December 2009
This is an interview with the man who created The... →
SNEAKY TEASERS - CHICKEN HAT
Getting away from primatological sex hypotheses, here’s another potent quotable from our January issue. See if you can guess the utterer:
Chickens are fun. You can put them on your head and walk around with them like little chicken hats, and they’re just so comfy.
Beat? Here are your clues: Teenager, dead cats, poverty line. Happy guestimating!
And see what others have guessed.
"WILD GEESE"
By Matthias Connor
Matthias Connor, aka Wolfboy, is a London-based writer who publishes fanzines that he gives to people for free. He has been doing this for more than 20 years. Currently, Ooga Booga in Los Angeles is the only store that has copies of his work for sale. An 18-year-old told him on New Year’s Eve a few years ago that one of his “books” was the only thing he had ever read twice....
WatchTHE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA
In The Vice Guide To Liberia, VBS travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country.
Check out the video for a quick preview.
THE MYSTERY OF B. TRAVEN
B. Traven is the most shadowy figure in the history of literature. We know only a few things about him for sure: that he wrote great novels like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Death Ship; that he lived, at least for a time, and died in Mexico; and that he was a politically engaged writer who cared deeply about working and common people.
Whoever he really was, B. Traven was also a man...
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Is this a DO or a DON'T?
Take a minute, use that brain, and make your bet. Click here for the results.
…And cheating is for assholes and losers, so just don’t do it, ok?
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SO MANY SANTAS
By Jamie Lee Curtis Taete
I’m not sure what it is about wacky, mass participation things that makes me feel so uncomfortable. I asked a friend who has a GCSE in psychology and he told me, “You like to make fun of these things because you’re afraid to truly let yourself go and take part. It’s kind of sad really.” So, to try and overcome these fears and grow as a person, I took part in Santa Con,...
"LOST LIMBS"
By Arthur Bradford
Most people know Arthur Bradford as the creator of How’s Your News?, a documentary series that has been featured on HBO and MTV. But Arthur is a man of many talents, and one of his gifts is crafting funny and expertly written short stories. For this year’s Fiction Issue, Arthur has contributed a very special tale about a man who pursues a woman with a prosthetic arm…
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