Wow. They look so......lean.

I'm glad they took the headcast hat off of Violet, but now mom is wearing a black space suit helmet. Her lemon face is testing the atmosphere.

@marzipan_baby: I think her cheeks are now entirely made up of dimples. They're like black holes, steadily eating away at her face.

@jenndavo: Her face is undergoing a cuteness implosion!

@ThaKadinskyPapers: I'm hoping those are just "motherfuck, it's cold" faces.

I so do NOT like men who walk ahead of their wives and children. WTF? Can he show her at least a little bit of respect?

@marzipan_baby: Stephen Hawking calls this the Shirley Temple Event Horizon.

Doesn't Ben Affleck always make that face?

@marzipan_baby: 'lemon face' - ha!

@TruculentandUnreliable: I dunno, Ben looks like he's drowning in that coat. That or he's got an umpire's vest on under there.

i think they're just cold. i enjoy this. i hate it when people look so happy and comfortable walking around in cold weather

@jenndavo: Awesomeness. Btw, it was the beginning of my yearly attempt at understanding "Brief History of Time" that caused me to lay awake last night being pissed off at Sherry Shepard (next post). Unfortunately, I am easily distracted.

GIMME THE GD BABY! OMG. I'm leaving now. Can't take it anymore.

@PhillyLass: I kind of feel you're reading too much into it. As in, these are celebrities who probably need all the concentration they can muster in order to walk straight and avoid the masses of photogs crowding them. Walking in unison with one's partner is probably the last thought on one's mind. If I were a celeb, I wouldn't be thinking about where my man is, I'd be formulating a plan of walking ("alright, so there's a bunch of them ahead, maybe cross the street, but then there's some in the crosswalk and ahead on the other side, so maybe cross the street on an angle and then cross back over and dear gods, I just made a stupid face and it's soooo going to be all over the net and I think my baby needs a diaper change and I need a drink smile smile smile").
But that's me; he could just be an inconsiderate ass.
Also, wouldn't it be more chivalrous to walk ahead of one's lady so as to protect her from the ravenous paparazzi hordes?

Is it really that cold in NY right now? A friend in Brooklyn said it was raining...wimps.

Jen Garner looks so skinny! I loove her though. Their kid is sooooo cute!!!!

@JeSuisIci: She is wearing a skirt and sheer tights, so she must not be that cold. Or wasn't planning on being outside for long.

I love Violet so bad but I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I have the same coat as her...except 8 times bigger.

Am I alone in thinking Jen Garner is meh? I saw that craptastic movie Catch and Release on cable this weekend (go ahead, make fun of me, but a slow social weekend + Timothy Olyphant = sufficient patience to watch shitty romcom), and I couldn't figure out why people think she's special. I don't dislike her, but I can't get excited about her, either. Kinda like Ben.

Now, that Violet is a real cutie pie I could get all silly for.

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen: You are definitely not alone. I loved Alias (up until the last 2 seasons that is) but she is strictly small screen. And even though she always plays to the minivan majority (tm Lainey), let's not forget that she hooked up with Ben Affleck while he was still engaged to J.Lo and wasn't above getting pregnant to get her man to the altar. Of course, Ben totally deserves to be saddled with a simpering, boring 'nice girl' after the way he treated my girl Jennifer Lopez. Especially since box office receipts didn't appear to be too hot for Gone Baby Gone and JG is the successful one.

Lord that child is cute.

Oh, I love Violet so much.

I thought Jen was really great in Juno. She totally made me cry.

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen: I kind of love Jen Garner AND "Catch and Release," which makes me want to buy a Subaru and move into an arts and crafts bungalow in Boulder. With or without hottie Timothy Olyphant. So I have no room to make fun of you for watching it on tv. I think Jen seems down to earth, and she'd be fun to hang out with. And Violet is just too freaking cute.

@topsy: Ben was never really engaged to JLo, he was just entranced by her--I saw them at a Sox game and he couldnt stop touching her--missed the whole game watching them!

She was as close to the wild side as his whitebread self will ever get, and since I am a whitebread self myself, I can say that w/o repercussions (hopefully)

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen: You are not. She bugs, she always has.

He doesn't look well. I'm not sure if its manorexia or drugs (or both)? She looks like she's sucking on something. Too bad you have to look like Violet, Suri or Angie's kids to get any love. Oh well.

I hate skirts with zippers on the front.

Yikes, what a bad photo of Jennifer. She looks like the black cloaked killer in the lame Scream movie franchise.

my 55 year old father has the same coat as Ben Affleck. And he bought it at KMart. Ten years ago.

@gunshy007: I was thinking Grim Reaper, but close enough. It's the black hood and skeletal lemon face.
That baby's pretty cute. I like her giant hat.

@phillylass I hate when guys do that too! It feels like he's not taking responsibility for them.

Yeah yeah goldenthorn I may be reading too much into it too, but jeez act like you're part of the family and not trying to subtly abandon it.

@PhillyLass: yes! the amount of time i spent five paces behind my now ex boyfriend thinking WTF.......and we didn't even have a kid.

Gone Baby Gone was the best movie I saw all year. I hope it's nominated and wins the Oscar.

As for him walking ahead of her, do we really need to read that much into it? He was probably getting the car door for them or something.

normally i'm not a ben affleck kind of gal, but he looks REALLY good in that picture.

He always looks cranky and embarrassed, but he should be - he's Ben Affleck.

The true love story appears to be between mother and daughter, which is probably for the best.

@PhillyLass: I HATE THAT TOO

I might be alone in thinking this, but DAMN Ben looks hot!

Yeah, Ben is racking up "Best New Director" awards from critics' groups all over the place, and Jen is awesome in the awesome movie Juno. Violet should be proud right now.

@PhillyLass: I know! His body language seems so cold and distant. Or maybe he wanted to keep them from getting a "trinity" shot? I hope so...

Dang, Garner giving a classic bitch look. How cool would it be, if under all that all american girl next door exterior, she was just like meeeeeee.......