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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #1: The Gregory Brothers
The Gregory Brothers, a Brooklyn-based quartet, remix speeches and news clips using an audio processor called Auto-Tune to create catchy musical news mash-ups that Rachel Maddow dubs “newsicals.” By auto-tuning the…
I’ve Always Wondered Where The Black Hats
Get their black hats. Same place as Gay Talese. Homburgs, fedoras, no creases, creases — Bruno Lacorazza is a name you can trust. Hasidic hats even get hasidic-ish style names:…
Exquisite Corpses
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford’s Facebook status messages are queries for the world, not just for his friends. In a special Rumpus bricolage, we are pleased to present Ariane…
Sgt. Leonard Matlovich’s Grave
I believe this to be the saddest headstone I have ever seen (click the image to enlarge). It belongs to Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), a Vietnam War veteran, recipient…
In the Art Rags
The future and the past converge in this month’s art coverage. Fecal Face interviews Damon Soule about having multiple dreams at the same time. Gene Moreno and Ernesto Oroza tell…
Beasts at the Border
The subjects—animal and human—in Amy Stein’s beautiful collection of photographs, “Domesticated,” find themselves at the uneasy intersection of nature and civilization. Her strange and discomforting—but also sometimes amusing—images capture man…
Rabbit Reduxion – Looking back at Updike
In the wake of losing several authors of extreme significance this last year, David Foster Wallace, Studs Terkel, and now John Updike, a bevy of reflection floods in. Search for…
Shiny, Decadent, and Seedy: A One-Question Interview with Hally McGehean
As a teenager, Hally McGehean was the most glamorous person I knew. When I was seventeen I was in love with her.
Morning Coffee
Japanese shipyard gone feral. We are pretty sure this is what the next Pixar movie is going to be about. (via Metafilter) Kerouac as fantasy baseball enthusiast. From New Scientist,…