by Blogbot

Every week we ask the ladies and gentlemen of the web to show us their finest ink in celebration of #TattooTuesday.

Our favorite submission from Twitter wins a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.

Last week’s winner is Megan Sweet a.k.a. @memimook, who combined two of our fave things with this zombie Hello Kitty piece.

Enter this week’s competition by replying to this tweet with a pic of your fav tattoo and the #tattootuesday hashtag.

Good luck!

A few things to remember:

• You have to be 18 to qualify.
• The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
• On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!

Check out the Tattoo Tuesday winners of weeks past!

By Fred Topel

Since being elected president in 2000 (look it up if you don’t remember), Al Gore has forged a career as a public speaker. The movie of his speech about the climate crisis, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Oscar for best documentary. The former vice president also serves as the chairman of Current TV, a next generation news service he cofounded. The cable network features political programming with hosts like Cenk Uygur and Jennifer Granholm. It offers an alternative to the ultra right wing Fox News, and serves as a breath of fresh air when compared to the staid but supposedly balanced CNN.

Gore presented the network’s latest programming, anticipating the 2012 election cycle, to the Television Critics Association on Jan. 13. The critics must have reminded Gore of his days facing the White House press corps. We get the scoop on Snooki, so we’re not letting any fancy guys in suits get off easy.

Perhaps Gore is still a politician at heart. He took questions from critics but you might say he was filibustering to keep the conversation revolving around his talking points. Yes, he brought up the climate crisis on his own. Check your cable listings for Current TV and below for Gore’s thoughts on news coverage, Occupy Wall Street and the upcoming election.

Read SuicideGirls’ interview with Al Gore on SuicideGirls.com.

Mendacia Suicide in Le Vent Nous Portera

• MAKES ME HAPPY: After-parties, cocktails, weed, movies, lowbrow art.
• MAKES ME SAD: Mondays, being at a shopping center with no money.
• HOBBIES: Singing, writing, drawing, taking pictures, losing track of time on tumblr.com.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Ear plugs, bed, weed, and the internet.
• VICES: I smoke weed before going to sleep.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Partying, taking pictures, listening to music, and drawing.

Get to know Mendacia better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Missy Suicide

Did you watch Ink Masters last night? If not you can watch the whole episode here!

I think a reality competition show about tattoo artists is a super cool idea. Basically the same format as Top Chef or Project Runway (which I am addicted to) but with WAY higher stakes.

Listening to Ink Master judge Oliver Peck‘s critiques on line work and shading was super interesting. That type of knowledge of what to look for in a tattoo artist will make for a more well informed public.

I think the time limit to do the tattoos is a bit scary since they have to be on someone’s body forever but I guess a good tattoo artist can budget their time accordingly. Some of the artists seem like they might need some more experience before they will get everything down perfectly though. Which is a little scary to watch and you feel for the human canvases, well most of them. Anything the contestants do though will likely be better than what the people might get from walking into the nearest open shop without a plan.

It is always nice to see our friend Dave Navarro too.

xoxo
-missy

by David Seaman

I thought it was a hoax when I read this morning that US Senator Rand Paul was detained in Nashville by the TSA. It is, however, real. If ever there were a time to stand together and speak out against the out-of-control police state, it is today.

Specifically, I feel that:

• The TSA, which detained US Senator Rand Paul this morning for refusing a full-body gropedown, is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and must be de-funded and scrapped. It intimidates citizens and searches us without warrants or cause, in CLEAR VIOLATION of our rights.
• The NDAA’s indefinite detention without trial provision is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and completely disgusting. It must be amended immediately; those who drafted and supported these provisions should be removed from office. It’s a criminal act and a near declaration of war against the American people.
• The proposed Enemy Expatriation Act, or EEA, is even worse.
• Bills like SOPA, and global treaties like ACTA, enable government and corporate censorship. Such a push toward totalitarian censorship is DISGUSTING AND UNACCEPTABLE.
• The dishonestly titled “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011” is OUTRAGEOUS. It damages the Internet’s freedom and provides a wide open door to Big Brother censorship and archiving of PRIVATE personal communication online. This affects YOU. Incidentally, this legislation does very little to protect minors from exploitation. It has been given a ridiculous name so that any politician voting against it faces political suicide: “How could you vote against protecting the kids?!”
• Hollywood, once a progressive force for good that questioned the political status quo, has now become just another cynical lobbying power that has no problem permanently weakening the freedom of speech, as long as they protect their lame franchise major motion picture profits. Time to boycott Hollywood. The MPAA’s strong-arming of politicians to support SOPA/PIPA, as well as their television networks’ pathetic coverage of these issues, is unacceptable.

Disobedience is civil. Disobedience is patriotic. Speak up, speak out.

David Seaman is an independent journalist. He has been a lively guest on CNN Headline News, FOX News, ABC News Digital, among others, and on his humble YouTube channel, DavidSeamanOnline. Some say he was recently censored by a certain large media corporation for posting a little too much truth… For more, find him on G+ and Twitter.

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