Having been too skinny, I do disagree. I'm not insanely obsessed with the inadequacy of my body, but I know I'm healthier when I'm closer to 150 than 100.

But the article isn't about people who are skinny by means of intent or medical difficulty -- it explicitly is about people who are healthily slim, and overcome their native genetic tendencies with the application of extreme food and exercise discipline.

I think that eating 8000 calories a day as disordered and weird as eating only 500 calories a day. It's like the mirror-opposite of crash-dieting.

C'mon -- it's a pastime to look at Mischa Barton and that Olsen chick and Nicole Richie and mutter "Eat a sandwich! Get some flesh on that frame!"

Sure -- but they're standing in for the preponderance of skinniness (the vast majority of it painful) in Hollywood. Saying it to an individual, who does eat reasonably, is about as insane (and gauche) as saying, "You're fat! Stop eating!" to an individual.

Now, one might suggest that, because fat people endure this all the time, it's fair game on skinny people. Which, I can't entirely argue with that. But I'd rather work up some basic social rules that apply across all situations, like, Attempting to beat variety out of the human genome is a pointless application of brutality and Butting in on somebody else's food choices is about as rude as eating off that person's plate.

I think that Lindsay Lohan article was in Vanity Fair.

And I think she tried to deny it afterwards.

i have a wee Congrats on the Brown Belt gift for you!

Oh, nice! Thank you so much. Is it a stick with which to beat my PT?

Hm. I can add a stick to it.

it explicitly is about people who are healthily slim, and overcome their native genetic tendencies with the application of extreme food and exercise discipline.

But the things I mentioned not liking about being skinny apply to most skinny people. And it was just what my body wanted to do at that time of my life. I couldn't gain weight for shit. I still can't, really. I'm just grateful that my baseline is 30lbs higher than in university.

Plus, not liking how you look and tweaking your appearance is perfectly standard human animal behaviour. I don't know if overeating in order to achieve a more average build is more healthy than undereating to achieve a less average build, but I suspect so.

Apparently New Orleans was hit by a tornado last night. My parents are fine, although they lost power during the night. But from where my mother says the tornado was, it came a little close for my comfort.

Damn. NOLA can't get a break!

Apparently New Orleans was hit by a tornado last night

Hot damn.

Allyson, you don't have to include a stick. I have some stuff I can use.

ita, you know the area. It hit the airport in Kenner, and then came through Metairie and moved up West End. That's...that's very nearly between my parents' house and my grandparents' house.

I am getting rather tired of this.

I am getting rather tired of this.

Unnf. No shit. Did it do much damage?

They say the damage to the airport was "minimal", which seems to equal 2.5 million.

I think it hit some houses that were already damaged -- that area of West End and Harrison was hit pretty hard to begin with. I just...as long as my family's okay, that's sort of all I can deal with.