Upon graduating high school, Pauline was set free to attend the College of Knowledge in Charleston, S.C., graduating with a degree in Beach. She toiled long and hard most of her professional life in MSM and corporate communications until she discovered an escape route down in the basement that led to the creation of the now-defunct website, WaySouth.com. It’s been one non-stop, pajama-media party ever since.

Ms. Ashley-Wilkes currently resides in a crumbling mansion in the posh Buckhead section of Atlanta, but claims she’s no Edie Beale. “I really love to clean house actually and only wore a towel on my head once, when I went north to visit a cousin at Bryn Marw.”

Ashley-Wilkes sites as her influences pretty much everyone—from Emma Goldman to Jeff Foxworthy, and particularly a coupla Bauhaus-playin’ Sigma Nus from New Jersey in the early eighties.

Her two favorite movies are Gone With The Wind and This Is Spinal Tap. Pauline enjoys reading regular Times Select columnists such as Maureen Dowd with a password she stole from a great aunt in Montgomery. (“I gave the silver back though,” Ashley-Wilkes claims in an “incident” report found during a recent Google search.)

Although she doesn’t own an iPod, Pauline still enjoys listening to WRAS 88.5 the old-fashioned way—on the porch with a Vogue magazine and a nice gin and tonic. Atlanta’s infamous traffic conditions agitate her as much as the next person.

Ashley-Wilkes anxiously awaits the release of the new Paul Weller CD, the return of no one in particular to her life, the end of the school year so the PTA moms can’t find her over the long hot summer, and above all, the next shoot for TrueGritz.

And they say Southern culture is dead. Hmmmmph. One happy hour at Wild Bill's with Sas Gordon-Walker and the naysayers will holler to the heavens that The South will rise again. Maybe even this week!

Raised in a genuine Atlanta log cabin now covered in kudzu and horrendous traffic conditions, Ms. Gordon-Walker puts pure sass into every urban renewal effort a Yankee wonk could ever dream of globalizing.

Gordon-Walker, a renowned Elvis fan, has visited Graceland six times and broke a world record by having her photograph made with 24 different Elvis impersonators (both male and female) in a single Saturday. Sas has always had a talent for art, far beyond her hair ratting and spraying. Between hair styling sessions, she spent most of her days growing up drawing, painting, photographing and generally flabberghasting her family & friends. Her artistic inclinations led some of her own people to refer to her as “special, but in a good way.”

Educated at the Art Institute of Atlanta and the prestigious Georgia Southern University, where legend holds that pretty Southern girls become extremely sassy after a keg stand, Gordon-Walker held a range of positions before becoming a professional, including that of White Water lifeguard up on Hwy. 41.

So, not only can Sas give you CPR, she can also fix your car (and then paint it too!). There's a song in that somewhere……