I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish reading this piece.

[fflo]

"Diet From Hell: A valley [Scottsdale] vegan couple's fear of obesity was no picnic for their kids"

The horror is such that I'm not able to distance myself by, say, pish-poshing writing like "no picnic" in that subtitle.

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[infinitepresent.livejournal.com]

the 'phoenix new times' website apparently hates me, but my preliminary two cents are that our country doesn't seem to know how to embrace obesity anymore. are we outgrowing weightism? and in what context? child obesity and mcdonalds, bad! being active and of a large build, huh? vegans? how did they get in there!

we're confused between arguments of poor self-image and being weight-positive. lost in all of the anecdotes are those who live outside of a commercialized body image but are still fit and healthy. we align 'health', 'weight', and 'body image' in a perverse way.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

i miss you, dave. i know i barely know you & all, but somehow i expect to run into you as you're walking down Wm St or something. does that make any damn sense? i prefer to retain the illusion that that's possible, or even likely, despite how i know it ain't.

i liked you being in the same town as me.