Hecka Party Yo
Jill Sobule singing San Francisco onstage with Lorelei Lee, Stephen Elliott, and Isaac Fitzgerald at the Happy Baby movie kickstarter launch party.
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Random Thoughts About Intimacy Cloaked in a Review of the Movie (A)sexual
This morning I saw (A)sexual, a documentary about people who are asexual, featuring David Jay, directed by Angela Tucker. I’ve been struggling with this term for thirteen years or so, since a girlfriend suggested I was asexual, or gay.
Let’s Make A Movie!
What do porn stars, punk rock self-help gurus, musical legends, comedy, literature, yo-yos, and the movie Argo have in common?
The Rumpus, Zyzzyva, and Wolphin present, November 12, 6pm at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street
LET’S MAKE A MOVIE!
The Kickstarter launch for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus!
...moreA couple of extra stills from About Cherry
Some pics we turned up from the shooting of About Cherry, just for fun.
...moreThe Happy Baby Email List
The first Rumpus produced movie, Happy Baby, is launching its fundraising efforts November 8. To be reminded of the launch, receive other updates, and notices for Happy Baby related events, consider joining the Happy Baby email group:
...moreDeveloping Environments
This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Developing Environments, the first legal artists cooperative in San Francisco and they’re celebrating with open studios all weekend.
DE offers affordable, spacious housing to artists who would not be able to live and work in San Francisco otherwise, like John Chiara who makes huge prints with an oversize camera.
...moreBinders Full of Women, Tumblr
The title pretty much says it all. How long did it take for a Binder Full of Women Tumblr to follow the presidential debate? Not long.
...moreWant to get a letter from Lisa Yee?
Lisa Yee tweets a picture of her Letter For Kids.
You might not know who Lisa Yee is, but your child probably does. Check out her website.
...moreRichard Parks’ short doc
Friend of The Rumpus, Richard Parks, needs you to vote for his short doc in order to get a festival screening at the ArcLight Hollywood where a prize of $10,000 is being awarded. Hook a Rumpus Brother up.
Just head over to YouTube where you can watch the video and click like.
...moreA Short Movie
Here’s the script to the short movie I’m shooting next Wednesday in Los Angeles. We’re hoping to use the short when fundraising for Happy Baby, the feature Rumpus Films is shooting in Detroit this March.
...moreSpecial New York screening of About Cherry
There’s a special screening of About Cherry this Tuesday, 7:30pm in Manhattan in advance of the movie’s release September 21.
We have twenty tickets to give away. If you’d like one send an email to cherry@therumpus.net.
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Dispatch from TIFF: Spring Breakers and Argo
Spring Breakers is capital A Art and Argo is a MOVIE. Argo is so good that it’s also smart, and you’re thrilled but you also learn a little something. It’s entertainment that tickles your brain. And it’s also art, just no capital a, I guess.
...moreA Video Series on YouTube
Here’s something I haven’t seen before. An interesting, really interesting, web series featuring America Ferrera. Is this the direction of television though? Will we watch video series online that are not funny, that are not meant to stand alone? These are dramatic and well done with eight episodes posted so far out of twelve total.
...moreWe Support Gun Control Laws Because We’re Sane
It’s not about guilt
Forty days in jail and $3,179 in fines for a traffic ticket. The growth of privatized probation.
...morePole Tax
Tits & Sass on the “pole tax”, a tax on strip club patrons that goes to fund sexual assault prevention.
Bubbles points out that there is no link between patronizing a strip club and sexual assault. It would make much more sense to tax patrons of McDonald’s and use the funds for diabetes research.
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The next Letter In The Mail: Steve Almond
The next Letter In The Mail is from Steve Almond. Steve Almond is the author of eight books, including Letters from People Who Hate Me and the best-selling Candyfreak.
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Whoops, I hired Isaac
This is The Daily Rumpus email from three years ago today when I announced to the world The Rumpus had it’s first employee.
...moreWho’s the scholar now?
You might want to consider picking up the most recent copy of The American Scholar, if just for the advertisement inside the front cover.
...moreWe’re not going to cover BEA
But I really like Emily Gould’s writeup of the BEA. I like the way she writes.
...moreYoung-Bama
This short review of Barack Obama, The Story, has me wanting to read the book. How did that happen?
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D.A. Powell’s Sneak Preview
D.A. Powell, who will be reading at our Celebration of Written Correspondence tomorrow, has a brief excerpt of his letter on his blog.
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