Wendy McClure's blog,
Poundy, was spawned from boredom: boredom in her attempt to teach herself how to upload pages on the Web and boredom with Weight Watchers. She set her mind to squashing both, using the Web to write about her personal struggles with weight loss and body image. From that points-per-serving start, today Poundy houses just about anything gleaned from McClure's daily grind and evening escapades.
McClure follows up her debut novel, I'm Not the New Me, (April 2005) with this May's The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan, "a full-color, dirty centerfold" (sneak a peak here) that features 100-plus vintage Weight Watchers recipe cards accompanied by totally justified snickery. "Buy my damn book," she says.
Final words, Ms. McClure?
"Some person came up to me and said she had a picture of me on her refrigerator, and that was weird. She said she put it up as a reminder that she shouldn't take herself too seriously. I'm glad an ugly picture of myself could be so useful."
What's the gist of your blog?
I started the website in November of 2000, and there weren't really blogs back then. It was sort of an online journal. It turned into a blog when I got lazy. The blog right now is procrastination because I'm either putting off updating it or I write when I am putting off other stuff. I first started putting up long thoughtful essays. But I thought those would work better in a book than online, so around 2002 or so, I started doing it as a live blog. The gist of my blog...they [blogs, like most things in life] never are as good to be used to be.
If I read your blog today, gimme one thing I'd learn.
That I just went to New York City. No, that's not fun. That ummmmmm…. that I'm now old enough to run for president.
My computer is surrounded by...
Despair.
How do you pay the bills?
I do two things. I am a children's book editor and I'm a writer. I have a column with Bust. I'm starting to contribute regularly to the New York Times Magazine. So I hope to be doing more of those. And then hopefully more book stuff.
When you aren't loving blogging, you're loving BLANK in Chicago.
Hot Doug's, even though I promised myself I wouldn't eat meat for a while.
Name a local blogger extraordinaire.
Leigh Anne at One Good Thing. She's really, really funny. She was the one in the Red Eye last summer. She used to run a shop that would sell naughty toys. But she's also a mom.
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