Science Saturday
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…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Saturday Morning Links
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…
Morning Coffee
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…
Morning Coffee
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…
Notable New York, This Week 7/21-7/25
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,…
Morning Coffee
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…
Not to Be Missed
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.”
Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
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…
Morning Coffee
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.…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/19-7/25
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…
Anything to be Liked, to be Reassured
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…
Re: The Rest of the World
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…