Another year.  Another Love Your Body Day hosted by Chenese Lewis.  This will be my first year in attendance.  I'm going to hit up the pre party Friday night, sing a few songs on Saturday and then I'm heading over to see Maggie Brown do improv.    Oh, and this year the celebrity guest MC is Lisa Ann Walter, a judge on Dance Your Ass Off!  I actually met her at the Torrid fashion show a few weeks ago.  She was wearing a hot little silver number and we had a moment, so I'm sure we'll be kickin back a few drinks together...she's totally NOT plus, but hey this ain't the Grammy's, you get what you can get.   I hope to see you there, I'll be singing on Saturday between 1:30 and 3pm.  Don't be late.  I hate tardiness.

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If one of my girlfriends told the paparazzi that I devoured all her food in the night, I'd have her eaten, and I'd hire Kara DioGuardi to do it!  in her sleep!

I've eaten my roommate's food.  I've eaten food off of the plates before I wash them at a dinner party.  I've eaten a slice out of a birthday cake before the party started (oh, no.  that wasn't me.  That was Dom DeLuise in Fatso.)

Point is, Paula Abdul, you're a bitter old skinny midget of a woman.  I know little people with more gumption, more loyalty, more finesse and hair that doesn't require a horse's mane to look hot.  You are a bad girlfriend.  If you're going to gossip, get a blog.

And to all those I've eaten out of house and home, thank you for your silence.

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I invite you to read the comments on Youtube.  Some people really missed the boat on this very effective ad.

Oh, and there's a well done parody that's in such poor taste, all I can say is it really drives home the point of the orginal Dove video. 

Which, for those who read my blog and still need help across Duh St. is that there is a widely accepted yet ridiculously distorted perception of reality.  There is more to life than being thin, rich, and fabulous.   Get a hobby.  Volunteer.  Befriend an ugly cool kid. 

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I remember the day Greg and I went steady.  He beat me to my house after school just so I'd find flowers on my doorstep.  Paul sent me beautiful letters with poems. "in this world of calamity there's Natalie."  Craig and I passed notes with quotes for years.  That's how he asked me to the 8th grade dance and also to Jr. Prom. 

This video rocks.

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nati

I'm supposed to be asleep.  I'm supposted to be dreaming about all the sex I'm not getting.  Instead I'm emailing with Fluvia who's in Paris right now being fabulous while I'm on my period being bouyant. 

Fluvia:  I didn't book my ticket to Love Your Body Day cuz I didn't think your offer to stay with you was serious.  You're always joking.

nati:  you're on crack.  we're practically family.  you're always welcome.  now book a ticket.

Fluvia:  I don't have a laptop with me.

nati: I found tickets on Virgin for like $100 each way. 

Fluvia:  ok...take my cc and book it.  did you see my IGIGI video?  My email is blowing up!

nati: NO!  I knew you were doing something but I didn't know what.  Why am I the last to know???  I deserve exclusives on shit like this. 

So this is the pornography Fluvia is peddling.  Watch if you must.  Brazilians and their smut.

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P.S. seriously.  I love the premise of this video.  it should give you a boner, then you have to come to terms with the fact that you got wood over a fat chick.  deal. 

 Follow up to the last blog.

At 5' 10" and 120 lbs, Filippa Hamilton was let go from Ralph Lauren for "not fulfilling her contractual obligations" (ie...not being skinny enough). Ralph is riding the short bus. Between the airbrush flub and this, they're contributing to a whole new generation of eating disorders.

Join me in consumer boycotting!

I don't fit their clothes and I can't afford most of their products...so I'll be boycotting their econo line of towels. No more Ralph Lauren towels for nati!!!

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Photoshop Disasters is one of my favorite blogs. Recently they posted this Ralf Lauren ad where Filippa Hamilton looks like a Character from Nightmare Before Christmas.  Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing reposted the photo in a blog chiding, "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis.

Ralph Lauren responded to this tiny blip on the blogosphere by sending DMCA takedown notices to all the ISPs involved. 

Boing Boing's response is so very cherry!!!   Jezebel, Huffington Post, and ABC got on board, no one's pushing Boing Boing around!

Obviously everyone is well within their rights to post and criticize this ABSURD photo.  (I encourage you to show by example and repost this with abandon)

Besides the fact that big business is once again using their money to bend the law and intimidate regular people, the more disturbing issue here is that someone spent billable hours making an already emaciated woman looked third world.  The dogma of skinny is gross and only the completely near-sited sheep are on board. 

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I've been missing Jersey, and my friend, with the gay son, who's aways got such a nice Xmas tree...yeah...i miss her too.  So, we're gonna do it up real nice, kids.  Just like home.  I'm making ambrosia and deviled eggs.  I might even get the Clayman's recipe for meatloaf, and we'll do it up real nice.  real nice.  I'm gonna wear my new sweater dress, the one that makes me feel like the 4th Judd!  Have Mercy!  and yeah...real nice...lemme know if you wanna come.

12.12.09

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