June 2010
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/7-6/13
This Week: check out an “occurrence” in a motel at Mugwumpin’s Get This Go, The Rumpus hosts an evening of music and film with The Yellow Dress at The Rickshaw Stop, Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee is all over SFMoMA’s…
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BPGlobalPR
“Safety is our primary concern. Well, profits, then safety. Oh, no- profits, image, then safety, but still- it’s right up there.” “You don’t go drilling 5000 feet underwater with the tools you want, you do it with the tools you…
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Tune of the Day
Artist: Birds Fled From Me Song: “Staring at the Sea” Bay Area music lovers, Rachel Fannan (formerly Birds Fled From Me) will be performing with Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss‘s band, The Yellow Dress, and more this Wednesday at the…
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Summer Comics
Just in case “a single, immense, thrilling work of literary theory disguised as a reference book” doesn’t sound like the most exciting way to fill up your summer reading list, you may want to take a peek at this article…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #2: Deborah Hampton in Conversation with Kellesimone Waits
Kellesimone Waits–on the heels of her new show Venus Fly Trap, sat down with me to discuss political S&M, strippers in doll houses, and the process behind her genius paintings.
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Letters to Fictional Characters
To Humbert Humbert of Nabokov’s Lolita: “Hey Humbert, How’s jail? I hope it’s as bad as they make it out to be in those undercover exposes. I mean, I really hope you’re suffering, I want to be clear on that from…
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The Rumpus Funny Women Interview with Sarah Haskins
Like most women, I am gay for Sarah Haskins. Unlike most women, I got to interview her. Here are some things you should know about Sarah to get the most out of our interview:
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Every Person In New York
Woman at Taco Bell on 14th Street. Man Sleeping on a bench in Madison Square Park, May 30, 2010. He is wearing 3-D Movie Theatre Glasses. Lewis Lapham. Three people out of the current 8,008,278 people of New York City.…
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The Paris Review Goes Southern
It’s “Terry Southern Month” at The Paris Review Daily—the quarterly’s online “culture gazette,” the goal of which is to stay in touch with The Paris Review’s audience between print issues. Today, read an interview with Terry Southern from Issue 138.…
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bodies at rest
Sarah Fran Wisby responds to San Francisco’s Sit/Lie proposition criminalizing homelessness. ** I come not to bury the sponsors of the proposed Sit/Lie aka Civil Sidewalks ordinance, but to praise them, and to call attention to a potential side benefit…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Well, I took too many Xanax, so then I took a bunch of Adderall to right the ship, you know? Might have over-corrected though. I feel like barfing and passing out, but this is the most intense relaxation I’ve ever…