MamaPop Recommends: Amalah's Picks for September

Recommended Book or Publication: Allure, also known as my secret weapon for all things Advice Smackdown. Great makeup and hair tips, a good mix of high-end and drugstore product reviews and recommendations, and thanks to their September issue, a in-depth take on the trainwreck that is our Brit-Brit that didn't make me feel dirty. The Thinking Woman's gossip rag, if you will.

Recommended TV Show: Please please please watch 30 Rock this season. Please? I know it won Emmy Awards and all but DEAR GOD, so did Arrested Development. (Not that 30 Rock is Arrested Development or anything, but still. It's a really funny show and I want it to stick around for awhile.) (And remember: if you watched the first couple eps last season and didn't like them, give it another try.)

Recommended Movie: You know what? I recommend that you NOT rent Deja Vu, starring Denzel Washington. BAD, y'all. A messed-up, nonsensical plot and the WORST sudden twist into bad time travel sci-fi this side of late night basic cable. Unless you want an evening of yelling at the TV because THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE...BUT YOU JUST SAID...WAIT. OH COME ON, skip it.

Recommended Other Random Thingie: Look, if my stubborn-ass barely-talking two-year-old can now walk into the room and sign that he is hungry, and also a little sad, and would like a hug, and that he loves me, all in one long string of hand motions, your kid can too. Get some Signing Time DVDs, mamas. Will change your tantrum-filled lives.