Email Author Gendy Alimurung

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published June 16, 2011

  "Bad Lunch"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Parents, Be Very Nervous"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Coming (Back) to America"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Interview with a Corpse"

• 2012 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 12, 2012

  "The Death of Film"

• 2012 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Never Grow Up"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published March 11, 2010

  "The Fight of His Life"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "The Man Who Wants Another 'Life'"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 22, 2010

  "Maggots and Aliens and Clowns, Oh My"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2010

  "Giddyup"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 11, 2010

  "The Fight of His Life"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Man on Man"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 17, 2009

  "Man on Man"

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2009 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

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  Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Update: It's Here! What Star Wars Fans Want, Star Wars Fans Get

  published Nov 10, 2009

  They did it! They made the damned thing: the Tauntaun sleeping bag is a reality. If you remember, the sleeping bag started as an April Fool's joke by the people at ThinkGeek. Demand was so intense the... More >>

• Machine Project's LACMA Takeover: From Bizarre Idea, To Reality, To Book

  published Nov 09, 2009

  Hey, remember when Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of Artr And they had that glowing unicorn under the Japanese Pavilionr And Holly Vesecky made that replica of Sam Francis's p... More >>

• The Nose Cosy: Suffer a Cold Nose or Look Like a Freakr You Decide

  published Nov 04, 2009

  Last week I did an interview with the blogging genius behind "crafts gone wrong" blog Kraftomatic. Soon after, she posted about these: Nose Cozies. "In my humble yet obsessive opinion, this is the bes... More >>

• The Seven Rules of Vampire Hunting...from a "Real" Vampire Hunter

  published Nov 03, 2009

  Every now and then, a reader comment just blows my mind. Do you remember my vampire hunting kits roundup from a few weeks agor Someone claiming to be an honest to god, "real" vampire hunter emailed me... More >>

• Attention Book Fetishists: Clothbound Penguin Classics Are Here

  published Nov 02, 2009

  The much-anticipated cloth-bound editions of Penguin classic books are finally out in the US. They are designed by Penguin senior designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Instead of the usual stodgy painting ... More >>

• Dead Sexy: Girls and Corpses, a Magazine

  published October 29, 2009

  Robert Rhine used to rent fake corpses to decorate his booth at comic-book conventions, where he would sign his graphic novels... More >>

• Too Much Love: Alex Sanchez's Bail Hearing

  published October 29, 2009

  Some weeks after Alex Sanchez was arrested on federal charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder, his younger... More >>

• Las Hijas Goticas de Zapatero: Spanish Prime Minister's Goth Daughters on Facebook, or Your Easiest Halloween Costume

  published Oct 28, 2009

  The Spanish prime minister's daughters dressed goth for their White House photo op last month. The photo went viral from the White House's Flickr photostream, and the world laughed. Spain has not yet ... More >>

• Does Your Tramp Stamp Glow In The Darkr Black Light Tattoos

  published Oct 27, 2009

  Did you know that you can get tattoos that glow under UV lightr The tattoos are invisible in normal light (minus the possible scarring from the tattoo procedure itself). They've been around for a deca... More >>

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  Craft Gone Bad: Boob Scarves, Cat Ties & The Wrong Side of Cozy

  published Oct 26, 2009

  Marian Lizzi is 41 years old and lives in Manhattan. By day she is Editor-in-Chief of the Perigee Books imprint at Penguin. By night she does "a bit of standup comedy" and explores the wide wrong worl... More >>

• Shark Cupcakes: Eat or Be Eaten

  published Oct 22, 2009

  I ran into these scary beauties swimming around the Internet. Apparently these shark cupcakes are made of Twinkie-halves, icing, and red fruit leather. The fins are Famous Chocolate Wafer cookies. The... More >>

• Anarchists Unite

  published October 22, 2009

  How many anarchists did it take to organize the recent Southern California Anarchist Conference? No one is really sure. Not... More >>

• Premium Marbled Beef...Pillow: The Meat Is So Soft

  published Oct 21, 2009

  I don't know much about this Beef Pillow. I don't know that there is much you need to know except that it's a pillow. Shaped like beef. It's on sale at Etsy for $42 (originally fifty bucks). It ships ... More >>

• Truly Terrifying Fashion Accessories: Reid Peppard's Rodent Taxidermy Jewelry

  published Oct 20, 2009

  Reid Peppard makes accessories out of taxidermy. Like this, uh, guinea pig (r) hair comb. Peppard also makes rat bowties ("black leather bowtie with medium white rat head" and blue Swarovski crystal e... More >>

• Pig Speakers...from Japan (where elser)

  published Oct 19, 2009

  From I.D.E.A. Label, these ceramic pigs are not piggy banks. They are piggy speakers. It looks like they have analog cable hookups (not USB). Which means they are old school porcine speakers. They cos... More >>

• Pork Cracker Jack by Susan Feniger: Fried Pig With Popcorn

  published Oct 13, 2009

  At Allee Willis's party at Ghetto Gloss several weeks ago, Susan Feniger made a caramelly version of Cracker Jack with sunflower seeds, Boston baked bean candy, and salty pork. Pork. Pork. Pork. You'd... More >>

• The Junk Man’s Daughter

  published October 8, 2009

  A small selection of Allee Willis’ kitsch collection showed recently at Ghettogloss gallery on Melrose Avenue. She... More >>

• Signs of the Times at UCLA

  published October 8, 2009

  Students, faculty and staff at all 10 UC campuses walked out of class and work last week on the first day of school to protest... More >>

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  Louis Vuitton Logo Extrapolation Ridiculousness: Mexican Houses, Trash Bags, Machine Guns & Tattooed Pigs

  published Oct 07, 2009

  The famous Louis Vuitton logo was introduced in the late 19th century as a way to prevent counterfeiting of the company's designer luggage. Ironically, it's now the most counterfeited brand in fashion... More >>

• Memento Mori for Your Butt: The Skeleton Chair

  published Oct 05, 2009

  Look at these skeleton back Chippendale chairs. So great. Spotted over at DesignSponge. They have a little interview with the creators, Wary Meyers. They got me thinking about skeletons as furniture... More >>

• Vampire Hunting Kits: Travel-Sized Boxes of Pain & Vengeance

  published Oct 01, 2009

  There's something so quaint and tidy about a kit for eradicating evil. Some of these vampire hunting kits are "authentic." Some were assembled by artists aiming to capture the antique beauty of the th... More >>

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  Natalia Fabia House Tour: Hookers, Pink, & Chandeliers

  published Sep 30, 2009

  Artist Natalia Fabia loves hookers and the color pink. (Click here to read about her last Hooker Pageant.) She lives in a bungalow in Glendale and recently opened up her house to the LA Weekly for a s... More >>

• Star Trek TNG Light-Switch Plates: To Boldy Nerd Where No Nerd has Nerded Before

  published Sep 28, 2009

  Nerd muchr On the ThinkGeek website, the description of these light and power-outlet wall switches mentions LCARS. If you know without googling exactly what LCARS is, you also probably already have th... More >>

• Monte Cristo Deathmatch! The Sickest Sandwich of All Time

  published Sep 24, 2009

  What do you do when you can't decide whether to eat a ham and cheese sandwich, a fried turkey leg, or a powdered jelly doughnutr You eat a Monte Cristo. This artery-clogging devil of sandwiches is the... More >>

• Audrey Tautou, After Amelie

  published September 24, 2009

  Audrey Tautou takes a seat on the garden patio of a room at the Four Seasons Hotel, slips off her ballet flats. Her new movie,... More >>