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New York publication of note Vice -- that glossy, in-your-face magazine that features stinky Brooklynites wearing too-tight clothing and interviews with depressed music bands -- has come out with a very special San Francisco issue. In addition to featuring an interview with (former?) San Francisco resident Chis Daly ("If San Francisco were a giant, sprawling asshole, Chris Daly would be the inflamed hemorrhoid that just won’t go away"), they have an adorable neighborhood section (which balls out blows away 7x7 Magazine's bizarre and questionable neighborhood issue), a brilliant slam of Baghdad by the Bay that reads us to filth ("Would you like to be part of an entire social movement to extinguish and gentrify a once cosmically diverse metropolis?"), and of course, a section on our city's sourdough bead-like famous gay population. Be sure to pick up a copy at your nearest dive bar/compact disc resale store. Or, better yet, check it out online.
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This issue is pretty good and realistically upbeat.
A lot of times reading Vice is like smoking crack, you feel good at first and then 5 seconds later you feel catty and icky, but they do good work when they immerse themselves in a culture. The Russian issue from a few years ago is a perfect example of that and this one is pretty good too. Worth checking out.
Eh, a bit duller than I expected. Also, predictable (Mission kids cracking on the Marina/Nob Hill/Russian Hill just strikes me as kinda lazy and lame) and factaully incorrect in places (Land's End isn't the westernmost point in California, much less the continetal US...I mean, who cares either way, but why mention it--goes back to the dull thing).
Vice magazine is quite a bit like a dog eating its own vomit. Some folk might pontificate about the beauty of a dog eating its own vomit (everything is connected in an endless cycle of production and consumption!) but then they sober up and grow up and realize that they're just staring at a dog eating its own vomit. I'm not entirely sure if the magazine is the dog or the vomit. Probably both.
"If you’re coming to visit, don’t rent a car because we have some of the most reliable public transit in the world. "
While I agree heartily against renting a car it seems like they've never actually been here and dealt with Muni. That or they switched to being unknowably sarcastic in the middle of a sentence without any indication.