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Read more: Kickstarter, Storytelling, and A Kitten
Kickstarter, Storytelling, and A Kitten
11 comments on Kickstarter, Storytelling, and A KittenPeople are talking about Kickstarter a lot. Indie musician Marian Call, who organizes some of the most organized shows I’ve helped with, organized a very successful Kickstarter for her first-ever tour of Europe. And did the tour, and has released the live album that the Kickstarter promised. Oh…and blogged about it. A lot of it comes down to making sure you will have supporters, and not expecting them to…
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Read more: Late Forties?
Late Forties?
On if the things that WordPress includes in its blog statistics page is “referrers”, aka, links people have followed to my page. Some are perennials, such as search engines and other fat blogs. Recently one was to a forum I didn’t recognize. Curious, I followed it to a discussion of fat and health, where I was cited as being in my “late forties”. Me: “LATE forties? 46…
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
A clear explanation of why New York’s fat hatred is much more harmful than the soda ban from Melissa McEwan: People do not die of “obesity.” Some fat people die from complications of what are commonly known as “obesity-related diseases,” like heart disease and diabetes, but those diseases have only been shown to be correlated with fat, not caused by fat. (Which is why thin people have them, too.) So it’s not even…
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Read more: Quotes: Truth
Quotes: Truth
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” —Mark Twain “…a truth you don’t understand is more dangerous than a lie.” —Mira Grant, Blackout “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S Truman “You can’t kill the truth.” — Mira Grant, Feed “The great advantage about telling the truth…
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Read more: Naming
Naming
Seeing discussion of women changing their names again. (Sigh.) But there is something is often NOT said about this, that I think should be: Practically speaking, it takes time and money to change your name. Social security office, driver’s license & car title – those are often the main things people think of. If you go in person you can probably use the same certified copy of the…
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Read more: Music Monday: Whistle While You Wait
Music Monday: Whistle While You Wait
When it’s your first time in Tok and you’re broke and just limping down the line And it’s forty below and you know that they know that you’re a hopeful from Outside And people speak distinctly as if you’re foreign And you forgot to plug your car in And you’re clearly overdressed, even for winter And your self-assurance slowly starts to splinter Oh it takes a little…
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Read more: International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day. You might want to check out the free album Talis Kimberley created for International Women’s Day: On Thursday I saw someone tweet that she’d like to celebrate International Women’s Day but she’ll be busy with “precarious part-time work”, housework, and child care. This started me thinking. International Women’s Day isn’t all that big a deal in the US, so I will celebrate by working my…
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Read more: Quotes: Rich
Quotes: Rich
“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.” —Lord Chesterfield “The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” —Don Marquis “Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they…
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Read more: “Parent-Free Life”
“Parent-Free Life”
Today I’ve lived a year without my parents. We didn’t always agree, and we especially didn’t always agree about my weight, but they were my parents and I loved them. I am not my parents. Mom, Dad, and I were three very different people. I grew up thinking of myself as one side of a triangle. But eventually I began to see myself as my own…
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Read more: Wealth Inequality
Wealth Inequality
You may have seen this chart on the actual, perceived, and ideal distributions of wealth in the US. Wealth inequality refers to this unequal distribution of financial assets among US residents. It’s related to income inequality, but refers to what you keep as opposed to what you get. Income inequality has also been increasing in the US. If you’re wondering where the numbers come from or why this is a…
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