The topic on the Maury Povich show this morning is children and obesity. One of the guests is a woman whose 5 year old daughter weighs 230 pounds. According to the archival footage, the little girl weighed almost 200 as a baby.
A lot of these parents come on the show and express how concerned they are about the children's eating disorders. How can a baby have an "eating disorder?" Perhaps some babies have unusually big appetites, but seriously. A lot of the footage features babies gorging themselves with high amounts of fried chicken, ribs, et cetera, a phenomenon that the audience seems to find very entertaining. First of all, why would a parent make fried foods and barbeque readily available to their children? Second, it is truly sad to see these parents cry about how their child is facing severe obesity-related health risks, and express confusion over how their child can possible weigh so much for his or her age. For children under five or so, aren't parents generally the influences that shape their child's eating habits? In fact, some of the guests pridefully admit that they feed their children everything they eat themselves, including mass quantities of the aforementioned foods. Do parents neglect to realize that children face major health risks at such disproportionate ages/sizes? Am I being unreasonable here?
Finally! I augmented my links section on the rock page. Now there is more to the page than just a few shoddy Duran Duran links. Not that Duran Duran and shoddy can really be used in the same sentence or anything -- and not like the DD sites to which I was linking were shoddy -- I was simply referring to the amount of links on the page. Rad to the max. Yeah.
Still working on my new design. Looks like it may be up this week! Note for those who link to this page: I plan to get rid of my splash and move this page to its place, so everyone can avoid typing in that extra "home.html" brou-haha. Additionally, I am fairly certain that I am going to begin include downloadable MP3s, too. Because I know you all want to download songs by the Go-Go's and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Darn. I wanted to be Chandler! I suppose Phoebe is alright, though. Don't forget to comment back on your results -- unless, of course, you refuse to partake in goofy quizzes like me.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
