Meanwhile 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. When all was said and done, the group had raised more than double their intended fund-raising goal, bringing in £10,500. Here taketh the makere of this blogpost his leve.

Walter Green, genius designer behind the original Write Like a Motherfucker logo, takes a stab at Sugar’s true identity.

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. Me just furry blue person who love cookies too much. Me no ask for it. Me just born that way.”

I don’t think there is such a thing as loving cookies too much.

Isn’t that how we all feel sometimes? More here.

Artist 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.

Update: Also on the list? Author Aryn Kyle, who recently read at the April Rumpus in San Francisco.

Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.

Three 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: …more

Author and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman’s “Museum of Silly Charts.”

Katie 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.

Rumpus 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?

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.

For those of you that don’t live in SF, check out Rumpus Radio, Episode 10.

“How many Cormac McCarthies does it take to change a light bulb?”

(via @eshonkwiler)

“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. Sean Patrick Cooper breaks the real news over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Will you be invited?

We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass.

The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also called, weirdly, The Wire: …more

Meet 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)

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. …more

THE 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.

Located at 81 Empire St., Allston, MA, it contains mostly snacks (my favorite is A4, the York Peppermint Pattie) but it also dispenses condoms and gum (which I don’t consider a snack because it’s not meant to be swallowed). The placement of the gum is dangerously close to the condoms and on two occasions I’ve accidentally purchased the condoms. On one of those occasions I didn’t notice what I had done until I put the “gum” in my mouth. …more