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Cheese stands alone: Vice magazine isn’t known for serious journalism. It’s known for coke jokes and dick jokes and actual dicks and coke. But an exclusive interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire, possibly the greatest television show of all time, and the man who introduced corner talk to a whole generation of hipsters, that’s a gamechanger at tinyurl.com/vicewire.

Puppet state: What Up Gangstars is a blog, or rather a vlog, hosted by a puppet. Maybe that makes it a plog. Either way, Jay is no ordinary puppet. He’s a Montrealer, a bilingual hip-hopper with monk beads and BluBlockers, he surrounds himself with a cadre of DJs, hosts parties and hawks t-shirts with his face on them. Okay, so that sounds like many of the dirtbags you know, but he’s also uproariously funny and made out of cloth and foam.

Jay recently had his launch party, and his minders promise more video episodes to come, so tune in and see how far you can get with a hand up your HEY KIDS! at what-up-gangstars.com.