We had a fantastic Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco last week. Couldn’t make it (don’t live in the Bay Area)? Don’t worry, Timothy Faust took some amazing…
I am willing to link to anything involving deep-sea creatures. New maps of Science Fiction (via GerryCanavan.) Are you currently lost at sea? Perhaps you’d be interested in the SeaKettle.…
This week: mutant cowboys at the Roxie, The Botany of Desire, a Litquake cocktail party, roller disco, and more film festival goodness! Monday 7/19: Bounty hunters, vigilante justice, and good…
This Recording has a feature on Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letter correspondences circa 1930. Fitzgerald appears insecure, liquored and thoroughly nostalgic while Zelda’s letters detail her consumption of sedatives…
A grounding letter to the editor by Tony Skalicky of Jersey City, NJ, regarding David Pogue’s review of David Kirpatrick’s The Facebook Effect, reminds us that, “Until Facebook starts growing…
No, the sign said “water is not portable.” “Potable?” Is that another one from Doug’s Dictionary Of Words He Pulls Out Of His Ass? I don’t know why it wouldn’t…
The theme today is the future. Why hello hydrogen fueled spy plane. Is it wrong to clone Neanderthals? Angus McKie‘s space art. Five dollars to the first person to photoshop…
Poetry/Saturday editor extraordinaire Brian Spears is taking a much deserved break today. With Brian on hiatus we knew that weekend readers would be missing their Science Saturday links, so we…
“Sugar, whomever she is, one of the best writers I’ve read as of late. Each time I read her writing, I think of Creative Nonfiction’s recent call for narrative blog…
Happy Friday, here are those folk cats you were asking for. Is time disappearing from the universe? (maybe!) (via GerryCanavan.) Oregon surf photography is the best kind of surf photography.…
We published two pieces today that should not be missed: 1. “They live on Planet Earth. You live on Planet My Baby Died.” A powerful “DEAR SUGAR,” our Rumpus advice…