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  • Saturday Ramblings

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    1am is still Saturday if you haven’t gone to bed yet, right? Note to self: The expensive twice-daily asthma med works best if the evening dose is 12 hours after the morning dose, not 18 or 20. You carry it with you. Set an alarm on your phone & use it. Don’t just turn it off. Kath posted […]

  • Music Monday

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    Kathy Mar has been making folk and filk music longer than a lot of people have been around.  She was a professional folksinger and street performer in Denver before she discovered filk, the music of science fiction & fantasy fandom.  She’s gone on to record several filk albums and won awards in filk music. And […]

  • It Came From the Search Terms

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    how does 400 pound have sex 400 pound what? If you mean £400 I’m not sure. blogs about being obese Hi! what to do super morbidly obese What do you want to do? what size is 6x plus Oh dear, plus size sizing is NOT for the weak.  For example, I wear 5x at Making […]

  • Happy New Year

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    Happy New Year, Happy New Year, May we all have a vision Now and then of a world Where every neighbor is a friend Happy New Year, Happy New Year

  • Try Some New Music

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    Several indie artists put together a sampler of music — over 70 tracks — to try. Some of it is music I’ve loved for years. “Firebird’s Child” “Light Heart” “Salad of Doom” “Tam Lin” “The Cthulhu Colada Song” “The Holly & The Ivy” “Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life” “WinterTide” “Witches’ Rune” Others are new […]

  • Love Song for Internet Trolls

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    From The Doubleclicks: It is snarky and silly and fun. I love you, even though you’re a commenter from hell the predictable way you don’t know how to spell and you’re hateful disgusting, ungrateful like you don’t understand, other people have feelings I feel like you don’t even know if you don’t enjoy a youtube […]

  • Sick

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    You know that stage of being sick where you feel fine, really, as long as you don’t actually try to DO a anything? Yeah.  Tonight I tried to make pumpkin bread & forgot to put the pumpkin in. So it’s spice bread. Anyway.  I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t try to drive or […]

  • Halloween

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    The company I’ve worked at for the last three years has parties for Halloween & trick-or-treating in the office. I’ve sometimes felt strange, in past years, to be the fat lady handing out candy.  (No cultural baggage there…!) This is the second company I’ve worked at to do the full-on trick-or-treating. Some years at the […]

  • Things to Read

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    You may have seen this poor as folk post on why poor people might not eat healthy.   There’s also a great post on why “healthy food vs junk food” infographics are inaccurate, misleading lies. From Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor at the the Health At Every Size® Blog: “Obesity-related” disease actually tracks your social status […]

  • AbFab

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    I think I discovered Absolutely Fabulous at the right time for me – I was on my own and trying to disconnect from family dysfunction.  The stone-faced Saffron politely telling her mother off became one of my icons of rationality. Well, why is today such a panic, anyway? It’s only a fashion show, and you’ve […]

  • Some Good Things

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    Photos have surfaced on Flikr of Integrity Puget Sound & various Episcopal parishes in the Seattle Pride Parade. Things that happen in Seattle: Officers assisted a man who took an early morning office chair ride.  (No one was hurt.) A new Donna Andrews book, The Hen of the Baskervilles, has arrived. A new Stop Paying Attention comic! The […]

  • Music Monday: A Talk With George

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    “A Talk With George” is a song by Jonathan Coulton about the journalist George Plimpton.  Plimpton was known for writing about what it’s like for a “layman” to take on a pro boxer or go out for the NFL.  He also co-founded The Paris Review.  The song starts out with “what if George Plimpton wanted to give you some […]

  • N things make a post

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    17) It’s the 17th week of 2013. I think. 12) I’ve been married 12 years. 11) My car (which currently isn’t starting) is 11 years old.  Probably needs a new battery. 8) I’ve interviewed eight potential coworkers recently. 5) Five loads of laundry today. This is not counting the mattress cover and comforter, which went […]

  • Friday Fun

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    OK, let’s talk about some fun stuff. @52stations tweeted this link: I also think today’s a day for Matt: Because Anything you want to share?

  • What is with Ina Garten?

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    Just for grins, I looked at which search terms have been most popular so far this year. And so far? Variations on the blog name: “living 400 lbs”, “living 400”, etc. Variations on the blog topic: “400 lbs”, “400 pounds”, “super obese”. Variations on Ina Garten’s weight: “ina garten weight”, “ina garten weigh loss”, “ina […]

  • Monday Music: Let’s Dance

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    Specifically some dance music from some of the new-to-me performers at Norwescon! From local jpop artist Rai Kamishiro’s new album is “Doki Doki Feelings” Lyrics are on bandcamp. Chiptune artist Jonny Nero Action Hero.  Here’s his Doctor Who song “Exterminate“: Lyrics are on bandcamp. And from nerdcore artist Klopfenpop comes “Don’t Panic“: Lyrics are on bandcamp.

  • Late Forties?

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    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 […]