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Staplerfahrer Klaus
If you’re heading out onto the job for the first time, you’d probably better wait a moment and watch Staplerfahrer Klaus, the most important safety-training video in any language. Matter of fact, it wouldn’t hurt to buy the DVD, either.
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Sony World Photography Awards
The winners from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, and thanks to this digital age we live in can be viewed without having to fly to France (or put your pants on for that matter). The winners…
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Lying in the Gutters
Comic-book gossip column Lying in the Gutters, hosted at Comic Book Resources, is one of the things that makes the subculture of comics so fascinating and exciting. Unlike most comics journalists, Rich Johnston has the chops, the résumé, and the connections to…
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Beetle Weaponry
“Competition among males in the animal kingdom is often expressed in the form of elaborate weapons made of bone, horn or chitin. The weapons often start off small and then, under the pressure of competition, may evolve to attain gigantic…
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Zoetrope: The Latin American Issue
Zoetrope: All-Story published their Latin American Issue this Spring, edited by Daniel Alarcón and Diego Trelles Paz. Read an interview with Alarcón on the arbitrary nature of anthologies and the “outdated lens of magical realism.”
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The Poetry of Plunder: Wells Towers’ Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower’s first collection of short stories meditates on danger and beauty—and it’s funny as hell.
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Jonzing for Arthur Jones
The animation of Arthur Jones has cheek and Attic wit. Whether in his videos for punk bands like Man Man and Need New Body, or his animated Post-It note shorts like Anger Depression and the Abominable Snowman, which features a…
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The Rumpus Oral History Project — Harry Ricker, Alaskan
It is -7º F outside. In his kitchen, Harry makes me tea. He is a broad-shouldered man with a prominent chin and a deep, smooth voice. He has been remodeling this house for the better part of a decade, after…
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Scott Hutchins: The Last Book I Loved, The Easter Parade
It seems that every once in a while living writers pick a dead writer to gather around and champion, and this was definitely the case with Richard Yates around the turn of the millenium. I attended a reading by Richard…
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The Resurrectionist Subterfuge
“In traditional taxidermy, it is the animal that is put on display; in the deployments of taxidermy by contemporary artists, it is arrangement itself, the taxidermic dispositif, that is on show. Art upstages taxidermy.” On the resurgence of taxidermy in…
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The Rumpus Interview with David Wain
Here are a few things to know about David Wain that will help you get the most out of this interview: – David Wain is (in no hierarchical order) a director, producer, writer, actor, mensch, and other important nouns. –…