2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dinosaurs and birds together at last (in the distant distant past). On Edward Gorey’s illustrated letters. Some new time wasters for your weekend: biomedical ephemera and ancient maps! Perhaps you have wondered what was going on in space during the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jolie Holland
In July I speak to Jolie Holland on the phone the morning after she plays Norman, Oklahoma, two weeks into her tour to support her new record, Pint of Blood.
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Now We’re Talking
It’s not always oil that we spill into the ecosystem. Every now and then a pet cockatoo is let loose or escapes, joins a wild flock, and teaches the natives how to speak. The phenomenon accounts for “numerous” reports by…
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Books Set Free
The Guardian will unleash 15,000 books on the Brits in a Book Swap kicking off their six-week autumn books season. Readers and writers can also give away their favorites with an embedded message for the finder. If you are in…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #85: We Call This a Clusterfuck
I don’t know if your friendship is built to last a lifetime, but I know the game is worth the candle.
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Touré Interview
“Post-racial suggests a world where race does not exist and racism does not exist, and it’s a completely ridiculous term…With post-Blackness, what I’m talking about is a conception of Blackness where the identity options are infinite. So, we’re not saying…
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Winning Captions
If you keep getting rejected by the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest week after week, your frustration has company. The article offers some strategies for writing a winning submission. Findings of a quantitative analysis suggest captions should use words uncommon…
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Cartographic Controversy
“Map projections are just different ways of translating the dimensions of a globe onto a two dimensional surface. A sphere (or oblate spheriod, if you want to be fancy) can’t be flattened without causing some kind of distortion, be it…
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Post-Revolt Lit
“The concept of the ‘individual’ has been born during these revolts. At the same time, tribal structures and ethnic traditions will not simply disappear. Tribal culture will have to enter into a modern framework and that is very complicated but…
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Paul Madonna in NYC
If you’re in New York City this evening you don’t want to miss this: Artist and Rumpus Comics editor Paul Madonna will be giving a talk at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library this evening at 6:30pm. The talk will…
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Memory Art in Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Memory is a protean thing. There is an eerie room of memories at the current exhibit at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Walk into it and all the signposts of a collective nostalgia are there but…