Now THIS would be a legitimate reason to freak out… (Ad is for Nikon face recognition software – “finds faces you don’t even see” Eeeeek!) There’s the mom who confessed to loving her son more than her daughter, to the point that if her daughter died she’d be okay with it as long she could …
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photo from The Sartorialist Does this girl look fat to you? Would you describe her as “a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press”? This Italian small-time fashion blogger was photographed by big-time (perhaps the inventor the genre) street-fashion blogger The Sartorialist and in a post that …
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Source Interview anyone these days about food and no matter what their gastronomic predilections, chances are they will speak of them with a fervor bordering on religiosity. The vegan preaches her diet – nay, lifestyle in the truest sense of the word: it is not just food but an overarching style of life – with …
Confession: I start every Monday with a confession. This is getting ridiculous. It’s not like I go all Charlie Sheen over the weekend and you guys are my priest. And yet, I had a very eventful weekend! Thus far I’ve learned: 1. The vast majority of you found our anonymous Craigslist admirer to be creepy, …
“Knockers!” “Jugs!” “Fun bags!” “Sweater puppies!” Sitting in the darkened audience at the talent show my friend put on as a fundraiser for breast cancer research, I listened as all my friends called out their favorite euphemisms for boobs. I wanted to contribute – what’s more fun than sitting in a big room talking girlie …
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Note: This is hands-down the most enigmatic post I’ve ever written, not because of what it says but because of the effect it continues to have on other people. I wrote this in February of 2009, when I was not in a very good place mentally and I thought it would be a nice little …
Leave it to an incorporeal computer to give me a reality check about my body. Somewhere Isaac Asimov is smiling. But just as the Internet giveth, so does the Internet taketh away… and now I’m just confused. Every woman has a body part that she just doesn’t like much. (Strike that – while most women …
Tagline: “It’s all about men.” This is exactly the type of idiotic advertising that companies do just to get a rise out of people so we’ll all post it on our blogs and natter about it and give them lots of viral publicity and attention. Sadly, I am unable to resist the bait and so …
It seems like sometimes we fit bloggers get a bit obsessive about our bodies. (That would be the understatement of the year except that “Kanye West seems a bit off” wins every time.) We tweak what we put into our bodies and catalog what comes out. We monitor the various ways, times and parts of …
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Land mines and bulimia: those are my only two real memories of Princess Di. Being young enough that the ’80s were just a (colorful plastic-scented) blur of Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake, I wasn’t much interested in fairytale weddings unless they came with a cartoon prince and soundtrack featuring Robin Williams. So I missed all …
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