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Taking a leave 23 Mar 2010 | 04:13 am
Hi all... So I'm on leave from my teaching job, and I guess I've unintentionally taken a leave from this blog. I didn't mean to, but now that it's happened, I thought I'd write a quick post and kind ...
Best coffee in Seattle 11 Dec 2009 | 09:20 am
Hi everyone, I've got a post brewing on the Fat Studies reader (in a nutshell: it is awesome), but in the mean time I thought I'd share something I learned recently, which is that Seattle has some fab...
Omg panic: only 92% of "obese" people think they need to lose weight! 24 Nov 2009 | 06:34 am
This is not an Onion article, but it's so depressingly hilarious that you'd think it might be. The article starts with a statistic: in the Dallas Heart study, of the 2056 "obese" people surveyed, 8% ...
Strikes and gutters 13 Nov 2009 | 04:00 am
I was so excited to see this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week. It's a really nice introduction to fat studies -- naturally, since the authors are editors of a Fat Studies Reader ...
Fat Guy in a Little Controversy 30 Oct 2009 | 01:31 am
When I saw this ad, my first reactions were: Aww, fat guy in a little coat! I love that scene! and then Hey, Chris Farley is dead, so what the hell are they doing using him in a DirecTV commercial? Ap...
Nice 6 Oct 2009 | 04:05 pm
I was glad to see this article on Slate.com today. And, happily, I had some kind of problem loading the comments page, so I wasn't able to read the comments (despite which fact I am still confident t...
CNN clueless when it comes to... a lot of things 30 Sep 2009 | 12:48 pm
CNN.com headline: "Parents clueless when it comes to kids' growth charts". The article basically says that when doctors (et al) distribute pediatric growth charts to parents, the parents often don't u...
Fat and the health care debate 16 Sep 2009 | 04:47 am
Liberals: if you think that the solution to all our nation's health care problems, as well as the key to paying for a national health care plan, resides in getting rid of fat people, you are in good c...
Automatically refreshing 27 Jul 2009 | 10:50 am
(I got tired of the SkyMall catalog shtick.) On recommendation from Guy Fieri (a.k.a. "Guido"), we decided to check out Taylor's Automatic Refresher. For those not familiar with Guido's oeuvre, he's ...
The Fish & Farm Carrot Cake Cocktail. 21 Jul 2009 | 06:28 pm
So we met up with a buddy at Fish & Farm in San Francisco, a nifty gastropub that I highly recommend. They're doing some very cool stuff with good ingredients that are local, organic, etc. Another int...
