such passive-aggressive venom. It got me thinking why would Kody and Janelle allow Robyn's soft-spoken but deadly serious speech against their child?  What kind of parent would allow that type of behavior? Yep, apparently the Browns. From Meri's dissing of Christine's youngest to Robyn's dissing of Janelle's son, no wonder Janelle initially said she wasn't going miss sleeping just to see Robyn's baby being born. And though Janelle did show up to see the baby, she made sure Robyn heard her say that Sol looked like all the other Brown kids when they were born. Nothing special about him at all.

Sister Wives jumped the shark:
For me, Sister Wives jumped the shark on the episode when Kody, with way too much breathless enthusiasm, announced that Robyn was pregnant and Mariah ran out of the room crying.  Even though Meri tried to explain that Mariah was feeling sad for her infertility, that one scene of Mariah feeling so sad (not to mention the sad faces of the rest of the teens) set up the remaining season, leading up to the episode when Robyn gave birth. Robyn's offer to surrogate for Meri was nothing more than a ploy (most likely the idea of the producers) for a future storyline next season. Will Meri or won't Meri accept Robyn's offer. WHO CARES? The downward spiral begins. And the best the producers could muster up for the next season was 6 weeks of forgettable episodes including the one showing Kody dissing Christine's family tradition for a Jewish one,  and Kody unforgivably announcing to the world how so disgusted he was with her eating nachos that he almost didn't marry her. Too bad about Christine's feelings.

From watching Sister Wives, I now know that there is no such thing as 'good' polygamy. It's all bad. Sister Wives has shown the world that love IS divided in a family that practices polygamy, and that cruelty, pain, jealousy and suffering most definitely is multiplied for the women who chose this lifestyle and their children who had no choice.

So let's discuss this. Do you feel Sister Wives has jumped the shark???
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Update 10/5/12 !!! I Scour the Internet: The October 2, 2012 Edition

Oh my gosh, what is happening to the reality TV world? TLC is under fire for their newest reality show Breaking Amish that was suppose to show 5 Amish youths being thrown into the wilds of New York City from the safety of their Amish hometowns and family. Turns out, the 5 have been living in the 'English' world for a couple of years now, so they are just play acting about being all wild eyed and innocent about ATM machines and Chinese food. And Here Comes Honey Boo Boo welcomed the birth of another mouth to feed 'sketti, and found out  she has an extra thumb, which really isn't all that surprising. And then we have the dueling Real Housewives of New York and New Jersey shows proving to us that money can't buy you class, a good film editor, story writer, makeup artist, clothing stylist or anger management counseling.

It's been a rough couple of weeks, let me tell ya.

But we still have the Browns, right?

Well, I'm beginning to wonder if we do. Last month, for about 48 hours, the official TLC facebook fanpage for the Browns changed their banner to show the new season starts on November 11th. Then, it was inexplicably changed back to the original banner, with no date.

Hmmm....I wonder why? And the fans are left to wonder when Sister Wives will be returning to the airwaves. And the Browns are remaining absolutely mum about the return date on their own fanpages. Even Mama June of the Honey BooBoo franchise tells their facebook fans not only will there be 3 holiday specials, but they have signed up for season 2 and filming starts on the 17th. Can someone tell me why one TLC family is totally upfront and the other is so not giving up any information?

My thoughts? Maybe Sister Wives won't be back on November 11th. Maybe the announcement was premature. Maybe the Browns are holding out, for some reason.

Well, while we wait for the Browns to come back on the airwaves, let's check out what they have been tweeting about, shall we?





Thanks Meri. It's good to know that even though you have time to send out endless tweets  advertising this place and that, and soliciting for your MLM and jewelry businesses, you simply don't have the time to respond to those thousands and thousands of tweets you get asking WHEN IS YOUR SHOW COMING BACK.


Ha! Let's see if we get a response from lonely heart Robyn....

What a nice picture...Were you on your way to pick up another copy of Becoming Sister Wives, perhaps?

Hmm... is right. And Meri, you didn't open that umbrella INSIDE your house, did you?



Say WHUT??? What happened to Trainer Bill? Does this mean Trainer Bill, former business partner in the now defunct Fundamental Fitness business scheme venture has officially left the Brown's clubhouse for good? Hope he didn't lose too much in that partnership.

OK, so now we know that 1)Kody's brother Curtis and wife dropped into Vegas on or about September 29th, and 2)Janelle flew out for a family reunion on the same day. That leaves wives Christine and Robyn unaccounted for, tweet-wise.

Isn't it amazing how Janelle takes the time to actually tweet back to her fans, whereas, Meri just gives her fans the "so sorry but I'm too busy" routine. Tsk tsk, Meri. Maybe you can take a few lessons from your sister wife Janelle on fan management.

I hope it's Kody's favorite, too. But then again, you probably don't see him that much, so why should it matter, right?




Wow, can't wait to see the results of this collaboration. But tell us Robyn, will the final results be reasonably priced or just priced to gouge?
Robyn, Robyn, Robyn...why are you answering a fan's question with another question? Frankly, that makes me wonder if you have Mock Tapioca for brains, or what?  Do you understand how condescending it is to answer like that? As if you have another network that broadcasts your show. Why can't you folks just tell your fans when the show starts?



I included this tweet because you can see Janelle in the background. Is it me or does Janelle look rather pensive?

You know Robyn, I knew you just wouldn't be able to resist tweeting about how lonely you are whenever Meri tweets about being with Kody. Your behavior has become way too predictable.

I love the fall, too. Does Kody love the fall? How about Breanna, Dayton, Aurora and Mighty Sol? Do they love the fall?




So THAT'S why you're going bald! It's those damn NAYSAYERS in your head!

Somehow, I just don't see Kody reading to Gwen and Ysabel. Maybe Kody's practicing his public speaking. Makes you wonder when was the last time he actually interacted with Christine's girls, if he thinks he still needs to read to them. Talk about being a captive audience, but at least they got precious time with their father...I suppose.


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10/4/12

Looks like Kody and Robyn will be in Mesa AZ tonight (Thursday 10/4/12) for a LIV business meeting thingy. I bet she'll bring samples of her My Sister Wife's Closet jewelry to show her business partners during the break...Guess she won't be tweeting for a while. Can't wait for those Kody and Robyn sightings to begin!


And then on 10/15/12 Kody and Krew will be at UNLV for a panel discussion!

Hmmm....I wonder if they will be taping this discussion, and if Logan will be participating, too.


10/5/12

This just in...Over on the Facebook Like fanpage, there's a well-hidden posting from Robyn (under the Recent Posts by Others section See All)....here's a screencap:


( Kody-Brown-Family Facebook Like fanpage )

So Robyn says she knows that the season starts in November, but is not allowed to say anything until it's made public by TLC. This wasn't tweeted, and does not appear on the friend-only Facebook page, just the Like one. Perhaps Robyn was trying to post this message on the friend-only page and got confused? TLC still hasn't put the banner back up on their TLC Sister Wives Facebook fanpage...but if you scroll down down down...

And now someone's posting on the TLC Sister Wives Facebook fanpage that Sister Wives has been cancelled with HBB taking over their time-slot on Sundays! Perhaps some housecleaning is needed so  fans will know there will be another season ???

( TLC Sister Wives Facebook fanpage )

Mon Dieu, what a mess! It's all HBB's fault!

Thoughts, anyone????

Well that's all for now. And remember that I Scour the Internet so YOU don't have to, ya'll !!




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