• Volcanista is a Friend of SP, geologist, and LOST evangelizer. So, over the holidays I took a badly needed holiday vacation, and because I like [...]

  Guest blogger Volcanista: Of boobages

  January 21, 2010
• Those of you who hopped on our Golden Globe live-blogging adventure on Sunday (which was way, way more fun than I expected — GIVE [...]

  Links: Golden Globes backlash, or This one goes out to the ladies

  January 19, 2010
• Join us! Shapely Prose Live Blogs The Golden Globes

  Live Blogging is Happening Now.

  January 17, 2010
• I hate this ad. I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I [...]

  In which I am defeated by a billboard

  January 17, 2010

• Hey there, Shapelings! SP will be live blogging the The 67th Annual Golden Globes tonight! Use the link below to follow along with us all [...]

  Live Blogging the Golden Globes

  January 17, 2010
• NY Mag weighed in on the V Magazine’s Size Issue. Rather light on debate, its author seems to conflates a civil tone with holding an [...]

  But What About the Normal Women!

  January 16, 2010
• I originally posted this on my own blog I received an email the other day from a reader named Alice – whose daughter a chubby teen – [...]

  Ranty’s Machine

  January 13, 2010
• Kate writes a mash note to Gabourey Sidibe of Precious, who could not be any more fabulous if she was abducted by aliens from the Fabulous [...]

  Links: Ladies We Love

  January 12, 2010

• The beauty ideal is socially constructed and changes over time. In 1912, Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn, New York, was deemed the “most [...]

  Just a reminder

  January 12, 2010
• FJ, in searching for something totally different in Wikimedia Commons, stumbled across the following picture: Shapelings, here is your Friday [...]

  Friday fluff: What the what?

  January 8, 2010