by Blogbot

Log on to Reddit.com/r/IAMA/ at 11 AM (PST) today for a live chat with SuicideGirls founder Missy. Reddit subscribers will be able to ask real-time questions, while Missy and SG’s model coordinator Rambo Ustream live from the SG office as well.

And while you’re on Reddit, be sure to friend us and send some link and comment karma our way too. You know how karma works – it’ll come back around to you 😉

**UPDATE**
Direct chat link is HERE.

Ps. Reddit just SG’d up their logo – how cool is that?

**UPDATE2**
Reddit user BrandonMarshallNga wants to know what we’re “going to be for Halloween this year?”

**UPDATE 3**
Reddit user Carnephex says: “On behalf of myself and many Marines: THANK YOU!”

Missy says: “Thank you! Are you a part of the pin-ups for Soldiers Program? If you are currently deployed we can set you up to get a care package as our way of saying thank you!”

**UPDATE4 **
Reddit user CelebornX asks: “Why’d you choose the name “Suicide Girls”?

**UPDATE 5 **
Reddit user All Your Base asks: “Who do you think is the sexiest SG ?”

Missy says: “I think all the girls are sexy. Safe answer but SuicideGirls is based on the idea that all women are beautiful not just the single cookie cutter type that is projected by mainstream media.”

**UPDATE 6 **
Reddit user Bleach-Free says: “Prediction: Top IAMA of the year.”

**UPDATE 7 **
Reddit user Abrasax asks: “How big of a deal was it for you to get featured on Californication?”

**UPDATE 8 **
Awe, we’re feeling so special – we just got a Reddit Gold Star!

Reddit user Renovatio says: “I haven’t seen a gold star in forever!”

-We feel even more special now 😉

**UPDATE 9**
We’re #2 in Reddit’s IAMA ranks. Come join the party and make us #1.

**UPDATE 10 **
Reddit user Psomatic says: “I was a subscriber a couple of years ago, and one thing I always loved was how strong the SG community is. Was that aspect of the site something that came out of user demand or did you guys push for it?”

Missy says: “When we started we wanted to build up a community where the girls and members could express themselves not only through their photos but in their own words too.”

by Brandon Perkins

for the record, this is some shit i just thought of y’all, science fiction that’s not admissable in no court of law. 

– mf doom

Everyone on the bus was horribly disfigured. Warts, scars, stains, blemishes, matted hair, and various other dismembering smells. Fifth-generation t-shirts that started with sports-playing grandsons ended their tattered saga on the drooping shoulders of a youngin’s great grandmother. Hand-me-downs were hand-me-ups. It all went in reverse. The passengers sat two-by-two or stood in the aisles, grasping sweaty bars for balance. Their day to day bus was taking them into the night and the Brown Between had a tendency to jerk rather suddenly.

The bus ran from Los Angeles’s most maligned residential line (Compton’s Circle) to the #720 and back again. Higher class routes existed for higher-class passengers who lived in fancier places. It was mostly the poor that rode the Brown Between. Its primary purpose was to shuttle the cleaning staff, rat catchers, dishwashers, fast food short order chefs, sheet metal deburrers, and other employees of undesirable servitude to and from their overcrowded residential complexes on an impossibly rickety set of tracks-and the Brown Between was the only line in the city that still seemed to be on tracks. When the seats were comfortable they felt infested with unimaginable insects. And when they weren’t comfortable? The fabric looked frightfully diseased and the insects actually crept up everyone’s legs.

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by Damon Martin

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The Supreme Court of the United States of America will soon be taking on a precedent-making case, set to be heard in November of this year, about the reach of the First Amendment when it comes to the realm of video games. Given Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s involvement, I’m going to try to present facts and opinion, and leave out any clichéd quotes such as “Get to da choppa!” or “I’ll be back” as best I can.

In 2005 the State of California passed two statutes, California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793, which effectively banned the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. However, the Video Software Dealers Association successfully appealed on the grounds of freedom of expression at the district court level, and the laws were judged to be unconstitutional. The State of California subsequently appealed the decision, and Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association will bring the issue to the highest court in the land for a final judgment call

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by Nicole Powers

“I was used to the realities of sucking at something.”
– Justin Halpern, author of Shit My Dad Says

Justin Halpern is an ordinary guy who curates an extraordinary Twitter page. In less than a year it’s garnered over 1.3 million fans who follow Justin simply to keep track of the latest and greatest shit his dad says. Justin’s talent lies in realizing the aforementioned shit was of a superior quality to that emitted from other dad’s mouths. He also has a knack for conveying the underlying heart behind his father’s seemingly harsh witticisms.

Raised on a farm in Kentucky, Justin’s dad, Sam Halpern, is a man of few words – who knows how to make every syllable count. The exact opposite of passive-aggressive, Halpern, Sr. has never been backwards about coming forwards with his often-unsolicited opinions and words of advice. Growing up, this brutal honesty was difficult to deal with, but now Justin is reaping the rewards. His @ShitMyDadSays Twitter page has spawned a hilarious yet surprisingly touching book of longer vignettes — brilliantly retold by Justin — and a TV sitcom produced by Warner Brothers for CBS starring William Shatner, which was co-written by Halpern, Jr. in association with the team behind Will & Grace.

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by Nahp Suicide

Coca-Cola brings unexpected happiness with a vending machine that, when deployed and engaged, dispenses way more than a bottle of fun-tastic flavored corn syrup and water. After slipping in a buck, or however much it costs to sate your thirst these days, unwitting users on a college campus were deluged by Coke bottles, which they proceeded to share with their peers. Others got bouquets of flowers or balloon animals from seemingly disembodied hands, and somehow a 20-foot sub even appeared out of the 18-inch deep machine.

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by Damon Martin

Dressing like a nerd has become the “in” thing to do (which is a little worrying when you consider yesterday’s “in” is today’s “out”). Personally I’ve been dressing like a nerd pretty much my whole life, because well, I’m a huge nerd – so I’ve little choice but to ride the wave (even if it beaches me in fashion oblivion in 6 months time). That said, there’s nothing wrong with being a stylish nerd (at least for now) and so with that I present “Geek Chic: The May the Force Be With You” edition.

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by Ryan Stewart

William Gibson will always be the cyberpunk prophet, the man whose Hugo-winning 1984 debut novel Neuromancer, about a future underworld dystopia where radically advanced computing possibilities exist in tandem with sex, drugs and political skullduggery, introduced the notion of “cyberspace” to the public and predicted the emergence of a world wide web, along with computers of ever-increasing intelligence and dubious motive. In the post-September 11th world, however, his attention has increasingly focused not on a new imagined future (the branch of Matrix-style cyber fiction his work spawned chugs along regardless) but on the complexities of the present. In a recent NYT op-ed about Google’s tightening grip on our lives, Gibson conceded that “science fiction never imagined Google” and characterized the search engine as a “coral reef of human minds” with an impact so potentially transformative that it should cause us to consider new ideas like “training wheel” identities for today’s minors, whose every stupid, impolitic thought is being cached to their potential future detriment.

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