Growing up, Christmas eve was special. For most of my life, this is when we would put up the Christmas tree.  (That way, we would first see it lit, in all it’s glory, on Christmas morning.) One year – I don’t remember if it was the day before Christmas or the day before New Year’s,…

You may or may not have enjoyed my little video clips from past performances that I have posted on YouTube (and linked to my FaceBook page).  I have enjoyed making them and viewing them because that’s just the kind of narcissistic person I am. The program I use for making the clips (including my fucking…

I loved it. It starts slow.  Almost deadly slow.  I was thinking, am I really going to sit through two hours of this?  I was thinking how could so many people whose opinion I really respect like this so much? Hang in there.  You’ll find out. This movie takes a while to find it’s heart,…

Holy crap. I always considered myself somewhat thick-skinned; but I never meant it in the literal sense.  Until now.  Because I have diabetes, I have to jab my fingers on a regular basis. This is not usually a problem.  Blood doesn’t bother me and the jab hurts – but not that bad.  The anticipation is…

When it gets late and I still haven’t come up with a topic for Fat Friday, I always know I can go to my Pinterest boards and find some fat art that I would like to share. I love Catherine Ducreux’s paintings and sculptures; but I know next to nothing about Ducreux as there isn’t…

I don’t like beer or wine.  Apparently, when I was a wee tot, I loved beer.  My Dad used to tell me that he couldn’t open a beer without me showing up and telling him, “Want some.”  I even have vague memories of liking the taste of beer. Not anymore.  Gack.  It tastes like dirty…

THIS FAT OLD LADY’S WTF WEDNESDAY – LESSON LEARNED Note to self. Don’t eat a bowl full of peas and mushrooms for lunch. Because the next day … Peas and mushrooms in, peas and mushrooms out. With a lot more force than one might expect. And you know that saying about things coming back tenfold?…

Last week we watched NBC’s One Night Only – the Best of Broadway.  It was pretty wonderful.  By far the best holiday offering so far (we didn’t make it through 15 minutes of The Grinch musical).  What I want to know is, WTF are they feeding these young singers?  The voices are amazing.  No sign…

For over 300 days in a row, I have faithfully been doing my Duolingo (Spanish) lessons.  I have learned a butt load of Spanish.  Not enough to actually understand Spanish conversation (mas despacio, por favor) but I feel like I’m making some inroads. For most of these 300+ days I have done 4 lessons a…

I love when I find a (new to me) artist with work centering on fat people. I had about given up on finding any new fat artists; but there was Mr. Gubarev just waiting for me to check out Pinterest!  Valentin Gubarev, as you might guess from his name, is from Russia (Gorky – now…