Me on bicycles, The Groundlings Theatre, being bald, finding fame, and wacky accents:

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/naomi-grossman-american-horror-storys-pepper-talks-about-her-long-journey-in-comedy-and-her-role-now-on-fxs-hit-show

What are YOU afraid of? Here's what scares (scared) me, Michael Chiklis,Wes Bentley, Gabourey Sidibe, and James DuMont:

http://www.eonline.com/videos/227063/american-horror-story-stars-reveal-worst-fears

NM friends & fam: Snag me a copy of New Mexico Entertainment, will ya?

Non-NMers can read the article here: http://www.nmentertains.com/#!the-5/c16md

I'll grab it from you when I'm there for Santa Fe Comic Con next week!  http://santafecomiccon.com

I believe! But then, I'm just a pinhead.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-theory-every-season-connected.html?mid=facebook_vulture

Actors looking ugly. Look who tops the list:

http://vos.lavoz.com.ar/galerias/actores-que-se-afean-para-sus-papeles-en-el-cine-o-la-television

Fun (disgusting) behind-the-scenes tid-bit: Remember last week's ep, when we were out in the swap at night, doing that thing? (No spoilers!) Well, they say freaks come out at night… but so do the CHIGGERS! And boy, do they love sweet Pepper! Of course, they couldn't keep from at least trying to stay fabulous, lounging by this French Quarter pool and repulsing everyone...

DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS?!?!

Mom:  Pastor Phil watched the premiere!
Me:  Yes, mom.  10 MILLION viewers did.  Enough to RENEW for a 5TH SEASON ALREADY!
Mom:  Well, isn't that nice. 10 million and 1!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2791375/american-horror-story-renewed-fifth-season-record-10-million-viewers-tune-in.html

Apologies, all. I've worked too hard. It's just gonna have to be like this for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDNHUdFLGEo

I care WAY TOO MUCH about this, I know-- but my IMDb STARmeter has now jumped to #5. Yes, FIIIVE. As in SINGLE DIGIT. Which means, I could get swept up in the tornado outside, and it would be STILL be the best day ever!

https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm1303594/?ref_=sch_int

Love how "astonished" this blogger is… If only she knew me, she'd know this is really just par for the course:

http://www.holymoly.com/tv/pictures/geeks-and-freaks-american-horror-story-freak-show-premiere70850

Enjoying being the creamy center of a quadruple-decker celeb sandwich. I always have wanted to be on top of Ryan Gosling. Delicious!

PerezHilton.com approves! Made me cover of the story!

http://perezhilton.com/2014-10-10-american-horror-story-freak-show-what-the-cast-looks-like-in-real-life

'Twas a SPELLBINDING day today at the ‪#‎NOLACoven‬ DVD Release Event! Loved seeing the Coven mansion and all that witchy couture (and pretending I'd won Lou Eyrich's Emmy). The best part: WATCHING FREAK SHOW EP 2. JUST YOU WAIT FOR WEDNESDAY!!!

#NOLACoven FANS: you're in for a treat! DVD/Blu-ray Release Event TOMORROW!!! Q&A with cast, then I'll introduce a special advance screening of AHS: Freak Show Ep 2! Enter the Coven @ Buckner Mansion (1410 Jackson Ave., New Orleans); 11:45AM TOMORROW. Email: Rsvp.foxhomeent@gmail.com (subject line "Coven Behind the Scenes").

DON'T CHA WISH YOUR GIRLFRIEND WAS A FREAK LIKE ME?! Thanks, wholly, to the AHS SPFX makeup & hair team, without whom Wednesday's freak orgy would not have been possible. That's right... FREAK ORGY. If you missed Wednesday's premiere, GET YOUR FREAK ON ALREADY!!!

AND HERE I'D WORRIED NOBODY WOULD WATCH!!! Last night's premiere of AHS drew 6.127 MILLION viewers and a 3.1 rating among adults 18-49. That’s up 10% from the 5.54 million who watched Coven's debut last year (making it a series viewership high), as well as a 3% rise in ratings.

http://deadline.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-ratings-freak-show-premiere-848649/

My life philosophy, secret to fearlessness, and nail color preferences, all revealed here:

http://www.julep.com/blog/more-pepper-please/ 
Shout-outs to Julep & Mint Uptown Salon!

Oh yes!!! I like it on top!

WOOOHOO! JUST GOT WRAPPED IN TIME TO WATCH! WHO IN NOLA HAS CABLE AND WANTS TO HOST ME AND THE BAND OF FREAKS?!

Yup, this is how I look. Since 1990, y'all!

http://www.ibtimes.com/american-horror-story-season-4-what-actress-who-plays-pepper-looks-real-life-photos-1700715

Made Fox News' "Pic of the Day!"

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/slideshow/2014/10/07/fox411-pic-day/

TooFab says, "But there was one 'AHS' regular who really stole the show, thanks to her dramatic dress and her almost unrecognizable appearance." I don't know about you, but I believe EVERYTHING entertainment gossip blogs say!

http://www.toofab.com/2014/10/06/american-horror-story-freak-show-premiere-pepper-photos/#sthash.31dXF7Gj.dpufhttp://www.toofab.com/2014/10/06/american-horror-story-freak-show-premiere-pepper-photos/

Quoting the Daily Star:

"American Horror Story star Naomi Grossman should be as big as Beyoncé by the end of the week."

Thank you, Natalia Fedner Design, for "one of the most eye-popping (frocks) we've seen since Rihanna's diamond slip."  I "managed to pull it off!"

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/403565/American-Horror-Story-Naomi-Grossman-in-naked-dress

PEPPER'S BACK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOaNNFdxK8

HOLY SHITE! THEY CLOSED DOWN HOLLYWOOD BLVD FOR US! I JUST GOT MAULED BY A BAZILLION CAMPED-OUT KIDS!

Packing for our Red Carpet Premiere! What hair (or no hair!) should I wear???

Made #4 of the "5 Most Amazing Moments in the new 'AHS: Freakshow' Trailer!"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/american-horror-story-freak-show-exclusive-trailer#2af57lb

DID YOU SEE ME IN THIS TRAILER?!? TWICE!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0ku41tGeQ

Look what Jessica Lange did yesterday when she threw me to the floor in a fit of acting-fury! I just hope it scars so I can cherish it forever!!

Pepper Pretty in my new painting! @ The Alamo City Comic Con

This gentleman got pulled over with a Pepper head hanging from his rear view, and HIS TICKET WAS GREATLY REDUCED!

SAN ANTONIO: If all goes as planned, I'll see y'all this weekend at the Alamo City Comic Con!

http://alamocitycomiccon.com

First post-EW announcement interview IN SPANISH! Todo lo que quieran saber (y que yo pueda decir), está aquí:

http://ahsargentina.blogspot.com.ar/2014/09/super-mega-increible-entrevista-de-ahs.html

First post-EW announcement interview! Everything I can say (about "Freak Show"), I say here:

http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-naomi-grossman-on-pepper-freak-show-and-scary-gorgeous-season

Finally, after a week of scouring newsstands chock-full of "Cupcake Quarterly" and "Concealed Weapon Digest," I uncovered a rare copy of last week's "Entertainment Weekly" here in "Hollywood South!" Page 77 made the search all worth it.

THIS BLOGGER'S DONE LOST HER MIND:

"The upcoming season of AHS will focus on …Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Chiklis, Patti LaBelle, Dennis O’Hare, Matt Bomer, and, best of all, Naomi Grossman reprising her role from season 2’s Asylum as Pepper."

WHAAAAA??? "BEST OF ALL, NAOMI GROSSMAN?!"  BUT NOTHING IS BETTER THAN MATT BOMER! NOTHINGGGGG!!!

http://www.bustle.com/articles/40202-american-horror-story-freak-shows-new-poster-isnt-creepy-until-you-take-a-second-look

I don't have any tattoos. BUT I now know of 2 people with tattoos OF me. (That makes me a little bit in-the-clique, right?) Here's the most recent:

Here we go again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4eFNojcRj8

BEST part about a prequel: I CAN'T DIE!

http://www.eonline.com/news/562755/american-horror-story-freak-show-bringing-fan-favorite-asylum-character-back

So, I've had this little secret since March, been living it since July, but not until I just now saw it in print, did I REALLY get all the implications: 'In a decision Murphy says the producers thought "long and hard about," Pepper will be the first "AHS" character from a previous season to return to the show.'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/pepper-ahs-freak-show_n_5806010.html

AT LAST!!! I can stop lying to you people! I'm living in New Orleans and am bald as a cucumber!

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/11/american-horror-story-freak-show-pepper/

Funny, this Lebanese publication appears to have covered up my "cleavage" (as if it were in the least bit titillating)! I wonder if they kept any of the interview...

Wrote this very silly, semi-autobiographical short, now playing at a film festival!

http://www.theunitedfest.com/events/4-point-oh/

WHAT: 4 POINT OH?! Screening @ the LA United Film Festival
WHEN: Sunday, September 7th @ 4pm
WHERE: Vintage Cinemas Los Feliz 3 (1822 N Vermont Ave, LA, CA 90027)

RIP Joan Rivers/TBT: Will never forget watching the Joan Rivers documentary, "A Piece of Work," in which she takes her one-woman show from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to London's West End… just one year before I did, and to the EXACT SAME THEATRE (pictured below) where I'd mounted mine. Seeing her panic backstage (the same backstage where I'd once panicked) as the audience filed in was surreal and awesome. What a loss! :(

Who knew these interviews would be a marathon, not a sprint??

http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/articles/10472-interview-with-pepper-naomi-grossman-from-american-horror-story?Itemid=101

Walked into a gay bar this weekend... You'd have thought Judy Garland and Babs and Liza were all matrixed together and reincarnated in lil' ol' me! The place ERUPTED into "The Name Game"-- suddenly my face was on every screen-- I was surrounded by hot, shirtless hunks clapping, singing, dancing, taking video (like this one)... Leave it to the gays to make a girl feel FAAABULOUS!!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152427393418802&l=8778265190426726074

Check me out on the Food Network: Sun, Oct 5, 9pm ET/PT, as I guest judge the SEASON PREMIERE of "Halloween Wars!"

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/MM96773.htm

I'm late to the Emmy party, I know. Still, couldn't be more proud of the company I keep: Jessica, Kathy, Ryan… Watched "The Normal Heart" on a plane this weekend-- went from apologizing for the gay sex I unknowingly forced upon my row-mates, to unabashedly SOBBING. Sooooo good. Lest we forget my fellow NU alumni winners & host: Julia Louise-Dreyfus, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers... For my sake, let's hope birds of a feather flock together!!!

Late Saturday night, after my event in CT, I received the following email. I'm always so moved when someone's interested in my work PRE-Pepper… Because it's all me-- without the A-list names or bazillion dollar budget. Just what makes me laugh, or think, and can be created on a sad, little, Spanish teacher-salary. I received his email just in time…. and he drove into the night, 45 minutes back to where I was to pick up my DVDs.

Met nothing but crazy-cool, creative, talented, generous, super-fans at today's CT HorrorFest!

In case any of my east coast peeps missed the memo, and can steal away this weekend:

https://www.facebook.com/events/219247778276170/

Jet-setting to Connecticut for the day: Saturday, Aug. 23! East-coasters: Play with me!!

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/arts/hc-ctn-horrorfest-0814-20140812,0,5847634.story

SURELY you all subscribe to "Girls and Corpses Magazine" and read my freaky, new interview:

Had a blast at MonsterCon in South Carolina this weekend (as documented here by the Sci-Fi Photo Guys). Thanks for your southern hospitality!

STAR-STRUCK to meet Christine!!

Just when I thought I'd seen it all… A Pepper fan with Pepper Vans!

http://monstercon.org

Get your freak on! Check out my interview in the new, freaky, summer issue of Girls and Corpses Magazine!

http://www.girlsandcorpses.com/

FALTAN 90 MINUTITOS PARA LA FINAL!!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152319880808802&l=7905229270122838619

FUNDED! IN JUST ONE WEEK!! BIG thank-you to all who backed "The Chair"'s relaunched kickstarter. Now for some stretch goals! At this point, any reward you pledge for, you get! Just a $1 minimum!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petersimeti/the-chair-a-dark-disturbing-and-gritty-death-row-h

I interrupt my World Cup coverage to share this breaking news! Tony Rocco Vinton-Spatafora got me into a kitchen!!! Where we (he)... COOKED something! (He lured me in with cameras.) See it to believe it, right here on "Dish It Out!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4cptckK00w&sns=tw

Throwback Thursday: Never so sad (or fat) as the day I moved back from Argentina. LA AMO, Y LA FELICITO!!!

Even on my laziest Halloween ever, (really, Naomi? Jersey & unrelated wig? WHO ARE YOU?!) I was still at least HINCHA ARGENTINAAAAAA!!!

FORÇA, CORAGEM, E CONFIANÇA, BRASIL! PODE, SIM!!

Paying for all that beef and beer I gorged on this holiday weekend.

VOLVEREMOS A SER CAMPEONES, COMO EN EL '86!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152312988343802&l=552431013162206487

Don't get me wrong-- I'm a regular Yankee Doodle Dandy today-- but I also must wish Brazil GOOD LUCK! (Yes, I'm taking all credit. These pics are TOTALLY WORKING!!)

ThrowbackThursday: Mi 1er partido de fútbol, en la cancha de Taaaaalleres ;)

If I didn't already drive a completely ridiculous, hot pink convertible...

Serâo amuleto da sorte estas fotos? Nâo sei, mas sou supersticiosa demais pra comprovar! VAI BRASIL!!

OLÉ, OLÉ, OLÉ, OLÉEEEE!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152284477183802&l=1115234789350974760

GOOOOOL, URUGUAY! Jesús y yo te queremos también!!

Suiting up for more World Cup… VAI BRASIL!!!