by Lisa Brady

Thanks to a new wave of reality TV shows like MTV’s Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant, and ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the issue of teen pregnancy is out in the open (and apparently a source of endless entertainment). But does anyone else find it incredibly ironic that ABC Family is showing a series about teen pregnancy?

In the past it was considered a grievous mistake to get pregnant before getting married. These days, with the 50% divorce rate and the prevalence of one-night stands (and unprotected copulation), it’s very common to have a single parent situation. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If Gilmore Girls has taught us anything, its that single mom’s (or dad’s) rock – and can be super hot. And with the likes US Weekly and People rewarding teenage moms with magazine covers, it’s almost as if the mainstream media is actively encouraging the phenomenon.

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Bradley Suicide in Ginger Peach

• INTO: I enjoy long walks on the beach and poetry….ha. Just kidding ya, I am down to at least try everything once. You could be missing out on something really awesome and not even know if you never give it a shot!
• NOT INTO: Miley Cyris and the vampire craze..
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Cupcakes, Paula Deean, and General Hospital..yessss!
• MAKES ME SAD: The commercials for the SPCA! *Tear*
• HOBBIES: Being the raddest chick on the block isn’t just a hobby, it’s a full time job!
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Coffee (with vanilla coffeemate creamer!), sunglasses that make me look like a bug, my classic chuck taylors, comfy jeans, and of course long tank tops in an array of colors!
• VICES: Coke (The kind you drink!)…I drink waaayyy too much of it! (It’s a little rediculous!) Oh! and when the state fair comes around and they sell deep fried coca-cola…well, life doesn’t get much better than that!
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Free time?? What’s that??

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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 Edward Kelly

It starts innocently enough. A woman with red hair and a nervous smile sits in a non-descript room where the lighting is perfunctory at best. Behind her the wall is textured and yellow-ish. The woman rifles through an off-camera plastic bag. She holds up a receipt showing that the product in the bag was purchased recently (if memory serves, the timestamp on the receipt read August 30, 2010, around 2:45 p.m.).

The video is eight minutes long and therefore above average for something on YouTube. I’ve described the first minute or so because, since I saw it, the woman in the video, Karen Alloy (a popular YouTube vlogger with the user name “Spricket24”), has changed the settings and the video is now logged as private. If the description above sounds downright banal, well, that’s because it is. In fact if it weren’t for the title I would’ve bailed on it after the first 15 seconds. But the title of this video is “How To Take A Pregnancy Test” and thus I am in it for the long haul.

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by Ryan Stewart

April 11, 1983 was the definitive day in Dave Mustaine’s professional life. As lead guitarist and contributing songwriter for an up-and-coming thrash metal band called Metallica, he had been living out his dream of making a living at playing metal for over a year and a half. Like many at the time, he was also beginning to sense that his band was something truly special, a ferociously talented foursome that had the potential to go where no metal band had gone before. A musical virtuoso with unlimited ambition, Mustaine’s eyes were fixed on the future, but he was badly neglecting the present. A problem with drinking and drugs, owed in part to a rootless childhood, had plagued him for years, and as success drew closer his reckless behavior increased and lines were crossed. No one knows what the final straw really was, but on the morning of April 11, while Metallica was in N.Y.C. on business, Mustaine was awoken by singer James Hetfield and unceremoniously handed a Greyhound ticket home to L.A. He was out of Metallica, without so much as a warning.

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by Tara Diane

I feel like I need to add a disclaimer to this post, so: Disclaimer: there will be tons of ball jokes in this entry. Also, I promise I’m not playing a joke where I trick you guys into making as many random circle things as possible (this, contact paper, string lamp thing), I am just not that artistic and circles are really freaking easy to make!

Anyways, I came across this tutorial on making cloth pom pom ball shits on Chinese lanterns. I thought they were pretty cool, but decided I needed to jazz it up a little bit and figure out a lazier way of doing it. Our balls are going to be quite a bit larger than theirs. I basically just steal other people’s ideas and make them better most of the time!

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Jenez Suicide in Physical

• INTO: Cats, art, psychedelic music.
• NOT INTO: Horses, bullshit, mainstream music.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Smell after the rain.
• MAKES ME SAD: Rain.
• HOBBIES: Dancing, photography, laughing, kissing, sports, painting.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Ice cream, sun, flowers, chocolate, coffee.
• VICES: Smoking, jealousy.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: In the nature or in my bed.

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