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 May 16, 2008 by Sweet Machine
Check out this actual headline from the BBC today. Hint: it’s at the bottom of the list.
The story itself is the usual rubbish (accompanied by the ultimate headless fatty, the disembodied stomach) about ZOMG MORE CALORIES and ZOMG MORE CARS. We all know, of course, that all fat people eat five times as much as [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by fillyjonk
So, remember how when you were younger you used to read Sweet Valley High books and feel kind of terrible about yourself because of the constant insistence on how Jessica and Elizabeth were a “perfect size 6″?
Well, I guess Random House felt bad that size 6 teenagers were being denied the profound sense of failure [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2008 by kateharding
In comments about the tragic Lane Bryant shooting, Elusis said:
At this point I’m really scared to hear what the late-night shows and the Interwebs will dredge up in terms of “comedy” responses.
Lots of discussion about the inevitable fat jokes followed that, and Richard Roeper — yes, as many of us have been saying, THAT Richard [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2008 by kateharding
So, Lindsay at BABble noticed that there’s a blogger out there plagiarizing entire posts from other fatosphere blogs, AND their comments (delightfully, he even changes female names of commenters to male ones), AND… drumroll… the friggin’ NYT article on the fatosphere. Into which he’s inserted himself, at the expense of FatGrrl. (“Smart, sassy and irreverent, [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2008 by fillyjonk
I would be inclined to call this article the dumbest piece of writing ever writ. However, in the face of things like the Mississippi bill, can that still be considered true? Discuss.
(Thanks for the heads-up, Alison.)
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Posted on November 5, 2007 by kateharding
So, Al’s got this friend who reads the blog but doesn’t comment, because when he did comment here, I tended to yell at him a lot. I like him, and he’s ridiculously smart, but he’s one of those guys who enjoys arguing for the sake of it — or, more specifically, for the sake of [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2007 by kateharding
For the second time in a week, I find myself wondering if the BBC is seriously just fucking with us. Just when you thought evolutionary theorists were the reasonable ones, along comes Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics to tell us that H.G. Wells was right — somewhere down the line, the human [...]
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