The Inmates Run The Asylum
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posted by mo pie at 10:26 AM
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Wow, no offense, but you guys are really bad at this!
Ok, here's something. I was just reading the amazon.com reviews for the new Dixie Chicks CD (which I bought, because I kinda like some country music and because I saw an interview with them and it got me riled up because of the way they have been treated for speaking their minds). So anyway, behold this gem, which attacks Natalie Maines about her weight, because obviously, that's all peckerwood could come up with, and it's laughable, because Maines is stunningly beautiful and not at all fat, and even if she were, so effin' what:
Reviewer: Al Franken (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
Despite the brilliance of Natalie Maines activism (i.e.
"Bush bad - liberals good"), this can't save this album from being putrid. If Maines lost about 50 pounds, that might improve
the tamber of her vocals, which sound somewhat muted by the omnipresent donut in her mouth during recording sessions. Although I'm certainly positive that Natalie Maines has the solution to that pesky little problem in Iraq (i.e. surrender to the insurgents and give political comfort to our enemies); that doesn't excuse the lack of musical focus of this aural excrement.
I flagged the mofo.
Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F7MG4G/sr=8-1/qid=1148396328/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2857061-9316009?%5Fencoding=UTF8
And he can't spell "timbre".
OK, I'm late joining the party too, but I am several time zones away.
PQ has sparked a bit of a discussion about whether it's ever a good idea for your parents to comment on your eating habits here. Which I thought was interesting (although I cravenly didn't really enter the fray, because I'm pretty sure my mum reads that one).
Personally, I probably got my lifelong aversion to the word "plump" (even when modified with "slightly") from my mother, but I don't feel warped by half-a-dozen well-meant comments over the course of a lifetime. But nor do I think they had any effect at the time other than to dishearten me (temporarily). On the other hand, I did grow up knowing about proper nutrition, and my habits were never all that bad. At least I knew what I ought to be doing, even if I didn't always do it.
What do people think?
K, your mom reads my blog? Heh! I don't know why I find that funny, but I do.
Plus I bet the real Al Franken knows how to spell 'timbre'.
Ass-hat...
I was thinking, "Why is Al Franken suddenly for the war in Iraq...?
Going after her weight is a cheap shot and obviously this guy just dislikes her political position. I've never thought she was fat, just little and bigger boned than her two bandmates. Fat is always the easy insult apparently.
I was also brought up knowing all about proper eating. So I too knew what I was doing by eating like a mofo.
Living with others that aren't trying to lose weight is hard. My will only goes so far.
(Now do I respond to PQ here, or at her own blog? Hmmm...)
My mum reads quite a few blogs I also read and it is a bit odd for us to see each other's comments - especially (for me) on the ones I've been reading for years.
I'm with BethK and LME - there's no freakin' way the real Al Franken - or any of his compadres in Boston, for that matter - doesn't know how to spell "timbre".
I think it's really cool that K and her mum read lots of the same blogs.
If anyone's interested, there's a conversation on Fatty McBlog that Mo blogged about here a couple of months ago, and, despite having drifted off topic as a result of relentless "logical analysis" by a couple of borderline trolls, almost 400 comments later (!!) the conversation is STILL going on.
Wow, 400 comments? My new goal in life is to come up with a post that will get 400 comments. Or 100 comments. Or 50 comments?
Well, Mo, I'm sure you can take some of the credit. I can't imagine that I'm the only one that would have missed the thread over there if you hadn't pointed it out, after all.
And of course you know, since it's your blog, but I'd be surprised if you didn't have a post somewhere in here that had hit the 50-comment mark.
And also, you have more than one blog. So your comments are just spread out. :D
I second that... after all, I'm sure I've made multiple comments to sites of yours some days. Although, if you only had one blog I'd probably get shy and not make so many.
It's official: Natalie Maines is *so* not fat.
I just downloaded the disc and this one comes with a .pdf of the liner notes (something that has long been missing with the whole iTun3s experience, but I digress) and on page 3 there is a picture of Natalie wearing hot pants and those are thighs to be coveted. And the kicker... She's wearing a top with horizontal stripes! You know that anyone who has been indoctrinated into the dressing way for fat girls knows you can't wear horizontal stripes. It's like, a law.
Not only are these people stoopid, they're simply blind.
"You know that anyone who has been indoctrinated into the dressing way for fat girls knows you can't wear horizontal stripes. It's like, a law."
Aaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!!
Giggle.
Actually, that's kind of true: I celebrated no longer feeling fat by buying a new top with horizontal stripes, and wearing an old one again.
I even tried on a stripy tankini, but only got the top half in the end... stripes across my widest part were not a good idea. Though it looked cute on the hanger.
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