Embracing Your Big Fat Ass
An Owner's Manual
What's in a Word?LB: Co-Founding Member Confessional
If the name of this book offends you in any way, Janette and I are not sorry. We are writing this book to make friends, to meet many of you, and have some great tailgate parties on the road, but there is simply no other title that would work for this book. "Embracing Your Big Fat Behind?" "Embracing Your Big Fat Bottom?" Maybe in reviews of this book in magazines and on TV our title will look like this: Embracing Your Big Fat A**. Maybe they'll try to bleep us when we use the word on the local news in Tallahassee. Janette loves the word ass, among other more descriptive terms. By using a profanity -- granted, on the lower end of the profanity spectrum, in our opinion -- we give the book the "bite" it needs. That's why the word works. It has a bit of snarl to it.
There was an actual event that led to this title. It came about in the summer of 2002. A friend of mine, Carol, came storming into my apartment, slammed my front door, and walked into my kitchen. Carol is a beautiful woman, very turned out wi ... read full excerpt from Embracing Your Big Fat Ass: An Owner's Manual ebook
