December 2011
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Happy New Year!
Thanks for another amazing year, Rumpus readers. We love you back (so, so much). See you in 2012! The Rumpus
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Science Saturday
If you weren’t already afraid of scorpions, then you probably don’t want to hear that their exoskeleton sort of acts like one big eye. Popular Science takes us on a tour inside Space Shuttle Atlantis. Twenty-five bucks will soon get…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to the end of the year. This time last year, I was living in Fort Lauderdale, which was going through the coldest December on record, according to NOAA. This year I’m in Des Moines, going through a much milder…
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End The Year Laughing Against The Machine in San Francisco
Laughter Against the Machine is doing New Years! In San Francisco! There are five shows to choose from between Thursday Dec 29 and Saturday Dec 31 at the Phoenix theatre. Bonus: Discount code “therumpus” gives you $5 off! Get warmed…
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The Garden, Disseminated, Overgrown
Out of reverence for the body’s irreducibility, Mort’s keeps strictly close to the phenomenal world, thereby freeing her imagination to honor all the body’s modes: five-fold sensuality, hunger as well as lust, youth and aging, selfishness and tender community.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mirah
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born in 1974) came up in the fertile Olympia scene of the late ’90s. She was part of the K Records renaissance along with bands like the Microphones, the Blow and Old Time Relijun – all…
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The Last Book I Loved: Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
I read Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond in a hotel room. Nowhere fancy: I was in Asheville, North Carolina, facing nothing more uncomfortable than bugs and frogs and humidity, the steady chatter of fat people plunking…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How the Real Work Is Done
We can all have a better life if we make one.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Moving Backward, Forward
Steve Reich WTC 9/11 (Nonesuch) “It’s pretty much Different Trains but for 9/11.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Marie Calloway
In late November Marie Calloway, a twenty-one year old college student, published on her blog a long essay about sleeping with a writer twice her age.