Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bjork likes biology and she hopes you do too. Literally, the truest contemporary linguistic assessment I’ve seen in a while. Ever been rejected? But not like this, right? Don’t let…
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Albums of Our Lives: Willie Nelson’s Shotgun Willie
I refused to listen to the B-side. This was, I guess, an extension or reflection of the poverty of those years after leaving my marriage and buying the 10 Willie…
Book Blurb Clichés
Ever get sick of the stifling language that book reviewers use for their blurbs? There is indeed a “professional jargon” that is readily visible on the front and back of…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Not a good day for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg: he’s been declared worst dressed of Silicon Valley by GQ, and his sister quit his company. In the “creepy” department, unborn children…
Good News About Kids and the Future
There’s a series of articles published by McSweeney’s that is re-contextualizing the state of the publishing industry. These essays are set out to address the facts which are often obscured…
Dictionary For The Future
Lean Logic: A Dictionary For the Future and How To Survive It describes itself as “a community of essays about inventive, cooperative self-reliance in the face of great uncertainty.” Building…
Seth Fischer, Editor Extraordinaire
Seth Fischer, our intrepid Sunday editor, recently relayed unto us his current house-sitting/writing endeavors down in L.A. His author interview on Neon Tommy covers the differences of being a writer…
Get Your “SUGAR SAYS” Poster!
“SUGAR SAYS” Posters are on sale! Printed on high quality matte paper, this beautiful infographically-inspired poster features quotes from Sugar, everybody’s favorite advice columnist. It’s an aesthetically-pleasing way to appreciate…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #80: The Ordinary Miraculous
It’s almost never until later that we can draw a line between this and that.
Janine & Emily’s Girl Talk 2
Comedians Janine Brito (who made us keel over in a fit of laughter at our July event) and Emily Heller, are bringing back the funny for Girl Talk 2—everybody’s second…
Spiderman Gets a Socially-Conscious Makeover
Marvel Comics recently announced their latest secret identity—underneath the spider suit is Miles Morales, whose black and Hispanic makeup mark a significant change in the ethnically homogeneity of mainstream superhero…
Hitchcock Film Discovered
The White Shadow, Alfred Hitchcock’s long lost film from the 1920’s, has been found (in part), buried in the New Zealand Film Archive. One of four reels of nitrate film…