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Morning Coffee
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you this look at scientists competing to find new worlds. I…
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The January Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus proudly presents: Welcome Back January 11 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist, Daniel Nester, and Allison Hoover Bartlett. Music by MC Lars.…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/28/09-1/03/10
This week in New York The Poetry Project holds its 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading, Ludacris and Sandra Bernhard perform, 92Y hosts a New Year’s Hustle Bash, swing takes Manhattan at the Holiday Swing Ball and at…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #17
I’m a volunteer fireman, Doug. I just show up where I can when I can, you know? Well, I assume the training is voluntary as well. I’m not gonna waste a whole afternoon listening to some guy tell me that…
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Morning Coffee
Welcome Back. Check out this sweet door. NY Times brings you the most commonly stolen books. In utero animals, kinda gross, kinda adorable! New Scientist looks back at a year of prehistoric monsters. Hella meta: Metafilter brings us a gallery…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Hi everyone. I sort of took today off along with everyone else here at The Rumpus, but there was a lot of good stuff in the po-world this week and I wanted to pass it along. For starters, Memorious launched…
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Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
“An Ulm engraving of the year 1470 displays a horse and two apes joined together in the middle by a bar and fastened to the back of the horse by a pin. When placed on a stove the heat made…
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Christmas Comics
Happy Holidays from our Comics section: Exhibit A: SMALL POTATOES “Holiday Theatre.” Exhibit B: TRUTH SERUM “Merry Crimmis.” Exhibit C: PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL “Country Song (FM 98.9).” (Clarification: exhibit C is not exactly holiday related, but it does feature a…
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Morning Coffee
Today is Christmas Eve and even though some of us are of the chosen people we’re taking it easy for the next few days because we deserve it! (Morning Coffee will see you on Monday.) I totally lied to you…
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I Joke Therefore I Am
“The latest memoir of the 2008 Presidential campaign is a fake book about fake events by a fake political operative.” Rachel Weiner reviews Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin’s metaphysical humor book I Am Martin Eisenstadt.
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Morning Coffee
This is about as festive as I get, Australian Tesla Christmas tree! A very serious problem this Christmas season. These pictures were taken by creating a fake company. They are pretty rad. Astronaut catches satelite!