2011
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The One Ton Honey
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“You’re going to hear a lot of people say, ‘Wow, that will never work.’ They’ll be right, of course, but if you love books and you should do it anyway.” — Andrew Kessler, who just opened a book store that…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
If you haven’t been by the Rumpus much this week, it would probably be a good week to click through to see what you missed.
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The Big Poetry Book Giveaway
Every year during National Poetry Month (you knew it was National Poetry Month, right?), Kelli Russell Agodon organizes the Big Poetry Book Giveaway. You may remember Kelli’s name from our very own National Poetry Month project–her poem was featured on…
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Soviet Monuments Look Cool
That’s about all the praise I will ever give the Soviet Union–I’m not a fan of totalitarian regimes, no matter how much they claim to care about well-being of the proletariat. But man, these abandoned Soviet monuments in the former…
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Science Saturday
A discovery might make hydrogen fuel cells much cheaper. There’s a rumor–and that’s all it is–of a Higgs boson sighting. SpaceShip Two completed its longest glide test to date. The Hubble Space Telescope sends the planet a rose on its…
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Saturday Morning Links
Because there are not enough cat sites on the internets. Dahlia Lithwick asks how judges can decide if threats against their colleagues are protected by the First Amendment. Remember Senator John Kyl’s statement about Planned Parenthood that wasn’t intended to…
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National Poetry Month, Day 23: “Familiar” by Dean Rader
Familiar It was because my snot was frozen, it was because you spit out little chunks of H & H when I made that crack about the guy
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“Tim, Man, What Can I Say?”
Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger remembers Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington, “an incomparable photojournalist” who was killed in Libya on April 20th.