February 2012
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Up Yours, Downstairs! A "Downton Abbey" Podcast
Thanks to Life’s Distractions for the unsolicited podcast plug! I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here, but Adoring Husband and I are doing a really fun “Downton Abbey” podcast called “Up Yours, Downstairs!” It’s searchable (and free!) in the iTunes Store, and also available at the link below.
lifedistractions:
I recently found this new podcast...
January 2012
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The Fatling & Adoring Husband In: Baby & the City
The following discussion is a brainstorming session on how we can work our hypothetical baby into a video project based on HBO’s Sex & the City:
The Fatling: (In affected baby voice) And I had to wonder…
Adoring Husband: When does a pway date become a pway mawwaige?
The Fatling: Of course, it’ll be a problem if we have a boy baby.
Adoring Husband: Yeah, he’ll have...
The Fatling's New Clothes
Okay, not really. I just got a new template that’s not so hard on the eyes as bright yellow plaid. Plus, it shows my adorable, chunky avatar photo. It’s probably my favorite photo of me ever, because 1) it prominently features pie and 2) you can’t see my face. Enjoy!
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #4: Trickster's Choice...
Trickster’s Choice is an excellent YA fantasy book, and I recommend it very highly.
The story is the first of Tamora Pierce’s Trickster duo and follows sixteen-year-old Aly, whose mother is a famous knight and King’s Champion, while her father is a thief-turned King’s Spymaster. Though her father has trained her in the art of spycraft, he refuses to allow Aly to join him...
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #3: March by Geraldine...
I probably should have written this review right after I finished the book. It might have squeaked by with two stars, but the longer I thought about Geraldine Brooks’ March, the angrier I got.
First of all, memo to white people. Please stop writing novels about The Civil War. It’s been done to death, and you always, always manage to be really insulting about black people even while...
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #2: The Magician King by...
Considering how little I enjoyed The Magicians, I was very eager to read Lev Grossman’s sequel, The Magician King. Not because I cared about what had befallen the unpleasant titular hero, Quentin Coldwater, but because I had heard that Grossman gave much of the book over to the harrowing story of Julia, Quentin’s once and future object of affection and modern day rebel sorceress.
The Magician...
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Running Out of Fat Puns...But Still Not Going...
Why hello, Fanlings! Fancy running into you here—not “running,” per se, per the title, but, you know, inhabiting similar cyberspace.
It’s been a super week here at Fatling HQ. Pauncho Villa was very famous on the internet on Tuesday, which was excellent, and I am booking standup gigs like I might not be a total loser after all. Also, I saw and got to briefly hang out...
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #1: Through the Wild...
For my first read of the new year, I chose Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, thinking that a collection of comic strips from the 1950s would be a quick and zippy read.
I should have inferred from the complicated title that this would not be the case, but instead found myself pleasantly surprised at how incredibly good Walt Kelly’s...
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In Order to Create a More Perfect Fatling
Holy shit, Fanlings, I am so bored right now. I don’t think I’d be so aware of my boredom if not for the fact that last night, I whimsically decided to try not to eat any processed foods/foods that come in a plastic bag today. It’s going well, but ironically, the only work-supplied snacks I’ve had do come in plastic bags, but since they are baby carrots, I am letting them...
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Happy Fat Year
Good news, Fanlings! The Fatling is still in good spirits! I have smoked just over a half-cigarette in the past month and a half, which is pretty good, quitting smoking-wise. I did not enjoy that half-cigarette, no I did not, so I don’t anticipate kicking that up to a full cigarette anytime soon, no matter how drunk I am.
And man, I have been drunk for like 2 weeks in celebration of...
