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Here’s the trailer to an upcoming skate video, by Nike SB called “Don’t Fear The Sweeper”. The video will be released in three parts on NikeSkateboarding.com, with part one premiering on January 11th, 2010.

WOW. Terry Richardson is a great photographer. Well, lucky, for sure.

I will admit that today’s Fatcon is the subject of one of my big-girl crushes. Correction: She is the subject of one of my big-girl, girl-crushes.

I am gonna soapbox it up right now and say that as a big(ish) girl, or a chubby chick, I am pretty ferocious when it comes to my look. I am not one of these frumpsters who hides behind baggy clothes and doesn’t wear makeup. Oh, no. I am an in-your-face diva of the decadent. I wear what I want, from “meow!” style dresses to dope kicks and a wife beater. I can be a plus-sized pinup or an around-the-way girl and I do it hard. I do it mean! I DO IT BIG! And that is why, under the rules of game-recognize-game, I can confidently say that I am kind of in love with Fatcon #23…the uncompromising, unconventional, unapologetic Beth Ditto.

#23: Beth Ditto

#23: Beth Ditto, Lead singer of The Gossip. She's a fuckin' ROCK STAR.

Beth Ditto is a big girl. The kind of big girl that has rotund curves that cannot be squeezed into obedience by some corset or Spanxx prison. Hers is the shape of undeniable bigness and that is, at least I happen to believe so, why she is unstoppable. She is fat, ya’ll. She is a fuckin’ fat force of nature. Beth Ditto will murk your sesh.

By now, if you have no clue who this big girl is, you are probably asking, “Who the fuck is Beth Ditto?” Beth Ditto is the lead singer of the outrageous band The Gossip. The Gossip, for lack of better vernacular and tact are, well, they are FUCK YES! in my opinion. I use the term FUCK YES! as strongly as possible. You should probably stop what you are doing right now and scroll down there and watch some of their videos. You should learn yourself some The Gossip. You should rock the fuck out, ASAP, repeatedly. Until you start recommending The Gossip to others with the fervor that I am recommending it to you.

And sure, Beth Ditto has a great voice. Sure. That is already established. But that is not the reason why she is a fatcon. Oh, no.  The real reason she is a fatcon has to do with her unapologetic flauntage of her fatness. You see, this big woman parades around half naked on stage. (And sometimes naked!) She strips off her clothes and shows the world what she’s got and she doesn’t care what you or I or them think about it. She revels in her rolls and her cellulite. She wears costumes that put drag queens to shame and make this trannie-lover right here, jealous. (Her fashion sense is FIRE!!) And now, because of her entirely rad fatness, designers who would NEVER design for the bigs are putting together entire lines FOR HER. That’s right…she made fashion houses and fat-haters bow down. She is that powerful in her conviction of herself. She threw them her confidence and they ran out and bought extra material. That takes a swagger and a fierceness that even skinny people don’t posses. That takes fucking balls, man. Huge ones. Fat ones.

Oh, and she is a lesbian…which kind of justifies my girl-crush on her. She has that lezzie mojo.

And that, that right there is why Beth Ditto is #23. And why I love her. I simply love her.
Check out her FEROCIOUS photos and videos below! -goobs

It’s FAT ALBERT!!!!!!

What? I can’t make a cartoon a fatcon?

Pffft.

I just did.

It’s Fatwareness Month and this animated pudgester is definitely on my list!

#28: FAT ALBERT

Hey, Hey, Hey...Fat Albert is FATCON #28!

Back in the day, when I was a kid, Bill Cosby could do no wrong. He was the JELL-O pudding pop man, he was on the brink of the Cosby Show and he was the voice of the dopest cartoon around, Fat Albert. The Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids show really spoke to me for a lot of reasons.

1) We were not rich, I will tell you that, and Fat Albert and his gang of friends made me feel okay about being a little kid with hand-me-down gear and not so great sneakers.

2) Fat Albert gave me much-needed fashion sense. In fact, I am going to credit my love of sneakers and dope t-shirts and hats to the Fat Albert show. Those Cosby kids might have been poor and in the junkyard, but hot damn if their sneaker game wasn’t on point.

3) Fat Albert made me feel like I could be a chubby kid and still be happy and have friends. At a time when the delicate lines were being drawn of normal kid and chubby kid, I had a pretty healthy sense of self-confidence. Hey, Hey, Hey…

4) Fat Albert gave me a healthy appreciation for music, too. I challenge you to find a doper theme song than the Fat Albert theme song. Seriously. It’s like Sly and the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield had a baby. It is funk perfection and any song that states, “Na, na, na gonna have a good time!” is fuckin’ all right by me. Solid, man. Solid!

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids gave me a good appreciation for black men. Rudy Davis' swagger could not be denied.

5) Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids also gave me a healthy love of minority culture…yeah, I am really going to pin my love of the brothas on this cartoon. lol I had a thing for Rudy Davis. (The one in the purple and pink outfit. Bellbottom goodness and a hat  to match! Any man who could rock such a gregarious ensemble had to have mad  game. Perhaps this explains my fascination with pimps…hmmm….but I digress…) Saturday mornings with the Cosby Kids and their high-beat, infectious hilarity and mad swagger made me feel like saying it loud, I was black and I was proud. Well, I was brown, but I was growing up in an Irish neighborhood and there was a big shortage of caramel and chocolate in my hood, if ya’ know what I mean. Fat Albert really satisfied my curiosity about darker folks like me.

6) Watching Fat Albert was also mad educational. Bill Cosby would always say,”This is Bill Cosby coming out with music and fun. If you’re not careful, you may learn something before it’s done!
Hey, hey, hey!” And boy was he right. Fat Albert was one of my T.V. moral staples. There was a lesson in every episode, I tell you, and I sucked all those pearls of wisdom up. (Eww, I just said sucked up all those pearls…HAHAHAH!!)

Hence, Fat Albert is deemed a Fatcon, by me, and makes the countdown at #28 for FATWARENESS MONTH. And I am posting the theme song because it’s so fresh, so check it out and revel in the bigness, ya’ll. Being fat never felt so jive-a-lacious!

-goobs

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Following up on their preview of Summer headwear, New York-based DQM unveil a selection of t-shirts from their new seasonal lineup. The tees feature simple graphic designs in a wide assortment of Summer-friendly colorways. A release is scheduled for this Thursday June 11th at Dave’s Quality Meat.

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I saw this and cried a little, too..

I cried a little here.

IT’S MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK.. Someone buy me this DAMNIT!

Alife gets together with colette and G-Shock to produce a white version of their classic digital watch. Limited to only 40 pieces, the watch comes in all white, features both “alife” and “paris” on the straps and is now available at colette.

In4mation gives us a better look into their latest creation alongside Casio. After the highly successful colorways from last year, the Hawaiian-based brand work up another color scheme with the popular G-Shock GLX-5600 platform. This special “Salmon” joint is slated for a June 2009 release, but stay tuned for further details in the coming months.