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Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: the school that suspended a kid for being a kid versus the farm that fired some people for being sensible. Full story
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Art Is Just as Powerful as Protest
Getting people to care and want to learn about things that they don't see as directly impacting their lives can be difficult. Which is why I believe that wrapping points and ideas up in pretty or exciting packages is just as valid a tactic as demonstrating in a public place with Full story
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Are We There Yet? - The May/June Issue of 'Endtime Magazine'
You’d think it would be pretty fun to write for a magazine where you constantly get to talk about the end of the world. It’d be especially thrilling for you every time a new pope gets announced because, obviously, you get to ask, IS THIS POPE THE LAST, EVIL POPE WHO WILL USHER IN… Full story
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Munchies
The Marrow
Going into this episode, I thought that because of Harold's experience with filming, this was going to be a piece of cake, and he would drop everything to tell the camera about how his love of cooking evolved from an early age, and blah blah blah, etc., etc. Instead, for the firs… Full story
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The Founder of Jim’s Mowing will Make you Smarter and Save the World
“We’re going to change the world. If my theory is correct, this will change everything. This will ruffle feathers, don’t you think anything else. You ask Galileo, you ask Darwin. This is going to cause an uproar.” – Jim Penman Full story
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Anton Chekhov Versus Jeffrey Dahmer
For some reason I think about the cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer every time someone mentions Anton Chekhov, a forefather of the contemporary short story. I can’t help but want to draw them out, to put them together in a cage and watch their brains bump. And so the oth… Full story
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Is Your Dog a Butterface? This Guy Can Help
It’s no surprise that dog owners around the world spend bazillions to ensure that their butt-sniffing buddies are happy, healthy, and looking good—including paying plastic surgeons to achieve their ideas of pooch perfection. Edgard M. Brito is one of the world’s leading plastic s… Full story
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Porn Sites Are Paying to Remove Tattoos of Their Logos from Hostgator's Face
Hostgator Dotcom emailed me the good news so I thought I'd call him up to congratulate him. It turns out he's doing great and his kids aren't starving, but he also has some worrying new plans to make money that involve his ding-a-ling and his future casket. Full story
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May Day in Berlin Was a Playground for Happy Idiots
There's something about May Day in Berlin that seems to capture the city's essence. For one day every year, the streets fill with police, bold stoners, and all sorts of idiots—idiots in bathtubs, idiots in gorilla suits, idiots who cut drugs in phone booths, and idiots who parade… Full story
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VICE Australia is 10
Interviews with People Who Just Smoked DMT
Ever since 'Enter the Void and DMT: The Spirit Molecule' showed up on Netflix Instant, kids have been going gaga over Dimethyltryptamine. Earlier this year, writer John Barclay came across some, shared it with his pals, and talked to them about their trips as they floated back do… Full story
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VICE Australia is 10
Medieval Slimes
According to sources such as Hollywood, history textbooks, and the word on the street, the Middle Ages were a thousand-year grunge revival in which everybody walked around covered in fleas and mud. Full story
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Shane Smith Stripped Down for VICE's 2 Million YouTube Subscribers
It's usually a bad thing when you end up on the naked end of a wager. However, in this case, our founder Shane Smith promised he'd give a tour of the VICE offices in his birthday suit if you helped us reach our goal of 2 million YouTube subscribers. Settling a bet never felt so g… Full story
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Why Draw Pictures?
Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare. In the Renaissance, we dissected bodies in order to grasp the workings of a shoulder joint. We drew naked models at a time when women corseted themselves neck to knees. We took rooms in brothels and captured courtrooms where Full story
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Meet the Two Geniuses Who Lived on Cheezies and Licorice for One Week
I was perusing the ol' Facebook when I saw that my friend Rajiv was engaged in an experiment where he could only eat Hawkins Cheezies (the Canadian equivalent of Cheetos) for one business week, with just water and one vitamin pill per day to keep from dying. His friend Ian also p… Full story
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People