The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue
Borderline Bigots
Each year hundreds of thousands of optimistic South and Central Americans travel north to see whether things might be less crappy for them in the United States. The problem is they have to cross Mexico to get there.
Slab City
Set beside the Imperial Valley in southeastern California, the Salton Sea area was supposed to be Hollywood’s answer to the Riviera back in the 50s. But its developers failed to anticipate the raw sewage.
Hello Rene Ricard
Rene Ricard is a semi-secret hero of American art and culture, specifically New York-ish art and culture in the later 20th century.
Disneyland After Dark
Last week I chaperoned a graduating high school class of 2009 to Grad Nite, an exclusive all-night party at Disneyland.
Same Old Bullshit
This magazine used to be well known for interviews with big-name American rappers. Back when Dave 1 from Chromeo was still writing for us every month we had scoops like Eminem’s first ever interview, Ol’ Dirty’s last ever interview...
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia
It may seem like exploding meth labs are a recent phenomenon, but the exploding drug-manufacturing facility predates modern science. Chinese alchemists discovered gunpowder while searching for the elixir of immortality. Moonshine explosions
Hello! Goodnight!
Earlier this year I was talking with a pal about dream musical reformations. The more we talked about the turds who’d recently reformed for cash, the more we realised how little we cared about any of them
We Yum Yum Cum
I hate when people speak to their kids in baby talk. It’s annoying. Then people wonder why their kids turn out to be mental midgets with no social grace and an inability to function in the real world.