In Which I Receive a Drake Tattoo and Realize I No Longer Give a Shit About...
In Which I Receive a Drake Tattoo and Realize I No Longer Give a Shit About Drake
View ArticleKomp-LaintDept.Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, Part II
On the convention floor, Detroit, 1980. Photo via Landov "Ronald Reagan and the conceptual auto disaster. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (G.P.I.), placing...
View ArticleCanada’s Sex Work Laws Are Dangerous, Racist, and Classist
Terri-Jean and one of her pals. via Facebook. The viciously-debated Terri-Jean Bedford Supreme Court decision will be revealed tomorrow, but some Canadian sex workers are saying that even if all three...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd - Season 1: Sean Malto - Part 2
In part 2 of Sean Malto’s Epicly Later’d, Sean discusses his upbringing as the son of a military father, his decision to stay in Kansas City, and some of the video parts that took him to the top of...
View ArticleI Was a Pornhub Intern for a Day
From left: Madeline, the author, and Amber. Images by the author. Video courtesy of Pornhub. These are dark days for young people in America. According to the Guardian's Jana Kasperkevic, only 63...
View ArticleRiding the Dirty Dog
These photos are from Bobby Abrahamson’s 2001 road trip across the US by Greyhound bus. His book One Summer Across America documents his coast-to-coast journey. All photos by Bobby Abrahamson. In the...
View ArticleIs the East Mediterranean the Next Front in the War on Terror?
A poster advocating against the extradition of accused Turkish terrorists back to their home country, where their supporters believe they'll face imprisonment and torture because of their political...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: The Top Five Most Racist Moments of 2013
Photo by Nate Miller It has been a banner year in many respects. We saw some amazing films released (I'm looking at you, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone), and one of the great TV dramas of all time...
View ArticleThis Guy Thinks All Pro Sports Are Rigged
Photo courtesy of Brian Touhy What do Super Bowl III, the 2012 Olympic badminton tournament, the 2011 Cricket World Cup semifinals, and the 2012 Manny Pacquiao–Timothy Bradley fight have in common?...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Year 2013
Everyone in the world is turning into an entitled psychopath, which led to a massive surplus in the 2013 cry-baby market. It was a crowded field out there this year, and while it's true that all of...
View ArticleAn Incomplete List of Things That Are Not Actually “Hacking”
An Incomplete List of Things That Are Not Actually “Hacking”
View ArticleIf You Know What's Good For You, Don't Speak Creole in Quebec
From a protest for and against the Charter of Values. via Flickr. Quebec’s French language police are up to their old xenophobic tricks again. This time, two people were speaking Haitian Creole—which...
View ArticleIs Vancouver the Bitcoin Capital of Canada?
Why must all tech crazes borrow from The Matrix's aesthetic? via the Bitcoin sub-Reddit. If you have an internet connection, you’ve likely heard about bitcoin. If you have an internet connection in...
View ArticleNeither Big nor Easy: Elementary School Kids Review Retro Jazz, Creole Punk,...
Some of my former students on the cover of an album they made. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I’ve worked in an after-school and summer program teaching an English class I devised that utilizes...
View ArticleAtlanta's Subway Elevators Are Now Armed with Pee Detectors
Screencaps from WSB-TV News, via The Atlanta Journal Constitution The number of places you can pee in public in Atlanta just got reduced by 111 with the announcement of urine detection devices (UDDs)...
View ArticleCharles Bukowski Would Not Have Gotten Drunk in a Bukowski-Themed Bar
Charles Bukowski was a drunk. Not just a drunk, but the drunk. Nearly two decades after his death, he remains the patron saint of drunks. That being the case, naming a bar after him makes sense. It's...
View ArticleBound & Down: Lupe Fiasco's Foray into the Art World
Bound & Down: Lupe Fiasco's Foray into the Art World
View ArticleChatting with Two Exiled Dissident Bahraini Politicians
Jawad Farooz holding a poster in Bahrain. It’s been over a year since the Bahraini government cancelled the citizenship of of Jalal Farooz and his brother Jawad, both former leaders of the country's...
View ArticleVICE Special: Apocalypse, Man - Teaser
A lot of people’s first exposure to Michael C. Ruppert was with the 2009 documentary Collapse, directed by Chris Smith. An ex-LAPD officer who left the force after claiming that the CIA were complicit...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: The Monster in 'Mysterious Skin'
Image by Courtney Nicholas Greg Araki’s film Mysterious Skin (2006) is an adaptation Scott Heim's novel about two eight-year-old boys in Kansas who are molested by their baseball coach. The movie...
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