Comments on: Reading Recommendations

By: Harriet

Harriet — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:15:17 +0000

Thanks for the props, Kate! I want that love-your-body pledge to disseminate far and wide, so folks, feel free to pass it along.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:56:08 +0000

Wait, my handwriting is definitely worse than Fillyjonk’s, and I don’t have ADD. Does that make me British?

My god, I think it does!

(Messy handwriting is just one of those details that, on top of a whole bunch of other ADD symptoms, helps to confirm the diagnosis, insofar as it can be confirmed.)

By: sweetmachine

sweetmachine — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:38:51 +0000

I do cross my 7s! and sometimes my 0s.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:28:32 +0000

my handwriting is definitely worse than Fillyjonk’s

Yeah, you should start crossing your Zs so people don’t mistake your Ls for them!

By: sweetmachine

sweetmachine — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:06:33 +0000

Wait, my handwriting is definitely worse than Fillyjonk’s, and I don’t have ADD. Does that make me British?

By: sumac

sumac — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:56 +0000

I highly recommend EAT FAT by Richard Klein. He’s a cultural studies theorist along the lines of Roland Barthes (also fat). He’s brilliant and the book is a great and hilarious historical and contemporary cultural study of fat. As far as I remember–um, I think I read it like 9 years ago. Still pretty sure it’s great though.

By: apricotmuffins

apricotmuffins — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:00:14 +0000

‘so and so’ being Professor Patrick Basham, of course.

By: apricotmuffins

apricotmuffins — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:58:39 +0000

ah, monswoooon…. i have gotten many of my most fantastic clothes from there at bargain prices during their sales…. mmmmmmmm.

also, I’d like to tell you where the article in point 2) appears in the independent. The front page is littered with ‘ DRASTIC PRESCRIPTION FOR OUR HEALTH CRISIS’ and inside it talks about the obesity epidemic and drinkingsmokingtakingdrugseatingfriedfoodsOHGOD and how we need to take drastic action. in a little caption at the bottom, they point you towards the article on page somethingorother as ‘so and so doesnt believe the obesity epidemic is real!’

I can feel the mocking oozing from their pores.

but hey, at least its in there!

By: kateharding

kateharding — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:24:06 +0000

Also Monsoon.

Word.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:37:33 +0000

I could never live in England because they stopped making mint Wispas and I’m mad at England now.

Also, the government seems to be ragingly fatphobic.

But I could probably forgive them, for the accents and the weather and how old everything is and also I generally really dig England. Also Monsoon.