Nocturnal Submissions

Nasty All Over

Turning onto Wilde Street from South Central Avenue, the surface is crackled like red veins across an alcoholic’s nose. Only a single block long, Wilde looks nothing more than mundane in the daylight image on Google Maps, but at five AM in the dark outskirts of my low beams, desperate silhouettes stumble about, forever in decline. Full story

Nocturnal Submissions

Goodbye, So-Long, Motherfucker

1987. It’s summertime on Victory Boulevard, 101 degrees, dry and windy. I’m in the Camaro with the air conditioner on, playing in traffic. I’ve got $200 and I’m on my way to buy some cocaine. At a light I see a working San Fernando Valley girl. She’s got mean eyes and her hands a… Full story

Nocturnal Submissions

Cats Fucking

1988. I’m on Central Avenue about a mile south of wise decisions. A warm wind is blowing through the desert that is Los Angeles. It's 4:00 AM when I spy a skinny wreck in spike heels, short-shorts, and a halter top. She gives a wink and a wave, and I pull into an empty lot next t… Full story

A J-Pop Star Had a Head-Shaving Freakout Because She Has a Boyfriend

J-pop star Minami Minegishi—a senior member of 80-strong girl-group sensation AKB48—recently brought the "shave your head and make a hysterical apology on the internet" brand of freakout to Japan. Why? For committing the selfish sin of having a boyfriend. Full story

Hanging Out with Chicago's Scrap Metal Collectors

Scrappers suck on the industrial teat of the city and possess a sixth sense for anything metal and shiny. They're a bit like Magneto, except many of them have drug addictions that make them value heroin over their own teeth. Full story

Los Zetas Drug Cartel Has Their Own Radio Network

Drug cartels are all over the place in Mexico, but the Los Zetas have gained the title of the most technologically advanced and dangerous cartel in the country. They’re ex-paramilitary, tooled up like a miniature army, and have even set up their own radio communications network t… Full story

Japan's Suicidal Salarymen Are Dying for Work

A large amount of the population in Japan's biggest cities have a destructive relationship with work, literally, with many grinding themselves away to an early grave. The social phenomenon has its own word, karoshi, and it isn't death from digit-crippling labor in a sweatshop or Full story

Anonymous Is Trying to Destroy 'The Most Hated Man on the Internet'

A couple of days ago Anonymous announced they were launching an operation named #OpHuntHunter against the founder of IsAnyoneUp.com, which, if you're unfamiliar with its modus operandi, was a website where sad men could post revealing images sent to them by women who they felt ha… Full story

Question of the Day

What Were You Doing a Decade Ago?

Ten years ago, I was 14 years old and I spent the majority of my free time dry humping a girl named Davina. What were you doing ten years ago? Full story

Question of the Day

Would You Rather Be in Gaza or Syria Right Now?

Both are in the midst of lots of fighting and death, as you may have read about on this website over the last year. With that in mind, we went to ask strangers in London a question: Would you rather be in Gaza or Syria right now? Full story