The Seeing Trails Issue
The Pornographer’s Manifesto
We recently drove into the sleepy northern Italian hamlet of Ponzone to meet Ando Gilardi, an 89-year-old Italian photographer, author, journalist, editor, and the perviest old perv on the peninsula.
The Battle Of Lazy Dog Hill
In the air was a sound Ken Ely had become all too familiar with over the past year: the dull rumble of truck tires on the old two-lane that ran past the bottom of his 183 acres of bluestone and timber in this remote corner of northern Pennsylvania.
Love And Rockers
Theodoros Bafaloukos wrote and directed Rockers, the film that single-handedly made Jamaica and reggae interesting to couch-cozy white folks, their stoner kids, and a bunch of famous English punks with guitars.
The Icelandic Skin-disease Mushroom Fashion Fiasco
I have never heard of Iceland fashion week, but it's not really important. What is important is that Iceland is supposed to have endless fields of P. Semilanceata, the legendary liberty cap mushroom.
Positive Thinking
Brendon Annesley is the editor of Negative Guest List, the best fanzine in the world right now. He is scrawny and has pasty skin and every time I've met him he's been awkward, with a brain full of chemicals.
Mom’s Last Resort
Ellen Pakkies, a Lavender Hill mother whose 20 year-old son Abie exemplified the zombified, kleptomaniac ‘tik monsters’ that prowl the streets of Lavender Hill, had tried everything she could think of to get him off the junk.
Erotic Fiction, Puritan Censorship And Gynaecological Detail
Jack Fritscher, the award-winning author of hundreds of stories and articles and 20 books, is about as informed as anyone on the history of erotic fiction, its importance, and the state of erotic publishing today.
Employees Of The Month
We faced some serious obstacles when we decided to do a fashion shoot featuring custom-made merkins (aka pubic wigs) for this month’s issue. Have you ever asked a wigmaker to craft a vagina toupee for you?
Chocolate and Cheese and Striped Bass
Since getting his captain's license last summer, Mickey Melchiondo, better known as Dean Ween, has been leading fishing tours off Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
VICE Mail
Instead of replying to your letters this month, we are going to quote back to each person the parts of their letter that we would have zeroed in on had we bothered to reply. In other words, the words or phrases in which the writer truly reveals their...
Articulate Songsters
The Twerps write lazy, meandering tunes that feel like swinging in a shady hammock while the rest of your party plays backyard cricket-think the Go Betweens if they were informed less by romantic poetry and more by the plots of Pixar animations.