• After I saw Mamma Mia! on stage almost four years ago, people would ask me how it was, and my answer was pretty simple: If you love silly [...]

  In Which I Muse on Mamma Mia! and Maybe Build to a Point

  July 23, 2008
• This should make me happy, I guess: EAST LANSING, Mich. — New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held [...]

  Newsflash: Bigotry not based on fact

  July 21, 2008
• Dearest Aunt Fattie, I need fat friends. As soon as possible, please. Over the past year I’ve really started to accept my body and practice [...]

  Ask Aunt Fattie: Where can I find fat friends?

  July 21, 2008
• Hey all, if we’ve seemed a little touchy lately, it’s because we’ve been getting a lot of trolls. Some of them write gigantic [...]

  Douchehound of the day: Brevity is no longer the soul of wit

  July 18, 2008

• The Emmy nominations are out! As I said the other day, I don’t watch that much TV anymore, except for really awful reality TV I can watch [...]

  Friday Fluff: Emmy Nominations

  July 18, 2008
• This doesn’t affect Shapely Prose, but Lindsay asked that I pass along this note about a bug she’s encountered in WP 2.6, since much [...]

  Note to WordPress 2.6 Users

  July 18, 2008
• So, Marianne was mentioned in The Orlando Weekly again.  Best fat-rights blogger www.therotund.com She’s 350 pounds of soft Orlando jiggle, [...]

  Letter to the Editor

  July 18, 2008
• I just realized I have more myspace friends than Jesus does. What do you think that means? -Joy Nash

  Quote of the MFin’ Day

  July 17, 2008

• Not too long ago I was having one of those diet-think days where my inner monologue was right out of a women’s magazine. Among the thoughts [...]

  What if they were right about calories?

  July 17, 2008
• This morning’s paper had a wire story about a study showing that kids get less exercise as they get older. Obviously it’s full of the [...]

  Those lazy kids and their hours of exercise

  July 16, 2008