Volume 13 Issue 9
Vice Recommends
Right now, I'm really liking laid-back hip-hop from the dirty south-the kind of stuff you could almost imagine people dancing to while lying flat on their back.
Gays, Straight Up!
"Gay kids are cheerful and nice. They don’t mean no harm. And straight guys… I guess they have so much anger in ’em, and they try to take it out on the gay kids. "
Vice Mail
I was a big fan of the Story Awards, but in “Gremlin from Dublin” it said, “A friend of a friend of theirs…” Um, wasn’t there some big stink on the rules for the online story contest about no bullshit?
Perv Hunters
Xavier von Erck is the founder of Perverted-Justice.com. They're those guys who put together the Dateline specials where they pretend to be 13-year-old girls online, invite old guys who proposition them on the internet over to their "mom's house."
High School Confidential
At least once a year, someone like Time or Newsweek does a feature about, "What's up with teenagers, anyway?" They always wind up asking kids a load of horseshit questions like, "Do you think you have enough free time?" or "Are you...
Slavery's Back!
In Bucharest, you can buy a young girl for 8,000 euros. I mean buy them as in you own them forever or until you sell them to someone else. Most of them are sold by their parents in Moldova when they are little children.
TV Eye
I've never been in a war before, but I was told this was the worst war that Lebanon has ever been in. People have lost their lives, their homes, their villages.
Electric Independence
This issue, Electric Independence picked the brain of our guest critic, Jacob Poznanski. He's ten years old and lives in Stamford, a picturesque town in Lincolnshire, not far from Peterborough.
London Kids
Kadeem Rhyeon-Little, 10 Best thing about London in the summer? "I can ride my bike around the park and play all day because I don't have to go to school."
Kids Flicks
Darwin's Nightmare is a soul-shatteringly accurate documentary that depicts before your ralphing eyes the ways that people, cultures, civilization and the, um, Earth are ruined by the European Epicurean's taste for the giant (cannibalistic) Nile.
Animated Ghetto
Sort of like abortion, thugging out your favorite cartoon character and putting the bootleg on a size XXXXL t-shirt used to be a tricky business.