2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Apple devices rank top in customer satisfaction; Android, Nokia, RIM gnash teeth. And speaking of Apple, Adobe Flash now works on yr iGadget of any kind. The ex-Yahoo CEO may have just lost $10 million by calling her fellow board…
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The Decade of Magical Thinking
A Rumpus Lamentation on What We Lost Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that…
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“Missing” Then and Now
After 9/11 the abundant “Missing” posters that hung around Manhattan were part of the fabric of post-9/11 of the city. A lot of them weren’t as much “Missing” signs as they were obituaries and rememberances of loved ones. It’s been…
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Albums of Our Lives: The Sonic Youth Mixtape a Friend Gave Me
In the early ’90s, when I was in high school, I listened to songs from bands that got played on the radio.
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The Shortcomings of Words
Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Yorker piece, “Speechless” eloquently identifies the difficulty of finding words amidst an indescribable nightmare while remembering 9/11. “Dozens of phone calls home were placed from the towers between the moment that the first plane hit and…
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An Advice Column to Check Out
Rumpus contributor Anna Pulley is doling out advice as a sex columnist for Chicago newspaper RedEye. We love weekly offerings of wisdom here at the Rumpus, and thus, highly recommend the column. Check it out. This week’s topic is on…
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Luminarium Kevin Thomas reviews the August Rumpus Book Club selection, Luminarium, Rumpus-Comics style.
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Return to the Year Broken Free
I wish I could explain to you, to myself, the effect this language has upon me, but I can only say it makes my skin crawl. In a good way.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are a lot of Polaroids from John Waters’ house, if that’s your thing. Mussolini’s toothpaste over at 50 Watts. The United Nations make some neat stamps. Look Higgs Boson it’s about time you make up your mind on this…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #13: Bella Blue’s School of Three: Burlesque, Boys and Polyamorous Love
Mardi Gras was uncharacteristically dismal in 2010. I met a group of curvaceous, saucy strippers at 10 a.m. on Bourbon Street, where the air was thick with pizza and Red Bull vomit, 24-hour margarita shops and hot dog stands.
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Youngsters in Fiction
Here is a breakdown of child protagonists in adult fiction. After noticing patterns in the characterization of youth in various novels, the author has hypothesized three categorical portrayals—“Portraits of the artist as a young person,” “The Go-Betweens” and “The Clockwork…