Volume 18 Issue 9
Messiah Hunt
I had just removed my shoes in the hot sun outside the Dome of the Rock when an elderly man emerged from the shaded interior and shook his head with practiced firmness. "No. Muslims only."
Finally, All Our Crap Is in One Place
Over the years, lots of people have visited Viceland.com and asked, "What's up with the 'land'? Why not just VICE.com?"
The Hottest Mess on Earth
While the lucky and privileged have spent 2011's repulsively hot summer locked inside air-conditioned bedrooms, swirling ice cubes around their nipples and downing pitchers of Pimm's, the Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years.
Pili Power
Apparently nature knows how to make organic conductors out of proteins, and we find that very surprising. That's why it's kind of a big discovery.
Hard-Boiled Hollywood
I'm generally not thrilled when friends push books on me. "You have to read this. Here, take my copy," they'll say, and then try to extract progress reports the next five times I talk to them.
I’m Empty Inside
Recently I had one of those vomit sessions that burst blood vessels and permanently stained my toilet bowl. I awoke at 5 PM hanging halfway off the bed, dizzy and fuzzy-tongued from a late-night champagne binge.