Today’s installment of Vice’s Los Angeles guide to shoving food down your gullet includes where to do that in Hollywood, which is pretty much the same neighborhood as another section we’re putting up called Places to Go When Someone Else Is Paying. And since it’s Thursday and you’re a grownup who can handle sensory overload, we’re also offering up Places to Go When You Want to Get All Historical, one of which is called Clifton’s, a diner inside a fake forest frozen in 1938. It feels like the yellowing set for a kinky animatronics goldrush porno, only instead of Smoky the Bear and busty blondes with pickaxes it attracts geriatrics with oxygen tanks and malnourished blobs stuffed into wheelchairs, a surreal refuge after a nightmarish caper in which my date drunk-drove me down a sewer tube, whipping beer bottles out the window, splashing down right into the L.A. river.
RAQUEL ALLIANCE
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11/20/2008 in Los Angeles , USA | Permalink | Comments (0)
You’re having a good day, life feels stable. You know where you are and feel positive about where you’re headed. No one’s been an asshole in a while and you actually remembered to take a vitamin. And then you come across something like Pet Shit, a book drawn and printed by French lunatic Craoman, and suddenly you realize you’re just a tiny baby ant with no comprehension of what’s actually at work in the world. You need your diaper changed because you just crapped a load of question marks.
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11/20/2008 in Arts , USA | Permalink | Comments (3)
 Dear Vice,
In October you had those interviews with people after they just finished having sex with each other. That was nice but that situation accidentally happened to me the other week when I heard my old roommate doing it to some sad girl. Though I would like to wish away the noises I heard, the conversation that followed is pretty good. I only heard his half of the conversation; I think the girl spoke only with shrugs and whispers. Here are the things he said:
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11/20/2008 in Dear Vice , Past issues revisited , USA | Permalink | Comments (1)
Katie works in the office bellow ours. Her intern, Billy, wrote up this report for us on how she crippled her boss and ruined her life (for a minimum of five weeks).
Billie: I'm not sure what’s worse; the fact that my boss, Katie, broke her leg in three places during a bout of erratic dancing with yours truly, or that I didn’t believe she had a serious injury and left her in a dark corner of a bar for about twenty minutes on her own, incapable of moving?
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11/20/2008 in UK , USA | Permalink | Comments (6)
You might remember that short doc we made about Toronto's Zanta. If you don't, here's a few keywords to jog your memory: push-ups, loud, shirtless, Christmas, public disturbance, karate master, permanently banned from Toronto. Any of that ringing a bell? Well, today we got a tip regarding his whereabouts. Surprise! He's in live video chatrooms! Some girl recorded her chat with him, uploaded it to Youtube, and then alerted us. It's an eight minute video of him rambling about internet girls without pants and how he wants to change his screen name (it was set to "TheTermanator"). The video goes on waaaay too long and most of it doesn't make a lick of sense, but we wanted to keep you in the loop. Zanta may be brain damaged and furiously horny but we don't think he's dangerous. Did you know his life goals include making a sleigh pulled by 12 girls in Christmas bikinis? What is the point of banning this guy and his scrumptious ideas?
11/19/2008 in Canada , UK , USA | Permalink | Comments (4)
Name one amazing weekly party that hasn't been appropriated into a spectacle of bullshit within about a year. Here, we'll help you out: Peter Schoolwerth's Wierd night of cold wave, minimal synth, and experimental electronic/industrial noise, which has managed to keep its niche purity without stumbling on its own self-importance. On Friday the party turns five, so just for why-not's sake we asked the same four questions of all the bands playing the anniversary bash. Know how everyone is suddenly claiming interest in the dark side, slinking around town
dressed like spooks and talking about how they've loved Coil forever even though we saw them wearing a giant Day-Glo T-shirt while dancing to happy hardcore last year? It's because of Wierd and their likes. They might be a touch in denial of what they've started, but if our life's work
was lumped in with some wacky Edward Scissorhands goth regalia we might put our
blinders on too.
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11/19/2008 in Interviews , Music , New York , USA | Permalink | Comments (22)
 In case you missed the notice yesterday, this week we are afternooning the Vice Guide to Eating in LA. Today's installments tackle the twin visitor conundra of driving in the nation's most congested city (three years and running) and finding decent comestibles in the Downtown and Mid-City regions. If you're new to the internet, just click your mouse on the blacky words and you'll go to the article. Also, welcome!
11/19/2008 in USA | Permalink | Comments (0)
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