Doesn’t that headline sound nicer than this? But yeah, it basically means the same thing. Full details and notes on the future are available at kateharding.info. Thank you so much to everyone w...
Posting this on behalf of Michaela — if you have any questions, please contact her. — Kate Hi, my name is Michaela A. Null, and I am a doctoral student in Sociology at Purdue University. ...
Friend of Shapely Prose Elysia (who writes the blog Born That Way) is an evolutionary biologist, and she had some choice words for the latest dude to use evolutionary psychology as an explanation for...
Here is me telling you about a thing I wrote elsewhere! For Jezebel, specifically. A sample: So, can’t I just agree to disagree with Sarah Palin – or at least to ignore her use of the term and ...
Those of you who hate change, brace yourselves. In addition to the new template, I’ve got news. Over the last three months, three of my longtime co-bloggers have moved on (well, Sweet Machine w...
…in which I write some things other than “Hey, I’m not going to post for a while.” Specifically, some reasons why I haven’t been posting and probably still won’t f...
Tasha Fierce wrote an incredibly personal essay As Fat As I Wanna Be, which was picked up by Jezebel and has touched off a bit of a dust up in the comment section. If you value your Sanity Watcher po...
Fans of Murder, She Wrote are often as fascinated by every detail of the opening credit sequence as they are with the actual episodes. In the sequence, Jessica engages in a host of wholesome activiti...
Hey, it’s another post where all I do is explain why I’m not really posting! I’m out of town until mid-next week, and at this writing, my internet access is not quite as robust as I...
Jezebel ran a post called How Tragic Kingdom Saved My Life and while that particular album didn’t evoke a similar response in me, I adore the idea of dishing the music that’s been instrum...
Dear [name redacted]: I get it. Discussing the fabulous ordinary whiteness of being as portrayed in Stillman films such as Last Days of Disco and Metropolitan is really hot. He creates fantastic, wit...
It’s that time of year again, folks. As Fillyjonk wrote two two years ago: Of course, we strive to make EVERY day No Diet Day, but if you’ve been teetering on the edge, today is the day to try ...
I once signed up for a dating site and despite stating I was chubby/fat/whole lotta woman I frequently received messages of the “well just exactly how fat are we talking?” variety. These ...
There’s a scene half way through Educating Rita where Rita – played with gusto by the incandescent Julie Waters – details her evening spent with family and friends rather than going...
What’s currently thrilling you – pop culture wise. Books, music, movies, interesting blogs? Share with the rest of the class. Also, why aren’t you reading and commenting on Snarky...
So, hey, here’s a screenshot of one chunk of our recent spam queue. If you click to embiggen it, you will see that there is one actual spam comment in there. Additionally, there are comments by...
MSN Health is running a story about folks who have shed weight, but not the fantasy of being thin. The article – saddled with a terribly clown hornian title “Skinny Dream Bubble BurstR...
I wrote another piece for Broadsheet yesterday because this Daily Beast piece made me tremendously ranty, and I figured I might as well get paid for it. I’ve been thinking a lot about the socia...
Tasha Fierce is THE shit! Her work been featured on Racialicious and Jezebel. She’s the creative director and the real boss of IFMiB, which is to say she handles all the administrative duties w...
It’s hardly a well-kept secret that journalists can make an interviewee sound like she said pretty much anything. Those of us who are asked to speak on controversial topics know we risk seeing ...
I hate to distract anyone from the serious business of talking about how FUCKING AWESOME we all are, but it’s come to my attention that many Shapelings are spectacular cooks, some with dazzling...
So, the other night, I went to see my friend (and sometime Shapeling) Tari play at a local bar, and as usual, I was slightly surprised by how awesome she is. Not because I have any good reason to und...
So, I saw Kick-Ass yesterday, and I thought I might want to blog about it, but I wasn’t sure if A) I could articulate just what I liked about it — because I did like it — and B) I w...
Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on The Drew Carey Show) has co-authored a book with a publishing exec I’ve never heard of named Cindy Ratzlaff – the book’s website states: Ratzlaff...
Treme – HBO’s hot anticipated series by writer/producer/personal patron saint David Simon (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street) premiered last Sunday to exTREMEly glowing reviews from ...
You know Spring is truly on its way when media outlets pick up every story matching the keyword, “Dating”. The latest being so-called “Nice Guys” seeking assistance in cultiva...
A version of this entry appeared previously on Snarky’s Machine As a person who does not particularly enjoy unsolicited social engagement, I find myself locked in an epic battle to protect my p...
Because really, why would I want to restrict myself to just one aspect of why commercial air travel sucks, especially in coach, when there are so very many others? I’ve long enjoyed reading Pat...
Kate’s wonderful post on the somewhat lost art of getting absorbed in an activity — deliberately not multi-tasking (unitasking? monotasking?) — nudged me closer to a decision I̵...
So, Al bought an iPad yesterday. Don’t ask me how I didn’t see that one coming, because Al buys practically every gadget that comes along and has a particular affinity for tiny computers....
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