British seaside kitsch has long been one of my favourite little obsessions, and this article in the Guardian contains quite a bit of it. As a Brit it tugged at…
Whale evolution is pretty cool right? (via Jon Adams.) Meanwhile, these days, frozen aquarium. We here at the Rumpus are really into Christian Weber’s photography. Ahhhh! Yesterday’s power stations of…
In July, two nights after my daughter was born, I took the subway home from the hospital in the very early morning and spilled water all over the floor of…
Let’s have some fun on the interwebs, shall we? It’s funny that contractors at the Dylan Thomas center in Swansea made the same spelling mistake twice, writing “lighting” for “lightning.”…
Motions were due today to argue whether Judge Walker’s temporary stay on performing same-sex marriages should continue. No word yet on when he will rule. The reason this satirical piece…
So you’re torn between the Rumpus Book Club and the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You want both, and who could blame you. But it’s just a smidge too pricey for…
Two spiral galaxies collided a hundred million years ago. The pictures just got back from the developer. (Is that joke too out of date now? Maybe.) The UN added 21…
My main question about this Wikipedia entry is “who took the time to count all the fucks?” This is the non-porn list, just to be clear. I was a little…
I have one cat who carries around a catnip-filled mouse in her mouth and quacks. I have another who barks. The other two make regular appearances on my Facebook page.…
If you’re looking for a long profile of a celebrity to read this weekend (and why wouldn’t you be?) you should choose this one: Sam Anderson’s profile of James Franco…
-The big news for Doug Dorst this week was that his new book, The Surf Guru, was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. Writer Robin Romm extols Dorst’s…
If you’d been hit by six meteors you would probably think aliens were after you too. Well look at you lottery ticket jeep, aren’t you clever? On the very first…