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Morning Coffee
Department of tiny things: Dalton Ghetti makes sculptures out of pencil tips. Also his name is Dalton, which is pretty rad. Every Playboy centerfold from 1988-1997 (completely safe for work). A moral tale of Seahorses and unplanned pregnancy. Tetris soothes…
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FUNNY WOMEN #20: Holiday with Communists
First, you and your grandmother decorate Easter eggs to put on the Seder plate. This is her Passover tradition. She will have decided that Seder plates “could use a little more color.” More often than not, she will also be…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/29-4/4
This Week, Get ready for next week’s Monthly Rumpus with a Yellow Dress show, check out emerging writers at USF and established ones at Grow the F*ck Up! at the Hemlock, get your nerd on at Wondercon, and celebrate a…
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Just Because You’re Paranoid…
David Aaronnovitch’s survey of global conspiracy theories ably debunks chestnuts old and new, but avoids closer analysis of what inspires them in the first place.
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Is Music Less Sacred?
“But for all the joys of such wizardry, I’ve been experiencing a creeping sense of dread recently when it comes to iTunes, a dark hunch that technology has impoverished the actual experience of listening to music.” Rumpus contributor Steve Almond…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #29
THE DIAPHRAGM OF ANNE FRANK ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Diaphragm of Anne Frank.
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Baseball Has-Beens Looking to Become Be-Agains
The Christian Science Monitor just printed a great story by Jordan Heller that opened my eyes to a whole world I didn’t even know existed: baseball players who have dropped out of the major leagues for one reason or another,…
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War Without Tears
From Peter Parley’s Annual for 1865: “peaceful combat, without the horrors of actual warfare.” It’s…
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Bertha, The Child-Flower
Raymond Roussel clipped “Bertha, The Child-Flower” from the final manuscript of his masterpiece Locus Solus (1914), but here she blooms again.