The Grey Lady Drops “Tweet”
“Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And ‘tweet’ — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.”…
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June 2010
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Elfin Annie and Straw Hubert
Viktor Pivovarov’s illustrations for a 1980 Soviet edition of Elfin Annie and Straw Hubert by the Czech Surrealist Vítězslav Nezval:
Little Green
“If I ever caught you spun, we’d be over. Only one of us gets to be fucked up at a time.”
Men with Balls
“This show is an act of complete personal indulgence. When the good people at apexart approached me about curating something in their space, they made a huge mistake. After some…
Morning Coffee
Look, NO ONE is above otter babies. Beware the contact high five; the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Hipster chicken coops. Surviving 1980s NYC graffiti. A little book design porn for…
The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend
At first, I loved Dan from a distance. Judging on a bell-curve, I was attractive for my high school debate team, but otherwise, I was far from his type of…
Did You Notice?
Today we published three originals: 1. Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview with Simon Rich. 2. 10/40/70 #11: Mildred Pierce. 3. A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #26: Women and…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #26: Women and Children First
What follows is an extrapolation, based on my wife’s July due date and the actual match schedule of the 2010 World Cup.
“But it is what it is.”
“On its face, the defenestration of Mr. Rosenthal signals the snuffing out of a leader who did his job with an old-fashioned boldness: a publishing executive who spoke with a…
10/40/70 #11: Mildred Pierce
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…