Last Friday, I took the Eurostar from London to Paris to meet the topless feminist protest group Femen. Originally based in the Ukraine, the organization has since spread out across the world.
When ecstasy became widely available three decades ago, it was largely consumed by suburban white kids wearing baggy cargo shorts who sucked pacifiers in abandoned warehouses, while listening to electronic music of some sort or other until they collapsed in exhaustion.
There has been a lot of heat coming down on cab drivers in Toronto lately. Some people are calling for stricter regulations on taxi drivers and saying that too many of them are reckless, dangerous and possible threats to society.
This past Monday I did a stand-up show, and one of the other comics said something along the lines of, “I have depression, but I recently stopped taking my medications.” The crowd applauded in support of her strength and resilience.
On April 1st 2014, new federal legislation will strip current medical marijuana users of their right to grow, and/or have a designated grower. There are approximately 2,800 growers producing for the over 26,000 medical marijuana users in this country.
About a year ago, I sat down to brunch across from one of the most badass women I’ve ever met. We’ll call her Sandra. Sandra’s not badass in the way many people would define the word.
The media keeps telling me that, thanks to the new LA condom laws and the fact that the internet exists, the porn industry is flat broke. But if that’s true, how can they still afford to get their logos tattooed on to my friend Hostgator Dotcom’s body and face?
Kids are dumb. We know this both from research that shows teenagers’ brains are suggestion-prone and vulnerable and from just watching how they act every day. “I’m going to eat a bunch of cinnamon because YouTube told me to, oh no, now I require medical attention because I’m an idiot!”
Over the next month, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin’s latest novel, ‘Taipei,’ we will be featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip to Taipei, Taiwan. This week’s photos are based on people who seem unable to stop looking at their phones while in public.
Chatting with a couple of guys who nearly killed themselves with junk food for no good reason whatsoever.
