September 12, 2010

Name Your Poison: Food

"Let's bash the gays, Harass The geeks and trash the punks. But only if there are fewer of them than us."
Food is a strange vice, since we all need it to live. It's like oxygen; you get too much it gets you high, not enough and you're gonna die. Wow, I seriously made that up this second.

Leslie West
Singer, guitarist and pretty much the namesake of the band "Mountain," ie; he was as big as a mountain. Leslie slimmed down to such a shocking degree, he's almost impossible to recognize now. Must be that "Subway diet."

Carnie Wilson
No matter what she did, Carnie Wilson would always be known as "the fat one," in the group Wilson-Phillips and subjected to constant jokes about eating the other two members. She can now be called "the one who got the gastric bypass surgery. Well, she looked a hell of a lot better after the surgery than Star Jones, who looked like some kind of weird raisin.

Meat Loaf
Battled with his weight continually, between making really terrible albums.
Bill Stevenson
Was big... suddenly got enormous! In the immortal words of his former band: "I like food. Food tastes good" 
Rita MacNeil
Or as we affectionately refer to her in Canada, "Eat-a Big Meal."
Karen Carpenter
Fell into the "not enough and you're gonna die," category and died from anorexia.
Elvis Presley
Yup, The King became as famous for shooting televisions, buying Cadillacs for strangers and eating disgusting things as singing and acting in bad movies.
 Pig Champion
Booze, drugs, food; this guy indulged in every excess and got so big he nearly exploded. This look unfortunately didn't catch on like heroin chic.
Mama Cass Elliot
Although is has been proven that she didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich, the rumor persists because we want to believe it. Live by the ham sandwich, die by the ham sandwich.