by Damon Martin

During the holiday season, atheists in America and Canada are letting everyone know they are still good without God. The message has been spread across buses and billboards throughout North America to send an alternative message during this normally oversaturated time of religious rejoice.

Groups like Secular Samaritan, American Humanist Association, and the Centre for Inquiry are responsible for the Christmas time ad buys. The gospel they’re trying to spread with these billboards is that goodness and morality are not in the exclusive domain of those that believe in a higher power.

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by Blogbot

Due to demand, Dita Von Teese has added three extra late night shows to her very special Sunset Strip residency at The Roxy, which runs from Monday December 13th thru Wednesday 15th. As previously reported, the shows will each feature three sets from Dita, plus some very special guests.

“We have Dirty Martini from NYC, Perle Noire from New Orleans, Duke Lafayette (my favorite boylesque star!), Lada straight from The Crazy Horse Paris, and everyone’s favorite burlesque MC Murray Hill,” Dita told SuicideGirls via email. “I will be performing three acts, including some never-before seen numbers.

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by Nicole Powers

“We’ve had 18 years of climate conferences…”
– Ondi Timoner

In her latest documentary, Cool It!, two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning director Ondi Timoner (We Live In Public and Dig!) sets forth the case for lowering the temperature of the global warming debate, and offers pragmatic solutions to what former Vice President and preeminent environmentalist Al Gore considers a moral issue.

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Mary Suicide in Sun Flares

• INTO: Art, writing, reading, music, travel, sewing, food, carnivorous fish, volcanoes, dancing by myself, independence, making comics, old typewriters, good friends, random historical information, animals, both urban decay and silent places filled with stars.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: A myriad of things, luckily.
• MAKES ME SAD: Seeing people disrespect, devalue, or humiliate other people, people who never laugh/cry, animals being mistreated, and wars.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: I would like to believe I would be willing to live without any of the material things, but I would have to be able to laugh, and hopefully have a crayon or SOMETHING.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Obsessing about South America, the Amazon, and Antarctica.

Get to know Mary better over at SuicideGirls.com!

By SG’s Team Agony

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

[Salome in Pop Art Clash ]

Q. I’m 26, he’s 50. I really like him, he is respectful, thoughtful, humble, smart, funny, and just an overall wonderful person with good energy. We have been seeing another for about 3 months now. I was in a bad living situation, and I just moved in with him over the weekend. We both have every intention of this being temporary. I know my feelings will get stronger, as they already have in the last month. He occasionally makes jokes about our age difference, and I feel that it bothers him. I’ve never dated anyone even close to his age, nor did I ever see myself doing so, but it doesn’t bother me at all. I guess I’m just wonderingly what the chances are of things working out.

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by Brad Warner

I first got interested in spiritual practice when I was a teenager and my parents sat me down and told me about the horrible disease that runs in our family. It was, at the time, killing two of my aunts. This disease, they told me, usually begins to manifest when a person gets to be in his mid-thirties. The symptoms get progressively worse and after a while you lose your ability to physically function, your brain deteriorates, you go crazy and then you die.

As if my life weren’t already shitty enough, being an uncoordinated nerd who couldn’t play sports, was shy around girls, and had zits and braces. Now I was going to die a horrendous death before I had time enough to get over this stuff.

Wonderful. Just super.

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by Fred Topel

“I do think there’s a real world parallel.”
– Gavin Hood

Gavin Hood became a political filmmaker with his very first movie. In Tsotsi he attempted to redeem a fictional criminal teen in South Africa, Hood’s country of origin. He tackled American foreign policy, for better or worse, in his follow-up film, Rendition. The ensemble drama about our government’s often overlooked policy of taking terror suspects to foreign countries where torture could be conducted legally, was not a hit financially or critically, but it asked the questions Hood wanted to ask.

The X-Men series has always kept politics in the metaphorical forefront. The comic books portrayed mutants as a persecuted minority. The films featured politicians proposing policy to round up mutants, exterminate them or even try to “cure” them, raising the moral question of who decides what needs to be fixed.

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