BOYLE'S BRAINS
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Tao Lin’s Apartment: A Review
Last October Tao Lin put up a post on Facebook asking if anyone wanted to sublet his studio apartment in Murray Hill while he visited family in Taiwan. I responded and PayPal-ed him the significantly discounted friend rate. I would be staying for around four weeks. This is my review of Tao's apartment. Full story
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What Cat Food Tastes Like
The other day I found myself seriously considering two futures: The one where I’d never know what wet cat food tasted like, and the one where I would. In both futures I’d eventually end up dead, but the one where I’d eat cat food seemed more exciting. Full story
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New Ways to Have Sex
Let half a stick of butter melt in your mouth. This can take a long time. Try to sit still. It will feel less rewarding if you move even slightly. When the butter feels mostly melted, push your tongue against the harder parts. Make them melt against your cheek. Think about how yo… Full story
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The Spookiest Things to Do in a Dog Park
Bring a Ziploc baggie of ground beef instead of a dog. Start to remove its leash. Look tentatively around the park. If someone catches you doing this, direct piercing, relentless eye contact at them while slowly refastening the leash on your beef. Full story
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Real Pain: Future Dead Friends Tour Live Blog
Jordan Castro asked if I wanted to go on a four-day reading tour with him, Mallory Whitten, Scott McClanahan, Sam Pink, and Mike Bushnell. I said I did. A reading tour is like a music tour but with writers who know each other from the internet instead of musicians who know each o… Full story
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What’s Happening with Nicolas Cage’s Face
Nicolas Cage likes to lure his victims into a small basement apartment where he pretends to be lonely and appreciative of their company and insists they stay. Once they’ve fallen asleep, he unhinges his jaw and his mouth grows 40 inches in diameter. His guest is then swallowed wh… Full story
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What I Think About When I Think About My Body
I didn’t fully believe there was a hole in me until I tried filling it with a tampon before college. Still didn’t quite believe it was there until I had sex the next year. Feel jealous of people who get to have sex with it. Putting something into something seems more satisfying t… Full story
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The Secret Life of Objects on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in a 24-Hour Grocery Store
Only one of these Great Value Happy Drinks does not have an STD. Full story
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Slapstick Reel of My Life
A drunk driver rear-ended my mom’s car. It was night and his lights were off. My mom was driving. I heard her yell my name, then the words “control” and “steering wheel.” Something collided with my head and my face felt wet. This is but one highlight in the slapstick reel of my l… Full story
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I Listened to Five CDs from the Five-for-a-Dollar Box at FYE
I recently spent about 40 minutes digging through the five-for-a-dollar-box at FYE, delighting in the bleakly diverse selection of CDs resting in what would likely become their punchline-y final destination. Full story
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People I Met in Truck Driving School
This May I passed a trucking school on my bike and enrolled shortly after. For four weeks a small group of men and I watched instructional DVDs and took tests in a classroom Mondays through Thursdays from 5:30 to 10:45. Fridays we’d meet in a relatively empty industrial area unde… Full story
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Weight Loss Tips that Have Actually Worked for Me
Here's one trick you can use to combat food problems: Think about how if something is creamy, lactation was probably involved. When you’re trying to decide between two pints of ice cream, pretend they are your mom’s nipples and she wants you to suck on them. Full story
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Rejected GOP Campaign Strategies
Gingrich wanted to make DJ Earworm’s mash-up of 2011 popular radio hits, “World Go Boom,” his answer to all questions. Full story
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Ways to Improve Basketball
How about Dad Overtime, for example? In the event of a tie, all members of Team A and Team B will be swapped out for their dads. Full story
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What New York City Public Sleepers Think About Everclear
It would be easy to assume an old man with a large plastic bag containing a smaller paper Cinnabon bag sleeping in a library next to a liter of club soda would have a limited awareness of Everclear. Full story
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Deleted Scenes from “Drive”
Ryan Gosling ducks behind a boulder and unwraps two packages of snack cakes and blueberry mini-muffins. Full story
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Future Parts of the Human Body
This column is going to be about stuff I like that I think other people might like too. It's called "Boyle's Brains" because my last name is Boyle and my brain is the thing that tells me what I like. Full story
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Facebook and Censorship's Slippery Slope
You're not in America when you're on Facebook—you're on the internet.
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VICE News: Triple Hate
A documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.
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Motherboard: Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement
Let us take you on a video tour of the 3D-printed gun world.
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Fresh Off the Boat: Back in Taiwan
Eddie gets into face paint, screaming lessons, and furry pink pillows.
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VICE News: BC Bud
Visiting grow ops and the RCMP to chat about weed and weed production.
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Speaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds
The first in a series of controversies surrounding Adam's politics.
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VICE on HBO Extended: Tobaccoland
Thomas Morton gets a full smoke-therapy treatment in Malang.
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In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist Who Probably Faked His Own Death
Why is there a warrant out for a dead man?
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George's Fun Happy Place
George has a lot of problems to overcome, but he's capable of an incredible lightness.
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VICE on HBO Extended: Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony
Many swear it's the most effective way to kick heroin addiction.
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Running Wild in Russia
Russian MMA is showing up in the most peculiar places.
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Fringes: Deportee Purgatory
Tijuana’s El Bordo is home to thousands of heroin-addicted Mexican deportees.
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Come Watch Good Movies for Once with VICE and the Film Foundation
We'll be screening restored prints of classic films monthly at the Nitehawk Cinema.
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VICE News: Triple Hate
A doc about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.
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Is War Brewing in Niger?
If the latest terrorist attack is any indication, the answer might be yes.
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The Creators Project: Turning CCTV Footage into Art
An invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a source for art.
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Meet the Nieratkos: Jeff Grosso Has a Beautiful Mind
Is Jeff Grosso the last vestige of free speech in skateboarding?
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Carlos Rafael and His Fish Are the American Dream
I spoke to him about cod and federal tax evasion.
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Pen Pals: HardWhite and Harry Potter
Little white wizards get no play in county lockup.
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This Week in Racism: Sergio Garcia Can't Wait to Serve Tiger Woods Fried Chicken
Golf is racist.
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Not Everyone Can Copy Technology
The developed world seems to take technological invention and innovation for granted. By contrast, te
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We Watched the Suburbs of Stockholm Burn
Are the riots in the suburbs of Stockholm a real threat or just some bored, teenage pyros?
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Facebook and Censorship's Slippery Slope
You're not in America when you're on Facebook—you're on the internet.
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The Loneliness of the Village at the End of the World
Niaqornat's residents fight alcoholism and suicide as their village sinks into the Arctic.
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Hamilton's Pharmacopeia: Tanks for the Memories
What happens to the mind, body, and spirit while inside the tank.
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Deportee Purgatory
About 40 percent of Mexican immigrants deported from the US are sent back through Tijuana.
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Fringes: The Warrior State
Mexican civilians who are taking justice into their own hands.
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VICE on HBO Extended: Strolling the Thames in China
VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy takes a stroll through Thames Town in Songjiang, China.
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VICE News: Triple Hate
A documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.
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Pump It Up
Photos by Anna Ryon, styling by Lola Chatterton.
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Get Rich or High Trying
The smart money is increasingly looking to marijuana as the nation's biggest new business.
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Murderous Fanatics and EDL Idiots Brought Darkness to Woolwich, London Yesterday
We tried to make sense of it all.
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A Few Impressions: 'Leviathan,' I Love You
It holds up a mirror to nature, but this mirror came from a fun house.
Deportee Purgatory
Welcome to Tijuana’s El Bordo 
'Leviathan,' I Love You
James Franco at the Movies 
Juggalos Are OK, Cupid
Don’t Be a Tumblr Asshole 
Get Rich or High Trying
The Coming Age of Corporate Cannabis 
Triple Hate - Part 1
The KKK vs. the Crips vs. Memphis City Council 
Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments
They Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity 
