Sending Vibes Through Squids
BoingBoing documents the research of Backyard Brains, which, as of late, has consisted of monitoring how playing Cyprus Hill affects a squid’s chromatophores. The results look not unlike an iTunes Visualizer:…
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On Inspiration
Courtesy of The Story Prize Blog, author Adam Prince gives some helpful advice on the truth behind inspiration: I think inspiration is largely a myth. It’s tied to the myth…
A Die-Hard Fan’s Lament
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond, an unwavering Oakland Raiders fan, writes for The New York Times about being a true sports fan, specifically a fan of a floundering team: “As I prepare to…
Thanks, Feministing!
Feministing gives big love to this week’s must-read essay by Lidia Yuknavitch, “Explicit Violence.” We love you back!
Opening Day For reKiosk
reKiosk is officially up and running! The site functions as a platform for artists to sell their music, books, and any other digital file directly to their fans, as well as being…
A Glimpse Into Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The Millions allows readers the opening paragraphs of DT Max’s David Foster Wallace biography: “The Wallaces ate at 5:45 p.m. Afterward, Jim Wallace would read stories to Amy and David.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s terrifying thing: a bioluminenscent cockroach. Robot sports are the best kind of sports. Fridtjof Nasen, Polar Explorer is this weeks most bad-ass dude. Maybe the universe started with a…
Take Their Advice
“Initially, I thought who am I to tell people what to do? Then I realized I wasn’t telling people what to do from the perspective that this is the only…
Like Music for A Writer’s Ears
A little over a month ago, our friends at Litquake debuted their newest venture: a podcast. Available as a free, bi-monthly download, Litquake’s Lit Cast features the “best of” in writerly…
A gift that threatens to overwhelm
Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean writes for the New Yorker about Opal Whiteley, the “once celebrated, then controversial, and now forgotten” 1920s child prodigy and diarist. “The fantasy of orphanhood…
The 826 Valencia Write-a-thon
The third annual 826 Valencia Write-a-thon is this coming weekend, Sunday, August 26. Grab your pens and pencils, computer, or typewriter and head down to 826 for a full day…
“Corpse Orders”
The newest addition to the Lapham’s Quarterly “Voices in Time” series unearths a text from c. 700 China instructing spellmen on unearthing jewels buried with the dead: “Then proceed into a tumulus…