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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? The Gatsby house may soon be no more. There is a lot I could say about…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #35: The Monster and Carmelo Anthony
Thanks to the most anticipated trade of this year’s NBA season, Carmelo Anthony (“Melo” for short) has left behind the soothing powder blue uniform of the Denver Nuggets and switched…
Annotating Tennyson
Actually, everything’s like that, isn’t it? You know: layered, couched in events, touched—soiled, perhaps, or perhaps sanctified—by hands, eyes. Sometimes briefly glimpsed. Sometimes lightly pondered. Occasionally, noted.
Save Humblebees
Morning Coffee editor Dan “The Man” Weiss has a band. That band’s name is The Yellow Dress. The Yellow Dress is working on a new album. That album is (tentatively)…
Poem of the Week
This week’s Poem of The Week from the Guardian is The Seasons by Irish poet Derek Mahon. The accompanying article delves richly into Mahon’s craft, while the reader’s comments at…
Lasarow to HuffPo: “Brava, Madame Capitalist”
“We went to our writers before beginning to post last year and the response was overwhelming. Go ahead and post. Yet, less than one year later, the reaction to our…
Hacking the Middle East
Simplistic pronouncements about the role of social media in stirring uprisings and toppling dictators have by now, thankfully, seemed to die down. That Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other digital tools…
The Lost Books of the Science of Judaism
They’ve traveled the world for more than half a century, in the suitcases of antiques dealers and in the collections of academic institutes. Now important books from the Science of…
The NPR Uncontroversial Controversy
For a group of people who likes to claim that liberals are constantly playing the victim, the Tea Party sure screams like a little baby when anyone dares point out…