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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’…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #25: Chris Graham in Conversation in a Syrian Taxi
Mohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and English; his friend speaks only Arabic.) The following is an…
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GIANT Investigates “Literary Doppelgangers”
Jimmy Chen and the fine folks at HTMLGIANT brought us a look at literary doppelgangers yesterday. Our favorite? Ray Carver circa Tess Gallagher and John Candy circa Stripes: Look at the thrilling hair-do! That sneer cocked just so! The wide…
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Morning Coffee
I think the Sun might be shining. What I’m getting out of this is that outer space is still totally rad looking. If you are a German political street artist txtBomber might be pretty useful. Just when you thought there…