Category: fluff
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Things to Read
3 comments on Things to ReadThis is kind of a mishmash ;) If you’ve seen comments about “dickwolves” and PAX and wondered what it was about, JetWolf has a nice summary. Author Seanan McGuire addressed why fixing the US healthcare system is so terribly, terribly important this week. Seanan has discussed why she needs health insurance here and here. Seanan’s new […]
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Overanalyzing, The Magazine
Anyone know who created this parody? It’s so perfect – “The Shame and Guilt” issue indeed: A friend linked to the image; it and a writeup of “how insane and sexist” women’s magazines tend to be is here. Do you read women’s magazines regularly? UPDATE: Per The Atlantic this was created by Cracked.com.
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Things to Read
A review of the book Deadly Spin, which is an inside look at how for-profit insurance companies use PR to make their policies palatable. From a piece on why the L.A. public schools are not participating in a reality TV show: “Reality TV has a formula. You either have to have drama or create conflict to […]
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Dancing to “Baby Got Back”
From Ragan of Dances with Fat comes this competitive dance number set to Jonathon Coulton’s version of “Baby Got Back”: Whether you are going dancing tonight or not, I hope you enjoy the video. Best to all for a happy new year!
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Partridges and A Pear Tree
You may have to be a certain era (The Partridge Family) to get this, but from the computer of Alison Bechdel comes this little video.
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I seem to have a theme this week…
From the Vancouver BC Aquarium comes this video.
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Music Monday: Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime
Chiron Beta Prime was commissioned for a corporate Christmas card with a “futuristic theme”. Lyrics and a free MP3 are available. Here Jonathon Coulton performs the song live with help from Paul and Storm and a guest from the audience. (During concerts, victims volunteers from the audience come up to do one particular line […]
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Dancin’
In a recent Fatcast, Lesley mentioned visualizing the hippos and elephants dancing in Fantasia when she’s stressed. Which got it in my head. So now I’m sharing the visual with you. ;)
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Gowns and Gowns
A couple random thoughts: The hospital gowns at the doctor’s office are always too small. I know I could buy my own, but that seems like overkill. Today, though, I was just going in for a pap smear, so I wore a dress that could easily hiked up and just removed my panties and shoes. […]
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Virtual Window Shopping: Holiday Lingerie
[Looking at nifty supersize clothing, which is to say, clothing I can wear. Preferably modeled on actual fat people.] You guys. I cannot believe this. Lane Bryant has Santa-themed lingerie in my size. The bra? Comes in 36C to 44DDD, which, y’know, I’m wearing a 44DDD bra right now. The matching thong or skirt? 26-28, […]
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Stay Positive!
If you’ve ever been frustrated by people telling you that “keeping a positive attitude” is important for treating something like cancer, read this.
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Music Monday: Save Yourselves!
Okay, I’ve posted Seanan McGuire’s song Wicked Girls before. (Pre-orders for the album? Available. Posters of the lyrics? Also available.) If you haven’t heard it, this is how she performed it with friends at Orycon. Left to right: Sunnie Larsen, Michelle “Vixy” Dockrey, Seanan McGuire, Tony Fabris, Autumn. What you may not know, if […]
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Hosting Thanksgiving? Tips to reduce stress
Okay, this is kind of US-centric, but The Onion posted some funny tips to make hosting a family Thanksgiving less stressful, including: Put the adults at the kids’ table, and keep the kids in the car. To keep your mother happy, seat her directly across from her one good child who actually did something with his […]
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I Love This Dress
Evans calls it a “blue velvet drape pocket dress”. I’ve been calling it the “Beth Ditto dress”, “blue velvet dress”, or “the dress” for short. Oh, and it is — at least, it feels shorter than this picture appears (perhaps because the picture was taken by someone taller than I): The dress arrived […]
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A year or two ago …
Two years ago, I wrote 2 of the most-read posts of this blog: on stress incontinence and jock itch. I worked hard on both of those posts. I was a bit embarrassed to admit they were problems I deal with, but I also felt that writing a bad post on either would be worse […]
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Ditto: Standing In The Way Of Control
Beth Ditto, lead singer of the band Gossip, is in the news again, this time taking on the belief that thin=healthy and fat=not healthy. “I’m not an unhealthy person and… one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is… you do a lot of proving yourself all the time.” She […]
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