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Enforcing Etiquette on Twitter?
“A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people…
Nick Lantz Gets Supersized
Don’t miss today’s Supersized Rumpus Combo featuring an interview with Nick Lantz, a review of his books, We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor’s…
10/40/70 #5: Cure
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…
“Papers, please.”
Arizona News Links #2
A roundup of articles related to Arizona’s new draconian immigration law. A simple question: Is this even constitutional? Rachel Maddow discusses the “racist roots” and people behind the new law.…
The Passing of an “Angry Young Man”
Alan Sillitoe, whose “novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1959) were regarded as groundbreaking in their portrayals of the…
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Fairy Tales about Animals, 1973:
In the Art Rags
Rollo Press is continuing the slowest book swap in the world. The often-thrilling little outfit has been playing around lately with Linus Bill, a photographer who has taken to silkscreening…
Morning Coffee
Old Robots. New robot. Or maybe we’re the robots, man. Maybe we’re the robots. Apollo 11 launch in slow motion. The Best Show on WFMU gives us Rambocky.
National Poetry Month: Day 28. “How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance” by Nick Lantz
How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance You and I fit together like two millstones, and oh the music we make of grist, going round and…