Poet Dean Young, the author of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for April Fall HIgher, has apparently had successful heart transplant surgery. We wish him all the best and hope for a quick recovery.
With that in mind, here’s a piece we ran recently on National Donate Life Month.
Cuba is having a party today.
What did the March 11 Japan earthquake sound like underwater? Go find out.
If you’ve become as much of a Civil War nut as I have, then you want to read the Dead Confederates blog too. This entry talks about an alternate site for the first shot fired in the war and the reason for the specious claim.
And finally, Werner Herzog reads Where’s Waldo? because you need that on a Saturday morning.