June 2010
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement is here for you every week, rounding up what Rumpus books has been up to. Come take a look-see.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, as Stephen mentioned in a recent Daily Rumpus, we’ll be doing a poetry version of the Rumpus Book Club. We’re in the early stages at present, but we’ll make more announcements as we start to nail things down. I’m…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #27: Stars, Stripes, Studded Bras
I love what Landon Donovan told CBS News about the goal he scored at the end of the U.S. – Algeria match last Wednesday in the World Cup. “When that ball came to me, the net looked like the ocean,”…
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Strange Bedfellows, Indeed
When I see a story that includes an intersection between porn and fundamentalist Christianity, it usually involves a heaping helping of hypocrisy–a gay-bashing preacher who’s secretly gay; a family-values politician who’s arrested for soliciting a cop in a public restroom–but…
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Science Saturday
Remember “Climate-Gate”? Your perception of it is no doubt shaded by your understanding (or lack thereof) of the science supporting global climate change. Unfortunately, that understanding is often screwed with by people with an agenda and a press that’s either…
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Sounds like a reasonable position
Reykjavik just elected a comedian to be its mayor. Jon Gnarr is the head of the Best Party, which took just over a third of the vote in the recent elections, which means they control 6 of the City Council’s…
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Saturday Morning Links
It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions talking about the Wu-Tang Clan. They are, as you might…
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SMALL POTATOES:
The Writing BusinessClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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National Book Award Finalist or Nickname for the Author’s Junk? (Both.)
List of National Book Award Finalist titles that, when put under a phallocentric microscope, could be read as possible references to the author’s own genitalia:
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This Weekend in San Francisco
If you live in the Bay Area don’t miss The Believer‘s All-Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking. Click the link for details (or just take our word for it and be at Amnesia tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, at 6pm).