Swinging Modern Sounds #4: On Being Unprofessional
I was going to start this post by talking about Bruce Springsteen. I was going to start by saying that there was a certain moment in the output of Bruce…
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FUNNY AMERICA: 5 Presidents
It is the wackiest photo-op since Sarah Palin went herself a-turkey-farming. Three ex-presidents, the current president and the future president all kicking it old school, chilling in the Oval Office…
BITCHCRAFT: In Addition to Rewriting the Words of Kurt Vonnegut I Have Been Working on the Dominatrix Dress Made out of Bin Bags
Word So, well, how’s that for slow blogging? I have, as is obvious, been cross stitching lately. My heart got broken over Xmas and you’d be unsurprised how little cross…
Letters from Paris, Part 7: Goodbye to Sex in the Catacombs
We walk the Parisian streets until we reach Kay’s car, parked on a residential corner near the fence we’ll be climbing.
The Eyeball: Fellini’s Amarcord
I Remember Last night I met up with some of my former Amazon colleagues, guys who, like me, served tours of duty on the DVD team, to watch Fellini’s Amarcord…
THE EYEBALL: What I Watched This Weekend, Yojimbo
I’m fascinated by cultural cross-pollination when it comes to art. The Beatles dug Buddy Holly, the psychedelic bands of San Francisco dug the Beatles, the Britpop bands of the nineties…
A Challenge to Publishers: Just Say No to Gonzo
We’d like to introduce you to The Blurb, the Rumpus Books blog. Check this space for frequent posts about the state of our writing culture, our literary community, and the…
Funny America: THE TOP TEN COMEDIC NEWS STORIES OF 2008
Okay. Just so you know: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the Year are as different from the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of the Year as a tarantula…
Bad Mommy: A New Blog About Parenting, Kind of, by Kaui Hart Hemmings
An Introduction to Bad Mommy I’m not a bad mother. That title is just a cheap teaser and something to differentiate myself from the mamma masses. It’s interesting. I’m not…
Dear Sugar: The New Rumpus Advice Column
Sugar is what we in the advice column racket call a “handle.”
The Eyeball: A Blog About Film by Ryan Boudinot
Up the Riggings, You Monkeys! For Christmas, 1972, when I was almost two months old, my parents’ friend Mr. White gave them a book called A New Pictorial History of…
BitchCraft: A blog about handicrafts by Bitchy Jones
Getting Dressed One of the most annoying aspects of being a woman who sometimes like to get bossy in bed, is the notion that expressing yourself sartorially by coating yourself…