I thought pretty much everyone had seen the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty video of the young woman being made-up and then Photoshopped into a billboard mannequin, but I reposted it on Facebook yesterday and a bunch of people hadn’t (or this, probably, which has a whole bunch of different sites showing models & actors who’ve been retouched & sometimes totally rebuilt for commercial purposes…). So I’m reposting the link here, too, mostly because the topic of women, weight and perceptions of beauty has been raised recently by fashion designer…

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Ted got up before me this morning, and fed the cats. I knew this. So I went into the kitchen to get breakfast for me, and instead found myself in the utility room, getting Lucy’s food down for her. I am a very well-trained human. Oh well. Lucy was happy. :)

In a couple of weeks, my friends Bryant and Susan are participating in an “Out of the Darkness” walk, which is a fundraising support walk for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. They participated last year as well, barely two weeks after Susan’s husband and Bryant’s friend Wyatt committed suicide, and they will, I imagine, be doing this every year for the rest of their lives. If you’d like to help them reach their fundraising goal, you can go to the Team Monkey Hugs page.

this is just a post for mileage and so that i stop seeing the words “eye of the tiger” every time i look at my webpage so i will stop getting that song stuck in my head. …oh wait… miles to Morannon: 109

It turns out the line in “Eye of the Tiger” is not “rising up from the terrors of Elvira” after all. Who knew?