“Trouble on the way, and great joy”
In a place where names are lost like household objects, and white noise supplants meaningful distinctions between voices and people, why the need for singularity (or personhood) at all?
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“And Then at the Boat Show,” a Rumpus Original Poem by John Gallaher
And Then at the Boat Show It is true, I feel, that I don’t think about plants as much as I should. Day after day, the explanation unfolds, at just…
Auto-Tune the News #7
“Texting. Rhyming. Pat Buchanan Fail.” The latest from The Gregory Brothers (read The Rumpus mini-interview with the group here).
Morning Coffee
An Illustrated History of the War on Drugs. (via TPM) In case you’ve ever wonder what has more calories, polar bear or grizzly. Check out this sweet fence! We don’t…
New York Runs Deep
Today Alexis Madrigal linked to a National Geographic page that features a scale rendering of New York City from the surface down. It’s just a schematic cross-section, not an actual map of…
Thomas Pynchon’s Summer Read
Inherent Vice is “a noir-like novel set in Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s” that follows “a dope-smoking private detective named Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello.” It is 384 pages…
R. Emmet Sweeney Gets Eastbound and Down
Rumpus contributor R. Emmet Sweeney has a wonderful article up on Moving Image Source about the best show on TV that you (or me, for that matter) aren’t watching, Danny…
Hoping Things End Safely: The Rumpus Interview with Hyejin Kim
North Korean women risk their lives to escape across the border to China, where they often face lives of indentured servitude and the ever-present fear of being outed by the…
Recession Sex Workers #2: Mandy Morbid’s Sex and Death Funhouse
I met Mandy Morbid while working at Cheetahs in Hollywood, a bikini bar that attracts broke slackers with a soft spot for suicide girls and strippers who don’t think they’re…
Over at the Splinter Generation
“It starts to put the world in perspective. You start meeting real people. You meet moms, and you meet children, and you meet dads, and uncles, and grandpas, and you…