• I’m meeting a woman for lunch today because we both have bags from the same company. I saw her bag, said “nice bag,” and it [...]

  Friday Fluff: I see you’ve got braces. I have braces too.

  March 13, 2009
• At a recent meeting I sat behind a woman who I thought might be my former dance TA. They had the same hair and were both extremely thin, the kind [...]

  Try this on for size

  March 12, 2009
• So this idea is so dumb that I don’t want to give it too much ink — certainly not as much as the BBC did, christ — but I got a [...]

  I’m a chocoholic, I’m addicted to chocahol

  March 12, 2009
• Fluff has been moved up to Tuesday because chances of any of us posting anything substantial today (or, uh, this week) are incredibly slim.  So, [...]

  Tuesday Fluff: Eff It

  March 10, 2009

• From the IWD website: IWD is now an official holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, [...]

  Happy International Women’s Day!

  March 8, 2009
• Yee fuckin’ haw. Zuzu e-mailed me earlier with the news that Sanjay Gupta has withdrawn himself from consideration for the Surgeon General [...]

  Gupta out of Running for Surgeon General

  March 6, 2009
• A reader alerted us to a Daily Beast opinion piece in which writer Lee Aitken argues that the best way to keep your kids healthy is to tell them [...]

  Spare the shame, spoil the child

  March 6, 2009
• Did y’all see this? Forever 21 is launching a plus-size line, called Faith 21, starting in May. That’s the good news.  The bad news? [...]

  Forever 21 Launching Plus-Size Line

  March 4, 2009

• I’ve been having some problems with belly dance costumes. It can be hard to find plus-size costuming, but that’s not really been the [...]

  On squeaky wheels

  March 3, 2009
• Seriously? Seriously? (If you’re not reading Sociological Images, btw, you should start.)

  Here’s one for Sociological Images

  March 2, 2009