Making It a Pain in the Ass to Vote Is the American Way
Why can't we be more like the Russians? They can vote in their fucking swim suits. It’s hard to understand polls. Where do they get their numbers from and why are they so different? They often vary...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: How Do You Feel Now That the Campaign's Over?
Today a bunch of people in the United States of America will stand in line for a while, fill in a selection of bubbles on some sheets of paper, and hand those sheets to someone whose job it is to make...
View ArticleTattoo Age: Valerie Vargas Bonus: A Visit with Lal Hardy
When we filmed the Valerie Vargas Tattoo Age series, she took us to meet the legendary English tattooer Lal Hardy. Lal has been tattooing since 1975 and is generally considered to be one of the people...
View ArticleObama Won, Motherfuckers
You know that guy ain’t shit. Sorry-ass motherfucker ain’t got nothing on me, right? Nothin'
View ArticleWe Think We Found Mitt Romney's Undelivered Victory Speech
Last night, when the world still didn't know who the next President would be, Mitt Romney spoke to journalists while tens of thousands of feet above the Earth on a flight from Pittsburgh to Boston....
View ArticleJefes: Mark Healey
It’s hard to keep up with big-wave surfer Mark Healey. On any given day, he’ll be chasing ocean swell around the world in search of 40-, 50-, or 60-foot breaks, free diving through the reefs near his...
View ArticleWhat the Other Green Party's Election Night Wins Mean
I can almost imagine a younger, surf-glowed Barry Obama torching up some of that fine devil’s cabbage in slow celebration over the turning of history’s tide. One of the more notable stories from...
View ArticleHow Elon Musk WIll Usher in the Era of Electric Cars
There’s a reason why Elon Musk is being called the next Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, he’s a visionary, a super successful serial entrepreneur, having made his initial fortune with a company he sold to...
View ArticleWho Is Zachary German?
Shitty Youth is a new documentary by Adam Humphreys about Zachary German. Zachary is a young author whose novel Eat When You Feel Sad was published when he was 21, and who, as a person, is known to...
View ArticleAn Interview with Todd Falcon
Although skateboarding waves the "No Rules!" flag pretty fervently, I've found that most participants are actually doing exactly the opposite. There's an unwritten dress code that most skateboarders...
View ArticleChunklet to Go Go : Rocking Your Jock: The Wide World of Sports and Where It...
It’s pretty clear to anyone who can chew solid food that the music used to incessantly market professional sports is weighing down the planet with a malignant, corrosive shittiness. Sports have a way...
View ArticleMore Eddy: The End of America as We Knew It
We’re finally done. No more debates, no more speeches, no more ads, no more polls. Now you—you Americans—will vote (or not) and this long, national nightmare will finally be over. It’s been an ugly...
View ArticleJay-Z: 99 Problems but a Mitt Ain’t One
Barack Obama, Jay-Z, and Bruce Springsteen at a rally last night in Columbus, Ohio. Last night, I saw Obama in Columbus with Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z. There's a trio to give you some kind of hope...
View ArticleTalking to the Holy Ghost in Her Bugatti
I'm waiting beneath the tracks of the Belmont L station in Chicago for Meaghan Garvey, a visual artist whose works are interwoven with hip-hop iconography, who DJs under the nom de guerre...
View ArticleI Punched Danzig in the Face
As anybody who has ever tried to listen to the Misfits on YouTube knows, the ubiquitous commenter debate over whether Glenn Danzig or Michael Graves was the better frontman (sorry, Jerry Only!) is...
View ArticleAlexandra Patsavas Makes the Soundtrack to Your Life
Reading the list of credits on Alexandra Patsavas’ C.V. probably resembles the list of shows recorded on your DVR. Having provided sounds for shows like The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Mad Men,...
View ArticleVoter Suppression: Did It Happen in Ohio?
My friend Taimur is in Cincinnati, reporting for The National, out of Abu Dhabi. We met for coffee about 9:30 this morning. I went to the Hamilton County Board of Elections to correct a problem with...
View ArticleShorties: A Sex Trade Show... On Acid!
Sascha saw a dragon plugging a piglet's mouth with a turnip. It's really fun to give someone acid and then make them host a video, and it looks like our colleagues at VICE Germany have picked up on...
View ArticleBollocks to the Hippocratic Oath: What Not to Do for an Erection
Disclaimer: Some of you might remember this column from a few years back when we still lived at Viceland. When we moved to VICE.com, though, it disappeared, so now we've dug it up. Enjoy. Hey, you...
View ArticleWe Interviewed Pierce McGarry, Bassist for Mac DeMarco, and Maker of Creepy...
Montreal-based musician and filmmaker Pierce McGarry makes creepy films, but he's not really a creep. McGarry’s style falls somewhere between Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and The Hardcore Collection,...
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