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Have you listened to Rumpus Radio yet?
Well, why not? Check out Episode Zero, where Stephen interviews Courtney Trouble and Jiz Lee.
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Dennis Hopper Has Died
The story of Dennis Hopper and the Dynamite Death Chair: “Later Hopper would say blowing himself up was one of the craziest things he has ever done, and that it was weeks before he could hear again. At the moment,…
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Science Saturday
How do oil dispersants work? Popular Science breaks it down for the layperson. Congress is suddenly interested in synthetic biology. Hilarity is sure to ensue, given the level of scientific education and understanding possessed by the average Congressperson. On the…
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On Cephalophores
Suzanne Menghraj at Guernica writes about disembodied heads and the presence of mind in the absence of brain: “And yet here I am despite all the impossibilities, eerily enchanted by the thought of a mind having such control over its…
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Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. Today’s winner for the “no kidding?” headline: “Groin-Punching is Unhealthy,” though one presumes this refers more to the punchee than the puncher. Jacob Lambert on the wonder of Tetris. Graduate tries to sell his degree on Ebay. Can…
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Still a Drugstore Cowboy
“Mr. Fogle, hooded and wearing a pink bandana over his face while holding trash cans filled with drugs in both hands, was arrested as he walked out the back door of the Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy on a busy street in…
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A Life Spasming with Furious Longing
The Salt Ecstasies is really just a beautiful book of poetry, filled with blindingly fierce imagery and destructively skillful writing, but it’s most importantly an honest book, its poems written straight from White’s heart and from his gut, teaching the…
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Sideshow Seduction: The Rumpus Interview with Heather Holliday
Heather Holliday was the youngest sword swallower in the world when she first began performing at Coney Island’s Sideshow by the Seashore. Before her act, where she ingests two feet of steel with the grace of a ballerina, the host…
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Nobody Knows the Way to BEA
I was on my way to Book Expo America on Tuesday when the C train, still in Brooklyn, experienced a preposterously long delay–even for the C train. At first we were told simply that a “situation” was being “investigated” at…
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San Francisco Writing Classes
Do you live in San Francisco? Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on Writing From Experience June 12 at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Reserve a space here. For a full list of Grotto classes go here.