1. Marketing with Substance: JetBlue's subtle nod to "passengers of size."

This morning I was poking around JetBlue’s website, mostly looking to see if they’ve implemented in-flight wifi yet (they haven’t), when I ran across a new series of promotional videos of

2. Huge, Episode 10: “Regrets, I’ve had a few.�

And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain... Previously: There was angst. Boy howdy, was there ever. So much angst. Ian likes Amber. Will likes Ian. Amber likes George. George

3. Do Something: Keep body diversity on TV, and support a second season of Huge.

Tonight the season finale of Huge will be aired. Are you bummed about that? All of my protestations about returning to non-recap-centric blogging aside, I am going to miss this show enormously (

4. Outfitblog.

It's Friday, I have clothes on, and I am trying to revive this habit. The green cropped cardigan came from Target; I can often smush my fatness into their XL sweaters and I make the most of that

5. Huge, Episode 9: Standing here on this frozen lake.

It probably comes as a surprise to no one, at this point, that I like the fat boys. I also like the fat girls, but I am inclined to think that the sexualization of fat men’s (or male-identifie

6. ReBlog: It was gnomes.

I am having another slow blogging week, and thus I am returning to the well and revisiting/reblogging another old post. The "gnomes" story reproduced below was just written this past February,

7. Huge, Episode 8: Survive the only way that you know.

Well, we are slowly winding down to the (hopefully temporary) finale. Truth be told, as much as I love recapping, I do look forward to getting back to blogging about other things, like Janelle M

8. Coming Correct: Thoughts on the Huge Facebook drama

Yesterday, a post appeared on the Huge Facebook page promoting a fat-camp scholarship in Nikki Blonsky’s name. Within minutes, my inbox was collapsing quantum-singularity-style under the mass of

9. Huge, Episode 7: “I could yank the life support on her illusion of allure.�

Angst-O-Meter (1-5): 4.5 Previously: We QUESTED. Will and Amber got lost. Will waged a battle with evil dumpster-donut kobolds and emerged victorious. George waged a battle with his inappropri

10. Love yourself, but not too much: Seventeen's mixed message

Tonight's episode of Huge will feature a scene related to Seventeen Magazine's "Body Peace Project", an effort launched in 2007 in collaboration with self-esteem guru Jess Weiner. The main thrust

11. Outfitblog.

I don't often post outfits during the summer because, frankly, my summer wardrobe is kind of boring. It's a dress and a pair of shoes. Voilà! That's pretty much how it goes every day. I took a

12. Friday Playlist: Hey you, with the pretty face.

So I used to do these occasional musical interludes, and in comments to one of the Huge recaps, someone recently suggested I should also have a music blog. I would love this, but blogging being the

13. Huge, Episode 6: And the sky was made of amethyst.

In between episodes, the journal entries of some of our campers appear, as if by magic, on the official Huge website. I’ve heard from a few commenters recently that these entries are written b

14. In which Lane Bryant is visited by the woodshed.

...LOOK GUYS A DRESS WITH A ZIPPER!*). I am left to wonder if they’re listening. Back in the day, the original Fatshionista LiveJournal Community -- for which I was a member of the incredible and tir...

15. Huge, Episode 5: "Walk her every day, into a shady place."

Way back in the first episode, Ian and Will first bonded, as it were, over a shared appreciation for the Pixies. Somewhere, in one of the many interviews I’ve read (the best yet being this pie

16. Huge, Episode 4: Playing at the Talent Show

Previously on Huge: Dr. Gina Torres doesn’t eat after dinner. A muffin mysteriously disappeared. Chloe’s got a girl boner for Trent. Will reluctantly wrote in her Camp Victory journal. Itâ

17. Huge, Episode 3: "I was never cool, in school / I'm sure you don't remember me"

I don’t watch much television. I dislike that it requires me to sit still, and I dislike that while I am watching I am more or less captive until whatever I’m watching comes to a close. I fi

18. Friday Miscellany: Things that don't fit anywhere else.

So last night, Marianne and I hosted our first Chatty Fatty event, a loosely-planned and almost-entirely-improvised discussion about all kinds of fat-related subjects. I use the word "hosted" becau

19. “...take the sandwich out of her mouth and go for a goddamn fucking walk�: On Olivia Munn, Feminism, and Cultural Criticism

Prior to this week, I never really had an opinion in regard to Olivia Munn, late of G4’s Attack of the Show and currently working to earn a permanent role as a Daily Show correspondent. I’d he

20. Huge, Episode 2: I Don't Want to Get Over You

My dear non-US readers: As with so many of my recapped shows, this series does not seem to be viewable (via legal means, at any rate) for those of you residing outside of the United States. I am

21. Huge, Episode 1: Goonies never say die.

Note: I wasn't going to recap this show. Seriously. I had explicitly decided against recapping it. I was only going to write up some generalized thoughts and criticism. But then suddenly a recap wa

22. Miscellany: A tale of first-class flying, a new Fatcast, and a Huge game-changer.

On our flight back from Los Angeles, a red-eye arriving in Boston at 5AM, I wrangled a couple of heavily-discounted first class upgrades. For the past, oh, six years or so, I've only flown Jet Blue

23. [Meta] Say Hi.

Say hi, Rufus! There's something unavoidably surreal about being recognized in public as this... blogger. Recent conversations elsewhere have pointed out how the anonymity of the internet prom

24. Pet sounds.

Hello loves: the blog will be unusually quiet this week as tonight I am [anxiously] (fat-)flying to Los Angeles for three days, where the husband will be attending and reporting on E3 and

25. Reading List: Links, commentary, and Cobb Salad.

Golda at Body Love Wellness has the first of a three-part interview with Kai Hibbard, former finalist on The Biggest Loser, a show which I have recently disparaged on this blog: You get poke

26. Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze: A Close Reading of "Alejandro"

The idea of the "gaze" as a broad psychological concept beyond the simple meaning of the word comes to us from Jacques Lacan, a French theorist (a psychoanalyst, really, but we won't hold

27. Reading List: Links, commentary, and a musical recommendation

Ohio State University: ‘OBESE’ BMI DOES NOT HARM CURRENT HEALTH OF YOUNG ADULTS, STUDY SAYS Brant Jarrett, of Ohio State University, one of the researchers, said: “There is a myth going on.

28. Two fat ladies, and several serif fonts.

My dear Marianne wanted Fatcast flyers to take to Wiscon this weekend, and so I rapidly assembled the glorified CS2 font-sampler above as a quarter-sheet flyer. Since I brought it up, how ar

29. Sigh: A Comment Policy

Somehow I've managed to go a few years now without an official comment policy. Well, I suppose I'd always had one, though it was nebulous and existed only inside my head and was primarily rooted in

30. Fat on TV: Huge and Mike & Molly

Remember Hairspray? I refer, of course, to the 1988 John Waters masterpiece, the radical film that captured the finest moments of Ricki Lake's career, and that first introduced an 11-year-old me