Snopes, Redux
In the spirit of full frontal disclosure, as I like to call it, the following is something I’ve published before, in a pamphlet written for The New Press in 2004 called Schwarzenegger Syndrome:...
View ArticleGavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: The Scent of Freshly Mown Binary
Not many people have been wondering why the internet doesn’t have a nose. But some have. Among them: Amy Radcliffe, a design student at Central St. Martins in London. She is working on a machine that...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from the Uzbek and Tajik Conflict in Afghanistan
Ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks fought in the streets with sticks and stones for several hours in the northern Afghan city of Taloqan on Saturday before the violence escalated to gunfire, leaving three...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: We'll Need to See Some ID, Officer
Photo via Flickr user fdecomite Welcome back to Bad Cop Blotter, our weekly news roundup that compiles instances of cops behaving like assholes and the occasional instance of an officer actually...
View ArticleThe Exclusive Premiere of Autopsy's "The Headless Ritual"
The Exclusive Premiere of Autopsy's "The Headless Ritual"
View ArticleShould Trans People Have to Disclose Their Birth Gender Before Sex?
The author. It’s now against the law to suck dick if you have a dick and you don’t tell the dick you’re sucking that you have a dick. Or if you used to have a dick. Or if you have a pussy when they...
View ArticleNick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #91
Dear Sequential Graphics Enthusiasts, My name is Nicholas and this is my weekly column for VICE, in which I share news, images, and reviews pertaining to comics, books, illustration, fine art, and...
View ArticleKitty Litter
Photo via Wikimedia. It started in my limbs and made its way up my ribcage, until everything tingled. I was at Electric Zoo and had just popped a molly. My teeth ached from smiling. I chewed my gum...
View ArticleWhite Trash
Illustrations by Cristina Peral I didn’t mean to make a baby with Scott in the closet, on ecstasy, the floor pulsing to the bass of the house music, strobe lights flickering through the crack under...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Homeopathy Fanatics Protested in London
A bunch of people into homeopathy protesting outside the Advertising Standards Agency. I’ve always envied reporters who cover big protests. The protests I end up at never seem quite in the same...
View ArticleRomania's Fish Aren't Being Asphyxiated, Just Poisoned
Photos via Bogdan Balaban Remember that time thousands of dead birds fell out of the sky above Arkansas? Well, nature is back on the warparth. In May, reports emerged of thousands of dead fish...
View ArticleCanada Day in Ottawa Is a Sloppy Experience
Canada Day is all about getting absolutely shit-faced and proving that Canadians have their own, albeit relatively soft, identity. We aren’t just America Junior! In the nation’s capital, Canada Day is...
View ArticleMachetes and Motorbikes at Mali's Sangue-Mo Fishing Festival
Unless your ideal vacation involves drinking far too much in a dirty brothel, there aren't many reasons to visit San, a town in the Ségou region of Mali. In fact, most guidebooks actively tell you to...
View ArticleRubber Bullets Fly Outside the Confederations Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro
On Sunday, Brazil's national men’s soccer team dismantled defending World Cup champions Spain 3–0 in the final of the Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro. In a soccer-crazed country like Brazil,...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Phoenix Released a New Music Video with The Creators...
As if shooting a music video for a world-famous band isn't nerve-racking enough, the filmmaking collective CANADA upped the ante for Phoenix's "Trying to Be Cool," released today by The Creators...
View ArticleWhy Did Toronto's Pride Parade Shut Out the World's Largest Trans March?
Photos by Michael Toledano This weekend, after years of fighting for the right to be seen and heard, thousands of people took to Yonge St. in the largest Trans March of all time. This wasn't the...
View ArticleThe Calgary Flood Has Inspired Some Terrible Songs
Marc Martel. Singer of the Calgary Flood's "unofficial anthem." via Flickr user flamesworddragon. Natural disasters have a tendency to bring people closer together, particularly when that togetherness...
View ArticleFinancial Domination Is a Very Expensive Fetish
A selection of webcam photos of Cleo, the financial dominatrix. Being a financial dominatrix is a lot like being an accountant. Except for the fact that people masturbate over your penny-watching and...
View ArticleRevisiting the Battlefields of Afghanistan 12 Years Later
On a starless night, just a few weeks after 9/11, I stood shivering with a handful of other journalists on the banks of the Amu Darya River. We were waiting for a raft operated by Russian soldiers to...
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