Morning, everyone. Today’s winner for the “no kidding?” headline: “Groin-Punching is Unhealthy,” though one presumes this refers more to the punchee than the puncher. Jacob Lambert on the wonder of…
Do you live in San Francisco? Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on Writing From Experience June 12 at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Reserve a space here.…
“Online privacy expectations are evolving, but whether Facebook likes it or not, a lot of us want the privacy settings we signed up for when we joined the service. Here’s…
In yesterday’s Morning Coffee I linked to this write-up of the 10 maps that changed the world. Rumpus reader’s, evidently quite the antiquarian map enthusiasts, proceeded to email me expressing…
The Rumpus is not above posting stories about astronauts pooping. The Sea of Galilee is out of fish. Celebrate Memorial Day right, by buying me a woolly rhinoceros skeleton. Frank…
The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but…
I’m not going to lie to you, all of these things are awesome. Hey guess what, some sharks can turn invisible. Maps that changed the world. Let’s take a look…
Always there to make horrible things look beautiful, Big Picture has your newest oil spill photo-recap. Turning weather into art (is something we are in favor of). Speaking of awesome…
In his entertaining essay “BroBos in Paradise,” a pun on David Brooks’s pop-culture treatise BoBos in Paradise, Leon Neyfakh explores what he calls a new variation on Brooks’s term “Bourgeois…
Department of promotional-material-used-to-be-so-much-cooler: The Frolie Grasshopper Circus. Nova Scotian living wall! Say what you will, but I quite enjoy whimsical street art (like this). Asparagus is trying to destroy japan. (The…