Cover photos by Roe Ethridge
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Letters - The Clowny Clown Clown Issue
Beary Scary, Your Ad Here, Over the Edge, You Ain't Got No Alibi, Pralines 'N' Wha?
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 THE CLOWNY CLOWN CLOWN ISSUE
This issue is so fucking good we decided it ought to have its own little song and dance. So we had composer Drew Swinburne make us a theme song. We knew Drew could write a song that would match our cover photos because he does the score for VBS.TV's Cute Sh...READ MORE |
 SHIT-IN
Thailand’s Latest Coup is Bourgie and Weird
The bathroom tile is slick with black liquid. I'm hesitant to enter barefoot, but a grade school boy has pointed to the "No Socks and Shoes" sign scrawled in Thai on a torn square of cardboard. He's sitting behind some bureaucrat's desk, which is absurdly hug...READ MORE |
 THE MAGIC JEWS
From Manischewitz to Mescaline
When I first walked into the apartment on Ridge Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I didn't see much because the lights were off. It was a long empty room with couches lining the walls. Empty cans and bottles everywhere. At four in the morning all tha...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
BLACK POWER 3
I've always dreamed of having Black Power because I think it would be awesome to be able to dunk a basketball. When I was younger I could touch the rim but now I'm fat...READ MORE |
 SOVIET HERITAGE
Understanding Pink Reason
Remember when Little Girl Lost came out and everyone was shocked that Drew Barrymore did coke when she was 12? That shit is small potatoes as far as busted childhoods go. Right after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kevin Failure's parents moved from Wisco...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
This is an occasionally impressive and often ridiculous 12-hour movie with some often satisfying and occasionally clumsy gameplay thrown in...READ MORE |
 WHAT MAKES A CLOWN SO CLOWNY?
Let’s Meet Five Pros: Gabooba, aka Danny
Vice: 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...READ MORE |
 THE ODD COUPLE
Dinner and DMT With Growing
The first time I did DMT I was listening to Growing. I left my body and went blissfully floating through a heavenly realm of gothic cathedrals and blue shiny caves under a pink sky made of billowing curtains. Then, unfortunately, I coughed and saw an octopus w...READ MORE |
 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
Words & Photos by Patrick O'Dell
Today I am swamped filming the Epicly Later'd show. I was at Guy Mariano's house this morning and Marc Johnson's house in the mountains yesterday. My life is filled with this stuff-questions, schedules, phone calls-and yet it doesn't even feel like work...READ MORE |
 BROTHEL NEWS
Brewer Gets Weird Up
Prostitution in the Czech Republic is something of a grey area when it comes to things like "laws" and "regulations". It's pretty impossible for the government to keep a handle on disease, human trafficking and underage sex workers in a country thought to have...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Clowny Clown Clown Issue
RADIO SILENCE/A SELECTED VISUAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN HARDCORE MUSIC
There have been plenty of books about hardcore recently but this is easily the...READ MORE |
 MERSEY INFANTICIDE
Inside the Violent Lives of Liverpool’s Eleven-Year-Olds
In the northeast of Scouserland, aka Croxteth, Liverpool, there lies a delightful old stately home. About 500 acres of it were made into a country park in 1972 and all through the year, families take day trips there to frolic in the fields, eat ice cream, and ...READ MORE |
 THE DOODLES OF WAR
Bloodthirsty Child Soldiers Tag Liberia
The child soldiers of Liberia have taken street art to another level. Tim Hetherington, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, took these terrifying photos during the blood-drenched civil war over there a few years back. The childlike scrawls of ...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Clowny Clown Clown Issue
YO MAJESTY
Futuristically Speaking… Never Be Afraid
I thought this was supposed to be lesbian hip-hop, but it's just, like, a bunch of angry ladies yelling over old Missy Elliott beats. Oh, wait a sec...READ MORE |
 RAW CHINA
A Day with Alfredo Martinez at the Military Museum
The first thing that catches Alfredo Martinez' attention outside Beijing's hulking Military Museum is a 400-foot-long Scud missile on a trailer to the right of the entrance. "The Russians didn't have GPS, so these are just guided by gyroscopes, which means the...READ MORE |
 BOTH SIDES NOW
Mexican Immigrants and the Families They Left Behind
There is an amusement park in Alberto Town, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is run by Hñahñu Indians. There, instead of the usual merry-go-round or Ferris wheel, amusement takes a different turn: One can pretend for a couple of hours to be an illegal immig...READ MORE |
 THE SECOND COMING
DJ Cut Hands Has the Solution
Hands up who's always wished that somebody could make a record that was partly inspired by things like the traumatic stories of genocide from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevi...READ MORE |
 THE GREATEST DRUG OF ALL
Five-Way Loving With The Big Pink
The Big Pink are two friends called Milo and Robbie who make noisy shoegazey music with an ever-revolving band of musicians including people like Akiko from Comanechi and Daniel O'Sullivan who plays with SunnO))) and Ulver...READ MORE |
 VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS
NIKOLAI GOGOL (1809-1852)
In 1831, the young Russian author wrote to his mother, "Suffering from hemorrhoids, I had the foolish idea that it was some other and more dangerous ailment. Later I learned that there was not one man in St. Petersburg fre...READ MORE |
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