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    You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    Is this one of those self-help books that really just emphasizes all your bad points, while it yells, scoffs, calls you names in "straight talk" and invariably makes you want to cheese curl yourself into a be-corned coma, while you cry hysterically to some piteous friend who still reads Tucker Max (Virgin Megastore, $5.99) or worse yet about What to do When the Zombies Attack, and there you are in your Snuggie, scarfing Chicken Mcnuggets with the remote, watching Mall Rats and wondering how a chubby Ben Affleck ever won an Oscar?


    Yes, this is what happens when friends give you kitschy books that they think are cute and will subliminally get you out of sweatpants.


    It won't, though.

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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    Much as I hate to correct Richard, this sort of thing is more "Barnes & Noble checkout line rack Secret Santa gift for someone you barely know" than "Urban Outfitters bathroom reading table," though the line between the two is pretty blurry...
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    This book is going to be HUGE in Alabama. In fact, I bet stores sell the book fried in chicken-fat and served with a side of Goo Goo Clusters.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/20/09

    @MrInBetween: Goo Goo Clusters are from Tennessee, not Alabama. Ashamed of you.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    Good on you, Richard B. Now is the time to bone up on your proofreading symbols so you can mark the pages correctly (there will be words in this book, won't there?). If you need help, go to the word "proofread" in Webster's and there is a list just waiting for you.


    Do not listen to your editor, the people who sign these books generally don't know shit. Make friends with the marketing manager who is assigned to your book and, of course, your publicist.

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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    I bet Jennifer Anniston ends up in the movie version.
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    Image of tigolbitties tigolbitties
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    i know i'm slow, but the richard who posts is not the same as the richard who is making us fat??
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    03/20/09

    @tigolbitties: Ha, no. We are, in fact, different people.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    I looked at this site just yesterday and couldn't get through the first page. I wanted to barf.
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    Image of jiminy.peep jiminy.peep
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    But I'm fat because of genetic condition.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/20/09

    @jiminy.peep: Big boned?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/20/09

    @jiminy.peep: Thinking that a 56oz. carton of Edy's is a single serving is not a genetic condition.
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    Image of blogissuchanuglyword blogissuchanuglyword
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    This promises to be a gripping read
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    Image of Richard Blakeley Richard Blakeley
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    That isn't carrot cake btw, it's meatloaf with potatoes and ketchup for icing.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    03/20/09

    @blakeley: congratulations! I don't even think Elvis would have touched that meatloaf nightmare.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    03/20/09

    @blakeley: I was about to go buy lunch until I read that...
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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    03/20/09

    @blakeley: I am impressed with the artful potato sculpting. Also, I think I might throw up soon.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    03/20/09

    @blakeley: I predict your book becomes a method of turning the carnivorous hordes into vegans. It'll be the Diet For New American, by John Robbins of the 21st Century.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    I'd like to toast the lucky people with my chicken salad and cous cous, which will never be a page in their book, but is still making me fat.


    Congratulations! May this be just the beginning of your future success.

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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    This is why I'm poor.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    03/20/09

    @Astigmatism: Because you can't write a book or because you've bought all the food on This is Why You're Fat?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    I'm still trying to shop my own book: Tuesdays With Hippity. It's a compendium of every Gawker comment I ever posted on a Tuesday.


    If you know anyone who might be interested in publishing it, just give me a holler.

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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: will there be any homespun, folksy, old mannish wisdom? Will you need to be on a park bench for the cover?
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: Maybe we can shop our books together. My book, Lymed Is Writing A Book is an illustrated version of all the different Facebook like updates I've added to my handle as a commenter. The chapter on the days leading up to the bar exam is riveting: Lymed 20 days and counting, Lymed 19 days and counting, Lymed 18 days and counting...
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: I'd buy it.
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    Image of Strehle Strehle
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: Wouldn't you of all at least want Wednesdays instead of Tuesdays (think volume)?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/20/09

    @Strehle: Hmmmmmm. You've got a point there.


    Wanna be my agent?

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    Image of shag_carpet_bomb shag_carpet_bomb
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: I would buy it too.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    03/20/09

    @MisterHippity: I would buy it if it was Wednesdays, the day of the PR and TC liveblogs. And then of course I'd look for any mention of me.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    Ever go to a dollar store and see the cheap plastic toys hanging on the wall in thin sandwich-bag-like containers? I always wondered who made those, whose life's work it was to compose unloved little choke-size playthings out of barely-processed fossil fuels. My suspicion is that it's the same kind of people who put these fad blog books on the market.
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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    03/20/09

    @ADismalScience: China
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    03/20/09

    @ADismalScience:

    I sometimes wonder what the Bangladeshi factory wage slaves are thinking about while they're assembling the various parts to our sex toys.
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    Image of mathnet mathnet
    03/20/09

    In reply to You May Be Fat, But They Have a Book Deal
    OH MY GOD THAT'S MEATLOAF
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    Image of RocketSurgeon RocketSurgeon
    03/20/09

    @mathnet: Meatcake. Beefcake?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    03/20/09

    @RocketSurgeon:


    Follow your dreams. You can reach your goals. Blakeley is living proof. Meatcake. MEATCAAAAAAAAKE!

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    03/20/09

    @mathnet: I know. I thought it was carrot cake, but it wasn't :(


    It's like that scene in The Crying Game where Jaye Davidson finally gets naked.

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