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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #27: Stars, Stripes, Studded Bras
I love what Landon Donovan told CBS News about the goal he scored at the end of the U.S. – Algeria match last Wednesday in the World Cup. “When that ball came to me, the net looked like the ocean,”…
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Strange Bedfellows, Indeed
When I see a story that includes an intersection between porn and fundamentalist Christianity, it usually involves a heaping helping of hypocrisy–a gay-bashing preacher who’s secretly gay; a family-values politician who’s arrested for soliciting a cop in a public restroom–but…
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Science Saturday
Remember “Climate-Gate”? Your perception of it is no doubt shaded by your understanding (or lack thereof) of the science supporting global climate change. Unfortunately, that understanding is often screwed with by people with an agenda and a press that’s either…
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Sounds like a reasonable position
Reykjavik just elected a comedian to be its mayor. Jon Gnarr is the head of the Best Party, which took just over a third of the vote in the recent elections, which means they control 6 of the City Council’s…
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Saturday Morning Links
It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions talking about the Wu-Tang Clan. They are, as you might…
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SMALL POTATOES:
The Writing BusinessClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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National Book Award Finalist or Nickname for the Author’s Junk? (Both.)
List of National Book Award Finalist titles that, when put under a phallocentric microscope, could be read as possible references to the author’s own genitalia:
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This Weekend in San Francisco
If you live in the Bay Area don’t miss The Believer‘s All-Acoustic Summer Festival of Language and Thinking. Click the link for details (or just take our word for it and be at Amnesia tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, at 6pm).
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Children’s Books Destroy Rainforests?
“Most of the top 10 children’s publishers have released at least one picture book containing paper fiber linked to the destruction of Indonesian rainforests.” Karen Springen has much to say about children’s books publishers and their efforts to go green.…
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The Surf Guru
Did you catch “The Candidate In Bloom,” a short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, that we posted yesterday? Interestingly enough, The Surf Guru is our Rumpus Book Club pick for July. Why not read the story,…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #18: The Math of Betrayal
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) The Math of Betrayal The math of betrayal my friends will never line up