Blogs
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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 stitch helps with that. But still – it has its…
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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.
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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 at Siff Cinema. The faces, rumps, busts, and girths of…
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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 dug those psychedelic bands, and the Dandy Warhols watered down…
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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 writer’s life, written by authors, editors, writing teachers, and readers.…
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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 infested banana tree is from a small paper bag of…
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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 going to call myself Normal Mommy or Bored Mommy or…
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Dear Sugar: The New Rumpus Advice Column
Sugar is what we in the advice column racket call a “handle.”
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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 the Talkies. My mom taught grade school with Mr. White…
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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 in black plastic is actually compulsory. As someone who is…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #3: Time Has Done This To Me
I think it was in 1986 or thereabouts that my friend Jim Lewis gave me a bootlegged cassette of a live radio appearance by Peter Holsapple and Syd Straw (with, I think, Ilene Markell, on bass and backing vocals–all of…
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Funny America: IF THE SHOE FLIES, HURL IT
The President of the United States looked into the sole of another foreigner- twice- as a pair of shoes was flung at him during a Baghdad press conference on a surprise visit to Iraq. And though a lame duck, he…