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That's So Ravin': What About Your Friends?

Got a burning question for Ravin? Email her with your thoughts, dilemmas, and all-out rants at ravin.samoan@vice.com.
Ravin Samoan
5.31.13
The Mercy Rule

The Joyless Joy of Bad Baseball

Watch a lousy team on a losing streak, though, and you'll eventually see what baseball skeptics see whenever they watch: a game that’s aimless and dull and stilted and long, and which isn't even quick about it. But for months we settle in, drink down...
David Roth
5.31.13
This Week in Racism

Sending Racist Emails About Michelle Obama Is Not a Good Idea

Some of the hilarious zingers in some emails that a Virginia school-board member sent around included a photo of African tribal women next to the caption “Michelle Obama’s high school reunion” and another that implied that Mrs. Obama was paid a paltry...
Dave Schilling
5.31.13
Photo

Los Angeles, Say 'Hi Hello Sup' to Maggie Lee Tonight at Alias Books

Los Angeles is a terrible place to be. But if you are stuck there, we know one way you can make it all better: head on down to Alias Books and check out the zine event of the decade put together by our friend Maggie Lee.
VICE Staff
5.31.13
Stuff

Watch a New Episode of 'VICE' on HBO Tonight

As another workweek reaches its terminus and you start assembling your dissolute impulses into a “weekend plan,” we hope you’ll remember that with another Friday comes another episode of 'VICE' on HBO. Here’s what you can expect in our weekly ode to...
VICE Staff
5.31.13
Friday Thinks With Luke Winkie

World of Warcraft Gear as Informed By Popular Musicians

In order to make the game more appealing to people who aren't emotional shut-ins, Blizzard (World of Warcraft's developers) recently added a number of items to the game themed after popular musician of today. This is 100% true and factual.
Luke Winkie
5.31.13
Pen Pals

Burying the Dead and Unloved

Part of a 15-cent-an-hour job I had while in prison was burying inmates who died and had no one who could claim the bodies, or else didn’t have anyone who gave a shit to arrange a proper funeral. They had died over the winter and their bodies had been...
Bert Burykill
5.31.13
Design

MIT's Silk Pavilion Explores Digital and Biological Computing With Silkworms

MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter Research Group has a thing for silkworms and is using them to "print" architecture.
DJ Pangburn
5.31.13
nasa

Watch an Asteroid's Flyby of Earth, Live and from Space

Rocks zoom by the Earth pretty frequently. Sometimes they come so close they fall through the atmosphere.
Amy Shira Teitel
5.31.13
Most Ridiculously Expensive Gear of the Week

These Guys are Selling Their "Songwriting Ability" for $5 Million on eBay

if you're serious about becoming a rich and famous rockstar (and are already rich), these guys are the real deal.
Nick Rattigan
5.31.13
Motherboard Blog

The British Badger War Begins

Hunters will kill up to 70 badgers a day to preserve that other fleeting species, the British farmer.
Ben Richmond
5.31.13
Motherboard Blog

Will Smith Would Be Nothing Without Pulp Sci-Fi

'After Earth' is Will Smith's 10th sci-fi film, and it's already getting panned. But no matter—Smith became the biggest star in Hollywood on the back of critically-maligned alien and robot movies just like it.
Brian Merchant
5.31.13
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