Big Picture reminds you that the sky is pretty rad sometimes. Have you seen Vancouver’s new Douglas Coupland statue? Blissfull Joy and the SATs. Black holes are hella rad yo.…
I really had planned on doing this column ahead of time last week, but Friday night found me under the kitchen sink teaching myself how to unhook a garbage disposal…
I like to do these roundups every so often as an excuse for sitting around and watching videos for the better part of an afternoon. Enjoy! Tan Le has developed…
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, gave a fairly pedestrian and tedious commencement address at Princeton earlier this year, which is no crime–commencement addresses are supposed to be pedestrian and tedious unless…
The news on Tropical Storm Bonnie is good, especially since it seems the storm will come ashore at low tide, reducing the amount of oil likely to inundate the coastal…
Miss me? Last Saturday was the birthday of my partner of nearly ten years (and occasional Rumpus contributor) Amy Letter. That’s worth a day off, right? Two days ago, I…
We are going to the State Fair tomorrow. We’ll be sure to let you know how it is. Here are some pictures of baby Caecilians. This is the world’s strongest…
Your Columbian street art for the day. What’s that? you want to talk about time travel paradoxes? Cut-away looks at Nuclear Reactors. Meet the living kitchen of the future. Good…
This week FUNny Writers substitutes your PB&J, Volume 1 provides the shortest record reviews ever, Audiences share their works at The Inspired Word and The Moth StorySLAM, Heebs hate tushies,…
Feeling down? The Self High-Five Machine is here for you! (via Julie Greicius.) America’s Next Top Taxidermist? Department of bummer: all of these frogs are almost extinct. The world’s first…
If you haven’t read it already we highly recommend Kathleen Alcott’s touching essay about writing and her father: “From Shrinking Solid to Expanding Gas: The Writing Life.”