February 2012
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Updating the Ol’ Internet Storefront
Well would you look at that, our pals over at McSweeney’s have a snazzy new (online) store.
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“To My Old Master”
Here’s a letter written in 1865 by an ex-enslaved man, Jourdan Anderson, in response to his former master’s request that Jourdan return to work on his farm. “I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five…
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A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football (2012 Edition)
If Hollywood could cast the Super Bowl teams, it wouldn’t choose most of the guys who make up the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. It also couldn’t invent the stories of how these people got here any…
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The Rumpus Review of Pina
When I saw Wim Wenders introduce his latest film, Pina – a majestic remembrance and celebration of the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch – he remarked that he was the least likely person to have made a film about dance.
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My Affairs Are Just My Questions
And it is a voice—perhaps a bit apprehensive and damaged by experience—that seems willing to express it all, even the ugly and cruel.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dept. of the-future-is-totally-here-dudes: bullet proof skin! Wired wants to talk to you about (actual) bugs. Uncontacted peoples in the 21st century is one of the most mind blowing concepts I can imagine. Let’s all listen to Mercury! Meanwhile, here are…
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“Scissor Half,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Jacqueline Waters
You were telling me your dream / at some point you started / just making it up