- Scroll down or click here for the scrumptious Poetry Friday Round-Up.
- Jeff Ford unleashes his fury on the Sci-Fi original movie Stan Lee’s Harpies. God, this makes me happy. His final verdict? "This movie gets 1 out of 12 Baldwins." Hee.
- Will Shetterly has had a run of interesting posts lately: here’s one on the extra gas cost associated with Americans’ increasing girth; one on the class stuff re: facebook and myspace; and one on narrative choices and using second person in his new book.
- The First Annual Kidlitosphere Conference is in the works for Chicago this fall; I might just try to make that one.
- Kate S. has a very interesting post about Elaine Dundy’s work and angry young men.
- Maureen McHugh makes a salad.
- The world without human beings.
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I remember reading about that study about the extra gasoline used by overweight people. It struck me as pointless demonization. Given all the ways Americans use more gasoline than is necessary, it seems simply mean to pick on obese people. A skinny person driving an SUV can waste more gasoline than fifty fat people; which is easier to fix?
I definitely agree with you on that, Ted. I also think that most of the weight gain in American society comes not from our great bounty, but our great class divisions. It’s much more expensive to eat well. And Will makes an interesting point about viewing health (which is ABSOLUTELY NOT always tied to weight) as a political act.
And of course that doesn’t even get into the other issue of creating a better system of alternatives to driving; good mass transit all over, sidewalks, bike lanes, etc.
Anyway, I’m definitely not about demonizing being overweight — mostly I linked to that post because it provoked some excellent, thoughtful comments.
Do try to make it to the conference. I think it’s going to be fun!