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In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she’ll be performing this week.
...moreAndy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
“Camus was the new kid on the block, confronted by the great metropolitan circle of critics and publishers and philosophers around Sartre – and yet he could score over the master with his ice-green eyes and don’t-give-a-damn charm.
...moreMeanwhile in England, a troupe of 24 modern day pilgrims re-enacted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, walking the 1637 pilgrimage route and raising money for the National Literacy Trust.
The group stopped at the landmarks mentioned in the tale and each pilgrim told their assigned character’s story with full audience participation, anachronistic twists, and sock puppeteering; the bawdiest of which were audio-recorded.
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Last month I announced my candidacy for Office of the President of the United States of America.
Via McSweeneys:
“When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can’t stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don’t think me is monster.
...moreArtist Hally McGehean has been selected for Time Out New York’s list of hot “spring singles.”
Now usually we’d never link to a piece like that, but we like this one… mainly because Hally has been rejecting our managing editor since he was 17.
...moreAlina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.
...moreThree of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito, are unleashing a guerrilla stand-up comedy tour on America: Laughter Against The Machine.
Click the link to learn more, and check out their sweet promotional video after the jump:
...moreAuthor and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman’s “Museum of Silly Charts.”
...moreKatie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
...moreRumpus readers are having a good time adding cities to Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities map.
Why not join in the fun?
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Cartographer Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities:
I’m glad there’s a wikipedia entry for 5,318,008 = BOOBIES, and many other entertainments from algebra class:
Comedian and Rumpus contributor Kyle Kinane (who Zak Smith calls “the best comedian I’ve ever seen”) will be performing at the Punchline in San Francisco this weekend. If you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss out. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
...more“Google confirmed widespread rumors last night that it will soon launch an invitation-only beta-testing program for its controversial Android phone App, Word Count. According to a press release posted on the Google Lab Team blog, the App will make use of the Lab Team’s recently designed algorithms and a controversial piece of software known as Estimated Time of Death (ETD) to predict how many words a user has left to communicate before the user perishes and dies.”
Forget social networking and privacy fines.
...moreMeet Dan Sinker, the man behind the hilarious @MayorEmanuel Twitter account “who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.”
(via @MotherJones)
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A NIGHT TOGETHER: Presented by The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill
On April 6, The Rumpus, Tin House and Flavorpill joined forces and presented a night of fiction, music, comedy and general mayhem at the Highline Ballroom. Despite the large size of the Highline, it was a remarkably cozy evening.
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PORCUPINES
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing porcupines.
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There’s an ice cream truck near my apartment that sells cinnamon ice cream. I haven’t tried it yet; but when I do, I think it’s going to be my favorite.
...moreTHE ROCKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rockville Public Library.
...moreGLENN BECK
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Glenn Beck.
...moreMY BODY
★★★★★ (4 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my body.
...moreTHE VENDING MACHINE IN MY SISTER’S APARTMENT BUILDING LOBBY
★★★★★ (1 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the vending machine in the lobby of my sister’s apartment building.
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