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Ainsley Drew

Ainsley Drew is a native New Yorker, freelance writer, and euphemism enthusiast. Her work has been featured in The New York Press, McSweeney’s, The Morning News, and Curve Magazine, among other totally sweet publications. An avid fan of all sports, but especially the NBA, when she’s not stalking 6’10” centers she eats way too much Japanese food, plays word games, and hits on anything that moves. Aiming high, she hopes to one day be a notorious literary celebrity with her name in tabloids. She also has eleven fingers, so she can type faster than you. You can find her jerkethic.com and ainsleydrew. Be her Internet friend.
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    Therumpus x DressHead Chevron Scalloped Sheer Mini Dress

    Therumpus x DressHead Chevron Scalloped Sheer Mini Dress – Wide Neckline This therumpus x http://www.dresshead.com/c/chevron-dresses/ one is a dazzling mini chevron dress with a waved scalloped design and half-length sheer sleeves. It has a wide neckline to emphasize your soft…

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    Shutterclank!

    Twice a year Shutterclank! magazine hits the presses to support traditional photographers and stir up discussion. Founded by photographers Kate Contakos, Chris Schuster, and Jake Reinhart, the hope is that the magazine will further the community of lens artists, spurring…

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    No End In Sight: Industrial Icons “Front Line Assembly” Continue Their Assault

    I’m inside of a cavernous nightclub, flanked by a packed bar that’s humming with anticipatory commotion.

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    The Rumpus Review of My Heart Is An Idiot

    Sitting down to watch My Heart Is An Idiot, the romantic documentary by FOUND Magazine founder Davy Rothbart and director David Meiklejohn, I expected a typical story of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back…or loses her…

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    The Shorty Q&A With Parry Gripp

    Parry Gripp’s YouTube hits include Shopping Penguin, Spaghetti Cat, and Hamster on a Piano. He’s been called a Weird Al Jankovic for the internet age. But it might be more accurate to say that Parry Gripp a leading light of…

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    Ainsley Drew: The Last Book I Loved, Back to Basics

    Barefoot Contessa: Back To Basics. My version of cooking usually involves a box, water, and a microwave, but Ina Garten breaks it down in a way that even culinary Tripp Palins like myself can grasp. I know what you’re thinking,…

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    The Rumpus Interview with Jason Kottke

    “The site was becoming unmanageable as just a hobby… so I decided I either needed to quit the site or turn it into something I could live off of… The bigger challenge was how to balance taking the site seriously…

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    The Greatest Marketing Campaign Ever

    Paging all 1990s hard rock fan-girls, Josh Freese is yours…for a price. The drumming genius, who has been a member of The Vandals, Devo, and A Perfect Circle, in addition to backing countless artists, ranging from Avril Lavigne to Rob…

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    The Rumpus Interview With God-des & She

    “We really are grateful to be able to do this for our job, and we’re grateful we’ve been able to travel and meet all these weirdos.”

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    Adam Serwer’s “Hip-Hop from Pop Charts to Politics”

    Adam Serwer peels back the layers of how hip-hop has helped to repropagate traditionally American ideals, even while struggling against the stereotype of being a race-related, superficial youth genre.

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    The Rumpus Long Interview with Andrew W.K.

    “I used to think that you had to be in a lot more pain and going through a lot more struggle to really prove that you were working hard, but then I realized that was just working really inefficiently.”

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    The Shorty Q & A with T Cooper

    T Cooper is has been labeled a transgender writer, but to boil it down to a phrase so simple and limiting is an insult. After two critically acclaimed novels, Some of the Parts and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes,…