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Weaponizing Irony
I have to admit, I feel a little assaulted myself after reading this proposal from Princeton Professors D. Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven, which was a response to a request from Lockheed Martin for research initiatives. Warning: this isn’t Alanis…
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Subscribe Anyway
Okay, the Slate video was cute the way it compared newspaper reporters to starving children in Africa, but it reminded me of something the poet Jake Adam York suggested on Facebook a few months ago–that with the large number of…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday, everyone. Hope you find this stuff as entertaining as I did. I’m not quite sure just what to make of this story: women in bathing sits and cartoonists drawing on them. Interesting photos at the very least.…
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Sex, Drugs, and Orchestra: The Importance of Metal Health and the New Iron Maiden Documentary
The Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn is papered with horror movie posters and painted with a fine layer of filmy grit. A mutilated Chuckie doll straddles a Jaegermeister spout from which bartenders in leather corsets pour shots for guys sporting…
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Indie Bookseller Weighs in on the Kindle
In San Francisco there’s a great little indie bookstore called Borderlands Books, which sells science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles. In a recent newsletter, store founder Alan Beatts offered his perspective on the Kindle and Amazon’s power to unpublish titles…
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The Fog of War
Robert Olmstead’s new novel demonstrates Robert E. Lee’s maxim: “It is well that war is so horrible, or we would grow to love it too much.”
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Lies and Deception
“You wouldn’t want to live in a world where you can’t be conned, because if you were, you would be living in a world with no trust. That’s the price you pay for trust, is being conned.” Yesterday we highlighted…
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Internal: The Yellow Dress Are on Tour
Assistant Morning Coffee Editor Dan Weiss and his band The Yellow Dress (who often perform at Monthly Rumpus events) are on tour! Tonight, starting at 8pm, they will be tearing it up at Good Neighbor Pizzeria in Portland, OR . Don’t…
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A Field Guide To Military Urbanism
“I mean, when you’re forced to smuggle, by sheer necessity of survival, due to forces completely outside of your own control, when the power to decide your own destiny has been taken from you (as a nation), can it really…
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Fanzine Heart The Adderall Diaries
Michael Miller gives The Adderall Diaries, the new book by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott, one hell of a review in Fanzine.
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Movie Briefly: Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Deliver Us From Evil is a documentary, but it could be filed in the video store under the horror section. Few fictional bogeymen in the history of movies can hold a candle to a real-life monster like Oliver O’Grady, a…