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Death of the Party
Kyle Kinane‘s debut album, Death of the Party, hits stores today. Kyle is a frequent Rumpus contributor and has performed stand-up at numerous Rumpus events. More importantly, he is one of our all time favorite comedians. So we’re doing something…
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Morning Coffee
Why yes, I DO like pictures of Dubai. Pain Pack let’s you experience other’s emotional pain. Photographing e-waste. The ultimate graphic novel (in six panels). Blue whales voices dropping. What does your brain think is funny?
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/1-2/7
This week: Catch the tail ends of SF SketchFest and the SF Indie Winter Music Festival, Stop by 111 Minna for a decade of local art at the opening reception of Wonderland, mosey on over to Oakland for The Walter…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/1 – 2/7
This week in New York Unsound, the avant-garde culture festival that began in Eastern Europe, debuts in the city, historian Garry Wills discusses the atomic bomb, a night with filmmaker Ross McElwee at IFC, Jamaica Kincaid and Gary Shteyngart on…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #21
Why would I open the garage door if I’m trying to warm up the car, Doug? If I open the door, then the cold air gets in. If the cold air gets in, the car isn’t going to get warm,…
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Morning Coffee
Tiny Swedish lighthouses. A walk through JD Salinger’s New York. Philip K. Dick’s book covers. (via MeFi.) Behold the molecular Venus flytrap! Accidental contemporary art.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Philip Pullman writes about Blake’s poetry, and argues that it can be appreciated separate from the illuminations. Thermos interviews Katy Lederer, who we reviewed nearly a year ago. Anindita Sengupta on Indian English Poetry. Inferno, the video game. It’s Dante…
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Rumpus Twitterers
You already knew the Rumpus has a Twitter feed, but that’s just not enough. You need more. You crave tweets from the people who make The Rumpus happen. It’s like smack, or a really fresh donut, with the glaze still…
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Notes on E-books and Readers
The big news this week was the iPad announcement, including the tech-world’s dismissal of it. (Fraser Speirs addresses that nicely.) But there’s a lot more happening in the world of e-books. For example, NASA just opened an e-book section and…
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Science Saturday
If the moon seemed overly large last night, there’s a reason why. Our DNA is only half-human. What’s the rest of us made from? California has claimed the first moon-landing site as a historical resource. Primate brains haven’t always gotten…
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Saturday Morning Links
Call me a Philistine, but I felt Howard Zinn’s death way more than J.D. Salinger’s. Here’s some links for your Saturday morning. Dahlia Lithwick examines the contradictions and contortions KBR is going through to keep Jamie Leigh Jones from having…