ARTICLES BY MARK
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 LIGHTEN UP!
“There’s not any cruising in here at all!” my friend Alphonse complains, looking around. He’s right. The predominantly queer crowd of ACT UP members stuffed into Revolution Books on Avenue B in New York’s East Village is rigid, alert, and crisp with conversation and debate. The group’s usual Monday-night meeting at Cooper Union was moved at the last minute to this makeshift location...
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  YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW IS TODAY'S COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT
A History of the Future (in Movies)For 100 years, movies have tried to show us what the future might hold. Now, in 2008 (which is officially "the future"), we can look back and say: They were almost entirely wrong. Nevertheless, here are their best efforts....
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 OBLITERATION CINEMA
DAWN OF THE DEAD
(1978, DIR: GEORGE A. ROMERO)
What’s to say? Perfection. It’s a vomikaleidoscope of awesomeness that you can scream and laugh all the way through again and again. Real action, real scary...
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 PINUPS
Fuck Eyes - Bulletin Boards Are Windows to the SoulWhat’s better than going over to someone’s house and looking at their stuff? Nothing. People’s stuff rules. And stuff that people put up on their bulletin boards, or “inspiration areas” if you will, super-extra-rules. We picked four of our favorite artist types and stared at their bulletin boards go...
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 DOING ACID WITH A DISFIGURED GUY
A Viceland ExclusiveBack in High School I was doing acid with my three best friends one of whom was pretty severely disfigured. He was born with a bad hair lip that altered the whole front of his face but when you're pals with someone like that you don't even see it. Of course, if you go away for a few months and then ...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO RUSSIA
An A-Z of the World's Biggest Country(A)-AZITHROMYCIN)
Russia is poisoned. It's poisoned from shitty old cars running on leaded 76-octane fuel and it's poisoned from decades of Soviet waste. Its capital is the largest city in...
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 BRIBING WITH BLUE JEANS
Bartering at the Velvet RopeJust how valuable ARE a pair of old black Levi's 550s and a fresh roll of Kleenex-brand two-ply toilet paper to today's deprived Muscovites? I recently hit the fanciest nightclubs in town to see how far I could get on the real cultural currency of 1980s Russia....
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 THE TIDBITS ISSUE
Photos by Mark Barber
Styling by Atip Wananuruks
James Duncan: “This was bequeathed to me by St Kerrigan of Otara...
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 PARENT KILLERS
Need to Be Smart About the Next StepThe only thing worse than killing your parents is getting caught with the bodies. Here's a quick how-to on losing their remains. You will need:
1 empty bathroom, 2 dead bodies, 24 hours of uninterrupted solitude, 1 large...
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 BIGFOOT LIVES
The Final WordWith over 250 separate Sasquatch sightings in the past year, even the most cynical scientists are starting to ask themselves, "Was I right when I said that he doesn't exist?" They're also saying, "What about that old record The Bigfoot Recordings, A True High Sierra Wilderness Story, Narrated by Jon...
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 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'
Journey Never DidDude, check it: Journey are back. How back are they? Basically 100% back. Steve Perry has been replaced by Steve Perry impersonator Steve Augeri and the band has been blowing away audiences from coast to coast for the past four years. Some have argued that this new version is better than the old one...
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