NaBloPoMo: Success!
Congratulations to all the other NaBloPoMo’ers out there! The days of wondering what to talk about, of waking up in a cold sweat at a quarter to midnight and realizing you haven’t posted are behind you! For me, miraculously, I made it through all thirty days with a post apiece, but it wasn’t always on […]
It’s official: I’m a TV Personality
Or I will be on Monday, anyway.
KUSI, a “true independent television station” in San Diego, will have Esther Rothblum (a professor in my department, and the one whom I TA for) and I in for an interview about the New York times article this Monday. It’s expected to be pretty short, which is good because […]
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Fifteen minutes
I’m still kind of wowed by the response I’ve gotten to the Times article. I was under the impression that it would only be read by fat activists and people who were bored and decided to skim the article, but people all over the place have been getting in touch with me to talk about […]
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How not to write an exam
Below is an (edited, so as not to spoil the fun for my students) exam item I nearly missed when I sent in the final exam I’d just finished to my professor.
1. Define “babbling idiot”.
a. one who talks incessantly but intelligently
b. one who talks incessantly without logic, reason or sense
c. one who speaks rarely, but […]
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Questionable content
I’ve been reading (perhaps) excessive amounts of Questionable Content recently, wondering which (if any) coffee haunt Coffee of Doom imitates and hoping for a new strip that mentions Smif. I’d like to say I’m just attracted to the sexyhot-ness of the comic - because it is a gorgeous comic - but I’m pretty sure I’m […]
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Penguins
I think I need to watch more documentaries.
Yes, I’m probably the last one, but I finally saw March of the Penguins tonight. I was a bit of a skeptic going in, but by the end I was actually pleased. What’s even better, because it was about penguins - all penguins, all the time - there […]
Serendipity, and mixed reviews
I have a couple of Google News alerts set up for things I’m interested in - terms like “fat studies” and “Marilyn Wann” among them. Unable to sleep, I opened Al (my laptop) to check on ticket prices for flights home this winter, and checked my email while waiting for the search to go through. […]
Fat on Film
Specifically, fat on television.
Tuesday night I’ll be giving a brief presentation on my term paper, which will discuss fat women (and the absence of fat women) on prime time television. Some of the characters and shows I’m focusing on include Sookie St. James Bellevile (Gilmore Girls), Isabelle Hodes and Heylia James (Weeds), and Callie (snerk) […]
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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