2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The brightest thing in the universe! (!!!) Let’s talk about Civil War envelopes. Here are some tiny landscapes on spoons for you. You know what we need? Pedal powered school buses. 50 Watts wants you to look at Japan’s oldest…
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Instead of Words…Blew Cinders
Page by page, and bit by bit, the story of these poems becomes part of a warm current of emotion in a greater ocean of loss.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #78: The Obliterated Place
You have the power to withstand this sorrow. We all do, though we all claim not to.
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Cliché Shaming
At The Guardian poets reveal “the expressions that have become such cliches that they have lost all meaning.” Explanations included. “Devastated” (and its variations) is a repeat winner. Is that more of a British thing? Also: “Britain is leading the…
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Techno-optimism For All
Jason Silva is working on a film, Turning Into Gods (trailer below), that is filling in the space between science and art. He considers their dichotomy which is becoming more and more important with all the recent advances in nano/biotechnology.…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Are you ready for a Twitter-based Obama town hall-style meeting? I guess it sucks to work at RIM, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, these days. Troubled News Corporation asset MySpace has long been spammy, but now it’s going to be owned…
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Nostalgia: What Would Calvin Say?
An encounter with childhood Calvin and Hobbes anthologies inspires a rumination on the comic and nostalgia itself in this essay at the Awl. Tackling aspects of nostalgia that we often forget, as well as the drawbacks of overdosing, the essay…
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Experimental Literature
Dennis Cooper answers five questions on experimental literature yesterday at HTML giant. The author is asked about the body, politics, economics and race. He also suggests a hefty dose of works to check out. On the unique “use value” of…
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Dear Sugar Will Be Back Tomorrow!
Everybody! This is the time of the week where you’re probably itching in anticipation for your Sugar fix, but we are asking you to hold off one more day. Sugar will be back tomorrow to supply you with your weekly…
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Celebrating 75 Years of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which we are excited to participate in! The Rumpus will be featuring essays from Iowa alumni in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out for those and stay updated…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Jesus Angel Garcia: In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Rape Fantasy
In badbadbad, Jesus Angel Garcia blows religion up blimp-size and lights taboos like Molotov cocktails tossed on a manicured, Christian lawn in his biblical, technologically charged landscape. Good and evil have a face-off in every scene in his erotic, binary…