Comments on: cover girl, in theory

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:59:46 +0000

Hairball, joyously our lunch on Monday (the one provided by the administration and usually delivered from the horrible deli/restaurant) was from a new place, and included real salads, roasted potatoes, chicken sausage, grilled chicken breasts and braised tofu! Woot!

And I was very proud of my coworkers the other night: only one vegan at a party, and yet most of us brought very tasty, very vegan food. Those who brought meat stuff made sure that it was VERY obvious, with no hidden animal ingredients.

And yes, Maggie, there was Calistoga! (also wine, but the host is in the process of moving and couldn’t find her corkscrew!!!)

By: Ready2Agitate

Ready2Agitate — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:13:36 +0000

Can I blurt in and recommend the book “Health at Every Size” by Linda (gasp!) Bacon (yes, for real). All abt how it’s about health not size. Very fat positive. (Plus, Linda’s a dyke!) Great for folks trying to wade thru the mire on health, food, and (holds nose with aversion -) dieting.

OK on to AB’s new post!

ps I’m a vegetarian. Hairball, do you need some reinforcements from Boston over there in the big city?

By: Marj

Marj — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:26 +0000

The annoying horns, that is. Not the athletic women in tiny little uniforms.

By: Marj

Marj — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:16:10 +0000

Had to google. Vuvuzelas. They’re called vuvuzelas.

By: ksbel6

ksbel6 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:37:59 +0000

Well, I for one am happy about Nebraska joining the BigTen (which is now actually 12, but has been 11 for many years) because Nebraska’s volleyball program is traditionally the best in the country and now all the others in that conference will improve. I do love watching athletic women in tiny little uniforms jump and dive and stuff

By: shadocat

shadocat — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:47:21 +0000

The Pac 10,the big 12 (or 11 or whatever it’s going to be) not only invovles men’s sports, but women’s as well, and many other sports besides the “traditional male” ones (with the exception of football, are also played by women). Many people out there are concerned what effect this is going to have on the women’s teams, as well as the many who just enjoy sports in general.

By: Maggie Jochild

Maggie Jochild — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:30:21 +0000

One of Letterman’s sidekicks kept interrupting him last night by blowing on those plastic soccer horns. I can’t remember the name of them, only that I went “You could rearrange that to spell vulva, heh heh heh.”

In other news, Dave’s guests included Dame Helen Mirren talking about the rights of prostitutes and bluntly admitting that most women who wind up having to do that for work “have been damaged” (yes), and Cyndi Lauper dancing wildly with Allen Toussant at the piano. Estrogen (oestrogen) splashed everywhere on that set.

I’ll be honest: Until Marj mentioned basketball above, I thought all the Pacman 10 whatever was about football. Or maybe baseball, isn’t it time for people to be watching five hours of men in tight pants chewing tobacco and glaring at each other while considering just maybe making a move?

By: judybusy

judybusy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:12:10 +0000

ksbel6, so glad you are feeling better! It sounds as if it were perfectly awful.

Back to the food issue for a minute: lunches provided at seminars (if provided these day in social service) tend to be nasty affairs, never mind for any specific preference. If I were in HoH’s position, I’d so be packing my own food!

Also, I finally got around to watching Food, Inc. A lot of the material I’d already known, but it reinforced my preference to eat as locally and organically as possible–and I know I’m lucky to be able to have the bucks for this. What is truly frightening is how little the government protects consumers–again, not new news, but it’s ghastly.

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:46:48 +0000

Nope, Kate, the buzzing was real. These exceedingly annoying plastic horns that all the fans seem to have.

The one match I’ve watched so far (England v. USA) was on mute with the closed captions, so that I could get the commentary. It was too annoying otherwise

By: Kate L

Kate L — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:34:26 +0000

ksbel6, glad you’re still with us!

And, in basketball news, The University of Texas at Austin has rejected an offer to join the Pac-10 uberconference. Actually, UT Austin would have been a good match for the laid-back west coasters. But their decision to stay in the Big 11 midwestern conference has caused all other Big 11 conference schools in Texas to announce that they will stay, also. Hey, I did try to watch the World Cup, but the cable feed must have been malfunctioning. I kept hearing this wierd buzzing sound!