http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fatblogging http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/fatblogging We wondered in April about venture capitalist Heidi Roizen's plans after her firm Moibus Venture finished closing up shop, and now it's been revealed. After topping her bathroom scale in May, Roizen turned her attention towards the music scales. This week, she launched SkinnySongs, a startup focused on creating upbeat, catchy music with the most thinspirational lyrics this side of a pro-ana LiveJournal ring. (Sample lyrics: "Thin! — not telling you lies. Thin! — I want smaller thighs.") Roizen is both the founder and "chief lyricist" for the startup. You can hold her fully responsible for such ditties as "I'm a Hottie Now," "Incredible Shrinking Woman," and the bizarrely titled "Blowing You Off at Eight."

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333246&view=rss&microfeed=true Attention, bottom-feeding Gothamites! Weblogs Inc. cofounder Jason Calacanis is eager to bore you to tears over dinner about how great his new venture Mahalo is. (The short version: Remember Yahoo's Web directory from 12 years ago? That's basically Mahalo.) The buntrepreneur is stuffing his bulldog-cute, apple-cheeked face full of dim sum — oops, back to fatblogging! — at the Golden Unicorn at 7:30 p.m. tonight, notes Silicon Alley Insider.

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Kicked off of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, Mark Cuban reveals that he's lost 30 pounds in the course of preparing for and performing on the show. That points to his future career: fatblogging, like his good buddy Jason Calacanis, the wantrepreneur who's turned himself into the Richard Simmmons of the Internet.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314721&view=rss&microfeed=true "Eating $95 white truffle pasta and damn proud of it... Sooooooo dope!" — Internet entrepreneur and former overweight guy Jason Calacanis, living large and risking a return to fatblogging by blithely ingesting overpriced carbohydrates.
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