Fiction Friday: The Killswitch Review – Chapter Ten, Part Three
by Steven-Elliot Altman (SG Member: Steven_Altman)
Our Fiction Friday serialized novel, The Killswitch Review, is a futuristic murder mystery with killer sociopolitical commentary (and some of the best sex scenes we’ve ever read!). Written by bestselling sci-fi author Steven-Elliot Altman (with Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse), it offers a terrifying postmodern vision in the tradition of Blade Runner and Brave New World...
By the year 2156, stem cell therapy has triumphed over aging and disease, extending the human lifespan indefinitely. But only for those who have achieved Conscientious Citizen Status. To combat overpopulation, the U.S. has sealed its borders, instituted compulsory contraception and a strict one child per couple policy for those who are permitted to breed, and made technology-assisted suicide readily available. But in a world where the old can remain vital forever, America’s youth have little hope of prosperity.
Jason Haggerty is an investigator for Black Buttons Inc, the government agency responsible for dispensing personal handheld Kevorkian devices, which afford the only legal form of suicide. An armed “Killswitch” monitors and records a citizen’s final moments — up to the point where they press a button and peacefully die. Post-press review agents — “button collectors” — are dispatched to review and judge these final recordings to rule out foul play.
When three teens stage an illegal public suicide, Haggerty suspects their deaths may have been murders. Now his race is on to uncover proof and prevent a nationwide epidemic of copycat suicides. Trouble is, for the first time in history, an entire generation might just decide they’re better off dead.
(Catch up with the previous installments of Killswitch – see links below – then continue reading after the jump…)
[THE KILLSWITCH REVIEW – CHAPTER TEN, PART THREE]
[PURGING THE SYSTEM]
[Previous Chapter / Next Chapter]
Haggerty, Elsa, and Regina followed Svoboda to the square. On the viewscreen throngs of angry protesters demanded that BBI give up those responsible for supplying the Junior Citizens with the units and suspend its activities during the course of the Federal investigation.
“How’s it coming, Ricardo?” Svoboda asked the young man busy at a remote-access terminal hardwired into the exposed groundwire.
“It’s hard to sort through the data,” Ricardo answered. “So much of it is clutter and repeats of the same incidents.”
“Can you use this terminal to access the nationwide BBI boards?” Haggerty asked Elsa.
“I’m not sure,” she said. “My log-in would give central control my coordinates.”
“Not if you’re using PE,” Svoboda said. “We can leapfrog your access all over our network.”
“How shall I interface?” she asked.
“Let me see your prongs,” Svoboda said.
Elsa raised her left hand and extended her two middle fingers; twin prongs snapped upward from the tips.
“Those are RJ,” Svoboda said. “We’ll need an adapter to convert her from masscapture down to sinewave.”
“Whatcha got under the hood, darlin’?” Ricardo asked Elsa.
She looked at him quizzically.
“What model are you?” he rephrased. “Archimedes or Descartes?”
“I’m a Marcus,” she replied, almost proudly.
Ricardo whistled appreciatively. “Hot rod,” he said. “I think I’ve got an adapter in my shop that will work.” He went to check on it.
Onscreen the viewcaster reported, “Federal agent Keenan has issued warrants for the arrest of Jason P. Haggerty, the BBI employee suspected —”
The transmission broke up. A grainy image of a young man appeared. “We interrupt the latest government propaganda to bring you the real news,” he said. “Here’s why you don’t want a Killswitch, folks.”
“Pirate broadcast,” Svoboda explained.
The boy’s image was replaced by that of a pretty girl no more than fifteen standing in what looked like a wooded area, holding an armed KV unit. She was clearly distraught. The transmission kept breaking up, making it difficult to hear what she said.
“. . . what does any of it . . . too much . . . showed me the way. Is this my answer?” The girl stared at the box, tears brimming over. “Is this what I —” A coughing spasm shook her; her finger convulsed on the button.
Her eyes widened as she dropped the box, which kept recording from where it fell to the ground, a dizzying angle.
“I didn’t mean to!” she cried as she collapsed face to face beside the box; the lens focused on her wide brown eyes glazing over as the toxin took effect. “I’m so sorry —”
The transmission cut off. The grainy image of the young man reappeared briefly before the “legitimate” viewcast reasserted itself.
“We apologize for these continued interruptions,” the viewcaster said. “Federal officials are taking steps to locate the source of the illegal broadcasts. Representatives from BBI assure us the recording is not authentic but was likely engineered by one of the so-called Ban the Box groups who oppose the use of the Kevorkian unit. So far no one has claimed responsibility. In other news . . .”
“Why would BBI assume that the recording is not authentic?” Elsa said.
“Because it’s in their interest to say that it isn’t. Clearly it’s real,” Haggerty said.
“Instructions on how to crack the boxes and retrieve the recordings are circulating the Net,” Svoboda said.
“Whoever gave the order to cover things up will probably claim it’s to keep a lid on the panic,” Haggerty said bitterly. He’d come across such things from time to time in his career. The presses were always judged accidental and were so rare as to be acceptable, however tragic. This was different. This child’s death was not an isolated, regrettable incident but part of a much larger picture purposely shrouded from public view.
Haggerty felt ashamed. For decades he had accepted the use of a device that made suicide easy. He was part of what was going on. The idea that more young people might get caught up in the suicide contagion, regret their decision, and be unable to reverse it appalled him.
“What’s the usual time frame for copycats after a publicized suicide?” he asked Elsa.
“It varies,” she said. “The statistical majority occur within the first day, usually within the first few hours, depending on commitment level and access to means of expiration. It tapers off considerably after that, the percentages decreasing over twenty percent per hour, seventy-five percent per day, corresponding in most cases to level of media saturation.”
Ricardo jogged back. “Try this,” he said, catching his breath and handing a palm-sized electronic device to Elsa. “And we’ll pray you don’t fry out the terminal.” He offered her a stool to sit on.
Elsa fitted the device onto her finger prongs and slid the end into the requisite port. “I shall need instruction,” she said.
“Get a feel for it first,” Svoboda said. “See how the bit rate comes through at irregular intervals?”
“Highly compressed packets of data unfolding in waveform as they decode.”
“Beautifully put,” Svoboda said. “Try to create a packet yourself, reversing the process.”
“I understand,” she said, surprising him. The BBI gateway appeared on the monitor and requested authorization. “Inferior to standard modes of encryption but quite admirable considering you are piggybacking on preexisting technology not designed for this purpose.” The terminal began synching and taking in data. “We’re inside,” she said.
“Get us reports on all national pressage from the moment of the live broadcast until now,” Haggerty ordered.
“Processing,” she said.
Regina gripped Haggerty’s shirt sleeve.
“Fourteen presses overnight across all zones and forty-six presses nationwide since nine a.m. Eastern Standard Time, eighty-nine percent of them from geographical locations in the Eastern time zone.”
“You said we were already seeing deaths in the hundreds,” Haggerty accused Svoboda.
“I’ll be more than happy to be proven wrong,” Svoboda said. “But those are only the East Coast numbers, and only the suicides that utilized BBI equipment. It’s a Sunday afternoon. Kids are inventive and that type of data is slow to report.
“Aside from utilizing BBI equipment, all other methods of suicide combined average two to seven hundred against termination by press,” Elsa said. “Based on that fact I find your predictions unsound.”
“Be that as it may, it’s been seventeen hours since the press,” Svoboda went on. “Twelve hours since the first cracks began appearing in the news blackout, five hours since the news went viral. I believe you will see an exponential increase in those numbers by this evening.”
Haggerty winced. “Keep monitoring, Elsa,” he said. “Let us know if there’s any spike.”
“Affirmative, Jason,” she said.
“I’ll teach her a few tricks to access what we need on the Net,” Ricardo offered.
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Excerpt from The Killswitch Review, published by Yard Dog Press. Copyright 2011 Steven-Elliot Altman.
Steven-Elliot Altman is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and videogame developer. He won multiple awards for his online role playing game, 9Dragons. His novels include Captain America is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, Batman: Infinite Mirror, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars, and Deprivers. His writing has been compared to that of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick, and he has collaborated with world class writers such as Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Harry Turtledove and Dr. Janet Asimov. He’s also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Touch, and a contributor to Shadows Over Baker Street, a Hugo Award winning anthology of Sherlock Holmes meets H.P. Lovecraft stories.
Steven also bares ink on his body, and is bi, as in bi-coastal, between NYC and LA. He’s currently hard at work writing and directing his latest videogame Cursed Love, an online free to play gothic horror RPG from Dark Hermit Studios, set in Victorian London. Think Sherlock Holmes, Jack The Ripper and Dorian Gray mercilessly exploit the cast of Twilight. Friend Cursed Love (Official Closed Beta) on facebook and you can have fun playing out this tawdry, tragic romance with Steven while the game is being beta tested!
Diane DeKelb-Rittehouse spent several years in Manhattan as an actress before marrying her college sweetheart and returning to the Philadelphia area where she had been born. Diane first worked with Steven-Elliot Altman when they created the acclaimed, Publisher’s Weekly Starred-Review anthology The Touch: Epidemic of the Millennium, in which her story “Gifted” appeared. Diane has published a number of critically acclaimed short stories, most notably in the science fiction, murder, and horror genres. Her young adult fantasy novel, Fareie Rings: The Book of Forests, is now available in stores or online.
Interested in buying a printed copy of The Killswitch Review? Well, Steve’s publisher Yard Dog Press was kind enough to put up a special page where SuicideGirls can get a special discount and watch a sexy trailer. Just follow this link to KillswitchReview.com and click on the SG logo.
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Walking Dead Executive Producer Reveals Season 3 Secrets
by Damon Martin
The Walking Dead will begin principle photography again this May in Georgia, with Season 3 set to debut most likely in October 2012, but that doesn't mean fans aren't already clamoring for more information. The Season 2 finale left a lot of jaws hitting the floor after Herschel's farm and house were stormed by walkers, and the group fled for cover hoping to stay together and find refuge from the zombie apocalypse.
The Walking Dead's executive producer and show runner Glen Mazzara has let a few secrets out of the bag surrounding the next season of the popular AMC drama. One of the most anticipated aspects will be the continuation of the close of the final episode of last season in which a cloaked and hooded figure carrying a sword and two armless, jawless zombies came out from nowhere to lop the head off an attacker, and save Andrea, who was left behind amidst the madness at the farm.
Fans of the comic book realized pretty quickly that this katana wielding badass was Michonne, a pivotal character in creator Robert Kirkman's zombie opus. Now Mazzara, who revealed the casting behind Michonne just after the season finale, lets a little bit more information slip about a character that he says will be extremely important to The Walking Dead:
"Michonne is one of the lead characters in the graphic novel, so we're excited to finally introduce her. She is a loner. She's a kick ass character. She's very dynamic and we really see her as a very, very important addition to the cast. She's a significant character and she'll be carrying a lot of story, so we're excited about her…
"We're also excited about (Denai Guerrera) who is the young actress who is going to play this role, so we're lucky to have her and look forward to seeing what she does with it."
While the show has deviated from Kirkman's source material on several occasions, as well as introduced new characters that were never actually in the comic books, Mazzara looks at Michonne as a piece that comes from the page straight to the screen. From her shadowy entrance cloaked in darkness to what they have planned for her in season three, Michonne will be a pivotal part of the group when they pick up later this year. Mazzara explains:
"She comes from the comic book. She feels like she stepped off those pages into the show. I think that's exciting. That's a challenge for us but, you know, knowing me as a writer, I think I'm going to keep it real, keep it grounded because if it doesn't feel real I think the audience will not be able to put themselves in the immediate circumstances of the story…
"I think our show is successful because people watching say, oh, I'd be dead now or I'd kill that guy or I'd shoot him in the leg and get away. I think that's what's fun about the show. We're very consciously trying not to keep the show too serialized, not have an overdeveloped mythology so that it's accessible to people in the way that a good horror movie is. I find the best horror movies to be very simple and that's something that's important and so I think overall my entire intention of the show is to keep the show grounded, real and Michonne is going to be a great challenge."
Another major character that will be introduced in Season 3 is the brutal villain known only The Governor. Portrayed by veteran British actor David Morrissey, The Governor is the leader of the town of Woodbury in the comic books, and was rated No. 86 by IGN in the greatest villains in comic book history. Mazzara says that The Governor and his town of Woodbury will be a big part of Season 3, but the prison that was introduced in the closing scenes of Season 2 will also be a major player this year and it will roll into Season 4 as well. Mazzara said:
"I do see that prison as a significant storyline for Season 3 and Season 4. I do think that's a major story line. I know we were on the farm for longer than perhaps people wanted. There were reasons for that. I think what we want to do is make sure that that prison does not become claustrophobic. I think the farm played a little claustrophobic for people. The farm -- now that the entire landscape has fallen to the zombie apocalypse and zombies are literally at the gate of the prison -- if you see the graphic novel, that prison is really, you know, a very, very small, safe corner and there's a lot of danger around. So it won't feel like we are bottled up in the same way that we were in -- on the farm in Season 3 let's say…
"So I do think that prison is a significant storyline. But we're interested also in opening up the world. You know, the governor has a world of (Woodbury). There are other factors out there in the world, other groups. So I think that Rick's group is really stumbling into a much larger world."
As a whole, The Walking Dead has tackled some tough subjects head on thus far through two seasons, but readers of the comic books know that The Governor gets his wickedly evil reputation through his deeds and heinous self-serving behavior. There are some extremely brutal scenes therefore played out in the comic book, but would the show runners at The Walking Dead on AMC be able to work those particular aspects into the show, or are some things just taboo?
"I know what you're referring to and we have to put our own spin…I would say this, there's no place we won't go…Everything is on the table. This is a cutting edge cable drama. I'm comfortable with that material and we answered a lot of these questions on The Shield when I worked there, so I'm comfortable dealing with very, very edgy material."
Some other interesting plot points that Mazzara revealed about possible Season 3 moments include the introduction of more characters from the comic books such as Tyrese. We’re also likely to discover what happened to Morgan and Duane (the characters introduced in the first episode that helped to save Rick). The re-introduction of Michael Rooker's character Merle Dixon (Rooker also confirmed his role previously for Season 3) is also much anticipated.
Season 3 may still be a month out from shooting, and several months away from debuting on AMC, but it looks like there are plenty of surprises in store for fans when the show returns later this year.
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The Art of SuicideGirls Feat. Finbarr Farmer a.k.a. Fimbis
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Artist / SG Member Name: Finbarr Farmer / Fimbis
Mission Statement: Being a straight edge guy in Ireland means I don't spend quite as much of my time propping up the bar as the stereotypes would lead you to believe. Couple that with living in a very small-minded town and insanity probably isn't far away if action is not taken! Being creative is my outlet, a way to keep my brain active and fresh.
Art was all I was ever interested in while at school. I couldn't paint or draw all that well, so I gravitated towards the computer in the corner of the room and have been sitting there ever since. I can think of an idea walking down the street, looking through a magazine, listening to music or watching TV and immediately take note of it to return to at a later date. The idea I start out with pretty much always evolves to be something different at the end and I love the process.
Medium: 95% digital (Photoshop/Illustrator) and 10% pencil/pen.
Aesthetic: Multi colored glowstick.
Notable Achievements: Standing on a box on Grafton Street in Dublin (Ireland’s busiest street) at 2 PM on a Saturday, April 2006 and giving a speech about my speech impediment.
Flying to Australia (and staying for a year) on my own in 2008 with just the clothes on my back and my laptop after my luggage had been lost in a London airport.
Being asked to design flyers for Karma Suicide.
Selling something on Society6.com/.
Why We Should Care: How often do you stumble upon an Irishman who does not drink? Exactly!! For that reason alone, my work is worth a look!!!
I Want Me Some: You can find my work on Bahance, Society6, and in this thread on the SG Fan Art Group.
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Slake Explores The Concept of Dirt And Larry Fondation Tells Us About His Dirty Girl
By Blogbot
Co-founded by two former LA Weekly editors, Joe Donnelly and Laurie Ochoa, Slake is a highly collectable quarterly compendium “devoted to the endangered art of deeply reported narrative journalism and the kind of polished essay, memoir, fiction, poetry, and profile writing that is disappearing in a world of instant takes and unfiltered opinion.” Slake takes form as a hybrid of book and magazine, combining the non-disposability of the former with the kind of editorial prowess of the latter that harks back to an era when Bukowski wrote for the likes of Hustler and the LA Free Press.
Earlier this year we caught one of Slake’s live events, for which they are increasingly becoming renowned. Held at the Last Bookstore in DTLA, the reading featured many of the writers that have contributed to the lastest edition of Slake, which explores the concept of “Dirt” in all its forms. The night’s highlights included a hilarious turn from actress and comedian Lauren Weedman (a.k.a. Horny Patty from Hung), an essay from sex industry worker-cum-writer Antonia Crane, and a short story from Larry Fondation, which is excerpted below.
Dirty Girl by Larry Fondation
Wanda owns a dog but she never takes it for a walk. It shits inside. Sometimes she cleans it up, sometimes she doesn’t. Pieces of dried-up dog shit dot the floor of her apartment. But it’s not just the dog shit. Her whole place is a mess: piles of dirty dishes, empty beer cans and wine bottles, unwashed clothes strewn about.
She doesn’t shower very often, either. Every couple of weeks. She smells, but not much given how infrequently she bathes. She’s popular at all the clubs. Men love her. She always has a boyfriend.
Her romances all seem to last about a year. They end with the boy screaming, “You’re gross!”
I can never figure that out. She’s the same the whole time. It’s like, after a year they realize just how unclean she really is. Wanda doesn’t seem to care. A week or two later, she’s got another guy.
Her circle of friends is once removed from mine, but we hang out at the same places. I first meet her at the Short Stop on Sunset. The bartenders there are good, but there are too few of them, so you have to wait forever for a beer. Wanda is standing next to me. I can smell her a little, but I like it. She smells like sex and sweat.
We order the same drink—Irish and soda—and we laugh about it.
“You buying?” she asks. She is teasing but I can’t tell at first.
Her hair is greasy but she has a sly smile, sexy for sure. She tells me she already has a boyfriend, but we exchange numbers at the end of the night anyway.
***
The first time I go to her place, I can’t believe it. It looks like the set of a movie about degradation and squalor. I come in anyway. She hands me a cold beer.
Evidence of her boyfriend abounds — large-size Chucks and men’s underwear on the floor.
“My boyfriend’s out of town,” she says.
We flirt but do nothing. We talk a lot about music and bands and drink a lot of beer. At about 3, I head home.
***
I lose my job at Sea Level Records because they close the store. I start hanging around with Wanda most afternoons, but she has to be home every day by 3 because she gives her neighbor a blow job when he comes home from school.
The kid is a little Latino guy in the eighth grade.
“You want to watch?” she asks me.
“No,” I say, but I do not leave.
“My boyfriend won’t watch either,” she says.
She takes the kid in the bedroom. Ten minutes later, they are done and the kid goes home. She looks at me.
“What?” she says.
I don’t say anything.
It’s usually easy for us to talk, but now I am kind of quiet.
“It helps with his confidence,” she says. “He used to flunk every subject. Now he’s getting straight A’s.”
Sure enough she pulls out a couple of copies of his report cards — a steady rise in his performance, I admit.
“Don’t be judgmental,” she says. “He’s a boy, not a girl.”
***
Two days later I watch.
Sergio is glad to have me play the voyeur. He is proud and happy and puffing up his tiny chest. He smiles widely when Wanda swallows.
I want to tell him that Wanda and I have never touched each other, but it is not appropriate.
When they are done, Sergio asks for a beer.
“You’re too young to drink,” Wanda says and sends him on his way.
“When he hits the ninth grade, goes to high school, I gotta cut him off,” she says. “He needs a girlfriend.”
“You’re right about that,” I say.
“You hungry?” she asks.
She microwaves some taquitos. While we are eating, her dog takes a dump on the floor. I offer to take the dog for a walk.
“A little late,” she laughs, pointing at the pile of shit.
She goes to the fridge and grabs two cans of Pabst.
“Besides, you’ll spoil him,” she says.
***
I begin to drop by unannounced. Today she is reading. She reads a lot, in fact.
“You like Kant?” she asks me.
“The categorical imperative?”
“I prefer ‘a.’ ”
“ ‘A’?”
“Yeah, the indefinite article …”
“Okay.”
“I love the German Idealists.”
She is reading a Penguin paperback anthology with that title. She puts her book down and smiles at me.
“Especially Hegel.”
Her phone rings. She has a steel-blue iPhone. She keeps the volume up. I can always hear both sides of her conversations. Now a man shouts from the other end. Clearly it is her boyfriend. He is still out of town. I am not sure where he is. She has not told me. But he is very angry and loud. He yells for about ten minutes straight. She says nothing.
I pick up her book and, without losing her page, begin to read the introduction. It sounds interesting. When her boyfriend finishes his tirade, she turns off her phone. She looks at me. I can’t tell if she is sad.
“I guess I’m single again,” she says.
We kiss for the first time.
***
Wanda is usually fully clothed when she services Sergio. But today, is wearing her bathrobe with nothing on underneath. Her breasts poke through the folds of the robe. I have only watched their escapades twice. Today she pleads with me to be with them. She does him right by the front door of her apartment. She works extra quickly. He is staring down at her tits. He comes extra quickly. He waits for her to swallow but this time she does not. She hurries him out the door while he is still zipping up his pants.
“Tomorrow?” he asks.
This is different, and young Sergio is confused.
“Yes,” she mumbles with her mouth full.
She shuts and locks the door behind him. As soon as he is gone she flings her robe to the floor. She is naked and sweaty.
“Kiss me,” she says.
I do. We tongue and kiss with all the extra wetness and I am hard as mahogany. We finish kissing.
“Lick me clean and fuck me!”
I unbutton my shirt and drop to my knees. I fumble with my pants as I work my tongue up her thighs. She spreads her legs as she stands, shuffling her feet farther apart on the unwashed hardwood floor. Her pubic hair clumps and sticks together. My tongue parts her labia.
I am Wanda’s boyfriend now.
***
Larry Fondation is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, all set in Los Angeles. His two most-recent books are collaborations with London-based artist Kate Ruth. Fondation has won a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction Writing. Martyrs and Holymen is due to be published in 2012. For more info visit larryfondation.com/.
Original story art crafted by Alex Bacon and Anne McCaddon.
Dirty Girl, as excerpted from Slake Issue No. 4: Dirt, is reprinted with the kind permission of Larry Fondation and Slake Media LLC. Slake can be purchased at many independent LA bookstores including Skylight, Vroman's, Stories, Last Bookstore, and Chevalier's, and at Barnes & Nobles nationwide. It is also available via Amazon on a single purchase or subscriber basis. For more on Slake visit their website, Facebook, and Twitter.
Wannabe SG Brickette Is Among The First To Re-Occupy Union Square After Another Night Of Eviction Theater
by Blogbot
SuicideGirls recently met up with Lego artist Christopher Sean Grosek and a delegation of his Occupy Lego Land denizens, who were attempting to reoccupy New York's Union Square.
Following Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park late last year, in recent weeks protesters have been looking for another space to call home. Much of the action has therefore been centered on Union Square, a location which – until the occupiers arrived – had traditionally remained open 24/7. However, the NYPD – intent of preventing OWS from regaining a permanent foothold in the city – has been clearing the park at midnight and forcing protesters behind barricades. This nightly pantomime has been dubbed "Eviction Theater" by occupiers.
Having been kicked out of the park with the protesters at just past midnight (an action that resulted in a couple of arrests the night we were there), the Occupy Lego Land crew regrouped across the road to avoid incarceration in something more severe than a toy crate. As they began re-staging their protest in earnest, the Legotti Park veterans were joined by photographers, videographers, livestreamers – and a brand new member of their ranks.
Brickette is a wannabe SG, who is enthusiastic in her support of the 99%. Unfortunately, she's also enthusiastic about liquor that is 90% proof, as we found out earlier that evening...After being bowled over in a bar by a handsome member of the opposite sex, who was carrying a rather bold sign saying he was "Too Big To Fail," Brickette proceeded to hook up with him while getting fall-down intoxicated on alcohol rather than love.
Despite disgracing herself in public with her drunken antics, Brickette ultimately redeemed herself. Bolstered by a little Dutch courage of the kind best produced in Scotland, she charmed the NYPD officers guarding Union Square with her big...personality, and got them to agree to let the Occupy Lego Land protesters reenter Union Square. Lego it seems, is a uniter rather than a divider, and Occupy Lego Land's army is a powerful ally to spread the love for the 99%.
After being invited to many other occupations across the country, and across the globe, Occupy Lego Land has started a WePay fundraising campaign for travel expenses. You can help them out by donating here.
In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Talamia
by Nahp Suicide
[Above: Talamia]
Talamia describes herself as a "photographer, illustrative designer, and thinker." She lives is South Africa. She has been shooting for SuicideGilrs since 2008, and has more than 30 sets in the site.
How did you first get involved with SuicideGirls?
I had always loved the concept and internet stalked the models of SG ever since I could remember but was always under the misconception that it was a US only thing. The day I came to realize this was not so was when I randomly stumbled upon a local girl's FB profile page whose profile picture had the SG logo on it. It was Lynx, and she introduced me to Diaz, and from there I threw myself at SG with a fervor.
What's your background photography-wise?
I have a four year degree in BA: Information Design (aka Information Architecture), which covered some photography here and there, but mostly I am self taught.
[Orijin in Art of War]
What was the first photo you had published?
If we're talking print media then It was probably a campaign series of portraitures of VJs and musicians for MTVbase that ran in a variety of music and youth related magazines.
How would you describe your style?
Having trained as a creative director-designer I find it very difficult to adhere to having one particular style. Or rather, I cannot see it in my work, even though others have said they can. All I can say about my work at this time is that I strive to makes images that are striking with the right amount of contrast to make the image pop.
What gear do you use?
I currently use the Canon range of equipment including a variety of L lenses.
[Lumo in Afterglow]
How important is Photoshop in your final images?
One always continually strives to achieve the desired end result out-of-camera so as to minimize reliance on post-editing, but Photoshop will always be vital for the odd blemish or bruise or stubborn stray hair.
What gives you ideas and inspires you to create such amazing sets?
The question is more like what doesn't give me ideas for sets. Everything from dreams; the products of popular culture; the things people say; even patterns that emerge in tiles! Everything, no matter how trivial, can make splendid set ideas, and the more idiosyncratic the better. But what helps most directly is getting to know the amazing women I have gotten to work with and allowing them to inspire me.
[Hadess in A Beautiful Mind]
What is your favorite image?
There are so many favorites it's really hard to choose. From the way the light sculpted Lumo's beautiful form (in Afterglow – see NSFW image) to the stunning water-like reflection in the image of Hadess (in A Beautiful Mind – see NSFW image).
Tell us why it's your fave and how you achieved it?
I like using light sources that wrap around the body's contours to illuminate the fine details of shape and form. Reflective surfaces also provide gorgeous points of visual interest.
Is there anybody or anything you would love to photograph that you haven't?
I love working with strong creative women. Some that come to mind are (I've probably left out three dozen others!) Bexi, Serial, Radeo, Bully, Jamity, Rashel, Prussia, Liu, Clio, AnnaLee, Nena, Waikiki, Manko, GoGo, Rigel, Vice, Annika, Bee, Flux, Lumi. Apart from being tremendously gorgeous, they are all so provocatively intelligent which is the biggest kind of turn on.
[Tarion in Kiss The Machine]
[Tarion in Decadence]
[Tarion in Swingers' Club]
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Ur W33K 1N G33K (April 5 – 9)
by A.J. Focht
A month out from release and AMC has already sold out advanced tickets for The Ultimate Marvel Marathon which promises to show all of the movies leading up to The Avengers before the midnight release. But if you didn’t get your tickets to the nine hour movie marathon there is no need to worry as AMC will be adding more locations. Cinemark theatres have also joined the party hosting the marathons at half the price. While AMC is charging $40 a seat for the marathon, Cinemark is charging $20. Although, it is unclear if the midnight showing of The Avengers is part of the Cinemark package.
The Iron Man 3 release date is scheduled for May 3, 2013, just a year after The Avengers. Now it looks like Ben Kingsley is in talks to play the villain for the third movie. Insiders at Marvel have debunked the rumor that he will play Mandarin, without giving any hints as to what his role might be.
DC Comics is launching a new round of comic titles this July. The titles in the mix so far are National Comics and Masters of the Universe. National Comics will feature obscure and offbeat heroes, starting with Jeff Lemire’s Kid Eternity. Masters of the Universe will follow the adventures of He-Man against the evil Skeletor. Don’t be expecting the classic He-Man story as it looks like his origins have changed, and as the series starts, Skeletor has already won.
Do you want to bring a little piece of The Hunger Games home with you? Well now you can since Katniss Everdeen has been transformed into a Barbie. I don’t know when Barbie started idolizing child warfare, but this Katniss Everdeen doll is equipped with a bow and arrows nonetheless. If that isn’t good enough for you, you could always buy District 12. Henry River Mill Village, the location for District 12 in the film, is now on sale and can be yours for only $1.4 million.
The Hugo Awards, one of the most prestigious awards in science-fiction, has listed this year’s nominees. Among the top contenders are all the big players: Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Captain America, and…Community? That’s right. In what can only be described as the best nomination ever, the Community episode ‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ has been nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. While it is up against some excellent Doctor Who episodes, this episode stands a good chance of winning thanks to its excellent use of alternate and parallel universes.
The Doctor is getting wrapped up in some legal issues of his own. David Tennant starred in a new Virgin Media commercial that has upset the BBC. The commercial played off time travel, and for BBC anything time travel with David Tennant is their jurisdiction. They sent a takedown request to Virgin Media saying they do not want to be perceived as endorsing any organization.
Facebook has paid $1 billion for the purchase of Instagram. While the purchase has had many Instagram fans nervous, Mark Zuckerberg announced they plan to let Instagram grow free from the Facebook brand. Is that enough though for Instagram fans or do you still worry that Facebook ownership will taint it?
NEW SG Interview: Erin Cooper, Brand Ambassador for Sailor Jerry Rum
by Justin Beckner
[Above: Erin Cooper - photo by Amina]
Over the past decade Sailor Jerry has turned itself into one of the greatest success stories of the industry while miraculously staying true to its roots. This is largely due to grassroots style underground marketing campaigns and the relentless work put in by people who believe in the product. But let us not forget that marketing campaigns are not what ultimately sells rum, the uncompromised flavor of Sailor Jerry’s is what sets it above its competitors and is fast making it one of the top selling brands of rum in the country.
Our story starts with a man named Norman Collins, known to friends and clients as “Sailor Jerry.” Jerry was a seafaring tattoo artist, musician, and poet, who schooled himself on the Asian art of tattooing during his time in the Navy. Everything Jerry pursued he did with valor and passion, but it was his work doing tattoos that garnered him his iconic and legendary status within the annals of the tattoo industry and beyond. Designers like Ed Hardy have been heavily influenced by Jerry’s work, Converse has put his designs on shoes and clothing, and the use of anchors, compasses, and ships are staples in tattoo shops around the world. Jerry was also very insistent on the sterilization of equipment, especially needles. This helped to decrease the spread of infection and clean up the image society had of tattooing.
The tattoo work of Norman Collins contains a resonance of the passion and valor which he put into everything he pursued. So it makes sense that those who played such a vital role in making Sailor Jerry’s Rum would share those same principles. The rum itself is a work of art. A gentle blend of caramel and vanilla flavors that are so smooth, you can actually enjoy this rum straight on the rocks. It also tastes great with a cola or in any sort of mix which calls for rum.
The following is an interview conducted with Sailor Jerry’s Rum Brand Ambassador and marketing mastermind, Erin Cooper.
Justin R. Beckner: How did the Norman Collins namesake become a brand of rum?
Erin Cooper: A company called CCM owns the Sailor Jerry brand. They bought the artwork and the name and started off as a clothing company. A few years into this, they decided that they wanted to have an alcohol in honor of Norman Collins. They went to William Grant, who are known for their Scotches, and of course Hendricks Gin, and they put together this amazing spiced rum to honor Sailor Jerry.
JB: Tell us a bit about Norman Collins, the original Sailor Jerry.
EC: He was the grandfather of Americana style tattooing. A lot of people don’t know that and are somewhat jaded because of Ed Hardy and how they blew up that form of artwork into this commercial thing rather than a respected artform. Norman Collins actually taught Ed Hardy how to tattoo, so many of the things that Ed is known for were learned from Norman Collins. Norman traveled a lot, especially around Japan, and learned their tattooing styles and techniques and made them his own. Around the time of Norman’s hayday, during World War Two, the pinup culture was booming. So that’s where we get the pin-ups incorporated with the anchors and compasses and other symbols of Americana.
JB: I’m told that the recipe for this rum is kept under lock and key.
EC: What’s great about William Grant is that we are a family owned company and our Scotchers will talk your ear off about how our Scotches are made and the distilling process. But with Sailor Jerry, the recipe and the process are kept under lock and key, and even the Ambassadors aren’t allowed to share them. I can say that we do our blending in New Jersey. Of course the flavor is no secret; it’s got a rich vanilla flavor with some caramel and a hint of lime. A lot of people assume that because Sailor Jerry is 92 Proof that it’s really sharp and you can’t get any of the flavors. But in spite of the high proof, you can really pick out the flavors and see the scope of the awesome profile of the rum. One of Sailor Jerry’s mottos was “My work speaks for itself.” That’s what we like to say about the brand. When you mix it with cola or have it straight up or however you choose to drink it, you’re going to taste it for what it is. We make it the way it’s supposed to be made.
JB: The marketing strategy for Sailor Jerry is very grassroots. How did this brand grow so quickly to rival some of the more commercial rum brands?
EC: We started underground with Sailor Jerry and we hit the dive bars where we thought would be a great place to put it. We gave bands the rum and they promoted it on tour – it was definitely a snowball effect from there. We won’t put advertisements on TV or magazines and the brand has gone further than they ever imagined it would. We still want to stay underground and we want to stay true to the people who know Sailor Jerry’s for what it is. We want to stay true to the punk rockers and the rockabilly geeks and the people who made Sailor Jerry’s what it is today. But at the same time, it is a rum for everybody and we want to make it available to the general market. What’s cool is that recently we’ve been seeing Sailor Jerry’s in high end bars here in Las Vegas and many of the casinos and it’s been getting picked up by corporate beverage programs, and it’s not because of the label or because of Norman, it’s because of the liquid inside. It’s the same way with music; the bands that who drink Sailor Jerry and help promote it are always a natural fit.
JB: I think Sailor Jerry’s philosophy fits quite well with the philosophy at SuicideGirls.
EC: I totally agree. I think that when Missy and Sean started the site it was very underground and it was based on this alternative lifestyle and the art that goes with it. Sailor Jerry’s stated out the same way. I also would like to say that Amina is fantastic. She’s a great photographer and if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I started out in modeling and she was a great inspiration for me and it’s been so amazing to have her and AmberLynn on our staff at SJ.
JB: Let’s talk a bit more about how you got your start and how you came to be the Ambassador for William Grant.
EC: I started out modeling here and there and did some work with Inked Magazine. One day I got a phone call from one of my friends who knew an agent who was looking for tattoo models for this company called Sailor Jerry. I had never done modeling for a liquor company before and I was super nervous but I did it and pretty soon I was working at all the Sailor Jerry promos that were going on in Las Vegas. Then when New York decided that they wanted a brand ambassador for Nevada, my name came up and I went to New York, interviewed, and got the job. Around that same time they were doing a casting call for the 2011 Sailor Jerry Calendar, so I sent my picture in and crossed my fingers that I would get it and I got a phone call like a week later saying that I was going to be in the SJ Calendar. All these great things happened all within a short span of time. I love my job and everything that the company it. I’m very glad to work for a company that fits me so well because I am a terrible liar. When I worked in retail, it was hard for me to sell things if I didn’t really like the way it looked. With Sailor Jerry’s, it’s so easy for me to sell because I believe so strongly in the product.
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Pillow Fight Day NYC
by Blogbot
Given that it was held the day before Easter Sunday, this year's 7th Annual New York Pillow Fight was dubbed the "Bunny Edition." Thousands showed up at the appointed location and time, Washington Square at 3 PM, armed and looking for a ruckus of the absolute best kind.
International Pillow Fight Day takes place each year on the first Saturday in April. It was marked by mass feather and foam dust-ups in over 100 cities this year. For more info visit pillowfightday.com/
Photos by Nicole Powers.
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Got Problems? Sex, Love and Relationship Advice From SuicideGirls’ Team Agony
by SG's Team Agony feat. Leandra
Let us answer life's questions - because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.
[Leandra in Verdugo]
Q: I met the girl of my dreams a little over a year ago at work. I have a rule of not dating anyone I work with after past bad relationships. She defines SG to a T. Everything about her was perfect and we connected a ton, both at work and after she quit.
When she quit we started to talk. She always wanted to hang out with me but we never could get the timing right. We both felt we had a lot in common and should hang out but we never really did, though she did come to see me at home. We both said that we belonged together, and that we’re perfect around each other.
However, she got married to someone after only a few weeks of dating them and I feel lost without her in my life. I truly believe she was the one. I then messed up by telling her I felt mad about her getting engaged to someone after only a few days of dating, and that she could do better. I made her feel like shit and less of a person.
Now she won’t return my emails or calls. I just want my best friend back. She's the only girl I felt truly about. She was someone that I didn't just want to sleep with when I had her alone in my place and on my bed. She’s hands down the coolest chick I have ever met, and would want nothing more than to have my best friend back. She is the one.
A: I am so sorry for the pain you are feeling right now. Does it help any that I just went through something similar? It's been months and he is the only man I cannot forget, the only man I was absolutely sure I was meant to be with. He was a man I was packed up and ready to move for. Then, five days before I was meant to drive to another state to move in with him, it was over. I guess I’m just saying, I know the pain, I know the agony. I know that sometimes you can feel everything is okay, and then suddenly it's like a punch to the gut. And when something like this happen to you, you're overwhelmed with emotion and sadness.
I have found the key to a situation like this though...
You can't keep fighting for someone who does not return your feelings. I am not saying she doesn't care for you, and, though I don't know her, you do make it sound like she rushed into the marriage. Having said that, she is now married – she is a married woman. I am sure her husband would not be too happy about you guys talking. You need to respect that and give them their distance. Shat will be will be!
Please stop calling and emailing. Don't text. She isn't returning them for a reason – and this is the key – to force you to realize the truth of the situation, to help you let go and give in to it. You can't change it. You've tried. You fought for her and did your best. You feel bad for what you said to her, and have obviously shown that to her. You need to do your best to let go my friend. I know it hurts. I know it's painful. I know what it's like to believe in the deep dark bottom of your soul that they are THE ONE. She's not. He wasn't. We move forward. Onwards and upwards. There ARE others out there. You’ll eventually find someone you mesh with even more and can settle down with, if that's what you want.
I always wonder about the future, will I hear from him in months or years to come? Will you hear from her? Only time will tell, but for now you're only torturing yourself by reaching out and getting nothing back. I think this reply to you would be a little different if she wasn't taken, if she wasn't married. But she is. You must respect that and respect their relationship, whether you agree with it or not. If you care for her as you say you do, then you will do this for her. It's obviously what she wants since she is not reaching back out to you or replying.
Please try to move forward. Realize, although you care for her a whole damn lot, that she isn't the only girl out there for you. The right one is out there and soon enough you will find her.
Stay strong. Time is a healer, a cliché but true.
Leandra
xxxxx
***
Got Problems? Let SuicideGirls’ team of Agony Aunts provide solutions. Email questions to: gotproblems@suicidegirls.com
Life Beyond the Bar Scene: I Would Never Look Through Your Phone and Other Trust Issues
by Laurelin
The old woman cupped my hand in hers. Narrowing her eyes and making a clicking noise in the back of her throat she looked up and smiled warmly. “You are untrusting in love,” she said. “Why? What is there to worry about, you have had two great heartbreaks in your life and they are over, it’s time to put the past behind you. I look in your eyes and see such warmth, too bad you cannot speak with your eyes.” She lets my hand go and it falls into my lap. I guess that lady gets paid to say those things, but at 2 AM in New York City it suddenly seems so real, and I walk back through Times Square to my hotel wondering about what she said. Was she right? Was I totally untrusting?
I went on a date the other night with a bartender from a trendy bar downtown. He wasn’t anything like me, and while once that would have really frightened me, now it seems really appealing, challenging, intriguing. I had a great time, and at the end of the night back home at my apartment I found myself smiling stupidly, wishing my roommate was home so I could talk her ear off about it. I never heard from that guy again, and it was a bit unsettling for a few days. What did I do wrong? This was so typical.
After a few days of not hearing back I moved on; not everyone gets an explanation as to why something doesn’t work out. I couldn’t help but laugh at myself a little bit — here I was wondering why everything seemed to click when it didn’t really. Who does that? “You do that,” my roommate points out. “You do that all the time. Have a great time and then freak out and run away and never tell the guy why. That’s like, your favorite thing to do!” I think about it and I can’t help but laugh, at myself, at the poor guys I have dated in the past five months, and at the whole situation in general. She’s right, I have an inability to tell the truth when it comes to wanting to end something before it really starts; I just slither back to my bar scene life and immerse myself in work. One can always trust the reliability of a 45 hour work week. Does that make me untrusting? Easily bored? Non committal?
I have always considered trust in relationships to be something that is created over time once you find someone who doesn’t drive you nuts. All of a sudden I realize that I’m looking at the cell phone you left on my nightstand when you were rushing to work and I roll over and go back to bed – instead of flipping through your texts. I’m left alone in your apartment and your computer is right there with your e-mail up on the screen, and I sign out and into mine without even a second glance. You want to go out with your friends to the strip club with an eight ball of cocaine in your pocket? Sure, have a good time. I trust you. See? I can be trusting.
That old lady was wrong. I have trust in a lot of things. I trust that my friends will get me through anything. I trust that I’m a good judge of character, and that even if something doesn’t work out that I chose that person or that path because I saw something good in it, because I thought that it would make me a better person. I trust that I will not always do the right thing but that I will know the difference between the two, and that I will do better next time, be stronger and able to learn from my mistakes. I might be untrusting in love, but that is only because a lot of times the way it’s ended up for me has left me feeling like I trusted something that wasn’t real, or that was only real for a little while and that is devastating. I was never mislead, nor was I ever misleading to anyone I ever called mine. If I mislead you, you were never mine, nor I yours.
Untrusting in love seems normal to me to an extent; it’s good to be cautious with your heart after you have spent so long learning to trust yourself. I’ll open up when the time is right. For now, the only trust I need is from the bartender shaking my martini or muddling my mojito. It’s almost summer time, and I smell some really poor life choices on the horizon. If there’s one thing I can trust in, it’s that.
***
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Fiction Friday: The Killswitch Review – Chapter Ten, Part Two
by Steven-Elliot Altman (SG Member: Steven_Altman)
Our Fiction Friday serialized novel, The Killswitch Review, is a futuristic murder mystery with killer sociopolitical commentary (and some of the best sex scenes we’ve ever read!). Written by bestselling sci-fi author Steven-Elliot Altman (with Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse), it offers a terrifying postmodern vision in the tradition of Blade Runner and Brave New World...
By the year 2156, stem cell therapy has triumphed over aging and disease, extending the human lifespan indefinitely. But only for those who have achieved Conscientious Citizen Status. To combat overpopulation, the U.S. has sealed its borders, instituted compulsory contraception and a strict one child per couple policy for those who are permitted to breed, and made technology-assisted suicide readily available. But in a world where the old can remain vital forever, America’s youth have little hope of prosperity.
Jason Haggerty is an investigator for Black Buttons Inc, the government agency responsible for dispensing personal handheld Kevorkian devices, which afford the only legal form of suicide. An armed “Killswitch” monitors and records a citizen’s final moments — up to the point where they press a button and peacefully die. Post-press review agents — “button collectors” — are dispatched to review and judge these final recordings to rule out foul play.
When three teens stage an illegal public suicide, Haggerty suspects their deaths may have been murders. Now his race is on to uncover proof and prevent a nationwide epidemic of copycat suicides. Trouble is, for the first time in history, an entire generation might just decide they’re better off dead.
(Catch up with the previous installments of Killswitch – see links below – then continue reading after the jump…)
[THE KILLSWITCH REVIEW – CHAPTER TEN, PART TWO]
[PURGING THE SYSTEM]
[Previous Chapter]
“It’s a pleasure to meet you in person, young man,” the woman said, shining a laserlight into Haggerty’s eyes. “I’m Annette, Joe’s wife.”
Haggerty was lying on a makeshift examination table with an old-style IV tube in his arm. The infirmary was larger and much better equipped than he would have expected in a wilderness outpost. His spasms had quelled although his dose hand continued to twitch. The cramps had subsided. “Nice to meet you too, ma’am,” he said hoarsely, his throat raw.
Like her husband, Annette Svoboda appeared to be in her prime. A handsome woman with dark blonde hair, she was dressed in one of the ubiquitous robes the colony favored, though hers was embellished with colorful embroidery at the neck, hem, and sleeves. Haggerty couldn’t resist asking if she were anywhere near her husband’s age.
“Lord, no! Joe’s a baby. I was a hundred-sixty-three last month.” She took a blood sample, put a few drops into a tube, and watched the reaction. “But let’s not worry about my age right now. I don’t like what I see in this tube. What have you been doing to yourself?”
Regina spared Haggerty the necessity of explaining.
“If you need a sample of the drug,” Elsa told the doctor, “I have one.”
“No,” Haggerty said weakly. “It’s evidence.”
“What’s it gonna be, son?” Annette asked him. “You want me to keep you going or not?”
Haggerty covered his face with a hand and nodded.
Elsa produced a tube from one of her ports. “Is it enough?” she asked Annette.
“Should be,” Annette replied.
She pipetted drops into tubes of her own, frowning as she watched the reaction. She moved to the machine displays, then correlated data at her computer.
“If that stuff isn’t the devil’s work, there’s no devil,” she pronounced. “I won’t go into the whole array of effects, but, basically, this drug works selectively on nerve cells, stimulating pleasurable sensations.”
“I’d noticed,” Haggerty said.
“Trouble is, the nerve cells become overloaded, leading to violent convulsions and death. I think I can fix you up, at least for a day or two. But you are going to have a full system flush the moment this crisis is over, is that understood, young man?”
“Yes, ma’am,” Haggerty whispered.
“Never seen such a high concentration of celtrex before. You’ve got a whole pharmacy load in there fighting for you. I’m sure it helped prolong the interval between doses and probably saved your life, but it wasn’t nearly enough on its own. We need to help it out, and I have something that might do the trick.”
The smile with which she graced Haggerty was even more intimidating than her scowl. Haggerty could not help wondering what Doug would have thought to hear this.
“Shall we get rid of that temp plastiche job while we’re at it?” she said.
“Please do,” Regina answered for him.
Haggerty nodded consent.
“Your new face is all over the newscasts, so it’s useless as a disguise,” Annette said. “It’s starting to peel, anyway.”
Annette withdrew two steel containers and two syringes from a cabinet and returned to Haggerty’s side. “All right, then,” she said. “After the therapy we take care of the plastiche.” She flipped open the first container, extracted a vial, and filled a syringe.
Haggerty eyed it uneasily. “And the therapy is . . . ?”
“Two things,” she said matter-of-factly, rolling up his shirt sleeve and swabbing his biceps with antiseptic. “The first is something to counter the stimulation causing the damage. It’ll stop the convulsions, slow your heart, allow your system to get back to equilibrium. Once we get you to that stage, we use the second thing to make sure your heart doesn’t get so slow it stops beating, among other things. The second thing’s nothing to worry about, just a highly effective, highly specific antivenin. Your geno-immunizations should provide all the protection you need from the first thing until I can use the second.”
Haggerty looked at her warily as she stuck the needle into his arm. “And the first thing is . . . ?”
“Rattlesnake venom,” she said dryly, pushing the plunger.
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Annette had given Haggerty a healthy dose of painkillers once she’d satisfied herself that the venom and the antivenin had done their work. The ants were gone but Haggerty felt lousy. All things considered he preferred the ants. At least he was wearing his own face again, though his skin was still patchy and felt raw. He’d taken a few minutes to shower, after which he dressed in retro-denims and a T-shirt Regina scrounged together from the colonists. He was in desperate need of sleep he wasn’t going to get and was cleaner rather than truly clean, but he was in far better shape than he’d been when he arrived at the settlement.
“Take these,” Annette said, handing him a container of pills as he readied to leave the infirmary. “They’re maximum-dose celtrex. Take one every half hour until you can get yourself flushed.”
Haggerty wouldn’t complain about that. He poured the tablets into his pillcase and popped it closed.
Svoboda entered the infirmary with a burly blond associate and kissed Annette. “It appears Mr. Haggerty has been tracked,” he said. “Antonio Stelwyn is on his way here as we speak. I’m debating full evacuation of this camp.”
“It’s all right,” Haggerty said. “He’s on my side.”
“But not on my side,” Svoboda snapped. “I can’t have this location known to him. I have people to protect.”
Haggerty bit back his irritation. Whatever his feelings about Svoboda and his decision not to act, he wished the colonists no harm.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “The pod must be rigged with a trace.” He gave a short bark of laughter.
“You find the situation funny?” Svoboda said.
“I’m imagining you giving Stelwyn the scenario you gave me — and how he’ll react to it.”
Annette placed a supportive hand on her husband’s shoulder. He didn’t have much choice if Stelwyn already had the camp coordinates.
Svoboda turned to his burly blond subordinate. “Contact Stelwyn. Scramble the satellite relays and bring him in cloaked. Put everyone on evacuation standby.”
The man nodded and left.
Svoboda turned to Haggerty. “You’ve put us at great risk.”
“Welcome to the party,” Haggerty said. “If the rest of the country is in half the peril you predict, why should you be insulated? What’s the situation out there?”
“The news blackout has failed. Word of the triple press and the suicides that followed has saturated the Net. Governor Benfield has bowed to the inevitable, lifting the blackout and allowing news coverage, using spin as damage control. It’s not working, of course. The copycats are increasing. We’re trying to get hard numbers but we’re having difficulty.”
“Maybe Elsa can help with that,” Haggerty said.
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Excerpt from The Killswitch Review, published by Yard Dog Press. Copyright 2011 Steven-Elliot Altman.
Steven-Elliot Altman is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and videogame developer. He won multiple awards for his online role playing game, 9Dragons. His novels include Captain America is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, Batman: Infinite Mirror, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars, and Deprivers. His writing has been compared to that of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick, and he has collaborated with world class writers such as Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Harry Turtledove and Dr. Janet Asimov. He’s also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology The Touch, and a contributor to Shadows Over Baker Street, a Hugo Award winning anthology of Sherlock Holmes meets H.P. Lovecraft stories.
Steven also bares ink on his body, and is bi, as in bi-coastal, between NYC and LA. He’s currently hard at work writing and directing his latest videogame Cursed Love, an online free to play gothic horror RPG from Dark Hermit Studios, set in Victorian London. Think Sherlock Holmes, Jack The Ripper and Dorian Gray mercilessly exploit the cast of Twilight. Friend Cursed Love (Official Closed Beta) on facebook and you can have fun playing out this tawdry, tragic romance with Steven while the game is being beta tested!
Diane DeKelb-Rittehouse spent several years in Manhattan as an actress before marrying her college sweetheart and returning to the Philadelphia area where she had been born. Diane first worked with Steven-Elliot Altman when they created the acclaimed, Publisher’s Weekly Starred-Review anthology The Touch: Epidemic of the Millennium, in which her story “Gifted” appeared. Diane has published a number of critically acclaimed short stories, most notably in the science fiction, murder, and horror genres. Her young adult fantasy novel, Fareie Rings: The Book of Forests, is now available in stores or online.
Interested in buying a printed copy of The Killswitch Review? Well, Steve’s publisher Yard Dog Press was kind enough to put up a special page where SuicideGirls can get a special discount and watch a sexy trailer. Just follow this link to KillswitchReview.com and click on the SG logo.
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NEW SG Interview: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg – American Reunion
by Fred Topel
“Snooki is damn sexy.”
- Jon Hurwitz,
I go back a long way with the writer/directors of the fourth American Pie movie. I saw their first film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle months before it was out and interviewed them for a screenwriting magazine that is long defunct. In fact, we met at the Newsroom Café outside of New Line Cinema, which is also now defunct, absorbed by Warner Brothers.
Fresh out of college, the writing duo was ambitious and enthusiastic about entering the comedy landscape. Back in 2004, the R-rated comedy was just making a comeback with Old School, and Wedding Crashers and The Hangover were years away. As ‘80s children and comedy junkies, they wanted to give this generation the comedies that would play every night in dorm rooms across the nation.
We got to catch up every time they wrote a new Harold and Kumar movie, one of which they directed. Now they’ve been handed the reigns of American Reunion. They decided to bring back every single actor from the first American Pie, including those who were not included in American Wedding. They also ignored the four straight to video movies under the American Pie brand.
In Reunion, Jim (Jason Biggs) go back to their high school reunion and see what’s become of their classmates, and clash with the current high school seniors. A virginal 18-year-old is throwing herself at the happily married Jim, and he still ends up caught naked in the kitchen, and later practicing dominatrix role play with Michelle (Alyson Hannigan). These days, the guys have grown up themselves, with marriages and children of their own. They still like to tell dirty jokes though about penises and MILFs.
Read our exclusive interview with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg on SuicideGirls.com.
The Art of SuicideGirls Feat. Oddbill
by Blogbot
Artist / SG Member Name: Oddbill.
Mission Statement: Someone once said to me "Please never stop drawing naked ladies." And so far, I haven't.
Medium: Chalk pastels, ink, and watercolor.
Aesthetic: Oversaturated crumbly false color. Otherwise, I don't think I've developed an aesthetic yet. I keep at it in the hope an aesthetic emerges.
Notable Achievements: I designed a vodka bottle once. It was like a cubist rendering of an embrace warped into three dimensions and filled with sexy fermented potato juice. It would have been lovely, but the company that hired me went bankrupt and it was never made. I recently did a CD cover. Some of my pieces once hung in a group show. Art-wise, that is about it. I manage technology workers for a living. A long time ago I was an actor. I make these drawings now, when I'm not working, because I Iike the way the chalk feels, the clouds of loose technicolor dust I have to blow off the paper, talking to the women who sit for me, translating them into completely nonsensical colors.
Why We Should Care: What I hope is that there is something engaging about these pictures, that they catch your eye the way they did mine as I drew them. It's really no more complicated than that. Most of what I do is an attempt to grab people with colors and say "isn't this lovely?" There's no statement or deeper meaning. I kind of don't think there needs to be. People don't walk away from drawings philosophically engaged, they don't remember a clever argument they had to read a card to understand. But just the image, light and texture, that lingers in memory, that's what this is for.
I Want Me Some: I don't have an online store, or any prints or other items at the moment. The drawings are all for sale though. I can be contacted through my website, twitter, or inside SG. Feel free to follow, sling comments or inquiries at me through any of those channels. Thanks!
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Ur W33K 1N G33K (March 28 – April 4)
by A.J. Focht
The first clip from The Avengers movie has arrived, and it features Black Widow being a total badass. To go along with the forty second trailer, ten new official wallpapers have been released as well. With the movie less than a month out, some fans have started committing to not watching any of more clips or trailers because they feel they are spoiling too much. If you were looking to save all the excitement for the theatre, you may want refrain from watching this clip or any of the others that come out over the next month.
Joss Whedon’s The Avengers debuts May 4, but first up we have Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods releasing in just over a week on April 13. A new TV spot for the Whedon’s sci-fi horror thriller has come out. Based on what we’ve seen so far, this movie stretches the limits of the horror genre beyond anything we could expect.
Star Trek 2 production is well under way, and Alex Kurtzman has given an update on how things are coming along. Beyond praising the addition of Benedict Cumberbatch’s new villain role, he also gave us a bit of the story, saying that the crew is still learning to work together and are still on the way to becoming the bridge crew we remember and love from the series.
The Hunger Games destroyed box office records, but there may be trouble ahead for the sequels. While all of the cast has signed on to reprise their roles in the sequels, director Gary Ross has not. Ross has been credited as part of the reason the movie did so well, but his compensation from the movie was less than would be expected for an Oscar-nominated director. There are rumors that his failure to sign is over a financial dispute.
Back in October, the world lost one of its most brilliant minds, Steve Jobs. Now there is a movie in the making called Jobs that will biographically feature his life and times. The big thing everyone is talking about though is that Ashton Kutcher is playing the part of Steve Jobs. Kutcher is most famous for his roles where he plays moronic characters such as Kelso from That 70’s Show. Now he is set to portray one of the greatest innovative minds of the modern world.
Doctor Who fans should set their dials to conspiracy, because it’s rumor time. It started as what many considered an April Fool’s Day prank, but it didn’t die there. Reports of the first female Doctor have flooded the internet, after UK paper the Daily Express made seemingly joke claims. However a mole has since said the Time Lord will regenerate as a female as a big plot twist timed for the show's 50th anniversary.
On Monday April 2, two different but equally awesome nerd channels premiered on Youtube. Geek & Sundry, a channel founded by Felicia Day, features several shows covering various geeky interests. It is also the new home of The Guild, which has an awesome new promotional music video that calls out nerd posers (see above). Other featured shows include Dark Horse Motion Comics, Wil Wheaton’s TableTop gaming show, Felicia Day’s video blog, and so much more.
The other channel of note is The Nerdist Channel, created by Chris Hardwick a.k.a. the Nerdist. Hardwick hosts a bowling show where he bowls against other celebrity groups for charity. One episode will even feature them facing off against the Geek & Sundry team. There are lots of shows still to premier on the Nerdist channel, including one hosted by Rob Zombie, a show hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and a show with Neil Patrick Harris and Muppets.
Both the Nerdist Channel and Geek & Sundry are pioneering a shift towards quality internet television programming. Unlike cable, you can enjoy all of these shows for free as long as you can get on the internet. In return, all they ask is you hit subscribe to their YouTube channels so they can hopefully keep this kind of programming coming.
Ask A Suicide Girl Is LIVE: Send Us Questions Via Our Twitter NOW
TUNE IN to @SuicideGirls on Twitter RIGHT NOW for a special interactive Q&A session! Ask SuicideGirls the questions you've always wanted to know the answers to but were afraid to ask. Our theme for this first #AskSG session is dating!
Our ladies (Katherine, Clio, Radeo, Bob, Gogo, Nahp, Arabella, Shotgun, Lass, Dwam, AnnaLee and Rambo) will be responding in person to selected questions via YouTube. Tweet @SuicideGirls and include the #ASKSG hashtag along with your question! We'll upload our responses ASAP on the SuicideGirls' YouTube Channel and will tweet out the links.
Happy tweeting!
Many of you have been asking: How does one become a Suicide Girl - @sincerelyrambo answers:
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Ask A Suicide Girl: Special Interactive Q and A Session – April 4th At 10 AM PST
On Wednesday, April 4th between 10 AM and 1 PM PST we’ll be hosting a special interactive Q&A session. Ask SuicideGirls the questions you’ve always wanted to know the answers to but were afraid to ask via Twitter. Ten of our ladies (including SG faves Radeo, Bob, Gogo, Nahp, Arabella, Shotgun and Rambo) will be on hand to personally respond to selected questions via YouTube. For this first Ask A Suicide Girl session our theme will be dating.
Follow @SuicideGirls on Twitter and make sure you include the #ASKSG hashtag along with your question! We’ll upload our responses ASAP on the SuicideGirls’ YouTube Channel and will post links to them via Twitter.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
SuicideGirls
XOX
Ps. Check back here on Monday when we’ll have some exciting news re. a new SG modeling contest!
***UPDATE***
The final list of #AskSG ladies features:
Katherine
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NEW SG Interview: The Walking Dead’s Irone Singleton aka T-Dog
by Damon Martin
“Now I can say yes, T-Dog is back!”
- Irone Singleton
Surviving two seasons on AMC's The Walking Dead is no easy task. But for veteran actor Irone Singleton, it's a pleasure picking up a script each week, although he admits it's better once he finds out that his character T-Dog survives.
Singleton has been a part of both seasons of the record breaking cable series, and he recently sat down and talked about the Season 2 finale, what's coming up for T-Dog in Season 3, and answers the most important question ever about The Walking Dead.
Damon Martin: Let's start with the very morbid nature of the show in the sense that anybody can go at any time. As an actor, when you get your script every week, are you reading through to check you’re still there? Cause this is a show where there are no guarantees
Irone Singleton: I know right? Kind of like The Sopranos, and somebody else mentioned 24, although I never really watched 24 – I heard it's a phenomenal show. But we're always looking over our back like ‘am I the one that's going to get it today?’ It's like that. Especially early on it was like that. When I received the script and I read through the part where T-Dog slices his arm, I'm like, ‘how big is this slice?’ He's bleeding profusely, so I was like, ‘let me jump to the back of the script.’ So I jumped to the back of the script cause I wanted to see if T-Dog was still alive at the end. He was still alive, so I wiped the sweat bubbles from my forehead, and then I jumped back to the beginning so I could read for sheer entertainment value as opposed to reading for my life.
DM: When you work on a show you become close with the people you're cast with; how tough was it when you read that script or you got that call sheet and found out Jon Bernthal (Shane) was leaving. How tough is that as an actor to see?
IS: I considered them my extended family, my second family away from home and we did get very close. I have special relationships with all of them and it was in it's own unique way. To see them go, there were very wet eyes. Tearful moments. We had those moments with Jon Bernthal and I, and Jeffrey DeMunn (Dale), and we'd look at each other and be like 'wow, this is the end of the road for us on this journey right here.' It was a nice moment, but sad to see them go.
DM: Now you've survived through Season 2 and we're on our way to Season 3 so everybody wants to know are we going to see more of T-Dog?
IS: I'm hoping so. I'm glad that T-Dog survived. Doing interviews before the season finale, I had to keep people wondering whether or not he survived, so now I can say, ‘yes, T-Dog is back!’
DM: So we know that Michael Rooker will be back as Merle Dixon for Season 3. The character interaction you guys had during the first season really kicked things off for this show, so I have to imagine things are going to get interesting when you cross paths again.
IS: It is going to be interesting. Actually T-Dog and Merle did meet up 2 weeks ago in Cherry Hills, New Jersey and there was a bit of a stand off, and Merle got a bit of his edge. We were there with the zombie survival crew at Monster Mania, and he served T-Dog octopus sashimi, and that is something that T-Dog does not like at all, but he forced it to him with chopsticks. You'll probably stumble across that picture on Twitter or Facebook or something like that, so I think that's a pre-cursor to what Merle has coming. It may not be good
DM: When you become a part of a series like The Walking Dead, you really become synonymous with that series and with comic book, science fiction and horror fans. If you walked into San Diego Comic Con you'd get mobbed by 50,000 fans. How much has your life changed since doing The Walking Dead? I mean 50 years from now people are still going to remember your performance from this show.
IS: That's a big statement and it feels good. My life has gone from one extreme to the other. A line I use in my one-man show, I say, ‘I feel my life is going from the abyss to the utopia of the spiritual spectrum.’ I've come from an environment where I was spiritually dead, my conscience was for the most part dormant, so I am now at a point in my life where I have acknowledged a responsibility to be a role model. That's where I am now. God has put me in a position where I have a platform to where many people hear me, and respect my message when I speak it, so that is exactly where I am, from one extreme to the other. It's such a great feeling to be a part of such a distinguished group.
DM: There's so much to talk about the Season 2 finale, but I'm a huge fan of The Walking Dead comic book, so I want to talk to you about the dark hooded swordsman that saved Andrea's life at the end of the episode. For comic book fans, and as Robert Kirkman announced after the show, that is the famous character Michonne, who has now been cast with actress Danai Gurira. What did you think of that appearance; Were you a fan of the comics? Did you see that coming?
IS: I read the comics and I dipped around and read the part with Michonne, but I haven't gotten through it. I think she may prove to be an excellent choice. (Danai Gurira) is beautiful, and I think this could work out here. I'm looking forward to that experience. I had no idea she was even in the running. They were talking about somebody from True Blood, and a couple of other names came up, but they announced her and I started to do a bit of research, and I was like, ‘wow okay, this might work out!’ I'm happy.
DM: One of the best parts of The Walking Dead is the fact that there are comics out there, and some of the iconic things that happened in the Season 2 finale are already building for Season 3. Michonne showing up, we saw the last shot of the prison to close the episode, we know they cast The Governor already, who is a major character in the comics. Is it cool that they set things up so well to get fans already excited about what's coming next, and the show doesn't start again for several months?
IS: I know, I'm excited too. I feel the same way. I think those shots are so epic. My wife and I were trying to figure out which shot was most epic. Was it the one with Michonne at the end with that cloak over her head? Or was it the prison shot, the overhead shot? Was it the barn burning at the end? So many epic shots and all of them kind of just have me waiting on next season. We should just petition for a year round Walking Dead show.
DM: The great thing about The Walking Dead is that while obviously they are living in a zombie apocalypse, the story really revolves around these characters and building their stories. It seems the way the storytelling is done on this show, both in the dramatic dialogue scenes and in the action scenes, it's just really excellent.
IS: You're getting me excited, stop it. This thing is so brilliant, it's brilliantly written and mapped out. The folks at AMC that have to do all of this, they have to walk that tight rope. I mean you have to satisfy at least two demographics; You have to satisfy the one that want the guts and the gore, and then you have the other side, they love the story and the drama. Then you have the group like me, I'm right in the middle. I love them both. I thought it was brilliant, where you're on the farm, but then you have zombies through there. You want it to count when you have zombies, you don't want to have zombies on every episode. It gets old. So it's brilliant.
DM: This is my last question before I let you go. Because you are a big part of The Walking Dead, you're part of the family there, and I know you know all the inside information. Can you tell me, does Carl ever stay in the house?
IS: [Laughing] Great question. Carl does not, but Chandler does. Chandler Riggs stays in the house. Carl doesn't. I don't know what's going on with Carl.
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In Focus: The Photographers of SuicideGirls feat. Waikiki
by Nahp Suicide
[Above: Waikiki in Walk On The Wild Side - Photographed by Alissa]
Waikiki is from Italy and spends her time shooting between Italy, Holland, London, and Berlin. She has been a SuicideGirl since 2006 and a photographer since 2009.
How did you first get involved with SuicideGirls?
A close gay friend of mine introduced me to SG for the first time. It was the summer of 2005.
A month later I shot my first set as a model with Albertine. Three years later I did my first one as a photographer.
What's your background photography-wise?
I have a BA in Fine Arts. I did photography, video, and sculpture. Back then I mainly shot in analog. The dark room was my favorite place in the whole University.
[Gogo in Mononoke]
What was the first photo you had published?
A self shot photograph which was part of my last year examination project.
It got published on a Dutch catalogue.
How would you describe your style?
My style is continuously mutating. It's in motion. My photography is pretty varied as is my style. Shooting for the site has definitely changed it. I used to be always an art photographer. I worked with models but on a different level. My photographs were mainly black & white images.
SG gave me the possibility to embrace a new layer. Capture models' sexyness, beauty and creativity through their body, moves, peculiarities.
What gear do you use?
I currently use a canon 5D Mark II. I have a few lenses, which I like to switch depending on what the subject is and where I’m shooting. I also have an old Nikon F2 which I’ve started to use again lately, and a fewmore, but due to work and media I mostly use my Canon.
[Fifi in Oui C'est Moi]
How important is Photoshop in your final images?
Since I work on digital images Photoshop has become essential for color correction and to adjust lighting. Needless to say, Photoshop and Lightroom have both become the digital dark room of our future, although, for the most part, good results should always be done ideally with the settings on the camera itself, before you pull the trigger.
What gives you ideas and inspires you to create such amazing sets?
Certainly the model, she is my very first inspiration. I do travel quite often and I am a big observer of spaces, landscape and whatever my eyes capture. Music videos, literature, magazines are a big inspirations as well.
[Cherish in Night Clubbin']
What is your favorite image?
I couldn't pick just one.
Tell us why it's your fave and how you achieved it?
I love working with Janette and everything we did together. She is one of my favorite models I’ve been collaborating with. She is an artist, a performer, and a friend.
Is there anybody or anything you would love to photograph that you haven't?
I want to photograph a lot more girls, people, anyone who communicates a feeling, a sensation, weather positive or not. People that can tell a storywith their facial and body expressions.
Among the SG models, probably the first one who comes to my mind would now be Vice. I have adored her since I joined the site. Manko is another artist I would love to collaborate with.
I fell in love with her mind, her thoughts, her creativity. She is so inspirational in so many ways. Chunny has intrigued me since always. Or Amina, just to mention another one.
[Lass in English Sunset]
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Suicide Girls Are Unique, Strong, Sexy And Confident: Is This YOU?
by Blogbot
SuicideGirls and Inked Girls magazine are teaming up for a super special competition to find the Inked SuicideGirl Of The Year. The winner will receive:
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- Travel around the world, all expenses paid for 1 year to promote SuicideGirls at conventions and events
To enter, complete this SG model application and in the "referred by" section write “Inked SuicideGirl”.
You can enter the competition anytime between April 2, 2012 and August 31, 2012 at 11:59 PST. You must be 18 & over to be eligible. Please make sure your local laws allow you to pose nude before applying. Must be comfortable appearing nude in photos. The finalists’ application photos will appear on a cobranded site and will be voted on by the public. Voting starts September 1, 2012 and ends September 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM PST. Winners will be announced October 15, 2012.
Please click here to read full contest rules and disclosures.
Good Luck!
XOX
Ps. Existing SuicideGirls are eligible for entry, they must e-mail modelcoordinator@suicidegirls.com with the subject "Inked SuicideGirl of the Year". The e-mail must contain full first and last name, SG name, email address, DOB, how many tattoos they have, and three (3) photos to constitute an entry.
