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Uncommon Catharsis
Macro Sea has reportedly laid plans to put dumpster pools in strip mall parking lots in Brooklyn to demonstrate the creative re-use of refuse bins. The project is part of Macro Sea’s broader vision to denude the American strip mall…
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Essays on the Game
With contemporary postcolonial critique, Darkmatter offers a series of papers discussing HBO’s The Wire. With titles including: – “The Wire: Investigating the use of a Neoliberal Institutional Apparatus and a ‘New Humanist’ Philosophical Apparatus,” – “The Politics of Brisket: Jews…
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The Two Virgins
The summer of 1983 I was nineteen-years old. I was very muscular and very blonde and had nice features. Girls liked me. I was lousy in bed but that wasn’t important back then. Anyway, I was traveling in Europe that…
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Morning Coffee
Beef up your art history skills. (via @misskatewatson) Hemingway was a spy for the KGB? Garfield Minus Garfield (highlighted by our own Rick Moody). Dolphin inspired personal submarines: for when you have both way too much money and freetime. A…
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Politico Profiles HuffPo
From Michael Calderone at Politico’s recent profile of The Huffington Post: “While (The Huffington Post) wants to be taken seriously, much of its traffic is driven by entertainment and sex. While it ridicules mainstream media, it relies on it for much…
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The Rumpus Interview with filmmaker Matt Tyrnaeur
Legendary clothing designer Valentino Garavani dressed everyone from Jackie Onassis to Gwyneth Paltrow, and made — and spent! — millions doing it. But why should a Rumpus reader care?
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The Worst Words Ever
“What word do you hate and why?” That was the question posed to poets this year at the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Answers ranged from chillax (ugh) to redact (yuck) to appall. And Phillip Wells’ explanation of hatred for the word…
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We’re Paying People to Play Our Video Games for Us
The very idea of a “virtual world” scares me. I don’t understand Second Life, and it makes me a little sad. I understand this makes me a bit of a curmudgeon, but I just can’t believe people would pay real…
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Monkeys Know Bad Grammar When They Hear It
It’s not like they’re gonna be writing for The New Yorker anytime soon, but a team of scientists just published a study in the journal Biology Letters saying that monkeys can “recognize bad grammar.” Researchers spent a day familiarizing a…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s summertime. BookExpo is in the past. Writers have taken a little break from accosting critics. The book blogs finally have some free time. And like most people, they are spending that time poking around the Internet and finding lots…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday again, which means that my Grandmother is pacing impatiently somewhere beyond the grave, worrying about the fate of my immortal soul.