by Blogbot

Continuing our tradition of cosplay at Comic Con, this year SuicideGirls rocked outfits inspired by a ‘historical’ character from Issue 2 of the new SG Comic (see top left) as drawn by Cameron Stewart (he and Missy came by the booth and signed copies of the comic for fans – see pic top right). The costumes, which were whipped up by Junker Designs, were such a hit the ladies of booth 1632 even made the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s Comic Con photo gallery!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi! We hope you had as much fun as we did.

XOX

For more images check out our SG at SDCC photo gallery.
(Images courtesy of Ackley, Bob, Callioppe, Chris Gore, Drama, Exning, KingMuerte, Lolana, Milloux, Radeo, Rambo, Rlei, Seena, Tank, and Tita.)

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by Jensen

This post is going to be completely different than the usual Doing it with Jensen posts. I’ve got this friend, Ocell, who co-writes Food We Chew. He always posts all of this amazing looking food but I’ve never seen any real evidence that he can cook. So I proposed that we do a blog together. Basically, I wanted an excuse for a cute dude to make me food, and I saw pictures of these amazing looking bagels he had made and decided I needed them in my stomach. My life is tough! Anyways, I’m behind the camera this time, not in front! Sorry gentlemen, this one is for the ladies. Or something.

If you don’t have a bread machine, you’re pretty much fucked. And not in a good way. No bagels for you, sorry :[. I’m sure there are plenty of awesome non-bread machine bagel recipes, but this is not one of those.

If you want the full recipe and directions, check out AllRecipes.com.

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by Fred Topel

For some reason I expected Errol Morris to be a really serious documentarian trying to blow the lid off a scandal. Instead he was happy and smiling and laughing. He even made a joke that my two digital records (one for backup) were brother and sister. Morris has explored topics like police corruption in The Thin Blue Line and Abu Ghraib in SOP. His latest film, Tabloid tells a story we may not know, with a theme that still resonates today.

Joyce McKinney caused a scandal in the ‘70s when she allegedly kidnapped Kirk Anderson from the Mormon Church. At the time, the London tabloids either glorified her as a beautiful heroine or slammed her as a sexual predator. Today it takes far simpler scandals to make someone a tabloid star. For the film, Morris conducted an interview with McKinney and some of the other men who knew her, helped her or tried to stop her. The story unfolds in their own words, with a few on screen images for emphasis.

I spoke with Morris about today’s media, tabloid or otherwise.

Read our exclusive interview with Errol Morris on SuicideGirls.com.

Celina Suicide in Home Sweet Home

• INTO: Audio engineering, music, art, dancing, tequila and beer, photography, traveling, concerts, singing, coffee.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Coffee, beer, good music, great friends, dancing, stars, the ocean.
• HOBBIES: Singing, my band, dancing, sports, drinking, partying, skiing.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Music, a good drink, dancing, vacation and journeys, my job.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Free time, what is this?? I spend most of my time making music, living music, dancing to music. I’m audio engineer my hobby is my life. No free time, but a lot of good times 🙂

Get to know Celina better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by SG’s Team Agony feat. Tekky, Perdita, and Leandra

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: I have been on and off with this guy for 10 months now. We haven’t really been in an actual relationship. I moved in with him once to try things out, but he basically broke that off on Valentine’s Day. Now we have more of this friends with benefits thing going. But we fight. We fight for about a week, then for two weeks we are okay and together. I have to see him almost everyday. I really care for him. I’m also hurt at the same time. What should I do?

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by Greg Palast


Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist gave debtors’ prison a bad rap. Too bad. I’d say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea.

Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a Republican President took an annual surplus of $86 billion left for him by Bill Clinton and ran up the budget deficit to over half a trillion a year ($642 billion in 2008). Altogether, George W. Bush blew up the national debt by over $3 TRILLION — then left the bills to Barack Obama.

For eight years, Bush spent like a drunk monkey. The world was the GOP’s Bergdorf’s and they had our credit card. If there was a shiny new war on the shelf, they just had to have it: Iraq, Afghanistan, and let’s not forget the Fantasy Wars, the half a trillion dollars a year on fancy-ass weapons for a war that won’t happen. (Example: the Virginia Class submarine. The V-class was designed to attack Soviet subs. There are no more Soviet subs, but Bush ordered three dozen anyway — at $1.8 billion each.)

And tax cuts? Don’t get me started!

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by Jay Hathaway

John Linnell and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants have been making music for 30 years, and they still haven’t run out of things to say. While other bands with that kind of longevity just go through the motions and secretly hate one another, the Johns somehow manage to get along and keep making good records.

Their 15th record, Join Us, has been three years in the making. During that time, They Might Be Giants have been putting out wildly successful kids’ albums, and Join Us marks their return to “adult” rock n’ roll.

We were lucky enough to spend some time on the phone with John Linnell, trying to figure out what this record is all about. It turns out that after 30 years, a band can just make music without having to explain themselves. Join Us is a They Might Be Giants record: you’ll either get it, or you won’t, and Linnell is totally okay with that.

Read our exclusive interview with John Linnell on SuicideGirls.com.