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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The Dark Horse staff and the Suicide Girls team have often been seen causing chaos at comic conventions across the nation, and now we’re coming together to celebrate the beauty of the classic bombshell that started it all, Bettie Page.
Three lucky winners will be sent:
1) You choice of a Bettie Page T-Shirt from Retro-A-Go-Go
(Sahara Sands, Jungle Night, Green Leopard, Peek-a-Boo, or Girlie Revue)
2) Bettie Page Peek-a-Boo Heart Compact from Retro-A-Go-Go
3) Bettie Page Striptease Pen from DH Deluxe
4) Bettie Page Rules! By Jim Silke
5) A One-Year Membership to SuicideGirls.com
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by Alana Joy
Every week we ask you guys to show us your ink in celebration of Tattoo Tuesday: we choose one favorite submission each from Twitter, Tumblr, and MySpace and they win a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.
Check out this weeks winners!
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By Malloreigh
I admit that my vegan newswire articles have been a struggle for me to write lately. I’ve been avoiding the comments altogether, and I’ve aborted a few attempts at articles. Why? I just find the backlash difficult.
Recently we had a discussion in the SG Vegans group about how difficult it can be to be a “vegan warrior” in a world of people who don’t want to hear about it. Some people who responded to the topic try their best to frame their dietary choices in least ethical way, because they find that calling it a “moral choice” gets bad reactions. Others choose to avoid talking about their veganism entirely.
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by Brandon Perkins
In the last installment of our futuristic fiction series, Please Use Rear Exit, Mikhail, who’d just X’ed his GF Katya, had ridden the #720 Brown BTWN bus route to the Low bar, where the saga of their breakup continued via text. As Katya finds oblivion in the bottom of a bottle at home, Mikhail contemplates the relationship that is no more…
***Please Use Rear Exit: Chapter 4 – Peyton Manning’s FuckFace
The first time Mikhail broke up with Katya was only a few weeks after they had begun to see each other, barely enough time to be considered an official couple in the first place. It was before he’d go back to her for a much longer and intense session, a second time around. Before he was backed into any sort of corner, when things still felt free or, at the very least, without dire consequences. It was before she began demanding changes in his life. Before he realized how deep in it he actually was. At that early stage of their first dance-less dosey-doh, Katya seemed good for him.
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by Nicole Powers
“I think it’s a question of vengeance.”
– Leonard Nimoy
The makers of Star Trek can thank their lucky stars that the spacetime continuum isn’t thought to be very continuous these days. The new Star Trek film turns its back on everything that Back To The Future ever taught us about time, and embraces the possibilities of infinite alternate universes that come along with the relatively recent science of string theory.
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Riae Suicide in Hot Tin Roof
- INTO: Piercings, tattoos, sushi, drugs, sex, Hentai, boobs, and sweet things.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Long night of sex, and Nutella!
- MAKES ME SAD: Animal abuse, being lonely, lies, peas, artichokes, and screamers.
- HOBBIES: Playing with my piercings.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My Dog , sex, Nutella, chocolate ice cream, Nintendo DS.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: In bed – but not for sleep!!!
Get to know Riae better over at SuicideGirls.com!
