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Saturday Morning Links
If you really, really need something from a person, ask in the right ear. Especially if you’re in a club in Italy and need a cigarette. Speaking of cigarettes, D. J. Stout has some marketing ideas that will fulfill the…
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A FAN’S NOTES #10, The Rumpus Sports Column: Reasons to Attend the Ballgame with Your Rabbi
REASON ONE Rabbis get great seats. Or at least my brother does: for the last ten years or so, my older brother Steve has had a pulpit job at a large suburban temple in the Baltimore area. Many members of…
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No, I Mean the Other Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, the pop icon, has died, and it’s pop culture news so big, even we can’t ignore it. But although there could only be one Michael Jackson (thankfully?), there have been many people with the name “Michael Jackson” —…
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Meno
Two authors, one dinner table. Joshua Mohr talks to Joe Meno about The Great Perhaps, fundamentalism, and why George W. Bush’s sentences are so short.
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Morning Coffee
Wes Anderson on screening Rushmore for Pauline Kael. (thanks Craig) Hey, City of Toronto, you can do better than this. Chicago’s South Side nightclubs in the 1970s. The inventor of instant noodles answers the age-old question: Should I quit my…
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An Oral History of Myself #9: Joe
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with and transcribing the interviews, creating a kind of memoir but in other people’s words. This is the ninth interview; you can read the interviews with Roger, John, Dan, Pat, Aaron, Fat…
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Viva Sanford!
Hypocrisy aside, I like the guy now that I’ve read his deeply captivating love letter emails. Finally, one of those Republicans seems to feel genuine emotion, like their distant cousins, the humans.
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Random Media Notes
Fox News attacks ABC for ‘unprecedented’ access to a U.S. president. Apparently they don’t remember the last eight years. Rules of engagement for journalists on Twitter. WSJ publisher calls Google a “digital vampire.” (via Mediabistro) Facebook tries to be Twitter.…
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Mexico City’s “Bukowski”
Just one last quote here from First Stop in the New World, and then I promise to stop exhorting you to read the book. This passage concerns an author I hadn’t heard of, Guillermo Fadanelli, “whose novels and stories have…