A while back we ran a contest that we anticipated would unleash a barrage of garbage on par with a lit journal put together by home-schooled junior high students from Yeehaw Junction. It was deemed the Blank Issue and we promised the winner $1,000 or an internship at our esteemed publication, along with a few miscellaneous prizes for the runners-up. And yes, it prompted readers to foist their horrible story ideas, horrible DOs & DON'Ts captions, and horrible record reviews upon our poor, defenseless inboxes and the unsuspecting public. What we didn't expect was that a few of the submissions would turn out to be pretty decent. And what really blindsided us was the sheer volume of entries. So please accept our humblest apologizes for taking so long to select our favorites, but it's your fault for sending so many our way. (You can all stop doing that now, OK? We're done reading.) In a couple days we'll announce the winner, so all you who've been mouthing off in the comments about the whole thing being a scam can shut it. It's not a scam, we've just been a little busy doing a little something called "puttin' together a magazine."
You know what? An Impatient Assholes Issue really has some potential.
Posted by: Justin Bailey | 20/04/2009 at 17:13
i browsed through some of the entries and they are actually pretty good. Some of them are pretty clever
Posted by: boggle_brains | 20/04/2009 at 17:13
although the whole thing being an actual scam would've been pretty funny..or not
Posted by: jebus | 20/04/2009 at 17:17
i was kind of hoping it was all a scam. vice could just use all the entries and take a month or two off, deny all knowledge of the comp. that would have been comedy gold.
Posted by: rip off. | 20/04/2009 at 17:19
i gotta say that the covers and themese are more clever than the content
Posted by: zero | 20/04/2009 at 17:19
some of the covers/themes were brilliant but used copyrighted images. come on people, why are you gonna put so much effort into something that cannot possibly be used?
Posted by: duncan | 20/04/2009 at 18:38
What a great idea. I wish our pub had ti together enough to do this, I shudder to think of the submissions though...
Posted by: Bandit a la mode | 20/04/2009 at 19:49
this faggy Blank Issue is not going to beat the Vice Fiction Issue 2008. drag a hundred bill thru a trailer park you will come up w/ something better "Trust Me."
Posted by: less_cunning | 20/04/2009 at 22:07
My Car once broke down in Yeehaw Junction, I had to stay the night there and pretty much had to help the guy fix my car the next day. The hotel which is supposedly a historic landmark is really junction for crank whores and a shit-hole to boot.
Posted by: Mike | 20/04/2009 at 22:37