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Hala Hala’s Uncommon Economic Indicator
“The owner of the Hala Hala bodega explains what he sells the most of in this economy and gives his thoughts on why.” From Isaac Littlejohn Eddy‘s Fort Greene Illustrated (read our one word interview with Isaac here).
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Morning Coffee
70 golden cages of light in Northern France. We’re not sure what the point is, but it certainly is pretty. In Oslo they are building new crystaline skyscrapers. Meanwhile, in Hiroshima, they are going in the opposite direction. The worst…
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Tony Comstock on the MPAA Ratings Board
Tony Comstock is the founder of Comstock Films (likely NSFW), which produces films that I can’t bring myself to call pornography, even though their central subject, depicted in explicit detail, is the sex that ordinary couples have in private. The…
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Like a Pack of Alaskan Dogs
“Ed Paulsen was nineteen in 1931. He was a job applicant. San Francisco. ‘I’d get up at five in the morning and head for the waterfront. Outside the Spreckels Sugar Refinery, outside the gates, there would be a thousand men.…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #18
Do his other good qualities outweigh his inconsideration in this matter? I have a hunch you already know the answer to that one.
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Danzy Senna
We are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell.
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Joseph Cervelin: The Last Book I Loved, The Informers
Brett Easton Ellis offers social observations, morbid humor, and compounding degrees of separation and decadence. If his story cycle The Informers were a Choose Your Own Adventure book, here are some outcomes: – You take your disenfranchised son to Hawaii,…
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Daniel Everett and Internet Isolation
Photographer Daniel Everett has many ways of looking at the sterile technology that isolates us even as it interconnects us. A commentary primarily on computers and the Internet, Everett’s metaphorical subjects also include an elevator that endlessly rises (“Ascension”) and…
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The Triumph of Woman
In “The Death of Macho,” Reihan Salam says “the era of male dominance is coming to an end.” Finally!
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The Theremin: Everything You Didn’t Even Know You Needed to Know
What do Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” Coheed and Cambria’s legendary Neverender concert, Ed Wood (the film, not the director-turned-pulp-novelist), and nearly every alien horror movie have in common? Memorable hairstyles aside, they all incorporate the granddaddy of all electronic…
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Tess Bryant: The Last Book I Loved, The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch’s novel The Sea, The Sea has, despite my initial wariness about reading the journal of a lonely bitter man, worked its way into being the last book I loved. This story of the arrogant and sexist Charles Arrowby…