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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #48
THE ALPHABET ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the alphabet.
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“Bill Lost an Eye and Joe Lost a Leg”
Please enjoy this look at “It’s Great to Be Alive!,” a safety manual from back in the day that “contains straightforward advice for children and shows in rather graphic detail the consequences of carelessness.” It is, in a word, creepy.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #26: Alex Behr in Conversation with Lucinda X
The last time I saw Lucinda was around July 4, 2003. Marching around with sparklers in her back yard, drinking beer and laughing, she showed no ill-effects of being a California parole officer. Lucinda, forty-one, is now a California state…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/9-8/15
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, Nerd Nite, the first episode of Literary Death Match with new producer, m.g. Martin, Ferris Plock’s latest solo show, and a pretty sweet looking lineup at Outside Lands. Monday 8/9: Hot Nights, the August Monthly…
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Autopsy of a Pinball Wizard
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967):
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‘You Never Told Me He Was That Good’
September 18th will be the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death, and no doubt we’ll soon be drowning in tributes and reflections. I doubt, however, that many will better this excellent piece by Ed Vulliamy in the Observer. Filled with…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #40
This is what I’m talking about—if I have to explain why a homemade zip line is the best idea ever, I’m just wasting my time with you, Doug. You just keep on walking all the way to the mail box…
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The Tiki King
“Zahlah quit the bed and saw her dark reflection in the full-length mirror. An American woman. That’s what she saw. Liberated and humiliated.”
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Simple Pleasures
British seaside kitsch has long been one of my favourite little obsessions, and this article in the Guardian contains quite a bit of it. As a Brit it tugged at my heartstrings and will hopefully amuse any reader familiar, or…
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Huffington Post’s Top 15 Overrated Writers
This is the opposite of anything that should run on The Rumpus. Apologies. – The Editors.
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Morning Coffee
Whale evolution is pretty cool right? (via Jon Adams.) Meanwhile, these days, frozen aquarium. We here at the Rumpus are really into Christian Weber’s photography. Ahhhh! Yesterday’s power stations of tomorrow, today! Because it’s only Monday, maybe you’d like to…