The Letters Of Van Gogh Restored And Revisited
“In its capaciousness, the book also reminds us of a fundamental truth about Van Gogh: his ambition as a painter depended on words to give it focus and direction. We…
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FUNNY WOMEN #8: Dear Johnny Depp
Dear Johnny Depp, How are you? I am fine. I recently purchased the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Remote Control Mini Battle Pirate Ships – Chinese Junk and…
Path Lights by Zachary Sluser
The David Lynch Foundation wrote us the other day to mention a delightful film they’re screening on the DLF.TV website until December 9th: Path Lights. It’s a 22-minute short, based…
Assisted Discipline
From a tool as simple as a stopwatch to something called Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die, Meghan Ward has posted a collection of “Gadgets to help you write.”
Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint
In a time of twitter novels and short stories laid out a 140 characters at a time, Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, is going in…
Morning Coffee
What to get the Rumpus for Christmas. The sounds of dripping glaciers, printed onto the glaciers from whence they came. We here are entirely in favor of book based art.…
Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella…
A Kaddish for Jewish Zines
Gawker’s proclamation of the “Heeb Magazine Deathwatch” got me thinking again about “radical Jewish culture”, but this time in terms of it’s short life, possible death, and whether the tag…
The Chess Set in the Mirror
Illustration by STO for Bontempelli’s Chess Set in the Mirror (1922)