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No Home I’d Call My Own
Stephen Elliott explores Christmas in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s an excerpt. In the group homes, holidays weren’t so bad because we teenagers were all in the same parentless boat. Depending on the home, we would be given presents and…
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Saturday Morning Links
Winter has finally come to south Florida, which means I’ll spend part of the afternoon moving our pepper plants indoors, to protect them from the bitter 40 degree weather that’s dropping by for a day or two. Don’t hate. I…
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Funny Women Around the Web, 12/18/09
One of the funniest women on Internet–actually, one of the funniest women alive–is D.E. Rasso, did you know? Thanks to Maud Newton now I know. I really love Maud Newton. The important National Review recently discussed D.E. Rasso and her feminist…
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Morning Coffee
Here are some pictures of a fireplace in a Norwegian kindergarten. You know, if that’s your thing. You might like to think we are above posting things about drunk 4 year olds. You would be wrong. Jimmy McNulty reads Chekhov.…
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Paul Bowles, Travel and the Non-Christian World
“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his daily living, have a way of losing their meaning, and…
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Morning Coffee
Dash Shaw’s mini-comic for Vice is pretty great. Britain’s first full-scale high speed rail is up and running (and pretty looking!) In case you forgot, Big Picture’s photographs of 2009 completed today! As long as we’re recapping: the decade in…
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Morning Coffee
Wired looks at the fine art of pulpy vhs box art. A handy Christmas facts info-graphic for you. Scienceray wants to talk to you about the Trogon family of birds. I link to this begrudgingly because birds are terrifying. I’ve…
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More About Last Night
Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t live in the Bay Area? Or were you lucky enough…
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Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t live in the Bay Area? Or were you lucky enough…
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Morning Coffee
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 gift for the world, circa 1900. Man returns library book…
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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.
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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 and silk-twill shifts and join us to celebrate with champagne,…