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why i am not afraid to take your money, by amanda fucking palmer
(Editor’s note. Yesterday we linked to Amanda Palmer’s excellent blog post, Why I’m not afraid to take your money. But we liked her post so much we asked if we…
Amanda Palmer is “Not Afraid To Take Your Money”
Amanda Palmer, who says that she’s been getting criticism for making money from her webcasts, has one hell of a manifesto up on her blog called, subtly enough, “Why I…
Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso
There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays…
Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4
This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and…
Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism…
Kronos Quartet: The Rumpus Interview with David Harrington
I think, like it or not, that everything we do as citizens, as human beings, is a statement about how we want the world to be.