It’s not every day one is able to conduct an engaging interview
via email. In fact, if we’re going to be real, it’s something
I’ve never actually successfully achieved before (with apologies
to everyone I’ve email interviewed in the past). Where I’m going
with this of course is that I popped my engaging email interview
cherry with VICE‘s Thomas Morton just now. And I feel like I’ve
got to give full credit to Thomas, the Editor of VICE’s just
released Dos & Don’ts book (the second volume), for being
brilliantly weird, bold, smart, and sort of confrontational.
Indeed, Thomas talked fashion and editorial politics in a way
that made both topics seem as interesting, if not more so, than
Curiosity roving the face of Mars, and infinitely more so than
anything to do with the Olympics. And one more thing: I am not a
dude (you’ll see what I mean in a minute)…  Portable: Why was
there a seven year gap between books, and can we expect another
one?  Thomas Morton: It’s funny, the original book was a
collection of the fir