Native Intelligence: American Girls Gone Wild

American Girls Gone Wild

Erika Schickel • Bio • Email

Sunday afternoon --not much going on. Idleness is the Devil's workshop. With thanks to Franny and Georgia.

Addendum: I'm getting some discomfited email so to explain: This all started when I took my kids to buy candy in a liquor store and they noticed the "dolly-sized" booze bottles on display. We laughed about this idea for a year before we got around to executing it. They helped art direct some of the setups, but they have not been allowed to see the finished product with adult-themed titles. So have no fear, my children were not psychologically damaged in the creation of this layout. One viewer has asked, "What are you teaching your kids?" My reply: irony, humor, creativity and that its okay to mess with and re-purpose corporate mascots. Also, this project engendered a lively discussion of how alcohol addiction ruins people's lives. Good family fun!

Kit Has Writer's Block

Click HERE to see the entire, lurid, debauched set.

September 16, 2007 5:39 PM • Native Intelligence • Email the editor

12:19 AM Sat | City Hall wedding bells

7:24 PM Fri | Angeleno celebrates 10 years

6:59 PM Fri | Be the hardest-working reporter in L.A.

5:59 PM Fri | Manny not going anywhere

5:46 PM Fri | 60% don't want to vote again on marriage

Mega-mortgages

8:44 AM Sat | Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.

Green Me Up, JJ

Jenny Price | Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World

'Sire of Wilshire' is back on the air

TJ Sullivan | Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!

"Ass, Cash or Grass" - I used to be a Swinger

Erika Schickel | She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.

Contributors • RSS feed

A union gumshoe

As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.

Frugality form

Thinking more about buying less.

Signs of Saturday: No dumping

This drains to the ocean.

• City Hall wedding bells
• 60% don't want to vote again on marriage
• Lu Parker, Times pet blogger
• Scribe nominates himself for Lt. Gov
• LAO on KCRW: Optimistic about Beck

All posts in Politics

• Be the hardest-working reporter in L.A.
• 60% don't want to vote again on marriage
• Lu Parker, Times pet blogger
• Mayor hits the Runway
• LAT kills its Vegas blog *

Media people • LA Times • Magazines