by Bob Suicide

Hi, my name is Bob Suicide and I’m a shy gamer.

Generally, there isn’t a lot of stigma being a shy, quiet geek. After all, as a group, us nerds aren’t known for being boisterous. We play our games, download/stream our shows, and read our comics all from the safety of our solitary couches. However, with the recent surge in mainstream desire for geek culture, we’ve been thrust off of our couches and into the social scene.

You know you’re a hardcore gamer when you can watch someone else play a game with the same satisfaction you would received if you played it yourself. I’ve “played” many a game sitting next to the controller as the go-to strat guide girl or the rapt spectator rooting my friends on. Generally, my shy nature doesn’t preclude me from enjoying the ridiculous level of gaming that I expect from my daily life. But sometimes you just have to be the one pressing the buttons to get the full joy from the experience; sometimes, you can feel a little left out sitting on the sidelines…and it’s then that I lament my epic shyness.

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by Blogbot

A column which highlights Suicide Girls and their fave groups.

This week, Cheri Suicide gives us the lowdown on the freewheeling Skateboarders Group.

Members: 723 / Comments: 5,161

• WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: So many rad people. It makes me especially excited to meet other girls that get just as stoked about skateboarding as me. We discuss brands, styles, and skaters we’re all into. Skateboarding helps keep me entertained in my small town, and I’ve made lots of friends through it. Skate4Cancer really inspires me, along with the local MHSA. A group of skaters can go a long way and make big changes in this world.
• DISCUSSION TIP: Everyone likes different brands and styles, so don’t be a hater, be cool.
• BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “Chea Boii” and “Primo.”
• MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: I wouldn’t say heated, but it seems like everyone is stoked on the topic “Longboarding” which is cool cause its almost summer time, and I know what I’ll be doing a lot of! Go green, longboard your butt to the store instead of driving! :]
• WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: Anyone who skateboards or is interested in maybe taking this wicked hobbie up!

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by Riley St. Clair

There are about a million reasons I should not like Mickey Avalon. He is perpetually shirtless, he wears more eyeliner than I do, and he has a single called ““My Dick.”” Oh yeah, and he used to have sex with dudes for money. In spite of the undeniable sleaze-factor, I can’t get his songs out of my head and, well, I rather like him. The embodiment of a rags-to-riches hip-hop fairytale, Avalon has managed to garner the attention of the music press, a bunch of young fans looking to get down and of course, a crapload of teenage girls. In between sound checks and after-parties, I got him on the phone shortly before his Lollapalooza gig.

Read our exclusive interview with Mickey Avalon on SuicideGirls.com.

Tweedle Suicide in Wake ‘N’ Bake

• INTO: Oil paints, sex, kitty cats, sharing food with friends, cuddles, fresh ground coffee and fresh fruit smoothies, Disney, geeking out, unbearably hot summer days where your clothes stick to your skin, obsessing, tweezing my eyebrows, spicy food, learning, girls who love John Wayne, daydreaming, passion, snuggly warm blankets, giving, hugging trees, feeling everything to its fullest degree, living and loving life and those that are in it with me, and cuts, holes and ink in my skin.
• NOT INTO: Littering, factory farms and fast food chains, corporate America as a whole, fruit flies, ragweed and allergies, growing up, country music, big crowds, materialism, plastic shopping bags, when jelly gets in my peanut butter, bad drivers, meat, animal cruelty, being underestimated, being coddled and/or belittled, (most) television, modern civilization, pharmaceuticals, being told to “chill,” “calm down,” or “relax”, doing the dishes, snow, pregnancy, trying to walk in high heels, Shrek, big crowds, running out of toilet paper, celery, Denzel Washington, fainting, forgetting things, mornings.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Art, Smokey, loving, giving, pursuing my dreams.
• MAKES ME SAD: Animal cruelty of any sort.
• HOBBIES: Painting, drawing, cooking/uncooking, running, playing with animals!
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Food, water, a dwelling, my health (both mental and physical), self-love.
• VICES: Having my skin stabbed, cut, bitten, burned, etc.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Lost in my own head.

Get to know Tweedle better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Blogbot

Agonizing Love is a beautifully put together compendium of strips culled from the lost genre of romance comics. According to the volume’s curator and author, Michael Barson, an avid fan of retro-pop culture and a collector of all manner of flotsam and jetsam from days past, the first examples of the form were published in 1947. At the genre’s height, there were close to 150 different romance comics in print, with titles such as Lovelorn, Romantic Marriage, Lovers’ Lane, Bride’s Secrets, Boy Meets Girl, Heart Throbs, and Love Confessions. However, as the romance of the 1950s gave way to the pervasive climate of free love in the ’60s and ’70s, their popularity waned. The end of an era came with the final 126th edition of Young Love in 1977.

Last week we posted a typical strip from Young Love, entitled “How To Increase Your Dateability,” which offered female readers – who were ever fearful of being left on the shelf – tips on how to up their popularity quotient in order to increase their chances of finding a mate. This week, we have a simple 12 question personality test from issue #2 of Boy Meets Girl (originally published in April 1950), which will tell you if you’re likely to be a bride or – horror of horrors – an old maid.

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by Blogbot

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by Jay Hathaway

MC Frontalot first coined the phrase “nerdcore hip-hop” in the late ‘’90s to describe tracks laid down over homemade beats, featuring lyrics about everything from Star Wars to Nigerian e-mail scams. This year, he’s been on tour with a full band in support of his second full-length album, Secrets from the Future. While on the road, he was the subject of a documentary film, also entitled Nerdcore Rising.

SG had the chance to talk with MC Frontalot about the life of a professional rapper and the growing buzz around nerdcore hip-hop.

Read our exclusive interview with MC Frontalot on SuicideGirls.com.