O hay! I haven’t blogged for a long time. That’s because I was, like, Engaged In The Struggle and doing all this excellent stuff – who am I kidding? I was sitting around in my pyjamas eating bonbons and reading Take a Break. (They have adverts for Unison now, which I think is quite a good move on Unison’s part. Look what I did there! I made a vaguely political excuse for reading Take a Break!)
Anyway! I managed to find some new excellent blogs to liven up my sidebar a little, before I get on to the serious business of writing posts. First up is this guy who is doing some fucked-up shit involving doing every fad diet he can get his mitts on. It amuses. Now, I don’t diet, but anyone who’s tempted to should just let this guy do it for you. It’s easier and it frees up more bonbon eating time.
He also goes on a special diet designed to “upset communists”. No, not eating copies of Das Kapital, though that would be funny. Read his site to find out what it was.
Next up, in a startling change of direction, I’ve been wandering in two different but strangely connected blog-worlds of things I haven’t been thinking about before with any great intent. Those worlds are fat/size acceptance and lesbian separatism.
They both appeared on my mental list of “Things which are kind of interesting but I disagree with” and in some ways they’re still there. More on this in my next proper post but for views to chew on I recommend the following…
Amy at Feminist Reprise. I actually had trouble linking to her site because I realised there was a whole lot of stuff I hadn’t read there and wandered off to read it. Then I remembered – oh shit, I’m supposed to be linking to this! And had to open a new window.
I highly recommend her blog (which I read in like one sitting, stopping only for teh foodstuffs). I strongly disagreed with some of what she says but then some parts of it made the grey cells work and gave me a differing outlook on things. Very cool. Also, this. Written in fine fashion and guaranteed to make you very angry, if you have a working human brain.
Fat ladies writing: The Rotund, Big Fat Deal, Shapely Prose. All recommended for some excellent writing and thoughtprovokingness. I don’t recommend some other shit, but more of that in my next.
