hally hoppidays! (photo Tuesday)

invisible oranges show some luv

Coming later in August 2010: a hair band salute to fat girls, titled Whole Lotta Love and put together by C.C. Banana. I don't feel I can really do justice to the planned lineup and metal band reworkings of songs like "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Unskinny Bop," but there is a lot more information on the album's myspace page. And notice the cover art, designed by the ever-fab Les Toil, an homage to William Rimmer and the Led Zeppelin Swan Song label logo.

I've never quite understood the metal/banana/comedy niche that C.C. (real name: A.J.) occupies, but I've met the dude a few times and he is really nice, and, note, really likes the big girls. Take the giant banana seriously.

fatties on Miami Ink

On Miami Ink tonight they are featuring two people I am acquainted with from bouncing around the size acceptance community. One is a woman named Deidra who gets a tattoo by the ever-fabulous Les Toil, whose work I love and adore; the other is a guy, an FA (fat admirer for all your civilians), who gets a groovy chubby girl pin-up girl tatt on his arm. Nobody's seen how the episode got cut, but size acceptance is supposed to be woven within it in some fashion, thematically. I really hope it's good! I will be squalling loudly if it is to let the show know I liked it.

Looks like the one-hour episode is on at 9 CST on the Learning Channel. There's also another older episode after, but I'm fairly sure the stuff I mentioned is only in the 9 o'clock ep.