My Oscar picks. Best Picture The Hurt Locker In addition to expanding the field from five films to ten, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has instituted an Instant Runoff Voting system. Leaving aside the merits or flaws of this system, it’s a provocative decision that could result in a big night for … Continue reading »
Posted in February 2010 …
Gobsmacked
According to the Vancouver Sun, there’s a new way to torture yourself through dieting. Literally: The medical procedure involves stitching a small piece of polyethylene mesh onto a patient’s tongue, making it painful to ingest solid foods and forcing a low-calorie, liquid diet. You pay a nice man named Dr Nikolas Chugay to spend 10 … Continue reading »
Quote of the Day
We’ve gotten ourselves to the point where we’re behaviorally and neurochemically dependent upon food. -MeMe Roth, during Nightline’s big fat debate That’s right, you lazy gluttons! This is what your lack of respect for your bodies, the healthcare system, your fellow taxpayers and MeMe’s certificate from a degree mill have wrought. We are now dependent on … Continue reading »
Leaving to spend more time with my baby-flavored doughnuts
Well, bah. This is hardly the sort of thing to devote a post to. It belongs in some second-tier WordPress tab labeled “Things Muttered by A Sarah In An Offhand Way While Looking At The Floor, Immediately Before She Offers Pastries In Her Compulsive Approval-Seeking Way.” Oh well. Here’s what I’ve realized, folks: I’m a … Continue reading »
Friday fluff: Hipster puppies
Have you seen Hipster Puppies yet? I am pretty sure it is why the gods invented Tumblr. I can’t decide which is my favorite, this one or this one but I am pretty damn happy about them both. Feel free to share puppies, lemurs, new blogs, weekend plans, what have you.
Read more Kate
If you haven’t yet read Kate’s latest piece on the Kevin Smith/Southwest Airlines debacle, get thee to Broadsheet, stat. It is definitive, and it is moving, and it will remind you of why you started reading Kate’s work in the first place. Whenever the issue of whether larger people should be forced to buy two … Continue reading »
Guest Blogger Mean Asian Girl: Oh? No! Or, Why I didn’t participate in the Facebook doppelganger meme
You may remember friend of SP Mean Asian Girl from her previous guest post, The Fantasy of Being White. We loved that post so much that we asked her to weigh in on that most vexing of seemingly innocuous little internet games: the Facebook celebrity twin meme. Thanks, MAG! — Sweet Machine Oh? No! Or, … Continue reading »
“but who can distinguish one human voice amid such choruses of desire”
America lost a great voice this weekend: the poet Lucille Clifton died. She was 73 years old. Clifton wrote wonderful, poignant, witty poems whose formal simplicity belies their emotional and political depth. She wrote of the realities of living in a large, black, female body in a racist, sexist culture; she survived cancer and wrote … Continue reading »
Kevin Smith Kicked off Southwest Flight for Being Fat
So, a famous person has finally been fucked by an airline’s fat policy. Director Kevin Smith got booted off a Southwest plane tonight, after he was already settled in “WITH ARM RESTS DOWN,” as he put it on Twitter, where he’s been documenting the experience. The captain apparently deemed him a “safety risk.” I’ll let … Continue reading »
Friday Fatshion: Lucie Lu
Here’s a sneak peek into the behind-the-scenes work here at SP: Practically every email thread among the five of us, whether it’s about blog biz or work gripes or righteous feminist anger, eventually turns into a discussion of dresses. What can I say? We like dresses, and I think part of the reason we cohere … Continue reading »
