My 2012 Presidential Concession Speech
As you have most likely heard by now, I did not win my bid for the 2012 Presidency. While most Americans had their eyes set on Barack Obama or Mitt…
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LET’S MAKE A MOVIE!
Announcing the Kickstarter campaign for the first Rumpus Movie, Happy Baby! We’re going to try to raise $85,000 so we can shoot our first movie, based on the novel Happy…
The Last City I Loved: Washington D.C.
DC is traffic circles, non-working fountains in some circles’ centers, jammed downtown corridors and quiet Anacostia neighborhood streets no taxi driver wants to know after midnight. It’s Muslim taxi drivers unfurling…
The Rumpus Interview with Jeanne Thornton
I met Jeanne Thornton a long time ago in the world of zines and she’s long been one of my faves, so I was excited to learn that she has…
A Meaningful Light: Open Letter to Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times
I’m writing to you, Kenneth, because your review and my behavior at the Rialto Cinema are integral parts of the problem in Israel/Palestine. It’s why we both felt so scared and embarrassed: Tears of Gaza implicates us.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #159
MITT ROMNEY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mitt Romney.
Week in Greed #18: They Were Careless People
I remember that it was late at night and I was returning to my dorm, having just watched Ronald Reagan win re-election with an unprecedented 60 percent of the popular…
The Play Is Over, Let’s Go Home
Remember (if you can) how it felt, remember Cheney (“Dick”), remember his sneer. Remember what it did to that knot in your back every time you failed to turn away…
Nick Cave Monday #8: “Into My Arms”
I have dedicated “Into My Arms” to every woman I have fallen in love with. They were only able to rent this song while they had my heart.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Van Halen and the Butcher’s Apron
Susan Straight takes us through the convoluted Tuesdays of election season, through family memories of the music that defined a generation, and poetry that preserves her soul in soulless times.
A FAN’S NOTES, THE RUMPUS SPORTS COLUMN #44: The Immortal Head-butt
What if one of your worst moments as a human being was sculpted into a 16-foot-tall bronze statue and displayed in front of a shopping mall? Or a Parisian art…