Soon I Will Be Invincible

Soon I Will Be Invincible
by Amelia G : June 30th, 2008
Soon I Will Be Invincible is out this month in paperback from Random House’s Pantheon. The hardcover was my favorite fiction read of last year. Which is saying something because I go through an average of a couple hundred books a year. [...]

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Juno Causes Teen Pregnancy

Juno Causes Teen Pregnancy
by Amelia G : June 29th, 2008
Ivan Reitman directed Ghostbusters and Stripes and produced Heavy Metal, so I’d like to believe that his progeny would be on the side of all that is awesome. His son Jason Reitman adapted Christopher Buckley’s Thank You for Smoking for the screen. I thought [...]

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Verne Troyer Sex Tape Lawsuit

Verne Troyer Sex Tape Lawsuit
by Amelia G : June 28th, 2008
The biggest problem with the astroturfing style of marketing is that it makes everyone very skeptical of everything; it makes it very difficult to believe in anything. If a star willingly gets naked on camera, there will be some puritanical types who will [...]

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Verne Troyer Mini-Me Sex Tape

Verne Troyer Mini-Me Sex Tape
by Amelia G : June 26th, 2008
Today, Blue Blood’s design czar Forrest Black and I rolled over to band manager Jason Fiber’s lovely Hollywood Hills home to do some press on the always-charming and fun Andy LaPlegua. Andy is touring in supporting of the forthcoming Frost EP from Combichrist. So, uhm, [...]

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GNR Chinese Democracy Faith and Astroturf

GNR Chinese Democracy Faith and Astroturf
by Amelia G : June 25th, 2008
I first came across Guns n’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction when I was a teenage metal DJ on the radio in Connecticut.
A little background explanation: I got into doing this gig partly because I’d gone to high school overseas and [...]

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Astroturfing

Astroturfing
by Amelia G : June 25th, 2008
Astroturfing is the word of the week. My brother just told me that one of his model/starfucker friends just called him up to chortle over the word astroturfing. This tells me that it is officially part of the internet lexicon and everybody needs to know the [...]

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Cuddly Rigor Mortis Voodoo for Good Luck

Cuddly Rigor Mortis Voodoo for Good Luck
by Amelia G : June 24th, 2008
I interviewed Kristin Tercek back in 2006 when she was first starting her Cuddly Rigor Mortis line. Since then, she has had a number of her designs mass-produced and distributed. She currently has a series of one-of-a-kind voodoo plushes available and [...]

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Gingerdead Free Candy and Paper Frogs

Gingerdead Free Candy and Paper Frogs
by Amelia G : June 23rd, 2008
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The talented Calan Ree, whose Gingerdead & Friends comic strip I have mentioned here before, wrote about gathering paper frogs this week. According to Calan Ree, paper frogs are these partially translucent, pale, flat, dehydrated amphibians. The frogs apparently get flat [...]

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How To Have a Nonconformist Evolved Intellect

How To Have a Nonconformist Evolved Intellect
by Amelia G : June 22nd, 2008
Since 1992, Blue Blood has been about encouraging people to think critically and not just go along with the herd. My hair is purple and red at the moment. But the hair color is a signifier, not the endgame. What [...]

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Does Anyone Know if Blue Blood Superstar Hottie Jennifer from the Nuns is Okay?

Does Anyone Know if Blue Blood Superstar Hottie Jennifer from the Nuns is Okay?
by Amelia G : June 21st, 2008
So I was chatting with my pal Anders from the band Anders Manga yesterday. I had just been looking at some snapshots of us partying together at a Hollywood hotspot just off Hollywood Blvd. When [...]

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