Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
All of these things are about outer space. The space race was totally intense. Maybe this is a good time to talk about space junk. I don’t know if you…
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All Over Coffee
Out of the Grapevine
… 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 Press. On April 29th,…
The Rest of the Story: The Rumpus Interview with Chris Tarry
I met Chris Tarry on the Thursday of AWP, on the mobbed second floor of a popular blues bar in Adams Morgan, after a friend and I had been gonged…
Here’s Some Animations I Like
Meg Pokrass is doing something kind of brilliant. She’s making animated short shorts using that text-to-movie software that’s generally used for those “So You Want To…” animations (i.e. So You…
Practice SelfControl
Instead of writing poetry or posts for The Rumpus, I was checking Facebook, e-mail, some message boards I belong to, and then refreshing Facebook again, and again. Perhaps if I…
Japan’s libraries
Continuing with the library theme, from the most beautiful to what happens when libraries die, here are some images from earthquake-damaged libraries in Japan. (Link is translated by Google). (via…
An App To Cure The Gay
Apple has approved an iPhone app that encourages LGBT people to take part in “conversion therapy,” a practice that has been scientifically disproved and that can be quite dangerous to…
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Fire Eater
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,…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
““You’re just lucky,” she joked, “that it didn’t send your copy of Best Torture Clubs of the Northeast or How to Care for your Rubber Masks.”” — There appear to…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Here’s what we’ve been up to this past week.
The News from Libya
A coalition including the US, France, the UK, and Italy has begun air and missile strikes in Libya. President Obama authorized limited military action by US forces, but also said…