So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run, so I guess I’ve got a rooting interest in the team as well. Go Giants!
The shirt supplier Club and Country had this great idea to raise money for the Pope’s visit to Britain. It didn’t work out so well.
Tell me, if you were a woman, would you sign up to live in a bunker designed to survive an apocalypse with the kind of men who’d pay the kind of money it would take to reserve a spot?
What sounds do guitars make?
Harper’s has made available an essay from 1990 written by Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa about the history of the indigenous people of the Americas, among other things. I can’t wait to finish reading it.
If you’re Arab and have a car, you might want to check under it to see if the FBI is tracking you. That’s not a joke.
October 11 is National Coming Out Day, and I think it’s safe to say that we here at the Rumpus are in full support of equality for the LGBT community.
