Posted on July 3, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Several years ago, my brother J coined what has become an eminently useful phrase in my repertoire: spaghetti language. Spaghetti language is what you speak when you’re half-asleep and you think you’re having a real conversation but actually are spewing gibberish. (The phrase, naturally, was coined in spaghetti language: J was trying to have a [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Sweet Machine
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and the living, as they say, is easy. Or at least, it’s been easy for me the last week because I’ve been on a little staycation since my classes/orals/grading frenzy ended; I have stuff to work on over the summer, but suddenly I live in a world of [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by Sweet Machine
We haven’t talked a whole lot about crafting and fat in the past, but I know we have some crafty Shapelings out there! (Has anyone knit or crocheted an Adipose cell yet?) I’m an obsessive knitter myself (though the level of obsession ratchets up and down depending on my school schedule), and I’ve been delighted [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Friend of Shapely Prose and superstar-of-the-near-future Joy Nash has a new Fat Rant video out! And it is completely fabulous. Behold!
Feel free to use this thread both to lavish praise on Joy (or to share constructive criticism) and to list your favorite comebacks.
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Posted on June 15, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Stacey Fearnall, a waitress in Ontario, was fired after shaving her head for charity. As Meowser informed us recently, not having the “right” amount or kind of hair can lead women to suicidal thoughts. But as this article reminds us, even if you voluntarily reject your feminine duty to have luscious, fuck-me hair, others are [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sweet Machine
In honor of our new bouncy castle theme (and because we just can’t seem to stop posting this week!), please enjoy this bouncing banjo baby. I can’t figure out how to embed it with this newfangled Flickr video nonsense, so watch it here for now (link warning: music plays automatically). (If any WordPress users can [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Via Feministing, this NYT article describes the “facelifts” that classic 80s cartoon characters are getting. The PR people say it’s about updating them to connect with modern kids, but this update might remind you of another 80s makeover we’ve discussed recently.
Here, for instance, is Strawberry Shortcake, past and present:
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Sweet Machine
A pattern I’ve noticed with trolls, snarky linkers, and even friendly dissenters who take issue with our “Don’t You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy?” post is that some people really, really don’t like the following statement:
Diets don’t work. No, really, not even if you don’t call them diets. If you want to tell me about how [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by Sweet Machine
One thing we’ve consistently had bloggerly trouble with around here is people getting confused about who writes which post. Our WordPress layout doesn’t help us out, so we put our icons in our posts to help out. However, given that FJ and I are pseudonymous and Kate isn’t, people still tend to get confused, since [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by Sweet Machine
So I basically assume that most Shapelings also read Shakesville, since we link there a lot and of course our Kate is a star Shaker… but just in case you don’t, allow me to direct your attention to Liss’s righteous protest against the trend of celebrity pregnancy spotting.
And of course girls growing up in a [...]
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