Into the Weird: Hurricanes and Projectile Vomiting Painkillers
Hurricane shutters on the author's childhood home. Thank you for the kind words about my last column on alcoholism. A few of you were assholes, but I’ve been an asshole enough times to deserve it....
View ArticleComic-Con 2013 Cosplay Photo Dump
Comic-Con is a special time of the year, but not just for sci-fi/fantasy enthusiasts. It's also like Christmas in July for photographers. Every eccentric within a 20 mile radius of Downtown San Diego...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Meet the Legends of the Lower East Side
Photo of Lower East Side legend Cochise by Clayton Patterson. Throughout the past year, Clayton Patterson has written about the crucial figures and courageous artists of the Lower East Side. He...
View ArticleI Went to a Gay Rodeo, and Now I Want to Bone Cowboys
Photo by Josh Sandulak. Canada's Calgary Stampede has never really been my bag. I never manage to get up early enough for free pancake breakfasts, I’m not interested in the midway—I’m afraid of most...
View ArticleAmanda Lucas Fights Her Way Out of Her Father's Shadow
Amanda Lucas Fights Her Way Out of Her Father's Shadow
View ArticlePhiladelphia Is the Scariest Place to Do Comedy
Image via Take My Country Back. It’s a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it’s hard to explain to people how I make a living. In New York, most people...
View ArticleWeediquette: Introducing Our New Weediquette Show
This past week was one of culmination and victory. After weeks of planning, shooting, and dabbing, the first episode of my new Weediquette video series premiered on VICE to great fanfare—including a...
View ArticleThings Nobody Cares About at Comic-Con
Each year, fans, celebrities, and business folk make the trek to San Diego, CA. Often referred to as “Vegas for the Awkwardly Bearded” or “Disneyland for the Affectionately Weird,” it’s easy to fall...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
Trouble in Trappes THERE WERE TWO NIGHTS OF RIOTING IN A PARISIAN SUBURB Police decided to ignore protesters and everything got a bit out of control (via) Two nights of riots in the Paris suburb of...
View ArticleThe Hi-Tech Guide to This Super-Gross Heat Wave
Image: Flickr Today, I arrived at the office for the fourth day in a row covered in a thin film of salty body moisture, huffing like I'd just completed a challenge on a reality show set in a jungle....
View ArticleMy Life Online: Space Barbie
The world knows Valeria Lukyanova as the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll. Controversy has surrounded her every move since her computer-perfect visage went viral last year....
View ArticleThe EDL Spent Saturday Bleeding All Over Birmingham, England
Photos by Lee Harper You might have thought that the English Defence League had already sufficiently exploited Lee Rigby's murder for their own Islamophobic ends. But Tommy Robinson and his merry band...
View ArticleI Spent an Entire Day On the Beijing Subway
Dongzhimen Station at morning peak. If Beijing's subway feeds the city's beating heart, then Line 2 is its circulatory system. Its looped route traces the path once taken by the ancient city walls,...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Routine Raid Terror
A training exercise conducted by the National Guard for US Marshals in Georgia. Photo via the Georgia National Guard's Flickr On Wednesday, a 59-year-old nurse named Louise Goldsberry was in her...
View ArticleComics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #93
Hello Everybody! In this column, I address such topics as comics, illustration, fine art, zines, and things of interest to people who like nerd stuff. I have two large milestones that are looming over...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Opium Plague
The Afghan Drug Problem by the Numbers Afghanistan’s drug story begins with a well-worn fact: the country is the world’s largest producer of poppy opium, the raw material from which heroin is made....
View ArticleSee and Listen to R. Kelly's 38-Song 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival Setlist
See and Listen to R. Kelly's 38-Song 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival Setlist
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