Everyone’s talking about More to Love! I’m going to need to set my DVR immediately. Kate Harding has an interesting review (bolding mine) that makes me curious to watch:
As to the specific shows, having watched 2 episodes of “Drop Dead Diva†and one of “More to Love,†I’d put the former at about 70% [...]
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I love Jenna Fischer, which is why I haven’t picked up that issue of SELF. I know it would just piss me off. I mean look at the cover: two of the most promiment headlines are “LOVE YOUR BODY SECRETS (Feel Sexier At Any Size)” and “LOSE INCHES ALL OVER (You’ll Be Slimmer In Just 18 Minutes A Day).” I think I love my body more because I don’t read SELF. And Jenna doesn’t address the issue of being photoshopped at all, even though it seems pretty obvious that they did in fact photoshop the hell out of her.
Filed under: Gossip, Magazines, Media, Photoshop, TV, The Office | 9 Comments »
Ricky Gervais—creator of my favorite television show of all time and another show that makes me enjoy, of all people, Chris Martin from Coldplay—must you keep making me sad?
I feel like we’ve talked about this before—his description of himself as a “fatty,” his standup routine where he mocks Dawn French’s weight, his self-loathing, and so [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, Humor, International, NSFW, Ricky Gervais, TV, The Office, Video, WLS | 11 Comments »
Tangerina wrote in wanting to talk about my favorite television show, The Office, and their season premiere, called “Weight Loss.” I thought it was an awesome idea, and got permission to reprint her e-mail here.
Hi Mo! Love the blog. I was just writing because you asked for ideas, and I know this is a tad [...]
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As you probably know, if you know anything about me, my favorite show is The Office, and you know I’ll take any excuse to mention it in this blog. I recently discovered The Office Alliance podcast, and have been listening to episodes during my long commutes. Having run out of new episodes, I recently [...]
Filed under: Celebrities, Music, Nikki Blonsky, Ricky Gervais, TV, The Office | 20 Comments »
Melinda sends along this nicely depressing news: fat people are screwed when it comes to organ transplants.
Segev’s group found the wait to get a transplant increased along with the patient’s body mass index, a height-weight formula. Non-obese patients waited on average 39 months, the overweight waited 40 months, the obese waited 42 months, and the [...]
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So that new weight loss drug, which we shall code name “Todd Packer,” has hit the market. And it is selling like hotcakes in spite of the fact that there is an outside chance that it causes colon cancer, and that it definitely causes you to poop your pants.
“It’s probably a smart idea to [...]
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On the body_positive livejournal community, Cynthia posts a video response to the fat rant that asks why there aren’t more pro-petite websites out there?
Why is it that the larger sized people get so much more media attention? Size acceptance websites tend to skew more to the plus than to the petite, and they seem to [...]
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