Comments on: Her ‘hideosity’ is my regular day at work

By: SusanM

SusanM — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:45:27 +0000

I wonder if any of those women realize what it’s like living on “the other side”.
A zit, or a bad hair day brings them to their knees and they wonder about the unfairness of life.

By: SusanM

SusanM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:03:22 +0000

I’m also sick of gorgeous celebrities who claim they used to be ugly ducklings. They then flash a picture from “then”, where the only difference is the cat’s eyes glasses and a dumb look.
And don’t me going on Palin. I wonder what a love child of Cheney and Palin would look like.

By: Lairbo

Lairbo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:26:16 +0000

Somebody bring back those Dove gals from a couple of years back. They were hot. And some of them were truly "average" size here in the real world. On the theme of Hollywood's cluelessness about, well, reality and what it looks like, you might find this amusing.

By: andrea

andrea — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:26:01 +0000

You say “never again get a single thing of actual value to me, artistically, commercially, financially or personally, done” as if that’s a bad thing!

Unless you want to be quickly drawn into an entire strange little subculture of people who are completely obsessed with the perfect one-liner, you should definitely never look at http://www.favstar.fm, and ABSOLUTELY not http://favstar.fm/users/fireland, or http://favstar.fm/users/badbanana, for example.

And that’s all I’ll say on that topic. Off now to go Google what “Maya” is! KREMER OUT.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:32:03 +0000

I want to see Merrill write about that size 16 ob-gyn kicking Sarah Palin’s ass!!! Got that Merrill?

By: becky

becky — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:40:30 +0000

Glad I could be of assistance.

Fat is pretty much meaningless as a word when faced with say Glamour’s infamous plus size model photo shoot featuring women who are size 8 to 12 when the average women is a size 12-14. What matters is not the size of your body but doing what you can to keep yourself healthy. I had an OB-GYN who was a size 16 tell me that she could kick any model’s ass because she worked out like crazy and kept things like her cholesterol in check. The more I focus on me and doing what makes me healthy and happy the less I care if I have a dude around AND the less likely I am to put up with the narcissistic behavior I tolerated in the past because I needed to have a guy in my life.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:07:35 +0000

Thanks, Becky, for making a Great tie-in between beauty and narcissism — inner beauty is real and must have Some value, or I’d never attract anybody but a blind man, being a Short & Fat Anti-Narcissist (a SaFAN??). There are plenty of overweight women out there who’ve found love, so there has to be some hope for me. And 80 yr. olds who still find love. So there must be some kind of blindness caused by love.

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:44:00 +0000

You’re right. I see “RSS feed” everywhere and have never looked in to what it means. Also I have never customized my Google home page, so I didn’t know those things were possible, even though a sign shows up 4 times an hour insisting that I identify myself and sign in to my Google home page. For what reason I can not say. And I have not done these things for the same reason that I haven’t played along with Facebook and Twitter. I know myself. I would get obsessed thinking I should be writing more and better one liners (or else, punishing myself for not having written a good one recently) and never again get a single thing of actual value to me, artistically, commercially, financially or personally, done. That would be the end. I would definitely never finish this book I am writing. I would be lost in a world of preoccupation with one liners for Face Book and Twitter. (So instead, I spend hour upon hour trying to learn Maya…a 3 D program that is so complicated that I should be able to make some very cool stuff just in time for my 81st. birthday.)

By: andrea

andrea — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:24:13 +0000

Oh, you know, it’s um… a thingy that lets me read a bunch of content from websites (such as yours!) without actually typing http://www.merrillmarkoe.com/blog into my browser. It reads your RSS feed and pulls in the content of your new posts whenever there are new posts. I have no idea what RSS stands for, but maybe we can make something up. Like, Reading Stuff Somewhereelse.

So, via the magic of RSS, whatever that means, I have your blog in a widget (see? there I go again with the sentences that make my head hurt) on my custom Google home page (http://www.google.com/ig), where it displays the most recent three entries. AND also in my Google reader (http://reader.google.com), although I seldom use the reader because the homepage lets me see my email and the weather and other similar items of equal or lesser import to your blog, alongside it. So, there you go.

PS – It’s okay to admit that I lost you when I first mentioned RSS. I’ll still like you.

PPS – And don’t even get me started on Twitter. You should really be tweeting. Why aren’t you?

By: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:24 +0000

Of course you are right. Which reminds me of the other thing I am sick of : The idea that there are two kinds of women: Drop Dead Gorgeous and Hideous.