It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...Some Dude?!
gq.comThey are ordinary men in extraordinary costumes, and they have risen from the ashes of our troubled republic to ensure the safety of their fellow citizens. Jon Ronson goes on patrol with Urban Avenger, Mr. Xtreme, Pitch Black, Knight Owl, Ghost, and the baddest-ass "real-life superhero" of them all, Phoenix Jones
Estimated reading time: 23 min
The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
gq.comChris Chaney never wanted to become famous as The Man Who Hacked Hollywood. In the beginning at least, he was just a 33-year-old loner looking for something to do. Two years unemployed, he lived in a rundown brick house in a middle-class neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, where the streets are named for fairy tales:
Estimated reading time: 17 min
The Movie Set That Ate Itself
gq.comKhrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The set would be a panopticon. Microphones would hide in lighting fixtures (as they would in many a lamp in Stalin's USSR), allowing Khrzhanovsky to shoot with multiple film cameras from practically anywhere—through windows, skylights, and two-way mirrors.
Estimated reading time: 19 min
The Best Night $500,000 Can Buy
gq.comThis was maybe the sixth or seventh night I'd been to Marquee. On other nights I would show up before the club opened, so I could observe the hidden machinery and ascertain how the people who run the place go about manufacturing the communal fun-gasm that made Marquee the highest-grossing nightclub in Las Vegas and very likely the universe.
Estimated reading time: 32 min
"Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is."
gq.comAnother three bangs. But Adrian does not run. He does not recognize the noises as gunfire, and the words being screamed are so implausible as to be fantasy. People simply do not shoot one another in Norway. Adrian is not so much afraid as curious.
Estimated reading time: 43 min
Roberta's in Brooklyn's Weed Tasting Menu - Stoner Food with Marijuana: Recipes: GQ
gq.comAt our behest, they recently set about designing a three-course, two-cocktail weed-heavy tasting menu. I was still high twenty-four hours after eating it. And though my notes from the end of the night are difficult to read, I think I know what I meant when I scrawled: "This needz 2 happen allo the time."
Estimated reading time: 5 min
The Leo Tapes
gq.comBecause what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of.
Estimated reading time: 9 min
Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now
gq.comThose are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
Upon This Rock
gq.comI recoiled in dread. I called my lawyer, in Boston, who told me to "stop using computers."
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
gq.com18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
Estimated reading time: 47 min
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Man Up, Bieber
gq.comWe can't have dicks being drawn all over the place. People might get the wrong idea about filthy-rich 18-year-old pop stars.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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Uncatchable
gq.com"Where were you before you came to Portugal?" "Guinea-Bissau," Wright told them. "Where were you before that?" "France." "And before that?" "Nowhere," said Wright. "What about Algiers?" And Wright understood that the game was up. "Okay," he replied. "Let's put the cards on the table." They showed him the arrest warrant. "Are you George Wright?" they asked. It was a name he hadn't heard in decades. "Yes," said Wright. "I've been waiting forty years for this day."
Estimated reading time: 36 min
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Kidnapped (Just Kidding!)
gq.comThere was a moment when it felt real. I wish I could tell you the exact time, but I was stuck in a frigid basement and they had taken my watch, along with everything else I was carrying when they grabbed me. I think it was around 3 a.m., but I'm only guessing. It felt like someone had torn open the minutes between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. and stuffed ten more hours inside. I was not on regular time. I was on Being Kidnapped time, which lasts far longer.
Estimated reading time: 15 min
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An Oral History of the 1992 US Olympic Basketball Dream Team on the 20th Anniversary: Profiles: GQ
gq.comParity, everyone learned, wasn't nearly as captivating as dominance. And make no mistake: Dominating was as important as winning. The idea was to dazzle, to put on a display of American might so awe-inspiring that the best our rivals could hope for was a silver medal. Or even better, Michael Jordan's autograph.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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