jlo and ben get hitched then ditched

[angeli]

Jul 24, 2022 14:53:07 GMT mel said:

Those first shots are so ridiculously staged, but I like JLo's dress. Do they have someone to blot their foreheads between pap pics or do they just not sweat? I can't imagine going on a trip to Europe right now given the heat wave.

LOL -- That second picture looks like a magazine ad for that red purse.

[mel]

Why would Jennifer Garner want to go to the wedding? So many articles about that today. They seem to get along but even if I liked my ex, I wouldn't go sweat at his wedding. JLo and Ben are rich, yet they decided to throw an outdoor wedding in Georgia in August. Wouldn't the bugs have been terrible?

Casey Affleck not being there is much more interesting. I'm curious about Leah Remini too. She always seemed like JLo's closest pal.

[waterslide]

Well, if I put myself in Jennifer Garner's Keds, I would say that even beyond the fact that it's uncomfortable to go to your ex's wedding (usually), it would be even more awkward because Jennifer G was supposed to be the good, normal, down-to-earth girl-next-door savior of tortured, troubled Ben Affleck after he dated the thirsty and attention-hungry JLo. And I feel like Ben is the whiny kind of shit who would dump all of his issues with Jennifer L on Jennifer G so she probably did, rightly or wrongly, see herself as a stable influence in Ben's life. And one could argue, from afar, that it's kind of like Jennifer G (who I'm not saying is perfect...she has her own style of attention whoring) put Humpty Ben back together again and JLo reaped the rewards. I'm not saying any of that is rational, but if I were Jen G, I might feel that way.

[trixie]

Ok, so maybe parts of Georgia are nice, years ago, I spent 3 weeks in Atlanta for some on-the-job training and what I remember the most were all the homeless people sleeping in vacant lots when we went to a restaurant downtown.

Anyway, if I had $8m to spend on a property, it wouldn't be in Georgia. I'm sure Savannah would be a lovely place to visit but all I think about is high humidity and palmetto bugs.

[sputnik]

^^^
Um, homeless people sleeping everywhere is pretty much every major city in America. You should see DC now. It was always bad and there were always encampments under bridges and stuff but they’re everywhere now.

I’m wondering if he didn’t buy in Georgia for tax reasons too? Why else would anyone non trumpy and crazy spend that much money in a red state?

[waterslide]

I am the weirdo who kind of likes heat and humidity, so it's appealing to me (for my fibro), although the middle part of this summer did try me with the heat. I felt like I was melting every day. The palmetto begs would be a big learning curve for me. There are some key places I'd like to see in Atlanta, but weirdly I don't know that I want to live there.

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PS. about the homeless people...they are definitely everywhere.  I think it's just that in the Chicago area (downtown, the loop, and the suburbs, not the outer neighborhoods), they shuffle them around more so they aren't obviously living in an entire community.  There's a lot of panhandling at the train stations, etc. When I was in NYC, there were people sleeping on the sidewalk in the middle of the day and on doorsteps and for some reason in my experience, you don't see that as much in Chicago.  I mean, you do see it, but it's not as prevalent. Maybe because it's just not safe in Chicago for anyone, but also Chicago is a lot about appearance.  Even in the suburbs, I see homeless people, sometimes a few to an intersection, with signs asking for money.  I mean, when the café was open at WF, homeless people were setting up camp in there.  And I think even Lower Wacker still has a lot of homeless down there, though they do try to move people out of there.

Also agree that Ben A doesn't strike me as the sort to find Georgia a great place to live so maybe it is a tax thing.  He could just live in Massachusetts in a nice house there...

[czb]

waterslide - st simons is nice but cumberland island is pretty special. at least it was when i visited >35 years ago. i'm sure it's changed since it got a lot of attention after jfk jr's wedding there. IF you go, don't go jul-aug, way way too hot.

and agree with sput about the homeless, they're everywhere. atlanta is a super nice city, it is diverse and has a lot of fun things to do. wouldn't impugn it because of the homeless.

if it had 8mill to blow on a 2nd home anywhere i would probably not pick rural GA. but that's me. *shrugs*

[trixie]

Aug 22, 2022 21:33:09 GMT sputnik said:

^^^
Um, homeless people sleeping everywhere is pretty much every major city in America. You should see DC now. It was always bad and there were always encampments under bridges and stuff but they’re everywhere now.

I’m wondering if he didn’t buy in Georgia for tax reasons too? Why else would anyone non trumpy and crazy spend that much money in a red state?

Aug 22, 2022 21:49:31 GMT waterslide said:

eta -
PS. about the homeless people...they are definitely everywhere.  I think it's just that in the Chicago area (downtown, the loop, and the suburbs, not the outer neighborhoods), they shuffle them around more so they aren't obviously living in an entire community.  There's a lot of panhandling at the train stations, etc. When I was in NYC, there were people sleeping on the sidewalk in the middle of the day and on doorsteps and for some reason in my experience, you don't see that as much in Chicago.  I mean, you do see it, but it's not as prevalent. Maybe because it's just not safe in Chicago for anyone, but also Chicago is a lot about appearance.  Even in the suburbs, I see homeless people, sometimes a few to an intersection, with signs asking for money.  I mean, when the café was open at WF, homeless people were setting up camp in there.  And I think even Lower Wacker still has a lot of homeless down there, though they do try to move people out of there.

Aug 22, 2022 22:26:37 GMT czb said:

and agree with sput about the homeless, they're everywhere. atlanta is a super nice city, it is diverse and has a lot of fun things to do. wouldn't impugn it because of the homeless.

if it had 8mill to blow on a 2nd home anywhere i would probably not pick rural GA. but that's me. *shrugs*

lol, I guess I should clarify I was in my early 20s so I'd never seen that and it's what I remember most. I am not so sheltered that I don't know there are homeless people everywhere. When I worked in Chicago, you would see the same ones in the neighborhood, bumming cigarettes, getting free lunches, asking for money. There was one guy who hung out at the train station and I would see him at other locations during the day when I walked somewhere to get lunch. He definitely know the train schedule though because he was always there like clockwork.

[waterslide]

Aug 22, 2022 22:51:30 GMT trixie said:

Aug 22, 2022 21:33:09 GMT sputnik said:

^^^
Um, homeless people sleeping everywhere is pretty much every major city in America. You should see DC now. It was always bad and there were always encampments under bridges and stuff but they’re everywhere now.

I’m wondering if he didn’t buy in Georgia for tax reasons too? Why else would anyone non trumpy and crazy spend that much money in a red state?

Aug 22, 2022 21:49:31 GMT waterslide said:

eta -
PS. about the homeless people...they are definitely everywhere.  I think it's just that in the Chicago area (downtown, the loop, and the suburbs, not the outer neighborhoods), they shuffle them around more so they aren't obviously living in an entire community.  There's a lot of panhandling at the train stations, etc. When I was in NYC, there were people sleeping on the sidewalk in the middle of the day and on doorsteps and for some reason in my experience, you don't see that as much in Chicago.  I mean, you do see it, but it's not as prevalent. Maybe because it's just not safe in Chicago for anyone, but also Chicago is a lot about appearance.  Even in the suburbs, I see homeless people, sometimes a few to an intersection, with signs asking for money.  I mean, when the café was open at WF, homeless people were setting up camp in there.  And I think even Lower Wacker still has a lot of homeless down there, though they do try to move people out of there.

Aug 22, 2022 22:26:37 GMT czb said:

and agree with sput about the homeless, they're everywhere. atlanta is a super nice city, it is diverse and has a lot of fun things to do. wouldn't impugn it because of the homeless.

if it had 8mill to blow on a 2nd home anywhere i would probably not pick rural GA. but that's me. *shrugs*

lol, I guess I should clarify I was in my early 20s so I'd never seen that and it's what I remember most. I am not so sheltered that I don't know there are homeless people everywhere. When I worked in Chicago, you would see the same ones in the neighborhood, bumming cigarettes, getting free lunches, asking for money. There was one guy who hung out at the train station and I would see him at other locations during the day when I walked somewhere to get lunch. He definitely know the train schedule though because he was always there like clockwork.

I figured that you had definitely seen homeless people before. lol  I was just trying to say that homelessness looks different in different places, just like poverty looks different down south than it does in IL.  I would agree that it would be odd to see an entire community of homeless people up here. I've never really seen that except for Lower Wacker.  And yeah, when I was at the train stations (Union and Ogilvie/Northwestern) every day, you would definitely see familiar faces in the same places at the same time.  

czb Agreed, if I had 8 million dollars to blow on a house...well, if I were going to move to Georgia, I would probably buy a way smaller house, but that's just me, and I'd keep the rest of the money for a second house somewhere else or whatever.  I don't know that much Cumberland Island, but I have to look that up.  I like Georgia (minus the bad things about it), but again, part of my reason for wanting to go down there was because it's cheap so Ben's in a different sitch than I am.  If $8m fell into my lap, I'd rather have a tiny to small place somewhere in or near NYC.  

[angeli]

If Jennifer Garner was "working on a project in Texas," then why was she shopping in West Virginia?

[czb]

isn't her family from WV?

anyway, i would rather shop in a big box store than go to jlo's wedding. liza minelli's wedding would've been a lot more fun.

[waterslide]

Hell, I would rather have gone to Goop's wedding. The one to Brad Falchuk was gorgeous.

[czb]

i dunno. it looked a bit pretentious to me. but i am anti-goop.

[waterslide]

I thought it was understated pretentious for her and I liked the woodsy outdoorsiness. And best of all the bar looked nice iirc.

[czb]

agree with that.

but it killed me that brad's suit was WAY down on the list .... below the calligrapher!

goop.com/wellness/relationships/gwyneth-paltrow-brad-falchuk-wedding/