Timelies all!

After I shower and dress, I have to wrestle the cat into her carrier so I can bring her to PetSmart to get her claws trimmed. Whee.

I find that if I wait until the cat is relaxed and sleepy, I can "play" with their paws and sneak in a nail clip or two until they catch on. It helps to get them to flex the paw a couple of times so you can figure out which claws need it most and plan the sneak attack accordingly, since you're not going to get them all at one go.

Of course, we had a cat who objected to ANY touching of her paws. For her, we used the two person attack, where one person uses oven mitts to hold and a dishtowel over the head. I wish we'd had a video camera back then, because with the yowling you would have thought we were feeding her feet-first into a wood chipper.

For her, we used the two person attack, where one person uses oven mitts to hold and a dishtowel over the head.

Hee!

I'm lucky in that Senor Sock tolerates me clipping his claws. He doesn't resist, except he waits patiently for me to lower my guard so he can escape....

Model too fat?

That reminds me of this snopes page on a fake models-too-thin hoax email. Sure, the shopped pictures look shocking and horrible. But talk about undermining a message by pushing it too hard.

I'm looking at Jen's photos, and what strikes me first as "unacceptable" about her figure is her thighs. By which I mean they wouldn't peg me on a real person, but for TV and certainly modelling they're bigger than we're used to. From the hips up, though? She looks TV ready to me.

edit: ha! Just did the math and I weigh more than she does.

I'm looking at Jen's photos, and what strikes me first as "unacceptable" about her figure is her thighs. By which I mean they wouldn't peg me on a real person, but for TV and certainly modelling they're bigger than we're used to. From the hips up, though? She looks TV ready to me.

I'd like to see us get used to them.

I looked at that Snopes page. Yeah, talk about undermining the message.

I'm looking at Jen's photos, and what strikes me first as "unacceptable" about her figure is her thighs. By which I mean they wouldn't peg me on a real person, but for TV and certainly modelling they're bigger than we're used to.

Even if they seem bigger than we're used to on TV, they don't look that much bigger, and I've been pining for more curvy chicks on TV anyway. One of my favorite characters on Criminal Minds is Garcia, the curvy (even curvier than that model) brainy tech chick who commands the Internet and digs up all the information the BAU team needs for any given case. In particular, I like very much that they don't de-sexualize her. She's flirty, and others are flirty in return. And they do a good job of making her look attractive, I think.

More curvy chicks on TV now, please!

It's like Sara Ramirez -- she looks ENORMOUS on TV, but regular for real life.

I love Garcia and Shemar Moore on that show. Cute!

Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segal sing Les Miz

Holy cow. That was fucking AWESOME. The "Confrontation" song was the one that we high-school theatre geeks always sang, so now I have extra-special NPH love.

I'm looking at Jen's photos, and what strikes me first as "unacceptable" about her figure is her thighs. By which I mean they wouldn't peg me on a real person, but for TV and certainly modelling they're bigger than we're used to.

This is true. However, it looks better to me than thighs that don't touch. When a woman's knees are the widest part of her leg, that just looks unappealing.

That said, the fabric of that swimsuit was ideal for a lush curvy figure, and NSM for a bony one. If the skeeeeeeny model wore the same suit design in a different fabric (like, more gathered, ruched cotton-like material vs. lycra), I doubt that her protruding bones would be so obvious. Though the cut of the top is not at all meant for a flat-chested woman, so that's a disadvantage, too.

Still, I'd rather snuggle up to the lush curvy model than the skinny one. I'd be afraid her bones would stab me.

Oh, and also: this is why swimsuit/lingerie models are generally curvier than "fashion" models. Clothes hang "better" off the bones, but boobs and etc. look better when they're what you're looking at.