Most important news today… our very own fabulous, talented and amazing co-founder, Jessica, reached an incredible milestone… DIRTY THIRTY!!!!!!! 
Not only is Jessica the co-creator of Shady, but she’s also health editor for LAist, a writer for the Los Feliz Ledger (dominating the front page every single issue, let’s be real) and just recently became a [...]

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Here’s why you should read this blog, which details my friend Shannah’s trip to Uganda:
If you are going to the latrine in the night, and you are wearing your headlamp so you don’t trip over the cow, it is QUITE LIKELY that you will be followed by a bat. And he will get there first. [...]

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*SPOILER ALERT!!*
OMG, you guys. OMG. Another year until we find out what happened to Bill. I don’t think my poor little heart can handle it.
To recap last night:
We all knew (finally!) that Maryann is a Maenad. And we found out from the vampire queen — played terrifically poorly by Evan Rachel Wood — that Maenads’ [...]

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So, Michael Vick served 19 months in jail for fighting dogs, and Chris Brown gets five years of probation for beating the shit out of Rihanna.
According to CNN, the LA Superior Court Justice who ruled on the case wanted Brown to “stay 50 yards away from Rihanna, 10 yards if the two are at the [...]

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Or does the universe seem utterly bizarre and jacked up right now??? A few of the things that have gone down lately: 
1) My mom’s husband fell and busted his knee
2) Someone I know got urgently and immediately divorced
3) People are breaking up left and right 
4) One of my close friends was hit in the head [...]

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Yogurt is so Good… from Andrea Savage

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There’s this guy, who was arrested for infiltrating the “bubble zone” at a women’s health clinic in Oakland.
The thing is, when you work at Planned Parenthood for long enough - you start to realize that the batshit crazy anti-abortion folk are always going to be that - batshit crazy. And so you kind of start [...]

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Yeah, that’s right. NOTHING. 
Why did I go to the mall today??? I’ve been asking myself this question all afternoon. I was in a completely decent good mood this morning- had some coffee, walked the dogs, saw my girls, and then I went astray. I thought to myself, “What a nice little Sunday, maybe I’ll go [...]

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For several years now, I’ve wanted to unite with my fellow peelers at the Miss Exotic World Pageant, held yearly in Vegas. Well folks, this weekend my dream is about to come true - I’m off to the Orleans to watch the biggest names in burlesque shake what their mommas (and plastic surgeons) gave them! [...]

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Whenever I am plagued by the feeling that a situation passed me by in which I should have said something, I always think of George Costanza. You know? Remember that episode of Seinfeld where, days after an offending remark, (or maybe this happened all the time, I can’t remember) he’s sitting in the car with [...]

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