Columns
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #40: Be a Warrior for Love
I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us.
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How to Break Up with Your Girlfriend in 64 Easy Steps
We’ve taken this video out of the archives and re-posted it in honor of today’s story “The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend,” by Elissa Bassist. Bassist originally posted this video last year, along with a short discussion about…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #5: Jen Percy in Conversation with April Somdahl
On February 20, 2007, April Somdahl’s brother Sgt. Brian Rand shot himself near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He had just returned from Iraq and was about to become a father. Nearly everyday while Brian was deployed, April spoke with him over…
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The Grey Lady Drops “Tweet”
“Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And ‘tweet’ — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three.” The New York Times has banned the word “tweet.”
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Elfin Annie and Straw Hubert
Viktor Pivovarov’s illustrations for a 1980 Soviet edition of Elfin Annie and Straw Hubert by the Czech Surrealist Vítězslav Nezval:
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Little Green
“If I ever caught you spun, we’d be over. Only one of us gets to be fucked up at a time.”
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Men with Balls
“This show is an act of complete personal indulgence. When the good people at apexart approached me about curating something in their space, they made a huge mistake. After some polite back and forth, Steven Rand said to me directly,…
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Morning Coffee
Look, NO ONE is above otter babies. Beware the contact high five; the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Hipster chicken coops. Surviving 1980s NYC graffiti. A little book design porn for you; got to keep this joint classy you know?
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The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend
At first, I loved Dan from a distance. Judging on a bell-curve, I was attractive for my high school debate team, but otherwise, I was far from his type of girl. And yet, that one day on the quad, he…
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Did You Notice?
Today we published three originals: 1. Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview with Simon Rich. 2. 10/40/70 #11: Mildred Pierce. 3. A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #26: Women and Children First.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #26: Women and Children First
What follows is an extrapolation, based on my wife’s July due date and the actual match schedule of the 2010 World Cup.