The Wal-Mart Fat People Mockers Speak @10:53 AM
The team behind "People of Wal-Mart," a site I don't really love, have come out of the closet, revealing themselves to be two brothers (Adam and Andrew Kipple) and a friend (Luke Wherry), who hail from the greater Pittsburgh area and currently live in glamorous Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The brothers explained the site to CNN. READ MORE 33
What's Wrong with "People of Wal-Mart" @9:07 AM
I went home to think about this new "People of Wal-Mart" blog overnight before I went off half-cocked. In the end: I'm not a fan, I think! And that's a hard and maybe slightly indefensible thing to say, coming from someone who, essentially, thinks Cintra Wilson is funny making fun of the fatness of J.C. Penney mannequins in the Times. So what this "People of Wal-Mart" is, is it is a website that pubishes stealth camera shots (allegedly?) of people in Wal-Marts (allegedly), taken by people apparently in Wal-Marts, who are horrified by the other people in Wal-Marts. Now I have been in many Wal-Marts myself and been horrified, except I stopped going there a while back because of the experience of a family member who (yes, gasp!) actually worked in a Wal-Mart and had an excruciatingly, even somewhat life-ruiningly bad experience there. So you know: fuck Wal-Mart and everyone in it, is sort of my position? Burn it to the ground! But this site does a couple of things I also don't like. READ MORE 48
The Great Fat Freakout @9:28 AM
I have been sitting on my stoop in the East Village this morning like an old Polish woman and I have counted exactly zero guys with pot bellies, even though this is the hot new trend, according to the elitist New York Times. Here is the thing: Manhattan is an incredibly trim place, on the most part. Last night I was walking by Gramercy Park and I was behind a large group of people who were clearly from out of town, and I could tell only because of two things: they were wearing amazingly cheap clothing and they were, well, a large group of people! That is a fine choice for them! I am not here to judge. For one thing, the food in America is terrible, horrible, disgusting "food" and really there is nothing for them to eat that is healthy. The problem is that we are kind of not allowed to even mention it. And so writer Cintra Wilson, who is well-known as a TOTALLY CRAZY person, is in big trouble now. READ MORE 91
