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Popping the Marks: What I Learned from the Five Percenters
Five Percenters say that the black man is Allah and the white man is the devil. I am a white man, and also a Muslim, and Five Percenters exist for the pleasure of neither white people nor Muslims, but...
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Sad-Ass Music #6 - Sad-Ass Guilty Pleasures
Well, let's just look at it this way; if you've been following this column regularly, you'll see that I've already praised the likes of Mr. Mister, Duran Duran, Death Cab For Cutie, Genesis, and the...
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How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?
I have been avoiding writing about David Foster Wallace since he killed himself in September 2008. His work has always meant a great deal to me. Besides being one of the first contemporary authors to...
View ArticleTree Planting Is Really Awful
Tree planting is a popular summer job in Canada. You can make a lot of money quickly, you spend a lot of time in the great outdoors, and it’s a paid way to lose weight while you dig holes in the hot...
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Happy Birthday, Elvis!
Happy Birthday, Elvis! "E." I don’t know what to call you. The King? Can we just settle on Elvis? Do I have to say the “King” part? Your name is cute. I’m sorry. That’s not your fault, but I might as...
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From NFL Cheerleader to MMA Fighter
This time last year, Rachel Wray was spending her Sundays on the sidelines of Arrowhead Stadium as an NFL cheerleader for the Kansas City Chiefs. She stumbled onto an MMA gym looking for a way to...
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Reasons Why It's Impossible to Get Laid on Tour
The Stones in the 70s, back when it was still possible to crash the custard truck on a nightly basis. If you've ever gone on tour, some half-drunk uncle has probably pulled you aside at a holiday...
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Why Are So Many Gypsies Killing Themselves?
Gypsies and travelers have long been a marginalized group. I suppose that's one of the pitfalls of intentionally side-lining yourself from mainstream society for hundreds of years. But recent changes...
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VICE Premiere: Mac DeMarco's "Dreamin" Video
I've probably already said this about a hundred times, but there are a precious few artists who I will always put up premieres for whenever they have something new to share with me. Most of these...
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People in Lebanon Are Killing Each Other Over Syria
Fighters in the Firuq Brigade of Souq al-Qamar, who said the war was never going to end and they were proud to fight for Tabbaneh. Lebanon’s second largest city of Tripoli is mainly known for its rich...
View ArticleJaimie Warren Is Having a Show at the Hole Gallery
A lot of you guys love Jaimie Warren (and if you don't, you should start). But many people have come to me and said, "I love Jaimie Warren. Her work is the perfect amount of crazy and brilliant and...
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We Are Drunken Idiot Morons and We Demand to Be Heard
Controversy is brewing on the internet because Nina Metz of the Chicago Tribune successfully trolled the entire universe by publishing a stupid, rambling diatribe about how properly heckling a...
View ArticleOslo Is a Paradise
In a cold corner of Scandinavia lies Oslo, a city drenched in darkness for the better part of each year. Sounds fun, right? It gets better. During the summers the sun sets only for a couple of hours a...
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If You Live in California, You Should Go to Sea of Blasphemy
You like art stuff, right? I mean, you enjoy having that feeling that comes about when your eyes see something pretty and/or challenging and then it's like your cells took a vitamin? Me too. There's...
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Scientologists Really, Really Hate Psychiatrists
"Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" is a multi-million dollar museum and visitor center that the Citizens Commission on Human Rights set up in Los Angeles. CCHR is an organization cofounded by the...
View ArticleSilent But Deadly: School Cops Arrest Students for Talking Too Loudly,...
Fourteen-year old Kaleb Winston was wearing a "graffiti-patterned backpack" when the Salt Lake City police's gang unit rounded him and more than a dozen other students up one December school day in...
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My Very Own Sad-Ass Mix
Working with the same little group of writers each day gets to be intimate feeling. You read their writing. You get a sense of what they're good or bad at. Before long you're casually thinking about...
View ArticleChris Bethell Tells Lies About Manchester
Chris Bethell is a photographer from Manchester, who has been working with us for almost a year. He's shot pretty much every issue launch party we've thrown in his hometown, a couple of our massive...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Eric Dressen - Trailer
When I first saw Eric Dressen, I was a little star struck and kind of intimidated. I was nervous to approach him, even though I only wanted to tell him he was someone who had been a big influence on...
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