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Lick My Robot Clitoris
Check out Zombies! Organize!! in our video section. Does a robot clitoris shock the tongue like a 9-volt battery? Enquiring minds want to know.
“Why am I giving them to Ariana Huffington?”
Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott discusses why he started The Rumpus, how the Daily Rumpus emails evolved, and the politics of literary authors in an interview with 12th Street.
Science Saturday
Are you a dude? Do you use a laptop? Do you love your sperm? Huge bubbles of gamma rays have been discovered coming out of the center of the Milky…
Zombies! Organize!!
I imagine licking a robot’s clitoris is like sticking your tongue on a 9-volt battery.
Welcome to Saturday
Yesterday, we mentioned the trouble with for-profit education. Now, take a look at the economics of for-profit education. Short version–profits will be down for now. Keith Wilson at We Who…
The Eyeball #39: Bros. Quay, Svankmajer, and McLaren
Last week for my Hugo House class on using experimental films as writing prompts we spent 88 glorious minutes with House, the 1977 Japanese haunted pajama party freak-out directed by…
Tolstoy (Circa 1891)
A few folks over at The Atlantic were going through their archives when they stumbled on a profile of Leo Tolstoy from 1891. (via TheMillions)
A Shoe-Seller Speaks
I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Poet Laureate Elizabeth Alexander about her poetry collection, Crave Radiance.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
An artist has given New York some awesome digital dead drops. Amazon defends selling a book on pedophilia . . . then takes it off the site. Frustrated with iPad…