Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #11: Michael Jordan Chews Gum
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Michael Jordan Chews Gum Substantially harder than you or me a clamping motion that knots the muscles of his already…
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SMALL POTATOES: Possibly Another Confusing Cartoon
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.
2009 Over and Out
These images come from Maria Rosa: Everyday Fun and Carnival Frolic with Children in Brazil by Vera Kelsey, illustrated by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari. I’m working with a 1942…
Morning Coffee
Don’t tell anyone, but today is the last day of the year. Other rad things you can make out of books. Can farming save Detroit? Sema Bekirovic takes some pretty…
FUNNY WOMEN #11: The Emily Post Guide to Beheadings
It happens in all our lives. We put down our golf clubs to peruse the mail that the butler has brought on a silver tray, when we discover an invitation…
Funny Women Around the Web, 12/30/09
Ann Friedman is one of the editors of my favorite feminist blog, feministing, where she writes the Weekly Feminist Reader (“I know what I’m looking forward to doing this holiday season?…
Estonian Animation
Yesterday Will Schofield, editor of the oh-so-awesome A Journey Round My Skull, posted some amazing pictures from Estonian children’s books. Well Will has found an animated version of one of…