Show The World The Beauty Underneath

Last night I had so much fun giving the cats a bit of a hard time. That sounds a bit cruel, but it wasn't. I was playing them bird sounds from this website. Hysterical! Meeko took off like a shot when I played the crow sounds, checking out the window to see if any of his black feathered arch enemies were on the balcony. Pickles came running into my room to check out the strange sounds, her ears swiveling around like some crazy cat radar. The look on her little face was priceless.

I'm impressed with myself, today. Last night, I not only found some energy to work on my website but I skipped two episodes of CSI:Miami to do it (granted they were season 1 episodes I have on DVD). And I almost missed the new one at 10pm. Glad I didn't, cause it was really good. Anyone else loving the new season?

Oh right, the website. Last night I did some work on the main page, and I also uploaded the interview I did with Erika Griffin about her book. I tweaked a few other pages so it isn't a complete blank canvas. I'm trying to learn how to get an image rollover thing to work. Or some sort of slideshow. Nothing cheesy. And a guestbook so people can say "hey".


I would seriously like to smack the *#$% shit out of Vanessa Minnillo. I really, really, really would. She's some sort of MTV VJ, who's shagging Nick Lachey. I guess she's got a couple of movie gigs out of the deal too. Good for her. That's not why I want to smack her though. I want to smack her because of the stunt she pulled with Entertainment Tonight. If you check out that link, there's a story about how Vanessa wanted to become "Ugly Vanessa" and don a fat suit in NYC to see how people would treat her. Haven't enough celebrities subjected themselves (and us) to this abomination they call "entertainment"? I think so. It's not always fun to be bigger than a plus 2. But I'd rather big and curvy than thin and boney. Damn straight. That's why I bring you the following:


The Hot Fat Girl Manifesto

Because being a hot fat girl is a lot of work and is undervalued or unrecognized. Because a fat girl still has to pay more money for uglier clothes or spend 11 hours at the thrift store to find anything hot to wear. Because if you take the elevator, people think you're lazy but if you're on the treadmill, people laugh.

Because men like John Goodman and Bernie Mac get to have careers on television but sitcom-moms-of-three still have size-two waists. Because even feminist magazines publish fat-phobic articles under the guise of it being a "health issue." Because anti-capitalist activists still use expressions like "fat capitalist pig."

Because girls are dieting at the age of nine. Because side effects of the most popular diet drugs are seizures, heart failure, fecal urgency, breast cancer, lung disease, insomnia, nausea and vomiting, dangerously high blood pressure, abnormal heartbeat, psychosis, strokes, hallucinations and sudden death.

Because the Cooper Institute's ongoing study of 30,000 people has found that those who are fittest live the longest, no matter what they weigh. Because the doctor who said that there were 30,000 "obesity-related" deaths each year received over $2 million in research funding from Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers. Because that study prompted the FDA to approve Phen-Phen and Redux. Because fat-hatred is a money-making industry. Because fat people who exercise live longer than thin people who don't.

Because if you lose weight 'cause you're sick, people telling you how great you look. Because hatred is so ingrained in every single one of us, especially inside the heart of even the hottest fat girl. Because even the most progressive people don't talk or write about it.

Because I am tired of being ignored, invisible, de-sexualized and told that I have such a pretty face.

Because it's not fat that kills, it's fear of fat. For all that and more I am a part of the HOT FAT GIRL REVOLUTION!

~ written by Zoe Whittall

Amen to that, Zoe! I'm not saying that being overweight to the point that it's causing health problems is a good idea (it's not). BUT what I'm saying is that if you're not a plus 2, don't worry about it. As far as I'm concerned, girls like Parasite Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and all the rest of the skeleton crew need to EAT A DAMN SAMMICH! It reminds me of the movie Jawbreaker, and that table of model wannabe's who SHARE a box of raisins for their daily meal. EAT SOMETHING! You know what I'd love to see on E.T? Me. Me cramming food into the mouths of these starving girls. Yep. And no throwing it back up a-la P!NK's "Stupid Girls" video either.