Turning fish movement into music. The Attenborough Design Group is your fictional organization of the day. The search is underway for Hitchcock’s lost film, you know, if you’ve seen it.…
You want to watch an on-demand movie with your wife, something funny, something in which you can become invested in the characters’ problems, something from the “New Arrivals” section, and…
This week in San Francisco: Lilith Fair is back with a vengeance, Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits frontman and excellent author, Joshua Mohr, reads from his latest book at City…
It’s summer so I think we can all agree carving watermelons is pretty cool. On the world’s first electric car. Thieves prefer the New York Times. Best headline of the…
Have you heard about The Rumpus Poetry Book Club? Just making sure. I’ve bookmarked this article on how to format poetry online, since I’ve had some problems along these lines…
Every so often I like to do one of these posts–a link roundup of some of the fascinating talks put together for the various Ted conferences. Spend an afternoon watching…
The big news (for us) this past week was The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. It’s much the same as our non-poetry book club, but a little cheaper–$20 in the US,…
What? You think we’d take 4th of July weekend off? Not a chance. But in two weeks when it’s my partner’s birthday, yeah, posting’s likely to be a bit light.…
Happy birthday weekend, America. Nestling dinosaurs is the name of the rumpus’ new cuddle-core band. Our Country’s Fishes and How to Know Them. I have no idea what the text…
“In 1887, Ambrose Bierce wrote an essay, ‘For Brevity and Clarity,’ suggesting ways to alter punctuation to better represent tone. He proposed a single bracket flipped horizontally for wry smiles,…