2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The NY Times says blogging is waning due to Twitter/facebook/etc . . . but the stats don’t back that up. Despite what Apple and every mobile manufacturer think, some people just don’t really care about tablets. The US Government paid…
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Rumpus Comics
As usual there’s a whole lot happening in the Rumpus Comics section. For example, Lisa brown’s fantastic “Welcome to the Ten-in-One” continues with “The Wild Boy.” And Paul Madonna brings you yet another beautiful “All Over Coffee.” Enjoy.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #75
THE FIGHT I IMAGINED BETWEEN A GIANT MAN AND A REGULAR-SIZED MAN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the fight I imagined between a giant…
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Ted Wilson on the Air
Unfortunately I, Ted Wilson, spent my New Year’s in jail. Always one to make the best of things, I spent my time writing haikus about my circumstance and posted them to Twitter, where I am a member. Last week my…
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Kyenne Williams: The Last Book I Loved, Let’s Take the Long Way Home
I knew I would like this book, Let’s Take the Long Way Home, because it’s about a friendship between two women that was deep and marvelous (the book and the women).
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Victor Martinez, Chicano Poet/Author Passed Way Feb. 18, 2011
On February 18 Mission District photographer Linda Wilson, long time staff member of El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of San Francisco, called me at home to let me know that my friend of more than 33 years, Chicano poet/author Victor…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/21-2/27
This week in New York Joyce Carol Oates reads at the 92nd Street Y, a reading from the first book about WikiLeaks, the How I Learned Series presents readings on therapy, the Festival of New French Writing, the Gender Outlaws…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Monday, so here is a baby armadillo for you. Google Street Art is a pretty cool thing I think. Buffon’s Beasts (is great). This week is twitter visual graphs: charting the Egyptian revolution. Good (space) news everybody, maybe…
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On This Presidents’ Day: A Brief History of Presidential Sex
A special holiday history lesson from The Rumpus:
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All Over Coffee #324
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 Press. On April 29th, the second and newest book, Everything…
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SXSW: Lack of Female Comedians
Seems as though SXSW is also experiencing a public look into gender disparity, like the literary world has recently been doing since the VIDA Count was released (nice round-up by Brian Spears here). Comedy fans were not pleased by the…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Are submissions the life’s blood of a magazine? Or readers? “The Help” is suing. “To foreshadow anything is weak. It is like a boxer stalling for the bell,” writing advice from L. Ron Hubbard. (via) A review of Stanley Fish’s…