Gil Scott-Heron in 1976
MP3s of Gil Scott-Heron live at the Village Gate in New York City circa 1976. (via @largeheartedboy) Update: Don’t miss “Winter in America: A Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Frog Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
Long Drive Home
Will Alllion’s second novel Long Drive Home examines how one quick decision shapes a young father’s life.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith
I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a good day for tumblrs (if you enjoy scientific illustrations or old children’s books). The answer is Gliese 581d! Let us now consider Texas State Fairs from the…
The Rumpus Interview with Scott McClanahan
McClanahan's prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction.
All Over Coffee
Out There
Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Tupac lives! At least, according to a group that hacked PBS over the weekend. Another group of hackers successfully broke through Lockheed Martin’s self-defense systems, after months of preparation. Robots…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #88
TUNNELS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tunnels.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray
I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in…
Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/30-6/05
This week in San Francisco, plants kill people (Wicked Plants – the author speaks), people kill people (Assassins, a musical!) but music…oh, music will help us all to live again…