Please come to my new blog site, Fatties United or FU, at http://fattiesunited.wordpress.com/, and see posts from Tante Terri, Goddess Les, Jo Geek, and myself!  I'll maintain the MySpace and LiveJournal blogs for personal stuff.

At about 8:30 AM on July 16, my brother found my Mom collapsed on the floor of her bedroom in NJ.  He called for an ambulance, and she was taken to the hospital.  It appeared that she had fallen during the night, but my brother couldn't hear her.  I found out about it that afternoon around 3 PM PDT (I'm in California).  She had an infection and a ( Read more... )

OK, the point of last week's blog is this.  I had seen a blog saying, apparently, that if a man compliments a woman whom he doesn't know, he may mean well, but he is really (a) saying that a woman's only value is her appearance, and (b) reinforcing the patriarchy.  I wanted to know how others felt about compliments.

I just finished reading a great ( Read more... )

A stranger walks up to you and says, "I just wanted you to know, I find you attractive."

Your reaction:

1. Why, thank you!
2. How dare you!
3. something else

Please explain your answer.  Thanks!  (I'll explain why I'm asking later.)

Bill

Lots of people I know are excited about Linda Bacon's new book Health At Every Size.   But I'm having trouble getting past phrases like this from the preface (a long quote to show context; skip to the italics [emphasis added by me] if you want):

"The news that your body undermines your efforts at weight control is actually good, because it also ( Read more... )

I just wanted to say, Kelly Clarkson looked great on last night's SNL.  I like her curves.

Signed, proud NAAFA member Bill

I like MySpace for a lot of things, and I blog there, but no one sees my blogs there except my friends.  I did an experiment wherein I used NAAFA in a blog, to see if it would show up on a NAAFA blog alert.  It didn't.  So, that's really the main reason I'm here; I want more exposure for my blogs.  So, hi everyone!  I'm Bill Weitze, NAAFA ( Read more... )

Guys, a friend of mine, Seanan McGuire, has a new album coming out, Red Roses and Dead Things.  I heard some of the songs live this year at BayCon, and they're funny!  If you like songs about sexy mad scientists, pandemic plagues, giant squids, genre fandom, and such like, this is yours.  Preorder now here:  http://seananmcguire.com/albums.php