If Maila Nurmi had never created her alter ego, Vampira, I wouldn't know how to act, dress or put on make-up. As the Misfits sang: “Two inch nails, micro waist, with a pale white feline face, inclination eyebrows to there.” Nor would it have been as cool to be into all the weird, spooky, horror show stuff that I’ve loved since childhood. We all need role models, and without mine, I would have been......

Former major leaguer Mark Littel doesn't have balls of steel, but he's got a product that would convince you otherwise. Watch as he takes a direct hit in his, um, strike zone from a pitching machine. On purpose. Without flinching. Littel is promoting the Nutty Buddy as the best athletic cup known to man. He's sunk $40,000 of his own money into the project (designed with the help of a couple golf balls and......

It started simply with a camerashy young lady who wrote the lyrics of the Daft Punk smash hit on her fingers and let them be the stars of the video (as seen after the jump). But now two other young women have taken to writing the lyrics on their bodies. And if that weren't enough they put boxes on their heads to appear to look like robots - something the dj's do themselves. The......

- Only a few thousand of the 15,000 expected marchers showed up to the Immigration Rights March In Hollywood. - Last night in Mid-City a suspected drunk driver crashed his SUV and was thrown from his car at Washington and Cochran. The SUV then caught fire. - Scoooooooore! U.S. Beats Mexico to Win Soccer's Gold Cup. - A water pipe broke today at LAX causing fire sprinklers to wash down hundreds of travelers at......

Wearing a slimfit, pin-striped pantsuit, and a giant, gold medallion, Joan Wasser, the prolific NYC singer-songwriter who performs as Joan As Police Woman, made a rare, solo, appearance last night at the Hotel Café in support of her new record Real Life, out now on indie-friendly label Cheap Lullaby Records. Switching and bewitching between piano and guitar, she cast all variety of soul-punk voodoo on the captivated crowd. Her voice -- like Chrissie Hynde......

- 13,000 Edison and 63,000 DWP customers have no power. You're not alone. - Calling 3-1-1 is pretty much useless with a surge of calls. We've been on hold for over a half hour. If you have a true fire emergency and 9-1-1 is also a hold, call the Operations Command Dispatch at 1-800-688-8000 (this is the 9-1-1 fire). However DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN EMERGENCY. - It......

Carolyn Kellogg, previous editor of LAist, heads up Metroblogging Pittsburgh while she works on her MFA 19,215 dogs and cats were euthanized last year by the Department of Animal Services. It was a drop from the previous year, but General Manager Ed Boks is dreaming of a no-kill city Purple Line, Purple Line, Purple Line! Until the Purple Line takes us from 3rd St. Promenade to LACMA in 14 whole minutes, maybe this site will......

Memo to Women Everywhere: Skinny, cigarette-leg jeans DO NOT LOOK GOOD ON EVERYONE! In fact, they look good on almost no one except size 0 supermodels, but those women would look good covered in elephant dung and wearing burlaps sacks. Skinny jeans are best suited for slim-hipped boyish figures. If you have hips and an ass, skinny jeans won't generally look good on you. Yeah, I'm talking to you. The chick whose wide hips......