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The Debut Single
The following is an excerpt from the liner notes of Rat Tail’s one and only album, 'The Motorola Pimp.' His whereabouts are unknown. He seemed to be on the rise when his album was first released. Shortly after getting in an altercation with rapper Ice T, Rat Tail vanished. Full story
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A New Episode of Our TV Show Is Airing Tonight
Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic hourglass that we reset each week to count down the days until the next week's HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one of them getting pinned underneath or losing a limb is real high. It adds a g… Full story
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How to Hone Your Gaydar to Perfection
These days with more and more social circles becoming sexually diverse, how can you tell if the guy swinging a glow stick next to you at some Bushwick "rave" is looking to put his pole in a hole or looking for another pole to pole all over his face? Full story
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How Would You Feel if Your Mayor Smoked Crack?
It's not totally surprising that famously erratic Toronto Mayor Rob Ford got filmed sucking a glass dick. But what would it be like if a more respected authority figure, like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was found in similar cracked-out circumstances? Full story
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Ben Anderson Is Doing a Reddit AMA Today
At 11 AM today, Ben's going to be doing a Reddit AMA, where you can ask him anything about his new VICE documentary, 'This Is What Winning Looks Like,' which chronicles his time embedded in the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, as they prepare to take over policing… Full story
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VICE Endorses Jipson Talmadge
Jipson Talmadge is a 32-year-old resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, occasional crasher of couches in Manhattan, and VICE's choice for the next mayor of New York City with his plan for an "ALL-BIKE NEW YORK!" Full story
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Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: a guy who destroyed his neighborhood versus some guys who arrested a kid for mooning. Full story
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Jon Hopkins's 'Immunity' Soundtracks a Series of Stunning Microscopic Images
Small is beautiful. And nowhere is that phrase more relevant than in the work of artist Linden Gledhill. Trained as a biochemist, Gledhill is now a photographer who likes to take photos of the world in close-up. Like, real close-up. In a collaboration with art director Craig Ward… Full story
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Hatos Bar
Our buddies from VICE Japan hung out with the crew from Hatos Bar in Tokyo's Naka-Meguro neighborhood. Hatos Bar serves up American-style pit barbecue at its best. Owners Sou Ieki and Dubrai showed us their favorite places to go out and then got wasted before cooking up some barb… Full story
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VICE's West Coast Writers Are Hosting a Comedy Show Featuring Neil Hamburger
You can see some of your favorite Los Angeles-based VICE writers this Wednesday, May 22, and every Wednesday after that at Los Globos nightclub in Silver Lake. Neil Hamburger and Kyle Kinane headline. Yes, you deserve something this cool. Full story
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Late Drone Age Civilization: The Fossil Record
Today the celebrated writer speaking at the 92 Street Y shakes his wiser head, recalling his youthful naiveté. The truth is, he didn’t realize then how brilliant he already was, and these airborne notions, political pieties, flights of surreal nihilism, and so on, crept in as cru… Full story
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SCUM DADZ, Fat Jew's New Web Series Where He Does Drugs in Front of a Baby
Our most famous DOs & DON’Ts caption writer, the Fat Jew, has a new web series that illustrates exactly what happens when a filthy degenerate decides reproduction is a good idea. It’s called SCUM DADZ. Full story
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Matt Mignanelli
His paintings may seem simple at first glance, but spend more time with them and you'll start to admire the patterns created by light and energy. We hung out with Matt at his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and talked about his work, life, and strong American work ethic while eatin… Full story
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Suck on the Monolith
Ken Baumann is best known for his role as Ben on ABC Family’s teen drama show, 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' but offscreen he’s of a wholly other mode. Besides spending his TV dollars as publisher of Sator Press, an independent publishing house that traffics in ambi… Full story
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Twitter Thinks Angelina Jolie Is Nothing Without Breasts
Unfortunately, there are lots of stupid and insensitive people on the internet, and they're all tweeting the same gag about feeling sorry for Jolie's fiancé, Brad Pitt. I'm fully aware that the internet's capacity for idiocy far exceeds whatever energy I can muster to damn it. Bu… Full story