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Lights in Your Throat
The 2009 music release schedule is winding down, so people have started making their arbitrary top-whatever lists. While such rankings might be more potent some years from now, when we see which albums are actually still in rotation (like tomorrow’s…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/16-11/22
This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis and Chip Kidd celebrate Nabokov’s work with special exhibit of…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #11
I think I might be an adrenaline junkie, Doug. Well, sure, there’s still the regular junkie part too. But the meth is only fun now when I’m doing crazy shit like racing cars or running from the cops.
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Morning Coffee
Shockingly not boring: a look inside an English cardboard factory. Children’s books from Poland. WWI-era airplane detection hearing aids. Could the common cold be the trick to avoiding swine flue? (spoiler alert: maybe!) Fact of the day: Japanese barcodes are…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Rumpus has already mentioned W. S. DiPiero’s essay about walking in San Francisco from the November issue of Poetry, but there are others dealing with the same general idea as well. Kay Ryan on Marin County, Peter Cole on…
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Scroll Down
Every once in a while, I have to remind myself to scroll down the page–it’s easy to get locked in to what’s at the top of the blog, at the top of the review lists, the new original pieces, and…
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Science Saturday
Martian landscapes that will blow your mind. There’s water on the moon, and that has implications for future manned space travel. Unmanned non-lethalwhale hunting looks pretty cool. To protect yourself against the swine flu, catch a cold?. Apparently. Along those…
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Notable South Florida, This Week 11/14-11/20
This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one might expect, there are also some really great writers taking…
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Saturday Morning Links
So last Saturday, I woke up 41 years old, hung over, and with a non-responsive computer. Doornail-quality dead. Gray screen, blinking folder with question mark, oh crap I can’t afford a new computer dead. One week, one new hard drive,…
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Women’s News
Tina Fey once said, “I think we can all agree that it’s a great time to be a lady in America, and not just because of that new yogurt that helps you poop. Although, on the serious, thank you for…
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Morning Coffee
Have you seen Big Picture’s photo-essay on Mars? It is the best thing. What does the grammar of Google searches say about us? I am just linking to this article so I can use the phrase “monkey justice.” The great…