Thomas Morton

Thomas Morton

  • The Wages of Boredom (It's Death!)

    The Christian doomsday community has a mantra—"we are living in exciting times"—which helps compensate for the fact that most of their personal lives are dull as dirt. Unfortunately for the rest of us, to fight their boredom they've decided to pay...

  • The Most Evil Thing I Own

    Nothing ups the value of a run-of-the-mill kitchen implement or piece of clothing like someone dying all over it. It's like smearing it with interesting butter. And—as with ghosts—the eviler the person who died on it, the heavier the smear.

  • I Spent an Hour at the Kurdish Front of the Syrian Civil War, and Let Me Just Say, No Thank You

    Syria's Kurds won the war against Assad, which means now they get to fight al Qaeda and al Nusra. I spent approximately an hour at the front lines of this battle royale, and let me just say, no thank you.

  • Meet Brooklyn's Voodou Queen: Edeline St. Armand

    Thomas Morton got a firsthand look at the realities of being possessed by Vodou's multitude of rowdy, rum-thirsty spirits.

  • Heroin Holiday - Trailer

    Every August, while Europe's desk jockeys shut off their phones and head to the beach, the junkies of Prague set up camp in the poppy fields outside the city for a vacation of their own. For one glorious month, there are no cops to run from, no dealers...

  • Mr. Hálek's Fungus

    Václav Hálek is the world's most prolific composer of mushroom songs. As in the songs they sing to him. The mushrooms. Because God asked them to.

  • The $wiftest Pigeon

    In tribute to the intrepid bootleggers who've propped up their country's market economy, China's rich have taken arguably the worst bird of all time, the pigeon, and slapped a Louis Vuitton logo on it. Racing pigeons are the new thoroughbreds here...

  • Senegalese Laamb Wrestling's Marabout Ritual

    The most popular sport in Senegal isn't soccer—it's laamb, combining Greco-Roman wrestling moves with eclectic pre-fight rituals and dances.

  • The $wiftest Pigeon

    In tribute to the intrepid bootleggers who've propped up their country's market economy, China's rich have taken arguably the worst bird of all time, the pigeon, and slapped a Louis Vuitton logo on it. Racing pigeons are the new thoroughbreds here...

  • The $wiftest Pigeon

    China's spoiled young princelings aren't content with buying horses, sports cars, and insanely tacky watches alone.

  • The $wiftest Pigeon - Trailer

    What is the sound of 1 million yuan flapping? China's spoiled young princelings have taken arguably the worst bird of all time, the pigeon, and slapped a Louis Vuitton logo on it. Racing pigeons are the new thoroughbreds here, with birds auctioning for...

  • Tobaccoland

    Over two-thirds of all men in Indonesia are smokers, and it's commonplace for children as young as six to take up the habit. VICE's Thomas Morton visited an anti-tobacco rally in Malang where he received some hands-on smoking-cessation therapy.