2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is some information about a frog riding a snake. Yep. Meanwhile, on the South Pole. . . Weather Inside is your art installation of the week. Unless perhaps you prefer grass sculptures. What you were looking for: a working…
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Heart Healthy
On Wednesday, I wake a little after ten. This isn’t intentional. It’s not like I set an alarm. I stumble from the bed to the bathroom to take a long, yellow piss. I brush my teeth—extra well, since my health…
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How it starts
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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“Breece’s Bones”
Giancarlo DiTrapano and Scott McClanahan visit the grave of author Breece D’J Pancake.
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Sovereign Citizens, Mental Health, and Violence
Note: I have a personal policy to not name people who engage in these types violent acts, since one of the big motivators seems to be a desire for fame. I refuse to help them in that cause. The big…
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Lavender Panthers 4 EVA
Check out this absolutely insane 1973 Time story about the Lavender Panthers, a gay vigilante group who went around San Fransisco stopping hate crimes. Led by Rev. Ray Broshears, the Lavender Panthers were experts in “judo, karate, Kung Fu or…
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The Birth of David Foster Wallace Studies
There’s an interesting article in The Chronicle Review about the rise of David Foster Wallace studies in the wake of the author’s death. Lit scholars discuss the proliferation of the field and how much of its research has roots in…
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Want free Poetry?
And by Poetry, I mean the magazine. If you’re part of a book club or a reading group, and you’re interested in poetry (or Poetry), the Poetry Foundation is planning to give away a limited number of free copies of…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Kudos to Twitter, the only company to bring secret Wikileaks subpoenas out into the open. Microsoft is fighting Apple’s attempt to trademark the term “App Store.” Everybody wants to make a smartphone, including Facebook and PlayStation. Some research on how…
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Two Books from Helen Vendler
Long time Rumpus Reviewer Barbara Berman examines the two latest offerings from critic Helen Vendler, one on Emily Dickinson and the other on the last books from five of the 20th century’s finest poetic voices.