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Lovelace and Babbage comic – It’s about time
I’ve always wondered why Ada Lovelace, first female computer programmer, only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the person I idolized in high school, hasn’t been more glorified in culture, seeing as she was one of the first females to envision…
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The Rumpus Sports Column: Mother’s Day Bash
I turned on the Mets game yesterday—Mother’s Day—and for a moment, when the picture came in, I thought something was wrong with my TV. The umpire, I noticed, was wearing a pink terrycloth armband.
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The First 110 Days
We sort of skipped past President Obama’s first 100 days last week due to the looming horror of the dreaded SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC, which now looks about as lethal as your average bunny rabbit furball contagion.. Although people do continue…
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No Contact, Asshole!
The summer of 1990 was a bad one. It should have been a good one but it was a bad one. I’ve pulled a lot of stunts in my day, mostly of the sick sexual variety, but that summer I…
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Morning Coffee
The controversial hobbit-like Homo Floresiensis were a seperate species after all. And thus the world is a little more magical. My Home Birth: A Graphic Memoir from SMITHMAG. Made of This: the first of three installments. “Michael Morpugo, Susan Greenfield,…
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Two Girls Arguing – Found Magazine
We love Davy. That’s as truthful as I’m going to get on a Sunday.
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The Rumpus Interview with Philippe Lioret
No one ever asks, after watching a love story, whether it succeeded in raising our awareness of the lovers’ plight.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham is a 22-year-old filmmaker born and raised in Manhattan under the wing of parents who are both artists and who support her endeavors like they are their own (Dunhan his currently co-writing a screenplay with her mother).
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Turns Out Jeffrey Goldberg is Funny!
On the cover of this month’s Atlantic: “Why I Fired My Broker,” a meandering and highly entertaining personal essay that concludes that the brokers don’t know anything anyhow and if they did they wouldn’t care about helping Jeffrey Godlberg or…
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The Rumpus Advice Column: “Do you think it’s possible that maybe all of my friend’s vaginas are confused by multiple partners?”
Your letter is full of self-congratulation masquerading as earnest inquiry.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Ah, the lovely march of Spring… Who can deny the splendor and joy that May hath wrought?