by Darrah de jour

In the United States, faith-based abstinence-only programs in schools have received $ 1.3 Billion in government funding between 1982-2008. This “save yourself until marriage” agenda has a 90% failure rate. Rationalizing this kind of spending on an essentially faith-based agenda – as opposed to comprehensive sex education, which teaches students about birth control, such as condoms, as well as abstinence – in a country that has a supposed buffer (yeah, right) between church and state begs any thoughtful, sex-loving or even moderately literate human being to ask WTF?

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Eevie Suicide in Afterglow

• INTO: Mary jane (and lots of it), blowhard political banter, Nintendo, tattoos, people who can keep my attention, Red Bull, thunderstorms, accents, dubstep.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Cute boys that make me feel giddy like I did in middle school, and coral reefs.
• MAKES ME SAD: People with ulterior motives, especially in politics, and ignorance.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Food, water, oxygen, controlled DNA replication, science.

Get to know Eevie better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Jay Hathaway

“The thing you loved as a kid is the thing you should do when you grow up.”
– Paul Pope

Paul Pope has built a reputation as a visionary artist and writer on the strength of some of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade, including Heavy Liquid and 100%. His multiple-Eisner-winning story, Batman: Year 100, immersed the dark knight in the same kind of near-future dystopia that makes his creator-owned work so thrilling. If you saw The Dark Knight this summer, you saw a motorcycle that looks remarkably similar to the one Paul designed for Year 100.

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by A.J. Focht

Technology is advancing all around us, and it’s not always easy to be for it when it continually changes so many facets of everyday life. I recently purchased a Kindle, after several days of convincing myself that it was ok. You see, I have complained about them for years, never intending to buy one. The concept of getting rid of my paper books was more than appalling, and the English major inside me died a little every time I saw someone with one.

Then things began to happen that made me reevaluate the idea of a handheld reader. Kindle announced its 3G Wireless model with access to Wikipedia from anywhere (little did I know it was actually full internet access). Soon after this announcement, I moved into my current apartment. It didn’t take me long to realize that I have too much stuff. My book collection takes up its own case as well as three other shelves. As I tried to shove all of my books into the tiny living space, I found myself considering the advantages of a handheld reader for the first time.

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A while back I really wanted to make up some waffles, but realized I didn’t have any milk. After a little bit of googling, I found some recipes for beer waffles. I scratched my head for a few minutes and decided that, wow, that sounds kind of amazing. I made them up and am definitely sold on beer waffles; I even like them more than with milk :]

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Damsel Suicide in Rock The Boat (also featuring Praesepe Suicide)

• INTO: Musicians, dirty talk, good baby makin’ music, post-sex cuddling, five o’ clock shadow, chicks with dreads, reading tarot cards, guys with strong arms, nipple rings.
• NOT INTO: Butch chicks, spiky hair, cut off t-shirts, jocks, high maintenance Barbie doll bitches, preppy boys, dudes who chew tobacco.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Feeling appreciated.
• MAKES ME SAD: Abandonment.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Penelope, my cell phone, sweatpants, marijuana, my camera.
• VICES: Marlboro Smooths and dirty porn.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: With Penelope, making clothes, working on photography and graphic design stuff, making music, and smoking weed.

Get to know Damsel better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Auren Suicide

“I’m becoming the artist that I’ve always wanted to be.”
– wiL Francis

Best known as the lead singer of Seattle’s enormously popular bandz Aiden, wiL Francis has embarked on his first-ever solo project under the pseudonym William Control. After several years of success with Aiden, he found himself on the precipice of personal disaster. But instead of succumbing to drink (he’s sober), suicide, or worse, shitty emo ballads, he has unleashed his inner drum machine and transferred his anguish into a record filled with deliciously dark, undeniably ’80s, four-on-the-floor dance hits.

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