Photographer Tony Fouhse Collaborated with a Heroin Addict
Drug addicts seem to be the go-to subjects for raw-emotion-seeking photographers looking to try their hand at documentary photography. The problem is that most photo series featuring drug addicts...
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House of Jealous Lovers
Arrow Brown at his desk in the Bandit office with his daughter Tridia, fourth from the right, and his son Deno, the little boy in the pink suit in the middle. Photo courtesy of Numero Group. Between...
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I Saw the Future of Pot at Seattle’s Hempfest
All photos by the author It’s been a good year for pot lovers. The new recreational weed laws Washington and Colorado passed last November have taken effect. Illinois just became the 20th state to...
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What's the Frequency, Iasos?
If you’ve ever had a near-death experience, chances are you’ve been fortunate enough—depending on how you look at it—to hear music that sounds identical to the blissed-out tones produced by the...
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Come Into My Head: An Open Letter to the Guy I Went on Two Dates with and...
Girls are always accusing guys of being dicks for not calling them back after a few dates or a one-night stay in pound town. Girls do this too. I had my first foray in the age-old art of dropping off...
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Here Be Dragons: Are You "Quirky" and "Interesting"? This Bullshit Dating...
The homepage of LoveFlutter.com Last week I was forwarded a press release for a new dating website called LoveFlutter.com. Interestingly, it promises to screen out people who are "boring": “To...
View ArticleBarrett Brown and Jeremy Hammond Are in Prison, but Their Work Continues
Barrett Brown and Jeremy Hammond Are in Prison, but Their Work Continues
View ArticleSome CDs That I Used to Know: Contemplating the Value of a Mix
Some CDs That I Used to Know: Contemplating the Value of a Mix
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Tubesteak: If You Stick Things in Your Pee Hole, Awful Things Will Happen
Image via Male readers of the internet crossed their legs and let out a unified grimace of pain yesterday when a story made the rounds about a 70-year-old Australian man who got a fork lodged in his...
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Protests Continue in War-Torn Cairo
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The past week in Egypt sounds like a scene from a horror movie: Muslim Brotherhood members burned Egypt's churches, the Egyptian military massacred...
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A Few Impressions: Aspects of E. M. Forster’s 'Aspects of the Novel'
Image by Courtney Nicholas E. M. Forster opens Aspects of the Novel—a collection of lectures on fiction he gave at Trinity College in 1927 that is now pretty much required reading at writing programs...
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I Went to Corey Feldman's Birthday Party
DISCLAIMER: I was only allowed to attend Corey's birthday party under the condition that he have final edit of whatever I write. Below is the text approved by Corey Feldman: You probably know...
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This Palestinian Taxidermist's Stuffed Animal Zoo Is Heartbreaking
A fearsome lion towers over its prey. OK sure, so somebody stuffed Napoleon's horse, but in general, no one pays too much attention to the animal victims of war. No one except Dr. Sami Khader, that...
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Notes from a Cairo Journalist Being Hounded by Spies and Thugs
Four journalists have been shot dead in Egypt this week. Dozens of others have been arrested, and I myself—a relatively young reporter—have received death threats. I am now being followed. Since last...
View ArticleBradley Manning Gets 35 Years for Exposing the Truth
Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years for Exposing the Truth
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Furious Buddhists Are Making Life Hell for Sri Lanka's Muslims
Muslims are under attack in Sri Lanka. Recent reports indicate that gangs of Buddhists have been roaming the streets, administering bloody mob beatings, and attacking places where Muslims work and...
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Tony Leung Is a Foxy Grandmaster
Wong Kar Wai’s new movie The Grandmaster is about the Chinese Kung Fu master Ip Man, who is played by Tony Leung. Ip Man, you may know, was Bruce Lee’s martial-arts instructor. You also may know,...
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Rat Tail: "Motorola Queen"
Photos By: Janicza Bravo; Featuring Hannah Heller as Carmenita Rosenberg Miranda Below are the lyrics to the long-lost classic “Motorola Queen” by the completely unknown white 80s hip-hop artist, Rat...
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Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction
Presumably painted by a Near Term Extinctionist. Image via Flickr If you were to take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s from some sort of cosmic time-traveling orbiter cube, you...
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Michoacán's Community Watch Groups Carry Assault Rifles
Photos by Brett Gundlock The Mexican state of Michoacán is balls deep in violence and corruption, and nobody seems to care. Distorted news reports about the situation are making it difficult to...
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