Happy day-that-only-comes-every-four-years! And although I've been too busy lately to pay attention to my blog properly (or even make occasional posts to my Twitter feed), I decided I would leap (ha) on this opportunity to post a few things that make me jump for joy. Margaret Cho's awesome rant about getting mad on Twitter at people who criticize her face...[ read more ]
So, as I recently Tweeted about, comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been asking viewers to play pranks on their kids and record the results. For Halloween, he encouraged people to tell their kids they ate all the Halloween candy. The results are fairly predictable - the kids are shocked, disbelieving, angry, tearful. The Huffington Post called it "hilarious," and said "Yes,...[ read more ]
From cartoonist Ampersand, a piece about what Kate Harding called the "Fantasy of Being Thin":
Neuroscientists Dr. Bradley Voytek and Dr. Tim Verstynen have been posting an excellent series on the zombie brain. They've asked questions like "Why are zombies so hungry for your flesh?" and "What's up with all that moaning?" and used that knowledge to suggest how to survive the zombie apocalypse. I certainly feel safer now knowing that if they come for...[ read more ]
A quick update to highlight this post by the awesome Ragen Chastane: Or, as she and Marilyn Wann and others have noted, the only thing you can tell for sure from looking at a fat person is how much prejudice you carry about fat people.
