I feel like I’ve seen this trend become a thing during my lifetime and I saw it as a pushback against the summer culture that reigned in the 80s and 90s. Women started enjoying a season where we get to be less social, more comfortably dressed and eating rich, delicious foods with less judgement from those around us. Su…

Ugh he continues to dominate the race for worst Chris. 

Oh man... I could tell you some stories about several bands listed in this article. I was in a weird, kind of exploitive relationship with a guy in high school and so I was very much in the scene from the 2004-2007 era in Vegas. I was close with several local bands who were always “on the verge” of making it and some…

I was big into emo but what appealed about it to me was relating to the frustration and feelings of disenchantment, betrayal, tragic romance, bitterness, and self-loathing. It wasn’t until some years later that I recognized that the men who wrote these songs weren’t even remotely considering that the reason some women…

“Look, virtually nobody is getting sick from this. Just the fat, the poor, the old, those people that have ever been previously ill, the young, tall people and short people, a couple dogs. Pretty much nobody is getting it! We should in no way change our behavior or attempt to mitigate this plague.”

The best toilet paper roll hack is to give them to your gerbil assuming you have a gerbil. I had one as a kid and those things loved chewing on toilet paper rolls.

The wellness movement is largely built on the magical thinking we can control our fate with the correct behavior. Surely if we do enough yoga and eat only the correct things and find inner peace we’ll never ever get sick.

“We have found soup to be easy to digest in the evenings, which is why a lighter meal such as soup, salads or veggie-prominent dinners are encouraged while on the program.”

None of these “health” and “wellness” efforts will ever be effective because this country has the most fucked up ideas about what good health really means. Since the mid-20th century, good health equals skinny and youthful. That’s it. Doesn’t matter how you got skinny and youthful looks and stayed that way. You could…

Ways to significantly increase Wellness:

A transvestite serial killer plot would get you laughed out of any creative writing class.

Oof, I read the first couple of Strike books and couldn’t get over how mean-spirited they are. Just full of awful stuff that, when you look back on, was present in Harry Potter, too—misogyny, fat shaming, transphobia, etc. etc. She has a weird obsession with describing how ugly people are, like GRRM and his food…

This particular criticism rings hollow.

Bless your close-minded lil heart.

Is anyone?

Benadryl is one of those medications where the standard dosage is higher than it needs to be. I’m 180 lbs, and I get good results from taking half a pill. Sometimes a quarter pill works fine.

I totally agree. Of course, yes, being on either side of the bell curve of weight comes with real inconvenience. And although the media (tabloids in particular) sometimes heaps scorn and unwarranted speculation upon very thin celebrities, the absolute disgust and condemnation that is reserved for fat people is…

This is why I cackle into my third cocktail of the morning whenever someone somewhere in the vast sinkhole of the internet whines about “skinny-shaming.” Skinny people will never be shamed, mocked, excluded, or lectured the way anyone with an ounce of excess flesh on their body will in our society. Is either fair?…

I don't necessarily agree being fat is largely a choice. I do think this website has gotten kind of mean though. Or maybe they were always mean and I just grew up.

She’s wearing a chain around her neck, for fuck’s sake. Feel free to die on a different hill.