I didn’t know this previously, but apparently Dakota Culkin, Macaulay’s sister, was leaving Marina del Rey bar Brennan’s when she was hit by a car and killed on December 9. She was also apparently trashed.

Culkin, 29, had traces of alcohol in her system, Corral said, although it wasn’t immediately known what her blood alcohol level was. Culkin, who had recently moved to L.A. to pursue a career in film production, had reportedly just left a Marina Del Rey bar before she crossed the street and was hit.

Culkin’s family also indicated to investigators that she’d been going to therapy for alcohol addiction, Corral said.

OMG, the hours I clocked at Brennan’s when I lived in LA … they race turtles there on Wednesday nights. I’m not kidding. You rent a turtle for $1 (or bring your own!) and then the turtles have little race heats and you cheer on your turtle while getting out of your mind wasted. I mean, there’s not really a way to watch turtle races and not drink.

I lived about a mile and a half from Brennan’s, and I still never drove myself. I called a cab or had a DD. I knew how messed up everyone gets at Brennan’s. It is a get fucked up kind of bar. But I never worried about getting too drunk to cross the street. Wow.

BE CAREFUL out there, kids!!

Denise Richards and Ron Jeremy get close at a Sundance after party.

I went over to my mom’s tonight to watch American Idol, but she first made me watch Big Bang Theory, which is like her favorite show in the world. Honestly my mom is slowly turning into an old person, and I can tell because she says things like, “Oh, I just love this show. I laugh at it every week.” And it reminds me of this old nanny we used to have who had to put us down for our naps by noon exactly so that she could watch her “stories.” And if we refused to nap we would have to come sit very, very quietly on the couch while she watched the soaps. “Miss Marie just loves her stories,” she would tell us, and my mom talks about Big Bang Theory using the same tone of voice. Anyway, Big Bang Theory actually turns out be quite hilarious, despite the involvement of both Kaley Cuoco and the guy who dated Darlene on Roseanne.

There is a point here, and the point is that, at the end of Big Bang Theory, my mom was like, “Now we have to watch CNN for a minute. I have to see what dress Michelle wore to the ball.” Now, this is coming from a former bra-burner who refuses to wear makeup and didn’t change her last name when she got married. That is when I knew officially that the entire world cared about this dress.

So … what do we think?

Whoops! Shia LaBeouf has finally had his license suspended after his refusal to take a Breathalyzer test following the July car crash that left his hand mangled.

The Eagle Eye star had his driver’s license suspended Saturday, a result of his refusal to take a Breathalyzer test when he was busted on suspicion of driving under the influence following a July car crash, a DMV official tells E! News.

“It was suspended for refusing a chemical test,” the official said, noting that, even though LaBeouf was cleared of any DUI charges after it was determined that the other driver caused his smashup, the suspension was “automatic.”

California law states that a person’s license can be suspended for up to one year if he/she refuses to take a blood, breath or urine test for a suspected DUI.

I hope Shia’s suffered enough consequences from this that he’ll think twice before he gets behind the wheel drunk.

This will end well:

LA: I don’t drink anymore.

DH: You’ve stopped for good?

LA: I’ve stopped for the foreseeable future.

DH: Was the drink getting out of control?

LA: No. I just decided that I didn’t want to give people ammunition to write things about me. I mean, I’ll just take cocaine now without any alcohol. [laughs]

DH: I’ve tried. It’s a nightmare. You become a jibbering wreck.

LA: God, I can’t imagine what that must be like.

DH: Yeah, it’s stupid. It’s the most horrible thing in the world. You’re just totally wired. And because everyone else around you is drinking and you’re not, it makes you really want to drink. But you don’t drink, so you just have more cocaine, which makes you more wired, and then everyone else sort of crashes out, and you say, “I hate myself.”

Old pals Damien Hirst and Lily Allen chat about the best-laid substance-abuse plans in the new issue of Interview.

Yeah. There are pubes. Lots and lots o’ pubes.

Check out the uncensored versions and get the back-story here.

So obviously my knee-jerk reaction to this is “ewwww” and is also a little concerned about these ads in a company that markets largely to a teenage demo. I mean, this girl barely even looks 18.

Does this signal a change in marketing approaches in America? Is American Apparel spearheading a positive tide-change away from traditional American conservatism? Or is this just bad news bears?

I wanna hear your thoughts.