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Morning Coffee
Back in the saddle When Journey Round My Skull decides to clear out its image vaults, we are all the better for it. A plant that eats rats. Yes. Plant. Eats. Rat. Historic bridges of the United States. (via Metafilter)…
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Rosenberg on Y Combinator’s Call for Journalism Startups
Yesterday I interviewed Scott Rosenberg at length for the Rumpus, and we spent a lot of time talking about the news industry and how it relates to online publishing, with special reference to blogging. At one point he said (to…
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Funny Women Submission Guidelines
Dear Writers, So, you’ve decided you’re a woman or gender non-conforming writer and would like to submit to Funny Women. Out of all decisions, this is the best one you can make. Submit: Direct your entry to our Rumpus submission manager…
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Fear and Self-Loathing
“Losing my job was a wake up call. But being disregarded as a person lit a fire in my gut. I started my car and peeled out, middle finger extended and the burden of five unhappy years left behind.” From…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #21
Do you trust this guy enough to level with him about your concerns?
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Random Media Notes Update
“Jericho Scott was the 9-year-old who briefly became a media sensation when he was deemed ‘too good’ to pitch in his youth league. A year later, Craig Fehrman checks in on Jericho and finds that everyone got the story wrong.”…
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Random Media Notes
Sam Zell is preparing to abandon the Chicago Tribune. Wall Street Journal discrimination lawsuit proceeds to trial. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore says “Social media is the media.” MySpace acquires music sharing service iLike. “Travelers passing through London’s Heathrow Airport this…
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Promoting Punk
Nick Rombes is an associate professor and chair of the English department at University of Detroit Mercy. He is also the author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982, a book that is far more punk than its academic title…
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When The Perfect Story and Perfect Writer Are Matched
You get this incredible Sunday NYTimes Magazine piece from a couple weeks back by Jack Hitt. Hitt never goes wrong anyhow, but this odd tale of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s hiding in plain sight in Belgrade as a long-haired…
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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 billed as the “the funniest, most underappreciated book of the…