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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday, so you might want to come see if you missed anything from Rumpus Books this week. Our mascot Rumpy gets sad when you don’t.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jessica Smith wrote a post about the incivility in the comment stream at Ron Silliman’s blog, and in comment streams in general. Silliman has since turned off his comments, and I can’t say I blame him. Comment streams can become…
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“The lust is men’s; the bodies are women’s”
Jezebel takes apart the results of a survey conducted by a Christian website. The subject of the survey is modesty, and the responses vary from the odd to the terrifying, depending on your perspective. The thing that comes through most…
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Bill Murray: Anti-Christ
Stephenson Billings, a writer for the satirical site Christwire, makes the case for boycotting Bill Murray in order to have a better America. “What this man symbolizes is far more ruinous than California’s buffet dinner of liberal socialist philosophies, homosexual…
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SMALL POTATOES:
HardcoreClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Science Saturday
Does your pet carry the Ebola virus in its genes? Could a wind-powered vehicle go faster than the wind? Yes, it seems. Take a look at the oldest evidence of reptiles found to date. Plastiki, a catamaran constructed out of…
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Saturday Morning Links
Last day of July. Let’s crack open some Bud Light Lime* and get stanky. Just don’t plan to have any seafood from the Gulf of Mexico to go along with that Bud Light Lime**. Darryl Campbell at The Millions writes…
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Wonder What the Word Count Is…
Looking for some weekend reading? The FBI has released its file on author, historian, and activist Howard Zinn. Hope you don’t have any other plans though, because it’s over 400 pages long. (via @elliottjustin)
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Now playing: Winnebago Man
There’s a pretty good chance you already have an idea who Jack Rebney is, even if you don’t recognize the name; if you don’t, you should immediately watch one of the clip reels that made him notorious: this one is…
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Good News for Publishing (and Maybe You): Bigger Isn’t Better
Ryerson Review of Journalism brings hope to small publications by giving three good reasons that bigger may not be better – Geez, Spacing, and Broken Pencil; and why they’re tiny but thriving. Good news for writers aspiring to start something small…
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The Rumpus Book Club Roundup:
All the Hype-Last week, Nerve‘s The Hype Line claimed Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru as one of the five things it couldn’t look away from. Writes Ray Rahman: “When you pick up a book written by a guy who knows that a ‘chigoe’…