Well look at this, Vice has finaly stooped as low as to steal ideas from a small indie magazine distributed—oh wait, look at this—they're from Montreal too.
Absolutely pitafull [sic]... Scratch me off your loyal readers list.
VANCE

PS: This Issue was distributed in Montreal in March 2008.

Uhp, you caught us. We saw this "indie magazine" on one of our many visits to Montreal from New York. Despite it looking like something a 12-year-old put together in photoshop, we were so taken by its chosen theme (We were like "Mexico... now there's a thought") that we decided to lift it wholesale for ourselves. For the next four weeks we scrambled liked monkeys on crank to assemble an entire Vice Mexico staff from scratch (including publisher) while simultaneously coming up with enough articles to fill an issue in time for the May 1 print deadline. Somehow we pulled the whole thing off. It was one of the fastest and sneakiest operations in the history of known publishing, and we were sure we were going to get away with it, but then you busted us and now no one will ever read our magazine again. Fuck.

Oh yeah, and we also filmed a bunch of shit for VBS at the same time.

Comments

I knew I'd heard of this "Mexico" thing somewhere else. You guys are thieves.

Posted by: tbold | 30/06/2008 at 18:00

It's like "Hey you guys totally copied this one issue of this VICE clone! NO FAIR!"

Posted by: sweet fancy penis | 30/06/2008 at 19:11

Genius! You're ripping off a Vice rip-off that's ripping you off that you're ripping-off, etc. etc.... Like 12 Monkeys.

Posted by: FartCup | 30/06/2008 at 19:45

WHICH IN ITSELF WAS A RIPOFF OF LA JETEE BY CHRIS MARKER!

INFINITE RECURSION!

Posted by: tbold | 30/06/2008 at 20:19

I guess we can mark 2008 as the year that Mexico was discovered by angst filled 20 year olds. 2008 will be a year of unbridled change for our neighbors to the south.

Posted by: | 30/06/2008 at 21:06

WOAH! MY FUCKEN BRAIN IS GOONA EZPLODE!!!

Posted by: FartCup | 30/06/2008 at 21:35