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10/40/70 #1: Starship Troopers
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 case and for future columns, the 10-minute, 40-minute, and 70-minute…
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Help Send Ted Rall to Afghanistan
You’re probably familiar with the work of cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears on Salon and in many other places. He is raising money for a trip to Afghanistan to report, in his way, on the situation there, and through…
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Catching Up with Jack Matthews
Type the name “Jack Matthews” into Wikipedia and it will take you to the profile of a Welsh rugby player, now retired. The Jack Matthews recently interviewed on TeleRead, however, has never seen the underside of a scrum. He’s an…
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Movies, Briefly: The Kids Are Alright (1979)
“Rock and roll’s never ever stood dissecting and inspecting it at close range. It doesn’t stand up. So shut up.” Jeff Stein’s documentary, The Kids are Alright, lives up to that statement from The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, who shares it…
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Coming Soon: The Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is one of the most glamorous film events to happen this side of Park City. From April 22 – May 2, the festival will pitch its tents downtown and offer a wide array of independent films…
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National Poetry Month at The Rumpus
I like to think that April was named National Poetry Month because it was inspired by the success of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, and April was next in line, as opposed to, say, a clumsy reference to…
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Morning Coffee
It is hard to imagine any better way to start a day than with pictures of sleeping bugs covered in rain. I am linking to this because it is called Fun With Burgers. Flat San Francisco. There is some dang…
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The Rumpus Interview with Brad Watson
The late, great Barry Hannah, writing about The Heaven of Mercury, described Watson’s writing as a “sort of calm wail” and said, “Only the Irish geniuses wrote like this.”
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Scarface Success
The fact that the “Scarface School Play,” which we posted yesterday as a video interruption, was staged (no pun intended) should come as no surprise (plus, staged or not, those are still kids acting out scenes from Scarface). Mashable now…
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Baseball, Writing, and Life
In a recent interview with Cousins Reading Series, author (and Rumpus Contributor) Adam Gallari states “I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life for that matter, is that the game is designed for its players…
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We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now
“I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life, is that the game is designed for its players to fail.”