The Rumpus.net » Other http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 In a World of Infinite Possibility http://therumpus.net/2012/02/in-a-world-of-infinite-possibility/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/in-a-world-of-infinite-possibility/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:00:26 +0000 Lisa Dusenbery http://therumpus.net/?p=97631 “Lucy comes home from work. Lucy undresses in the foyer. Lucy gets on her hands and knees and crawls to her cage. Lucy listens. Lucy waits.”

Check out our own essays editor Roxane Gay’s new story “Lucy Lives in a World of Infinite Possibility” over at Two Serious Ladies.

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“Didion’s words help us to traverse the darkness together, provide clues as to how to survive the seemingly unsurvivable.”

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/meet-our-own-knife-throwing-eligible-bachelor/feed/ 0 Notable San Francisco: 2/13-2/19 http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-san-francisco-213-219/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-san-francisco-213-219/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:50:42 +0000 Emmy Komada http://therumpus.net/?p=97562 This Week in San Francisco…!

Monday 2/13: Judge Agatha Hoff reads at Odd Mondays, hosted by Dog Eared Books in Noe Valley. Free, 7pm.

Tuesday 2/15: Writer and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña celebrates V-day with a free show, Strange Democracy, at Mills College. 7pm. Nathan Englander reads from What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, “a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game.” Free, 7pm Jewish Community Center.

Wednesday 2/15:  Matilda Bernstein Sycamore is at at City Lights reading from Why Are Faggots Afraid of Faggots?, a challenge to both “straight homophobia and the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say the only way to stay safe is to act straight.”Free, 7pm.

Thursday 2/16: Local comic book artist and frequent Rumpus contributor Mari Noemi reads from Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22 at Asian Art Museum’s Sensuality-themed Matcha. $10, 5-9pm.  The long-awaited Bay Area arrival of From the Back of the Room, the 2011 documentary chronicling the past 30 years of female involvement in DIY punk, happens this week. $5, 9pm, Lost Weekend Video, Wednesday Oakland screening at Black Hole Cinema.

Friday 2/17: Mark Bradford and Audience as Subject, Part 2 opens at YBCA with entertainment by contemporary Butoh performance artist Deborah Butler and DJ Sake Onederful. $5, 9:30pm.

Saturday 2/18: Bird and Beckett books hosts the launch for Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild (excerpt here). Free, 7pm.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-san-francisco-213-219/feed/ 0 Notable New York, This Week 2/13-2/19 http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-new-york-this-week-213-219/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-new-york-this-week-213-219/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:00:54 +0000 LaToya Jordan http://therumpus.net/?p=97615 This week in New York, A Point of View on a Point of View, The Franklin Park Reading Series, SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Story Show, Page Meets Stage with Amy Lemmon and Lemon Anderson, Michael Showalter at WORD, Gameshow Speakeasy, An Homage to Piri Thomas, and KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction.

MONDAY 2/13: A Point of View on a Point of View will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge. Hosted by veteran editor Daniel Menaker of The New Yorker and Random House. Stony Brook Manhattan. 7 p.m. Free.

The Franklin Park Reading Series is kicking off Valentine’s Day with “Unconventional Love,” featuring Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet; Martha Southgate, The Taste of Salt; Kate Zambreno, Green Girl; Chiara Barzini, Sister Stop Breathing; and Will Snider, The Halloween Plays. $4 pints. Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden. 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 2/14: SMITH Magazine hosts another six-word story show with a focus on love and heartbreak, “Relighting Old Flame with New Matches,” featuring Rachel Shukert, Deborah Copagan Kogan, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Robin Gelfenbien, Mark Lukach, Shubha Bala and singer Tara O’Grady. There will also be a six-word slam following the main event. Also featuring DJ Spooky and special guests. 92YTribeca. 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $12 at the door.

WEDNESDAY 2/15: Page Meets Stage will feature poet Amy Lemmon, author of Fine Motor and Saint Nobody, representing the page and spoken word and theater artist Lemon Anderson, who was featured eight times on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Bar 13. $12, $6 for students. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 2/16: Michael Showalter will celebrate the paperback release of Mr. Funny Pants at WORD. 7 p.m. Free.

FRIDAY 2/17: Gameshow Speakeasy, hosted by Neil O’Fortune, features a panel of nightlife artists who attempt to guess the occupation of regular New Yorkers. (Le) Poisson Rouge. 7 p.m. $5

SATURDAY 2/18: Speak Up! An Homage to Piri Thomas, poet and author of Down These Mean Streets. Hosted by Dr. Marta Moreno Vega and Felipe Luciano, and curated by Rich Villar. Poets include Martin Espada, Jesus Papoleto Melendez, Junot Díaz, Willie Perdomo, Mayda del Valle, Emanuel Xavier, and others. El Museo del Barrio. 7 p.m. Free

SUNDAY 2/19: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction presents Women on the Verge with Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl and O Fallen Angel; Helen Phillips, author of And Yet They Were Happy and the forthcoming children’s adventure novel Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green; and actress Suzanne Scanlon, author of Promising Young Women. 7 p.m.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/notable-new-york-this-week-213-219/feed/ 0 Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-348/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/dan-weisss-morning-coffee-348/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:45 +0000 Dan Weiss http://therumpus.net/?p=97599 Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, if you’ve been wondering what to get that special someone.

There is a good chance you will soon have a medically classified mental illness.

Here’s some Diana camera porn for you in the meantime.

1900′s German Brothers Grimm illustrations (are terrifying).

Hey dudes, x-ray fish!

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/sundays-belong-to/feed/ 0 Science Saturday http://therumpus.net/2012/02/science-saturday-120/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/science-saturday-120/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:00:46 +0000 Brian Spears http://therumpus.net/?p=97492 I for one welcome our origami robot overlords.

So this story has a bat fly trapped in amber that’s 20 million years old. Who makes this into a movie?

Is cadmium the new lead?

NASA has awesome space pictures, which you would expect. These are from 10 billion years ago.

Purple Squirrel.

Say hello to Amasia, the super continent that will form in 200 million years when North and South American merge with Asia.

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]]> http://therumpus.net/2012/02/science-saturday-120/feed/ 0 Saturday Morning Links http://therumpus.net/2012/02/saturday-morning-links-133/ http://therumpus.net/2012/02/saturday-morning-links-133/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:00:25 +0000 Brian Spears http://therumpus.net/?p=97490 Last night the low was 1. Not Celsius either. In Celsius it was like negative fuck-you. Earlier in the day I looked out the door and saw bright sunny skies. Then I walked outside and discovered just how cold it can possibly be even when the sun is out. Oh how naive I have been*.

Dahlia Lithwick shows just how empty the case against same-sex marriage really is, and uses the decisions on Prop 8 this past week to do it.

Good news! The world is happier today than it was in 2007.

Sam Anderson’s piece on Charles Dickens World in the NY Times is brilliant if only for its description of the Great Expectations Boat Ride. But the whole thing is worth reading.

Tesla (remember them?) unveiled a new model of car, and says it will begin deliveries in 5 months. That I will likely never be able to afford one does nothing to lessen my excitement over this car.

The Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes in poetry were awarded recently. Congratulations to all the winners. I interviewed Mary Rosenberg, who administers the prize, back in 2009 for The Rumpus, back when I was a brand-new poetry editor.

* I fully expect people to comment on this and tell me how much of a wimp I am. Bring it.

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