Underachieving as Art: The Rumpus Interview With Benjamin Anastas
Follow the curve, as it goes down… down… down… Such is the tone of Benjamin Anastas’ An Underachiever’s Diary, just recently reissued as a Dial Press Trade Paperback and concurrently…
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“Why Aren’t There Any Accordions?”
“JC: What is music good for that books aren’t? “DH: Driving, dancing around in your underwear, sitting around talking. “JC: What are books good for that music is no good…
Next New: Green
I was all ready to feel guilty. A group show of environmentally themed artworks–what other response is there? But I didn’t. Next New: Green, at the San Jose Institute of…
Why We Need Health Care Reform
Our nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been…
Remember When We Used to Print Things We Found on the Internet?
Remember when you used to read funny things on the Internet and print them out? Me neither. But I guess I did, because I just was rooting around in some…
D. A. Powell’s Desert Island
“Nearly everything that inspires me both eternally and in the moment is present in one non-hierarchical heap. Or several heaps. A letter from a man in prison who seems to have read some…
Random Media Notes
Even more advertisers bail on Glenn Beck. Salon lays off 20% of its editorial staff. Reader’s Digest prepares to file for bankruptcy. “Amish Newspaper Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way” Time…
Campfire Songs for the End Times: The Rumpus Interview With Eric Leuschner
Eric Leuschner has been active in Seattle’s creative underground for 15 years, as a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and advocate.
Young, Unemployed, and Scottish
“Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol…