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The wall of knowledge. On the more misconceived Popular Mechanics ideas. P. William’s “The Finishing Touch” is exactly the kind of performance art we can get behind. Nikola Tesla’s Christmas…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #14
PONZANI BROS. APPLIANCE REPAIR ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Ponzani Bros. Appliance Repair.
The Rumpus Co-Hosts New York Holiday Party
Hey New York! Tonight, 12/14, The Faster Times, The Rumpus and Gigantic invite you to party like you just got a $3 mil. bonus. Pull out your pinstripes, pocket squares…
Notable New York, This Week 12/14 – 12/20
This week in New York, lit mags The Faster Times, The Rumpus, Gigantic and Open City throw holiday parties, James Gallery holds Pornography in the City panel, Nick Flynn and…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #15
Where did I put my car keys, Doug? All this NyQuil’s gonna kick in soon, so I’m taking off. Gotta try and outrun this nap. More.
Morning Coffee
But how was YOUR weekend? News from the 80’s: Cocaine kills bear. Same faces, two different ages, spliced together at the middle. These are really creepy towards the end. In…
The Splinter Generation in LA with Kate Durbin, Lisbeth Prifogle, and More
The Splinter Generation will be celebrating the official completion of the transformation of the journal from a one-time compilation to an ongoing literary journal on Wednesday December 16, 2009 at…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
With the year winding down, the book blogs have been ablaze with your typical speculations about the best of this and that. But perhaps there are less obvious threads out…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Irish Times reports on Seamus Heaney’s Irish Human Rights Commission lecture, in which he argues that the work of writers has been crucial in keeping alive the spirit of…
The History of a Font
This is the story of Johnston Sans, a character-set created for the London Underground in 1915, and the challenges involved in updating an iconic typeface. I wouldn’t blame you for…
Science Saturday
Blimps might be making a comeback. Meteor shower late Sunday night, well, late by east coast standards. Well, late by people-with-9-to-5-jobs standards. Even though it’s supposed to be the most…
Eros in Athens
This sounds like one hell of a show–the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (not the one in Georgia) has put together a collection of erotic art dating from the…