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Don’t worry—Mr. Blackwell’s and Joan Rivers’ jobs at accessing the best and worst dressed celebrities are safe. We just thought we’d chime in on the fashion winners of last Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

First of all, the one feature we noticed over and over again was the synched with a belt waistline. No one looked better pulling this look off than Claire Danes in this frilly feminine floral print gown by Louis Vuitton.

Other winners in this category include  January Jones in Carolina Herrera, Mila Kunis in Alexander McQueen, and our overall top pick for best dressed, but we’ll get back to that.

And although we loved her strappy heels, the synched waist aspect of Jennifer Lawrence’s bubble-gum pink Oscar de la Renta dress did not help in her cause for best-dressed; just too gimmicky for our tastes.

But Oscar redeemed himself with our next pick. The award for Most Improved goes to Tina Fey—known for her questionable choices—in her flaming red Oscar de la Renta.

I’d have to say I consider myself a middle-of-the-road driver. Not that I drive in the middle of the road, mind you, but I do observe traffic laws and practice common courtesy while on the road. I do not take my driving to extremes, in other words.

Case in point; I do not hang out in the left lane for any amount of time, as I understand and was taught in Driver’s Ed that this is the “passing” lane. I feel that the slow pokes who insist on using this as their easy cruise lane are dangerous because they force the speed-demon drivers out there to lane-shift even more so than they are already habitually inclined. This leads to drivers being cut off and others just being plain startled when a car whizzes past their window.

As far as courtesy goes, I also clean off my car when it snows. And when I say “clean off my car” I mean the entire car, roof and all. I do not just tunnel out a path for the front and rear window and then go on my merry way. The worst offenders on the roads seem to be the SUV drivers and the semis. When you are on the highway and are driving behind one of these types, you are taking a risk for sure because those chunks of heavy snow that are stuck on the vehicle will, no doubt, come whipping off at some point. God help you if you are the car behind one of them when this happens.

Well since my last blog, things have been moving at their usual warp speed. Our latest batch of interns began last week and in just a few days Abbey and Kellyn have already written so much—tackling the Life in the Valley section and our monthly web stories.

Abbey starts us off in the morning...

Between the two of them it seems that every few minutes another completed piece of writing is being sent my way! Their work will debut in the March issue and they’re already excited about the day when they can page through the issue.