It seems that almost every year when we’re putting together the Photo Issue, we get one or two shots that are extremely well-composed, have incredibly rich colors that make you feel like you’re looking at some ultrarealist oil painting, and just happen to be of some furry little critter who just happens to no longer be alive. And every year without fail we receive a diarrheic flume of angry letters accusing us of hating animals, killing animals, deserving to be killed instead of animals, etc., etc. This year’s letter-crop took so long getting started we thought it might just not come at all, but then, like the first of the spazzouts returning to Capestrano, we found this missive in our inbox and knew for sure that the universe was still functioning as usual and Fall was on the horizon:
Archive for August, 2006
Dear Vice - Dead Cat Flap
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
New York - Nature’s Revenge
Last summer everybody raised about three seconds of stink over a discovery made by a team of German ornithologists. Apparently since cell phones have hit saturation point in most populated areas, songbirds have been picking up the ringtones blaring out of them and replicating them instead of making their usual calls. It’s kind of like the avian equivalent of rap… wait that doesn’t make sense, maybe found sound? Anyways, folks were briefly pissed because they thought that this was yet another case of the West forcing its culture down the throat (or up it) of yet another defenseless foreign society, and that traditional bird calls would go the way of Incan flute music and only be found on CDs at the Nature Company.
Beirut - Tech war
So MTV made this huge deal about how US soldiers are YouTubing war clips from Iraq with Limp Bizkit soundtracks. How cutting-fucking-edge! It’s such a dumb-ass format that the Iraqi insurgents themselves have done a piss-take.
But the recent events have shown that the frontline of the online battle for hearts and minds is in Israel/Palestine, not Iraq…
Dear Vice - Vanilla Pride
Reader Brandon Perry sent us another roadside treasure:
Dear Vice,
I picked this up at the Rite Aid the other day on a larf, but now I’m afraid my car smells like racism.
<3
BRANDON
I’m Busted - Cops Issue
Along with a bunch of other cop stories like yesterday’s, the glut of high-qualtiy crap that went into the Cops Issue forced out all our regular columns. Sorry, regs. Here’s the edition of “I’m Busted” that would have been in the issue if we’d just had this much more space.
I’m Busted - Cops Issue
Along with a bunch of other cop stories like yesterday’s, the glut of high-qualtiy crap that went into the Cops Issue forced out all our regular columns. Sorry, regs. Here’s the edition of “I’m Busted” that would have been in the issue if we’d just had this much more space.
I’m Busted - Cops Issue
Along with a bunch of other cop stories like yesterday’s, the glut of high-qualtiy crap that went into the Cops Issue forced out all our regular columns. Sorry, regs. Here’s the edition of “I’m Busted” that would have been in the issue if we’d just had this much more space.
