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Monofonus Takes on Marfa
Monofonus Press, an Austin-based record label and multimedia organization, is heading to the deserts of Marfa, Texas this weekend to stage an elaborate video-art presentation at the 4th annual Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love at El Cosmico, hosted by…
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A Crazy Story
In which a murder victim’s daughter tracks down the Mafia hitman-turned-Central-American-minister who killed her father. Eventually, she confronted the guy while wearing a hidden camera. But to get there, she spent twenty-seven years putting together what turned out to be…
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Morning Coffee
The Heart of Great Alone: haunting images of polar expedition. Lighting design exhibition uses actual dandelions. What makes Ardi, the oldest known skeleton of a human-like primate, so dang important. Vermont domes of the alternate future. (via Mefi.) Time remembers…
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Conversations About the Internet #2: Scott Rosenberg on Blogging and Journalism
What motivates bloggers? They care. It’s as simple as that. To a lot of journalists that comes as a shock, because for many (not all) it’s just a job, and it’s a job they’ve been doing many years, and…
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Meet Philip Glass, Plumber
The Independent has an interview with Philip Glass that makes for pretty good reading despite a lame lede joking that the reporter nearly constructed an interview out of one question, asked repeatedly. Knee slap! But what piqued my interest —…
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A New Cult of Domesticity
The speaker of The King doesn’t play into the randomly generated poems and discursive ironies of her generation; she lifts the curtain to the production, exposing the history of language’s (and romanticism’s) disintegration.
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“Stockholder,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Rebecca Wolff
Stockholder This view of the mountain puts me in mind of another view, of a different mountain.
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Rebecca Wolff
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
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The Last Book I Loved: I Remember
When I read a few dozen I Remembers in Joe Brainard’s I Remember, my brain starts mining itself without me telling it to. The canonical memories come first, but these set my brain on course to dustier ones it usually…