BEN MAJOY
The Pros and Cons of Dwarf Tossing
Back in the day, LPA conventions involved stacking atop one another to pull the fire alarm and cracking champagne in the parking lot.
The End of Sports
By signing to the Miami Heat last night, Lebron James has joined one of the most unnatural ensembles of talent that physical activity has ever seen. Now, three of the five Miami Heat starters averaged over 24 points a game last year. Even if Miami...
What It's Like to Work in a Robot Store
At Viceland, our cousin site, Chicagoan Ben Majoy offers a tell-all about working in a robot store. Most exciting about this: there is such a thing as a robot store. The piece is as much about Greg, the perplexing owner (and former pinball machine...
Drifting for a Day
Gerald and John Beckett are known as Pete and Repeat, the two hobo brothers of Parkersburg, West Virginia. They’re 71- and 73-year-old retired nomads with identical hunched stances and scruffy white facial hair. They dress exactly the same as each...
HITCHHIKING THROUGH VIDEO-GAME TERRITORY OF ROMANIA
The stuttering Irishman said this particular Romanian citadel was special, snuggled between gypsy camps in a small German town that you could only get to it by following a long, unmarked dirt road. In order to enter the citadel, which, like the town...