​ Mel Brooks, February 1975 This article originally appeared in the February 1975 issue of Playboy. To read every article the magazine has ever published—from 1953 until today—visit the complete archive at iplayboy.com . For more Playboy, check out PlayboySFW.kinja.com . “The rich,” according to a…

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CMS Trap Parable Many years ago there was a Rails app. It started with things. These things wereactually blueprints for other things. The other things needed many associatedparts, and parts of parts. How many? The blueprints knew. The blueprintsabsolutely had to have an admin interface, but changing…

By Tristan Deerman* Four years ago, I wrote a piece on heroin use for Newcity . Since then, I moved to New York, hit rock bottom, and returned to Chicago. Much has developed over the past four years. While I was in New York, a major heroin bust (the Dana Bostic ring on the West Side) was responsible…

IF IT BEGINS ANYWHERE, the tale of Litvinenko’s fatal disillusionment with his country starts on March 2nd, 1995. That morning, Litvinenko was briefing his FSB bosses on the activities of a murderous mafia group known as the Kurgan gang. The mobsters were linked to a string of executions and…

Olds 442 snip In June, 1971 I was living like a bum in the area of New York City that used to be known as Spanish Harlem. As a 26-year-old British immigrant, I dreamed of driving fast, dangerous cars and visiting all the contiguous states as cheaply as possible.  My dreams seemed impractical, but an…

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The still unknown Turnbull goes to voters As one of Freud's acolytes might put it: 'It's not how you are, it's how people think you are.' Turnbull's 'substance' experiment is over ScoMo: man with a plan, and mind the thalwegs Turnbull's 'substance' experiment is over Opinion Malcolm Turnbull tried…

We’re in the Lexus, headed uptown. It’s night and the lights along the Henry Hudson flicker across the faces of the three teenage boys, showing baby-smooth skin. They’re smoking Newports. Their heads chuck back and forth inside North Face jackets to Tupac bumping on the sound system: Ain’t nothin…

On a muggy Friday a couple of weeks ago, Dave Arnold was covered in a fine coating of chickpea dust. He had spent the day shooting foods like buckwheat, corn, pasta, rice, and lentils out of a puffing gun—a large, steel contraption that weighs as much as a car. In the course of experimenting with a…

A few days before I have to talk in front a lot of people I get this queasy feeling in my stomach that won’t go away. I don’t want to eat. I just want to cancel the talk because I don’t want to deal with the stress. My hands get sweaty before I get on stage. I feel like I want to run away. I…

On an overcast day in early May, I traveled to suburban Philadelphia to visit the family of Sunil Tripathi, the deceased 22-year-old Brown University student who, for about four hours on the morning of April 19, was mistakenly identified as Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings. The…

One day in 1929, a slender little man of forty-two, with a wen on his right cheek and a lock of brown hair drooping over the right side of his forehead, walked into the Library of Congress, in Washington, diffidently asked the guard at the information desk the way to the Manuscripts Division, and…