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A Trip to Las Vegas: The Adult Entertainment Expo
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” And thank god for that. My back had been killing me since I boarded the plane for Las Vegas and I was…
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Flash vs. HTML5
Over on TechCrunch, one of the developers who helped build the Flash platform was asked to speculate about the technical future of web content — essentially, whether he thinks the Flash platform will be made obsolete as HTML5 is adopted.…
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“Poem For Dad,” a Rumpus Original Poem by D. W. Lichtenberg
Poem For Dad My brother called me up on the phone and said Hey Dan dad called me up again. He’s worried about you again, man. Isn’t it about time you started doing something with your life? Like, you know,…
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“Poem For Dad,” a Rumpus Original Poem by D. W. Lichtenberg
Poem For Dad My brother called me up on the phone and said Hey Dan dad called me up again. He’s worried about you again, man. Isn’t it about time you started doing something with your life? Like, you know,…
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The Ancient Book of Hip
The poems in The Ancient Book of Hip create a precise and evocative description of time and place; they celebrate that space, even as they have a witty undercurrent of critique.
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Six Free Documentaries at Criterion
In honor of the True/False Film Fest, the Criterion Collection is making available for free online viewing six films that previously showed at the festival. They will be available through February 28th. The titles are Son of a Gun, Someday…
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The Most Mysterious Book Now Online
The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has been placed online in its entirety. Back in 2007, Justin…
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Juggalo News
See also the Juggalo Gathering, the Juggalo Gathering Infomercial, and Juggalo movie trailer for Big Money Rustlas.
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Henry Chinaski’s Stamp
Are you a fan of Charles Bukowski? Want to see him get his own stamp? Over at PetitionSpot some folks are trying to make that happen: “Charles Bukowski is uniquely suited for this honor. For in addition to being an…
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2010 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees Announced
The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award nominees have been announced. They are: Sherman Alexie for War Dances Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna Lorraine M. López for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stair (read The…
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A Book About Aboutness
“So: End Zone isn’t really a book about football or a book about warfare or a book about football as metaphor for warfare. It isn’t even a book about the cliché of football as metaphor for warfare. It’s a book…