2009
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder
“According to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 99.9 percent of hitchhikers are murderers…” (via DocPop.org)
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Hi everyone. I sort of took today off along with everyone else here at The Rumpus, but there was a lot of good stuff in the po-world this week and I wanted to pass it along. For starters, Memorious launched…
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The Rumpus Holiday Internet Roundup
‘Tis the season, so we’re taking a day or two off. Here are a few wonderful things from around the web to keep you busy (don’t worry, we’ll be back):
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Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
“An Ulm engraving of the year 1470 displays a horse and two apes joined together in the middle by a bar and fastened to the back of the horse by a pin. When placed on a stove the heat made…
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Christmas Comics
Happy Holidays from our Comics section: Exhibit A: SMALL POTATOES “Holiday Theatre.” Exhibit B: TRUTH SERUM “Merry Crimmis.” Exhibit C: PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL “Country Song (FM 98.9).” (Clarification: exhibit C is not exactly holiday related, but it does feature a…
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The Last Book I Loved: Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovah’s Witness whose voice grows like his first lone pubic hair…
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David McConnell: The Last Book I Loved, The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
I’m always hunting for great nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century histories. Something about those rolling, periodic sentences, the lofty diction, the Olympian “great man” narratives gives the books an air of eternal authority I love. Compared to them, recent popular histories…
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Morning Coffee
Today is Christmas Eve and even though some of us are of the chosen people we’re taking it easy for the next few days because we deserve it! (Morning Coffee will see you on Monday.) I totally lied to you…