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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 other day I started culling quotes from both and began to find weird intersections between their thoughts. Full story

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

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

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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An Etiquette Guide for Straight People in Gay Bars

We love having straight people hang out with us, we really do, but I'm going to break down the rules for the breeders who forget how to behave when there is a rainbow flag on the wall. For our purposes we'll be talking about gay male bars, since lesbian bars, like pandas in the w… Full story

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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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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

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

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

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

Porn Star Karaoke Is a Thing and It's Awesome

Every Tuesday night, performers, producers, crew, and regulars turn out for what has become an almost decade-long tradition in an industry where careers rarely span half that time. The karaoke night was born out of a lack of industry-centered events available to the public and so… Full story

Really, Ryan?

Hit Me Baby One More Time

Six years ago today, I was hit by a car while walking across the intersection of Sunset and Yorba in San Francisco. Since then, I’ve had six surgeries, one skin graft, a three-week hospital stay, four casts, approximately 6,000 painkillers, and a partridge in a pear tree. Full story

Gay-Proofing the Bible

An anonymous group of Christians is claiming that, actually, the parts of the Bible that are interpreted as references to homosexuality don’t say anything at all about diddling someone who has the same type of junk as yours—and they’ve gone a step further by retranslating the res… Full story

Sexsomnia Is a Bedtime Boner-Kill

Sexomniacs fuck or dry-hump people in their sleep and have no memory of it when they wake up. Think that sounds cool? Well, perverts, it’s not. Full story