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NEW YORK - PHOTO HUNT!

Remember those

photos we showed you

about the

floods in Maranhão

? Can you spot the differences between one

Vice

contributor Brian Mier took (top) and one the

New York Times

ran in its story days after our first one (bottom)? Click down there for the answers, and for a parable by Beverly Hames on the joys and sorrows of a brief addiction to Photo Hunt.

Here's the thing about 7-Eleven: the grosser the food looks, the safer it probably is to consume. All the taquitos and cheeseburger hot dogs have so many preservatives in them they'd probably survive the apocalypse. But while on a recent tour I was in the mood for something that resembled mortality so I opted for a kind-looking turkey sandwich, an apple, and some yogurt. Two pukes later I realized the error of my ways.

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A lot of waiting around in the bar where the band was going to play came next. When I emerged from my second trip to the bathroom, my boyfriend escorted my sorry ass to the Megatouch game. Finally my salvation! We learned to love these machines while on tour, knocking everyone save one out of the Top Ten with our hybrid name SBEEVAN (we are that gross).

We played Erotic Photo Hunt for about an hour. The only thing that sucks about the game is that when played in a crowded bar, over-friendly drunks always want to get in on it. Some random chick kept annoying us by pointing out the differences that we hadn't yet noticed. Finally she scrammed and we continued the game in peace. Once the show was over we left the venue with spirits raised.

That is until we got to the house we were staying at. I checked my purse and realized I'd lost $80, aka all my money, at some point in the night. I had been so engrossed in that goddamn Photo Hunt game that the annoying drunk chick had been able to easily swipe my cash. When you are mesmerized by bad porn you can easily become easy prey.

Of course that didn't stop me from playing touch screen games for the rest of tour. I just watched my bag a little closer. We found the most amazing game in the same system, Count Your Fingers, which is the MegaTouch version of Five-Finger Fillet. Check out the sick tribal tat! And the top scorer is…

BEVERLY HAMES