Rumpus Original
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Swinging Modern Sounds #18: Some Questions About the Tradition
Johnny Cash’s late covers are superior to their original recordings, but are they traditional?
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The Rumpus Review of Up in the Air
Up in the Air is sentimental, but that doesn’t mean it’s simplistic. In fact, the movie plays at some interesting contradictions. It is a genuinely funny movie about genuinely depressing times.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #18: Burning Bright
My friend Eric brought me a present from his latest trip to Africa: a margarine-yellow soccer jersey with racy red stripes that slash down from the shoulders.
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The Velvet Underground’s Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion
“They can’t make us wait in lines,” my friend said when we were told the doors weren’t open yet. “This is punk rock.”
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The Truth Is Out There
Wormwood, Nevada, the latest novel by David Oppegaard, is the story of Tyler and Anna Mayfield, who transplant from Omaha, Nebraska, to their temporary home in central Nevada.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #14
PONZANI BROS. APPLIANCE REPAIR ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Ponzani Bros. Appliance Repair.
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Hughes of The Mountain Goats
“Why should only famous people be famous? Fuck that! Fame for all! Even if it’s just the tiniest bit (which turns out to be the perfect amount).”
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #9: How We See the Aged
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) How We See the Aged A woman pulls at the pilled pleat of her seersucker skirt with one hand,
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The Rumpus Review of Bad Lieutenant
In Herzog’s non-remake of Bad Lieutenant, Nic Cage tumbles into the farthest reaches of drugged, lawless mania, resembling a coked-up Willy Wonka.
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The First Annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Three wisps of a line in a frame can communicate the speed of a character’s movement, the melancholy of a leaf floating to the ground, or, as in many cases, the sweet release of flatulence.
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Continental Divide
Kurt Caswell’s memoir describes his year teaching in a place of violence, despair, doubt… and hope.
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FUNNY WOMEN #9: Mars/Venus for Your Fetus
Dear Future Dads, So, you’re expecting a baby (by “expecting” I mean “dreading,” and by “a baby,” I mean “the consequences of using that glow-in-the-dark condom from 1989”)! That’s wonderful!