Cuban Diva BFF and I talk on the phone almost every day and somehow this Wendy’s commercial from the 1980’s came up a few days ago. She tracked it down so I am embedding it here. I think it’s one of the funniest commercials of all time. But it’s also an illustration in 59 seconds …
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Tres Leches Cake for Cuban Diva BFF
Cuban Diva BFF is first generation Cuban-American — I know, what gave it away? — and she LOVES Mexican food. I do not know if she will love the recipe from The Pioneer Woman for Mexican Tres Leches Cake, but I am bringing it up because I have a humorous piece all set and ready …
Cuban Diva BFF on Sonia Sotomayor's swearing-in ceremony as Supreme Court justice
Saturday evening I asked Cuban Diva BFF, who is the wise Latina in my life, what she thought about Sonia Sotomayor being sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice, replacing David Souter. She told me she had watched the ceremony and then added, “Wow! Her mom is really hot!” I replied by speculating that, …
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Cuban Diva BFF on Sotomayor
moar funny pictures “Is it over, yet? I am so DONE with her!” Just so you know, Cuban Diva BFF is a wise Latina woman from Manhattan who does NOT favor Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. (Even as I type, she is in mid-rant providing considerable detail about how Sotomayor’s story was not nearly …
Why did Sen. Al Franken just attend a seance?
To thank the constituency that put him over the top in the 2008 race for U.S. Senator in Minnesota. H/T Cuban Diva BFF.
Cuban Diva BFF on Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court
“Meh.” P.S. Cuban Diva BFF’s father is home from the hospital and on the mend. (He was hospitalized Easter Sunday when a family member realized he had an inflammation that was spreading very fast and got him to the emergency room, where he was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis.)
Update on Cuban Diva BFF's father
Cuban Diva BFF’s 84-year-old father was taken to the emergency room on Easter Sunday when an alert family member realized he had an infected wound that was getting worse rapidly. It turned out to be necrotizing fasciitis and the wound was in his groin, so an hour or so more of delay and he would …
Cuban Diva BFF will be spending Tea Party day at …
… her father’s bedside in a hospital in Manhattan. Her parents and older sister emigrated from Cuba legally in the 1950s. Cuban Diva BFF is an American-born, lifelong New Yorker — Manhattan, baby! — with all the style and culture that implies. She is a fiscally conservative Republican in darkest blue Manhattan. Really, it’s like …
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I joined the Twitterati, gentle readers!
My first follower was Cuban Diva BFF because if you can’t get your BFF to follow you on Twitter, maybe you need to, you know, talk. Also, she was home and let me walk her through the process. I tell her that I am grateful for her in my life every single day that we …
Update on 'If he's just not that into her, he's a FOOL!'
see more Lolcats and funny pictures OK, if I didn’t have the cute photo I might not be writing this update about Cuban Diva BFF’s blind date awhile back — the one that never happened. It wasn’t that he was just not that into her. It was more like he, a man in his forties, …
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