• Shapeling H. forwarded me an e-mail from JMS this morning, with the following graphic:   Seriously, y’all, the fat girl store is having a [...]

  Your Daily Giggle, Plus a Lesson in How Not to Appeal to Your Core Customer

  December 31, 2008
• The year is ending, which means that every website on earth is coming up with a Top 10 or Best of 2008 feature of some kind. I am reluctantly [...]

  The thinking man’s circle jerk

  December 31, 2008
• My sister-in-law just sent me this article that she first saw in the print version of The Toronto Star. She sent it because it mentions the blog, [...]

  Quick Self-Promotion/Good Article

  December 30, 2008
• I was concerned when I read the first line of this week’s Shouts and Murmurs column in the New Yorker: “People say that obesity is an [...]

  Fat humor that’s actually funny

  December 30, 2008

• 1. You eloped in Vegas?!? Dude, I KNOW. 2. Did you plan this beforehand? Kate didn’t. Al might have. (He’s being coy about that. This [...]

  The Wedding FAQ

  December 28, 2008
• So here’s what I did on Friday night

  December 28, 2008
• This post was originally written by Fillyjonk and posted on December 25, 2007. I just got back from a Christmas service run by about thirty women [...]

  From the archives: A feminist’s Christmas with nuns

  December 26, 2008
• I’ve been trying to write a deep, meaningful, eloquent but also funny post — you know, no pressure — about the potential [...]

  Not quite as merry as I had intended

  December 25, 2008

• We were thrilled when Shapeling A Sarah posted this poem as a rejoinder to a grossly fat-shaming one that is making its way around via email [...]

  A Visit from Aunt Fattie

  December 24, 2008
• We’re coming up on the Christmas season, which in the countries where most Shapelings live means that lots of people, Christmas-celebrators [...]

  Merry holiday overeating!

  December 23, 2008