Rumpus Originals
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #36
TRACING PAPER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tracing paper.
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Dear Dr. Thompson: The Rumpus Interview with Matthew L. Moseley
That’s what Hunter would have really wanted for people to understand, how one little letter can change your life.
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Pedal Pusher
A popular cycling blog spawns a humorous book about mental and physical survival on big city streets.
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SMALL POTATOES:
It’s Cold Out ThereClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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The Drunk Sonnets
Like most winning drunken acts, The Drunk Sonnets is comprised of extremes. I came away from each poem thinking it was either the best damn thing I’d read in years or that it fell completely flat.
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The Rumpus Review of Kick-Ass
If the sight of a 10-year-old girl acrobatically and graphically hacking up a roomful of muscle-bound drug dealers makes you squirm, then Kick-Ass is not your kind of film. Also, we probably can’t be friends.
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Plrknib: A Tale of Stand-Up Comedy
Cincinnati, 1980. In late November on a Sunday morning my mother burned something she was cooking and the smoke alarm went off. And the joke was there – right there – in the air like a piece of low-hanging, very…
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From Russia with Love
Elif Batuman offers a rogue’s gallery of Russian writers, scholars, and literary characters—the only oddball missing is herself.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #36: Icky Thoughts Turn Me On
You can take that power back at any moment.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Progress
“People were gathered in the entryway looking at something, and when we stepped forward we saw what: a couple laying on the floor, kissing and embracing in slow motion.”