this is literally what he funniest paragraph on earth i want to lock him and andrew garfield in a room so they can talk about being open to any impulses that might arise at any moment. Hall is a vegan
new tag game: the thing you most often pretended to be as a kid—whether it was a horse, a bride, a queen, a specific character, a knight, a lawyer, a baby, anything—is symbolically representative of you currently. what is it for you?
May 1972. ‘This is hair that’s just been shampooed in Clairol herbal essence shampoo. Crystal clean and shining and manageable and it smells like the first day of spring.’
Part of what makes hearing dieting advice so tough for me is that it triggers my own latent ed thoughts and the other point is that i spent years suffering and trying to free myself from an eating disorder and it feels like most people around me are on the other side trying to break their way into developing an eating disorder and are angry at themselves for failing
“One of my first encounters with this perception that food could be addictive was early in my career. An acquaintance of mine had struggled with the belief that she couldn’t be trusted with certain types of foods. As such, she innocently thought not allowing these foods in her home would help her son develop a healthier relationship with the foods than she had. As her son grew older, however, I witnessed him sneak and frantically eat these foods when his parents weren’t around. The efforts to restrain his eating and desire for those foods backfired. This was not an issue of food addiction. It was a case of restricted exposure.
This fear of so-called food addiction, for adults and children alike, makes sense in our crazed diet culture. Diet culture doesn’t just encroach on our gyms and social circles, it’s become an insidious and overlooked contributor to media, medicine and top-tier research institutions. When well-respected news outlets report on the “dangers” of eating sugar and Yale University creates a food addiction scale, the public listens.”
born in the usa as an album is so funny. every single song is like im down on my luck. my hometown sucks. i hate the police. im going to prison. and people will see the flag on the cover and hear him shout “i was born in the usa” and be like yeah this is patriotic
You just don’t get commentary like this anywhere else
