Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/28-7/1
This week in San Francisco, the history of pisco punch, put on your flapper finery for the Gatsby Ball, how to choose the perfect vibrator (or vibrators?), sexy new art…
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The Eyeball #32: Two Ways to Deal with the End of the World
If you’re like me, you grew up running various scenarios about what you’d do if the world were to end. Would you go nuts and run around in a stadium…
A Man We Would Very Much Like to Cut Our Hair
Swan Songs offers three vignettes of America’s increasingly scant tradesmen. From Mr. Rogers ex-barber to the last standing champion of mechanical based typesetting, the Americana-drenched series from True/Slant makes us…
Notable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben…
Morning Coffee
It’s Monday, so why not start your week with a little french twee art installation. Eric Spitznagel talks to Buzz Aldrin and the world is better for it. Dutch bike…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
So, as Stephen mentioned in a recent Daily Rumpus, we’ll be doing a poetry version of the Rumpus Book Club. We’re in the early stages at present, but we’ll make…
Strange Bedfellows, Indeed
When I see a story that includes an intersection between porn and fundamentalist Christianity, it usually involves a heaping helping of hypocrisy–a gay-bashing preacher who’s secretly gay; a family-values politician…
Science Saturday
Remember “Climate-Gate”? Your perception of it is no doubt shaded by your understanding (or lack thereof) of the science supporting global climate change. Unfortunately, that understanding is often screwed with…
Sounds like a reasonable position
Reykjavik just elected a comedian to be its mayor. Jon Gnarr is the head of the Best Party, which took just over a third of the vote in the recent…
Saturday Morning Links
It’s a Saturday morning, the World Cup is on, and I’m done with students for the next 7 weeks. Let’s read. And let’s start with Jacob Lambert at The Millions…