Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

All right. If you keep up with the Fatosphere feed — and you do, right? — by now, you’ve seen plenty of outrage about the new Weight Watchers campaign that goes on about how diets are miserable things that don’t work… so you should try Weight Watchers instead.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I saw one of the taxi-topper ads (”Diets [...]

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We here at SP are a buxom bunch. Kate, of course, has her Rack of Doom; FJ and I, pseudonymous as we are, have not shared our chestiness with you, but rest assured, our bosoms are as big as our brains. A lot bigger, actually, if you picture that literally. If any of you Shapelings [...]

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Diet and gym ads are ramping up this week, in preparation for the short burst of business and the sustaining influx of money they’re about to get in the brand-new year. They’re getting ready for what Sarah calls The Resolutionists — the crowds of people who tell themselves every year that this will be [...]

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I feel like it’s cheating a bit to return from a week of no posting with nothing but fluff, but I’m still coming down from vacation mode, so fluff is what you shall get.
And this week’s fluff will, naturally, be Vegas-themed.

So. As Penn Jillette is fond of saying, Vegas is “a town built on [...]

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I just got back from a Christmas service run by about thirty women with guitars, oboes, awful holiday sweaters, and no-nonsense haircuts: the Benedictine nuns. I am not a religious person (in point of fact I’m an atheist, and a Jewish one at that) but I found these women both charming and inspiring. [...]

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I’ll be back Thursday night. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. Merry Tuesday to those who don’t.

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Al and I opened presents tonight, since we’re heading to Vegas tomorrow and didn’t want to lug them there.
He got me a Flip video camera. I got him Bacon Salt*. Hilarity ensued.

Yeah, you can expect more of this shit in the future. No need to thank me.
*Among other things.

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Conversation reported by my sister J…
Dad [on phone with J]: So, what’s Kate’s blog about, now?
Stepmom [in background]: THE OPPOSITE OF SCIENCE!

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Okay, this isn’t really fluffy, but since it’s a non-fat-related meme, and we are in the midst of the Pre-holiday Cavalcade of Fluff, I’m categorizing it as such.
The lovely Harriet Brown said some very kind things about my writing and tagged me with a “Roar for Powerful Words.” What I love about this meme, other [...]

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Okay, since I’m not the only sap who can be brought to tears by John Denver and the Muppets, let’s just go ahead and have us a weepfest. Unfortunately, I can’t find the Muppet version of “When the River Meets the Sea” on YouTube (though the Emmet Otter version — which, go figure, sounds almost [...]

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