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Delicious with Mish Episode Nine: Featuring the High Drops
I have a funny history with the band The High Drops. I first heard of them about a year ago when I was assigned a story about the newly formed band. I listened to their tape and really liked it, but...
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Girl News: Girls and Prezzies!!!!!
Let the spirit of Secular-Shopping-and-Disordered-Eatingmas move you! Boys, buy us stuff. Buy us so much stuff! Girls too, for sure. Girls, buy us stuff! Consider the economics of girldom and you will...
View ArticleThe Gimp from 'Pulp Fiction' Applies for a Literary Internship
Everyone knows it’s hard to find a job these days. As of last month, one out of every dozen Americans was unemployed. And finding paid work in publishing—where every English major who’s read Moby-Dick...
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Question of the Day: Should Bigots Be Allowed to Adopt?
There are currently around 6,800 kids waiting for adoption in the UK, but just 60 of them were snapped up in 2010. You would think with those kinds of figures you'd be rolling them out to whoever...
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Komp-LaintDept.Long May Neil Young
Neil Young, December 9, 1969, San Diego, photo © Henry Diltz. On the occasion of Neil Young's recent resurgence—two new back-to-back albums with Crazy Horse, for which they are currently on tour, and...
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Chapel of Sacred Mirrors: Cosmic Creativity, Entheogens, and Psilocybin with...
The first time I met Alex Grey, the visionary artist best known for his TOOL album covers, he told me: “I put the cult in culture.” He also asked me if I wanted to take the red or blue pill (it was a...
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Taji’s Mahal - The Life of an Outdoor Artist
For this week's Mahal, we met back up with outdoor artist Anthony Dominguez to see how he lives and practices his art. We started at the 42nd Street Library, where Anthony spends most of his days...
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A Girl's Guide to Dressing for the Apocalypse
The first time I tried MDMA was by accident. I was 16, thirsty, and thought the bottle of water my friend had just handed me would quench my thirst. So I drank it all, proceeded to have the time of my...
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The Torture of Bradley Manning
Drawing by Clark Stoekley via Flickr. After more than 900 days of detainment in United States military jails for allegedly disclosing state secrets, the haunting imprisonment of accused WikiLeaks...
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George Bush and Tony Blair Are Officially War Criminals
Musa Bin Ismail I much preferred it when popular geo-political discourse involved writing “FUCK BUSH” on your tits or “impeach Blair” on your MySpace profile, rather than today's endless stream of...
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Chinese Officials at It Again: More Scandal from the People's Republic
This December has been like an advent calendar of sex scandals in China. Hardly a day has gone by without the salacious details of some misguided, disgusting, or straight-up stupid impropriety coming...
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Weediquette - I Called the Marijuana Addiction Hotline
Marijuana has been illegal for the entire time that I’ve enjoyed it, a circumstance that has made it so much more than just a hobby. As a user of marijuana in America, I am automatically an advocate...
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Me and My North Korean Minder, Ms. Song
As once it appeared over Bethlehem, so too in North Korea: A new star scorched the heavens. A storm broke. Twin rainbows sprung forth. In sonorous human voices, soaring swallows spoke the name. On the...
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Three Days of Torture in a Male Chastity Device
Hi, I’m Brian. Welcome to Tubesteak, a regular column where I talk about penises mostly and what I do with mine and what you should do with yours. There will also be some discussion of cocks,...
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The Best Places to Stash Used Condoms
All human activities produce waste. When one drives an automobile, carbon monoxide is expelled. After eating a meal, a person tends to create what most reputable scientists refer to as “shit.” Sexual...
View ArticleSamsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo": Is Berlin the Most Photogenic City?
Samsung gave the new GALAXY Camera to 32 photographers to prove that their city is the most photogenic in the world. In part 3, Samsung meets Thomas Kakareko from Berlin. Thomas, who has more than...
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Mad Backrubs at the Hotey
I have no idea if this sprawling ad recently posted on Craigslist is legit, or not. It's almost too good, to the point that all its wooked-out wordisms and heady brazenness leads me to believe that...
View ArticleYoung Americans: Part 3: Does It Matter Who the President Is?
Filmed during the leading months up to this year's presidential election, we take to the streets and the sidewalks to ask people if and how the Commander-in-Chief actually affects our lives.
View ArticleWhy Period Sex Is the Best Sex (and Should Probably Be Mandatory)
There’s a moment in every relationship, whether it’s the first date or a year later, when the question of period sex comes up. And a man’s answer tells me everything I need to know about him. A man...
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