The Rumpus.net » Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:19:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Auto Email Response from Sugar http://therumpus.net/2012/02/auto-email-response-from-sugar/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/auto-email-response-from-sugar/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:04:22 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=97413 I’m in Berlin for the Berlin International Film Festival for the premier of Cherry and since I won’t be on email much I set up an auto-response for my email.

Sugar got one and reminded me that I had forgotten to include her in my auto-response. Here’s what it should say:

Thanks for writing. I’m going to be only intermittently available over email for the next eleven days.

If this is regarding The Rumpus please contact Isaac Fitzgerald.

If this is an enquiry about the movie Cherry please email Jordan Kessler.

If your lover just left you, your parents are dysfunctional, you worry about still being a virgin at 28, you want to cheat on your spouse even though you love him/her, you’re 21 and almost done with college and you STILL have no idea what you’re going to do with your life, you have bizarre sexual desires, you’re gay but afraid to say so, you’re freaked out that you’re 35 and single and all your friends are partnering up, you feel incredibly angry at your toddler and don’t know what to do with your rage, you wonder if it’s okay to ask your professor/therapist/neighbor on a date, please email Sugar, sugar@therumpus.net

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We sent this week’s Letter In The Mail pre-sorted, which takes longer than a normal stamp. Your letter, featuring an amazing cartoon by Dean Haspeil, should arrive on Friday or early next week. For people who subscribed late, or were lost in the transition from block addresses to CSV (never mind) I had to hand stuff and stamp the envelopes, which I mailed yesterday. The upshot is 100 subscribers will receive the letter about a week earlier than the rest of the subscribers.

Anyway, we’re excited about Dean’s letter. It’s our first cartoon letter. And it’s good.

Our next letter is from Lorelei Lee. Lorelei is an adult film star, a writer, and lecturer at NYU. She is also the co-writer of my movie Cherry, which is premiering in a little over a week in Berlin (come say hi). Her letter was written by hand and is fifteen pages long. You need to subscribe this week in order to receive Lorelei’s letter. There’s a preview of Lorelei’s letter in the NYTimes ArtBeat.

Coming soon we have Dave Eggers, Emily Gould, Matthew Zapruder, and others.

 

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/half-time-america/feed/ 0 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie http://therumpus.net/2012/02/the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:31:40 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=97103 Ben Gazzara died.

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Thanks Jacket Copy. We love you back!

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/01/letter-from-la/feed/ 0 Selected Letters of William S. Burroughs http://therumpus.net/2012/01/selected-letters-of-william-s-burroughs/ http://therumpus.net/2012/01/selected-letters-of-william-s-burroughs/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:48:31 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=96383 “I give as much atten­tion to a letter as I do to anything I write.” – William S. Burroughs. (via Jesus Angel Garcia)

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/01/sunday-comments/feed/ 0 Cho time http://therumpus.net/2012/01/cho-time/ http://therumpus.net/2012/01/cho-time/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 Stephen Elliott http://therumpus.net/?p=96274 Chantel Simmons is excited about her letter from Margaret Cho.

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