R.A. the Rugged Man Still Hates Every Record Label
R.A. the Rugged Man Still Hates Every Record Label
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The Mercy Rule: The Last Kings of Sacramento
The Maloof brothers and friend. Photo via Rex USA The Maloofs are a large and publicity-hungry family of aggrieved, vain, ripely orange, and quite possibly no-longer-wealthy desert creatures. They’re...
View ArticleVICE on HBO Extended: Grocery Shopping for North Korean Defectors
Thousands of North Koreans cross the border illegally into China every year. Living in constant fear of being discovered, defectors do everything to leave with all odds against them. If they are...
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Obseshes: Punk and Me: A Dissociation Love Story
Photo via Wikimedia Commons It’s very possible that I am your nightmare. I’m a lot of people’s nightmare, I guess, when it comes to this stuff. Even, or maybe especially, here: VICE is, fundamentally,...
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Tips for Having a Successful Celebrity AMA on Reddit
I'm an American, so I have a vested interest in the democratic process and my elected representatives. I'm speaking, of course, about Reddit and celebrities, not the stodgy dorks in Washington. Unlike...
View ArticleThe Biggest Star at the Tribeca Film Festival Was a Weird Little Cat
The Biggest Star at the Tribeca Film Festival Was a Weird Little Cat
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Gary Indiana Has a New Show
Trying to introduce Gary Indiana in any sort of a traditional way is impossible, and writers who attempt that feat do so at their own peril. His career has spanned genres and mediums, and the only...
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Can MDMA Cure PTSD?
MDMA + Funky looking key = No more PTSD? via. Studies have shown that an occasional dose of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, stupid) in tandem with psychotherapy can dramatically improve the...
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Taji's Mahal: Hanging with Slick Eastwood
For this week's Mahal, I was invited to see Slick Eastwood perform his comedy act in Bushwick, Brooklyn. A few days later, Slick and I met up again in Downtown Manhattan to lurk the streets and...
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Remembering the 2003 Blackout, My Most Shameful Night
Photo by stu_spivack, via Flickr I will never forget what happened on August 14, 2003. I know the exact sequence of where I was for every moment of that evening. It was a tragic day, and it’s burned...
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Good News! You Can’t Be Automatically Deported for Sharing Three Joints
Photo via Well, here’s bit of good news from the Supreme Court, a group not generally considered friendly to criminal defendants or recreational drug users: you cannot, it turns out, be automatically...
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Weediquette – Thoughts on the Pothead Terrorist
Photo via Twitter, @J_Tsar. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a piece for Slate in which I told a personal story, much like I often do. That story, however, had a graver agenda. Regrettably, I...
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I Was Kidnapped by a Bulgarian Human Trafficking Ring
Jemal Borovinov. Of the estimated 30 million people trapped in slavery around the world, only about 140,000 of them come from Europe. While that might make some Europeans feel a little better about...
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Terrence Malick’s Crisis of Faith
Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Linear time doesn’t exist for the unnamed Melanesian tribe of the South Pacific that Private Witt find himself surrounded by. Free from the tyranny of the clock,...
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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #86
Dear Comicos, My name is Nicholas Gazin, and this is my weekly comics column for VICE in which I share and discuss news pertaining to comics, illustration, fine art, ephemera, and general nerdery....
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The Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic with a 55-Mile-Long Dam
Spring ice clogs up the Bering Strait, via George Riggs, NASA GSFC As much as we worry about climate change today, a warm, melted Arctic was actually a dream of geo-engineers since at least the 19th...
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My Trip to the Sperm Bank was Anticlimactic
I went to a sperm bank yesterday and learned all about clichés. This wasn’t the original plan. The original plan was to learn about discrimination through sperm donation, but that didn’t really work...
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Watching Your Baseball Team Get Blown Out Is Like Anal Sex
Mets fans know what I'm talking about. Photo via Rex USA As I watched the Cleveland Indians’ wholesale slaughter of the Houston Astros last week (the final score was 19-6), an odd feeling crept over...
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