Volume 18 Issue 5
Too Many Tunisians, Not Enough Toilets
In the first weeks of February, following the ousting of Tunisian president Zine-El Abidine Ben Ali, more than 4,000 North African immigrants fled across the Mediterranean Sea and pulled ashore on the idyllic isle
Allahu Akbar in a Parking Lot
On April 9 I stood in the parking lot of a Paris gas station and watched some 40 fundamentalist Muslims pray toward Mecca and chant “Allahu Akbar!”, scaring the piss out of holidaying motorists.
Dead Dick
I open up the goddamn door. It’s daytime. The sun slaps me in the eyes with its burning solar cock. Can’t see shit. Next thing I’m expecting is a bullet in my head or a knife to my chest
For My Dead Homies
We approach the Cementerio General del Sur in Caracas in the back of a cab with darkly tinted windows. Fourteen thousand people were murdered in Venezuela in 2010, and Caracas is widely regarded as one of the most violent cities in the world. The...