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 musicals and ABBA, you’ll love it. If you don’t love one or both of those things, you’ll want to rip your own ears off. This is the … Continue reading »
Posted in July 2008 …
Newsflash: Bigotry not based on fact
This should make me happy, I guess: EAST LANSING, Mich. — New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their “normal weight” colleagues. With the findings, employers are urged to guard against the use of … Continue reading »
Ask Aunt Fattie: Where can I find fat friends?
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 HAES. I stopped dieting and started living life to the fullest. I’ve become more outgoing, I dress better and am much more confident. The only problem? I have very few … Continue reading »
Douchehound of the day: Brevity is no longer the soul of wit
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 screeds about how we’re delusional and should probably die violently (before our inevitable death from our puddles of fat, natch); some, like our friend “Ripley” below, are more pithy. Just as I … Continue reading »
Friday Fluff: Emmy Nominations
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 online. (Because if you’re only going to allow one show back into your viewing schedule, clearly, Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods should be it.) But … Continue reading »
Note to WordPress 2.6 Users
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 of the fatosphere is probably using it. There is a bug in the recently released version of WordPress (2.6). As far as i’m aware, it’s not affecting blogs hosted on wordpress.com, but it will … Continue reading »
Letter to the Editor
So, Marianne was mentioned in The Orlando Weekly again. Best fat-rights blogger www.therotund.com She’s 350 pounds of soft Orlando jiggle, and she says the body mass index is bullshit and people should recognize rights for those who are beyond pleasantly plump. She’s even posed nude to prove that point. So if you’re tubby and need … Continue reading »
Quote of the MFin’ Day
I just realized I have more myspace friends than Jesus does. What do you think that means? -Joy Nash
What if they were right about calories?
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 I caught myself thinking was this (you’ll find it familiar, I’m betting): “If I only ate a couple hundred fewer calories a day, I bet I could lose weight.” … Continue reading »
Those lazy kids and their hours of exercise
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 nonsense you’ve come to expect; the headline I read talked about “lazy” kids, the article says that teenagers are “sluggish.” There’s no mention made of the piles of work and … Continue reading »
