by Alex Deuben

“If I have three hours, I definitely want to be gaming.”
– Felicia Day

For some of us, Felicia Day will always be Penny from “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog,” but that isn’t because she’s resting on her laurels. She’s an actor who starred in the recent Syfy channel movie Red, guest starred in the “Epitaph One” and “Epitaph Two” episodes of Dollhouse and will be appearing in the second half of the current season of Eureka on the Syfy channel in 2011. She also voiced a character in the recently released video game Fallout: New Vegas.

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Steffi Suicide in Like A Phoenix

• INTO: Music, beer, shoe shopping, people who are still able to live and to love.
• NOT INTO: Stupidity, religion, meat and vodka.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: My dog, sunshine, driving fast in my car, especially while performing the latest punk rock version of a Backstreet Boys song.
• MAKES ME SAD: Thinkin’ about this mad world full of rapists, pedophiles and poorness.
• HOBBIES: Dancing, singing, drawing, tattooing, going out with friends.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Beer, high heels, love, music, cheese.
• VICES: Smoking, driving too fast, chocolate, and drinking too much beer and whisky.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Outside with my dog or hanging around with friends.

Get to know Steffi better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Brett Warner

Throughout the course of human history, men and women have done a lot of crazy things for love. Orlando Bloom caused the Trojan War, Cleopatra and Latin music sensation Marc Anthony both committed suicide, and I’ve sat through at least three episodes of my girlfriend’s favorite reality show, Jersey Shore.

The ongoing misadventures of carrot people Snooki, Pauly D, JWoww, The Situation, Vinny, Ronnie, and Sammi (my spell check just lost its friggin’ mind typing all of that) broke MTV records to become the highest viewed program in the cable network’s decreasingly illustrious history with 8.45 million viewers. Still, watching these unfathomably successful people preoccupy themselves with fighting, fucking, hot-tubbing, and other asinine, “who gives a shit?” circumstances that reality television twists into a botched, Frankenstein version of what the Greeks used to call drama always seems to engage that part of the brain that’ll start flashing sirens when you smoke a cigarette, huff a tube of industrial glue, or take a nap with your head inside the oven – I know this is really bad for me, but I’m going to do it anyway.

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by Damon Martin

Jared Lee Loughner: It’s a name that will live forever in American infamy. The 22-year old was responsible for killing six people and injuring a further 14 on Saturday at a political gathering outside a supermarket in Tuscon, AZ. Among the dead was a Federal Judge and a 9-year old girl. Those wounded include Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, who it’s understood was the focus of the attack. Loughner stood before a judge for the first time on Monday, facing multiple charges that will likely land him in jail for life or end in the death penalty.

It was ironic that just two days after the shootings took place, the Showtime network had a planned broadcast of Michael Moore’s 2002 Academy Award winning film Bowling for Columbine. The film focused on gun control and the lack thereof in the United States, and the tragic events leading up to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that claimed 13 lives and injured a further 21 people. In the film, Moore went to great lengths to try to educate and inform the audience about how easy it is for guns to get into the hands of those with unstable minds.

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by Carrie Borzillo

The beauty expectation is a way of controlling women.”
– Shirley Manson

Fans of the ’90s alt-rock hitmakers Garbage will have to wait a wee bit longer for the long-awaited solo album from the band’s lead vixen Shirley Manson and maybe even longer for a new release from the group that brought us such hits as “Stupid Girl,” “Only Happy When It Rains,” “#1 Crush,” and “The World is Not Enough,” the theme from the James Bond film of the same name.

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Yulia Suicide in Semantics

• INTO: Adventures, art, open-mindedness, feminism, danger, smiles, laughter, Eastern Europe, solo naked dance parties in my bedroom, group naked dance parties in anyone’s bedroom.
• NOT INTO: Rudeness, intolerance, inequality, ignorance, abuse of any kind, negativity, pessimists, elitists, poor basic hygiene, boredom.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: The Pacific Ocean, the wild West Coast, this beautiful place I live.
• MAKES ME SAD: Stupidity.
• HOBBIES: Painting, writing, dancing, sewing, cuddling, learning to play or at least dabble on various instruments, philosophizing, learning new things, cooking, taking photos of water, clouds and urban decay.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Computer, sweet tea, ice cream, phone, and a little TLC – I’m easy to please.
• VICES: Hair dye, Parliaments and your boobs!
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: With the ocean.

Get to know Yulia better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Brad Warner

I received two closely related questions via email this week, and I’d like to share my answers. I’ve rewritten these, so they’re not word-for-word the responses I sent.

The first person asked me a general question about how to deal with depression. So I wrote back something like the following:

I am a depression sufferer. I really don’t know how mine scales up next to anyone else’s. My one suicide attempt was half-assed (you can read about it in my book Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate). Although I’m not as suicidal as I used to be, even now I go through troughs of depression and inevitably start thinking of doing myself in. This seems to be a deeply ingrained mental response to depression.

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