ARTICLES BY ROCCO CASTORO
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  WERNER HERZOG
Interviewing Werner Herzog is a guilt-ridden experience. That’s not to say he makes the questioner feel stupid or inferior, but there’s still a lingering notion that he could be drafting a screenplay or producing a film in the time it takes to ask him about doing those things. He’s written, produced, or directed (more often than not it’s all three) more than 50 movies. And it’s well known that he’d rather talk about what he’s doing than what...
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 INTERNATIONAL LIBATIONS
Which Country Produces the Sloppiest Drunks?Last October, a nice Chinese doctor named Ting-Kai Li retired from his post as director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. During his tenure, Dr. Li headed up research that explored how and why drinking lots of booze is more likely to turn certain people into sweaty goobers w...
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 HELLO RENE RICARD
Photos by Mirabelle Marden
Styling by Jaclyn Hodes
Rene Ricard is a semi-secret hero of American art and culture...
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 A BRAZILIAN IN... TOKYO & NEW YORK
Manuela Hiromi Kondo
Vice: Which part of Brazil are you from?
Manuela: I was born to an Italian-Brazilian-Portuguese mother and a Japanese father in Piracicaba, a small city in the southeast countryside of Brazil...
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 TECH-ARCHY
Beyond the Pages of The Anarchist CookbookAt the tender and impressionable age of 19, William Powell wrote the original print edition of The Anarchist Cookbook. It was 1971 and the young man felt compelled to create an instructional catalyst for civic unrest resulting from the Vietnam War. He researched military and Special Forces ma...
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 THE FUTURE WAS BULLSHIT
Seven Technologies We're Supposed to Have by NowThinking about the state of technology today makes us want to curl up in the fetal position and cry like the Star-Child from the end of 2001 (if it had galactic diaper rash). Where is all the cool future stuff they promised us in cartoons and sci-fi movies from the 50s through the 70s? What i...
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 RAY KURZWEIL
That Singularity GuyIn the year 2050, if Ray Kurzweil is right, nanoscopic robots will be zooming throughout our capillaries, transforming us into nonbiological humans. We will be able to absorb and retain the entirety of the universe's knowledge, eat as much as we want without gaining weight, shape-shift into just abo...
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 COUNTERFEITERATURE
Literary Forger Lee Israel Is Sorry but Not THAT SorryIn the 70s, everything was tip-top for biographer and editor Lee Israel. Two best-selling books had allowed her the publisher-courted and martini-lunched bon vivant life of a successful writer. Then Israel's third book, an unauthorized bio of Estée Lauder, tanked. Her situation went from no worries,...
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 FOUR MEN WHO WORK IN ANTARCTICA
Andrew G. Fountain, professor of geology and geography, Portland State University
Vice: How did you end up working in a frozen wasteland for weeks at a time?
Andrew: During junior high school this guy from the State University of New York in Albany gave a lecture about cloud seeding...
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 VICE PICTURES - A WICCAN
Here's an interview with a godless pagan in which we discuss Satan's birthday, resurrecting the dead, and drinking the blood of babies.
Just kidding. Here's an interview with a very nice Wiccan lady about Samhain (the peaceful harvest holiday, not the band), giving praise to your deceased ances...
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 A PSYCHIC SPY
Russell Targ is a preternatural brainiac who developed a government-funded psychic espionage program in the 70s. Using a process called remote viewing, he taught hundreds of ESP-inclined individuals to transcend time and space using only their minds so we could find out how the Commies were trying t...
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 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - A GUY WHO WORKS AT OUR PRINTING PRESS
We’ve always wondered about the guys that print Vice. Up until now, all we really knew was that they’re in a great big room somewhere in the frozen wasteland of Canada and that every 30 days or so, they ship us lots and lots of magazines.
We found out that a guy named Philippe Paris is...
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 WHAT MAKES A CLOWN SO CLOWNY?
Let’s Meet Five Pros: Gabooba, aka DannyVice: What did you do before you became a clown?
Gabooba: I worked at temp agencies. I was an assistant to a chef. I also worked for the City of New York Parks Department. But in high school I won class clown, which...
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 ICE CREAM GUYS
(And a Couple of Girls)Photos by Chris Shonting
Styling by Anette Lamothe-Ramos
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 OH SHIT!
Who's Number One at Holding Number Two?So I guess some guy apparently went 102 days without taking a dump. But a) he was critically constipated, and b) Uncle John's Bathroom Book of Extraordinary Facts and Bizarre Information is not exactly reliable reference material. Still, it got us thinking about shitting, about not shitting, ...
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 ASHLEY GILBERTSON
War photographer Ashley Gilbertson's mindset in late 2003 could have been summed up thusly: "If you haven't experienced Iraq, you are a worthless piece of shit." Earlier that year Gilbertson [seen with his camera in the photo at left] was charging around Iraqi Kurdistan in an old beater with a trunk...
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 SKELETONIZER
We ran into this guy on the subway lugging a two-foot tall, anatomically perfect skeleton holding a plumb line up to a smaller skeleton on a pedestal. Naturally, we had to have a word. A few days later we were standing in Paul Oestreicher's studio surrounded by cracked skulls, jagged limbs, deconstr...
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